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Contact Information
Administrative Assistant: Annette Luymes 
Email: [email protected]
Hosea M. Nelson
Professor of Chemistry
Postdoc, UC Berkeley, 2015 (Prof. F. Dean Toste)
Ph.D., Caltech, 2013 (Prof. Brian M. Stoltz)
B.S., UC Berkeley, 2004 
Email: [email protected]
​Office: 357 Crellin Laboratory
Phone: 626-395-6072

Hosea earned a B.S. in Chemistry from University of California at Berkeley in 2004 and a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 2013 with Brian Stoltz. After postdoctoral training at University of California at Berkeley with Dean Toste, Hosea joined the UCLA faculty in 2015. In 2021, Hosea became a Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology. He is an avid fisherman and motorsports enthusiast (there are even pictures of him on the web wearing a NASCAR hat). Like most native San Franciscans, he spends most of his time talking about how much he loves the Giants, hates the Dodgers, and how much better S.F. is than L.A.

Graduate Students

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Angel Gomez (G1)
B.A., Princeton University
Email: [email protected]

Research Project:
Organometallic Chemistry
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Daniel Chan (G1)
B.S., University of California, San Diego
Email: [email protected]

Research Project:
Synthetic Chemistry
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Jane Liu (G1)
B.S., Southern Methodist University
Email: [email protected]

Research Project:
​Biocatalysis​

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Kathleen Huynh (G1)
B.A., San José State University
Email: [email protected]

Research Project:
Polymer Chemistry
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D.E. Doughty (G1)
B.S., Rutgers University
Email: [email protected]


Research Project:
Structural Chemistry
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Eva Kercmar (G3)
B.Sc., University of Ljubljana
M.Sc., University of Copenhagen
Email: [email protected]

Research Project:
Structural Chemistry

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Samuel Mussetter (G2)
B.S., University of California, Santa Cruz
Email: [email protected]

Research Project:
Structural Chemistry
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Victoria Casimir Montán (G2)
B.S., University of Puerto Rico, 2024
Email: [email protected]
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Research Project:
Biocatalysis​

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Yucheng Fu (G2)
B.S., Nankai University, China
Email: [email protected]

Research Project:
Synthesis of Chiral Functional Molecules
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Jack Moerschel (G2)
B.S., University of Florida
Email: [email protected]

Research Project:
Synthetic Chemistry
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Sam Johnson (G4)
B.S., University of Connecticut
​M.S., University of Connecticut
Email: [email protected]

​Research Project:
Structural Chemistry
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Abi Nelson
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Official Nelson Lab dog
B.S., UC Bark-ley

​Follow her on Instagram @abi.nelsonlab

Postdocs

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Dr. Sergio O. Lovera
Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
B.S., California Polytechnic University, Pomona
Email: [email protected]

Research Project: Synthetic Chemistry
Thesis title: Derivatization of Carborane Anions: 
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Dr. David Delgadillo 
Ph.D., University of California Santa Cruz
​B.S., University of California Merced
Email: [email protected]

Research Project: Structural Chemistry
Thesis Title: Cheminformatic Approaches to Decipher Natural Product-Target-Disease Associations
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Dr. Rui Guo 
Ph.D., Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, 2020
B.S., Sichuan University, 2014
Email: [email protected]
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Research Project: Biocatalysis
Thesis Title: The synthetic studies towards C20-diterpenoid alkaloids and monoterpenoid indole alkaloids

Staff Scientist

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Dr. Dmitry Eremin
Ph.D., Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, 2019
​M.Sc., Moscow State University, 2014
Email: [email protected]

Research Project: Structural Chemistry
Thesis Title: The Key Role of Metal-Ligand Bond Lability in the Formation of Active Centers in Palladium-Catalyzed Reactions



Undergraduate Students

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Bljana Stafford
Caltech
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Research Project:
 Structural Chemistry

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SURF Students

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Kyler Williams
Caltech

Research Project: Structural Chemistry
Benjamin Rudo
University of Hawaii at Hilo

Research Project: Structural Chemistry


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