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Graduate Students
1969 RICHARD E. CLARKE, M.A. Financial Analyst, Ford Motor Co
1971 RICHARD D. FOUST, JR., Ph.D. Professor, Northern Arizona University
1971 DONALD A. CHAISSON, M.A. Vice President, Alza Corporation
1972 REBECCA J. ALLEN, Ph.D. Director, Analytical Services, Shakley Corp.
1974 RAY E. HINTZE, Ph.D. Research Chemist, Foremost Corp.
1974 VINCENT E. ALVAREZ, Ph.D. Vice President, Clorox Corp.
1975 JOHN D. PETERSEN, Ph.D. President, University of Tenessee system
1976 JOHN A. MARCHANT, M.A. Consultant, England
1977 VINCENT A. DURANTE, Ph.D. Alloy Surfaces, Inc.
1977 GEORGE M. MALOUF, Ph.D. Business Director, Chemical Products
Heraeus, Inc.
1977 TADASHI MATSUBARA, Ph.D. Deceased, formerly Head of Industrial Analysis, Kodak (Japan)
1979 SERGIO A. MOYA, M.A. Dean of Faculty,
University Chile, Santiago
1979 MEHDI AMIRNASR, Ph.D. Faculty,
Isfahan University of Technology, Iran
1980

MICHAEL BERGKAMP, Ph.D.
(Co-supervisor: R.J. Watts)

IBM San Jose
1981 HOWARD W. WALKER, Ph.D.
(Co-supervisor: R.G. Pearson)
Research Scientist,
USN Ocean Science Research Center, San Diego
1982 DOUGLAS A. SEXTON, Ph.D. Research Scientist, Hewlett Packard Corp.
1982 WAYNE R. TIKKANEN, Ph.D.
(Co-supervisor: W.C. Kaska)
Professor,
California State Univ., Los Angeles
1983 MALCOLM FINLAYSON, Ph.D.
(Co-supervisor: R.J. Watts)
Dow Chemical, Houston
1983 DAVID C. GROSS, Ph.D. General Electric Silicons American Business Leader
1983 MARC F. DESROSIERS, Ph.D. National Institute for Standards and Technology
1984 MARK E. FRINK, Ph.D. Project Engineer, TRW
1985 DAVID A. WINK, Ph.D. Research Group Leader, Research Biology Branch,
National Cancer Institute
1985 JOHN A. DiBENEDETTO, Ph.D. Special Technologies Laboratory,
Santa Barbara CA
1985 DOUGLAS J. TAUBE, Ph.D. Catalytica Corp
1986 ALVARO J. PARDEY, Ph.D. Professor, Universidad Central de Venezuela,
Caracas, Venezuela
1986 DAVID VANDENBERG, Ph.D. EH&S Staff Position, UCSB
1986 KATHERINE O. JIMISON, M.S. Faculty, Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA
1988 ALAN E. FRIEDMAN, Ph.D. Johnson and Johnson, Rochester, NY
1989 TYRENA K. CHIN, Ph.D.
Teacher, San Roque School
1989 CRISTINA SPILLETT, Ph.D.
(Co-supervisor: R.G. Pearson)
Clorox Corporation
1989 KEVIN R. KYLE, Ph.D. Special Technologies Laboratory,
Santa Barbara
1991 DANIEL R. CRANE, Ph.D Associate Professor,
Northwestern College, St. Paul, MN
1991 LAWRENCE J. McCLURE, Jr., Ph.D. Practicing Attorney,
Los Angeles
1991

BENEDITO DOS SANTOS LIMA NETO, Ph.D.
Dissertation submitted:
Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil

Faculty, University of Sao Paulo,
Sao Carlos Campus, Brazil
1991 DAVID W. RYBA, Ph.D. Faculty Position,
Citrus College CA
1992 JEROME LILLIS, Ph.D. Research Scientist, Mitsubishi Chemical Corp.
Yokahama, Japan
1993 MARCELLO VITALE, Ph.D. Research Scientist,
Kodak Corp. Rochester NY
1995 JERALD SIMON, Ph.D. Faculty,
Frostburg State College, MD
1995 MILLAN MDLELENI, Ph.D Chief Scientist,
SASOL Corp. South Africa
1996 KATRINA MIRANDA, Ph.D. Faculty Position,
University of Arizona
1996 SUSAN BOGGS, Ph.D. Associate Research Scientist,
Lovelace Respiratory Reserch Institute
1996 KAREN McFARLANE, Ph.D. Associate Professor,
Willamette University
1997 BRIAN LEE, Ph.D. Faculty Position,
University of Guam
1997 DAT TRAN, Ph.D. Science Policy Analyst,
National Institutes of Health
1998 JAMES BOURASSA, Ph.D Postdoctoral Fellow,
Princeton University
1998 JON S. BRIDGEWATER, Ph.D. Staff Position,
Los Alamos National Laboratory
1998 MALCOLM De LEO, Ph.D. Clorox Research Center,
Pleasanton CA
1999 LEROY LAVERMAN, Ph.D. Lecturer, SOE, UCSB
2001 CARMEN WORKS, Ph.D. Associate Professor,
California State University Sonoma
2002
Postdoctoral Fellow,
University of California at San Francisco
2002 CHRISTA CONRADO, Ph.D.
2003

Takasago International Corp.

2004
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Boston University (Feelisch Lab)
2004
Assistant Professor ,
University of Alabama, Birmingham
2004
AAAS Science & Policy Fellow
2005
Research Associate,
Exelixis, Inc.
2005
Smitha Dante, Masters
Law School
2006
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Boston University
2006
Postdoctoral Fellow,
UC Berkeley
2007
Postdoctoral Fellow
2007
Postdoctoral Fellow
     
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Postdoctoral Fellows
1971-1972

BERNARD J. BRENNAN
(Ph.D.,'71, U Pittsburgh) (NIH Fellow)

Faculty,
Santa Barbara City College
1971-1972 NED B. EGAN
(Ph.D., '71, U Connecticut)

Staff member,
University of Arizona

1972-1975 ANDREW ZANELLA
(Ph.D.'70, Stanford)

Professor of Chemistry,
Claremont Colleges

1974-1976 RICHARD M. LAINE
(Ph.D. '73, U Southern California)
Professor of Materials Science,
Univ. of Michigan
1976-1978 CHARLES UNGERMANN
(Ph.D., '75, Indiana U)
Research Chemist,
Kaiser Aluminum
1978-1979 HAIM COHEN
(Ph.D., '75, Weizman Institute of Science)
Professor of Chemistry,
University of Beersheva, Israel
1979-1980 MASATO NISHIZAWA
(Ph.D., '79, Tohoku U, Japan)

Research Scientist,
Fuji Electric, Japan

1979-1982 PAUL I.W. YARROW
(Ph.D., '79, U of Sussex, England)
Plant Manager,
Ciba-Gigy Inc., Glasgow Scotland
1981 YVES DUCOMMUN
(Swiss NSF Fellow, U. Lausanne)
 
1982-1985 RAY TRAUTMAN
(Ph.D., '80, Trinity College, Dublin)
Professor of Chemistry,
San Francisco State Univeristy
1982-1985 VALERIE ARKLE
(Ph.D., '82, Pennsylvania State U)

Teacher, Thousand Oaks High School
1982-1983 MARTIN ANSTOCK
(Ph.D., '82, Inst. Technische Chemie,
Aachen, Germany)

Plant Manager,
Bayer Corp., Vitoria, Spain

1983-1984 WALTER WEBER
(Ph.D., '83, U Frankfurt) (NATO Fellow
)
Technical Manager Publications Gravuce Inks,
Germany
1984-1985 YOUNG KEUN CHUNG
(Ph.D., '83, Brown U)

Professor of Chemistry,
Seoul National University, Korea

1985-1986 YUN-YEN YANG
(Ph.D., '85, UCLA)
 
1986-1987 ANDRZEJ ROKICKI
(Ph.D., '73, Poland)
Manager, Research and Development, United Catalysts, Inc
1987-1988 JOHN DiBENEDETTO
(Ph.D., '85, UCSB)
Special Technologies Laboratory, Santa Barbara
1988-1989 DAVID VANDENBERG
(Ph.D., '86, UCSB)
Staff Position,
EH&S UCSB
1989-1991 SIMON BELT
(Ph.D., '88, U of York, England)
(SERC-NATO Fellow)
Professor of Chemistry,
University of Plymouth, England
1989-1992 CHONG RYU
(Ph.D., '88, Wayne State U)
Faculty position, Korea National University for Education
1991 ANDERS DOSSING
(Ph.D. U. Copenhagen)
(Danish NRCl Postdoctoral Fellow )

Faculty position,
University of Copenhagen

1992-1995 WILLIAM BOESE
(Ph.D., '92, Rutgers U.)
Senior Systems Engineer,
Oracle Corporation
1993-1994 ELSPETH LINDSAY
(Ph.D., '93, Concordia U)
Center for Forensic Sciences, Toronto
1994-1995 LEO VAN WULLEN
(Ph.D., '94, U. Munster) (F. Lyman Fellow)
Faculty Position,
U. Munster, Germany
1994-1997 IVAN LORKOVIC
(Ph.D., '94 MIT)
Raytheon Corporation
1996-1997 MARIANNE RIKLIN
(Ph.D. '96, U Fribourg)
(Swiss NSF Fellow)
Tech. Regulatory Affairs,
F. Hoffmann-La Roche LTD,
Basel, Sui.
1997-1998 ELENA CARIATI
(Ph.D. '97, U. Milano)
Faculty Position,
University of Milano
1999 JAMES BOURASSA
(Ph.D. '98 UCSB
)
Johnson and Johnson, Inc.
1999-2000 KEN CAPPS
(Ph.D., '99 U. Miami)
Administrative Position,
Walter Reed Army Hospital
2000 KEN DEDEIAN
(Ph.D., '98 UCSB)
Army Research Lab, Maryland
1997-2001
STEVE MASSICK
(Ph.D., '96 U. Utah)
Senior Research Scientist,
Southwest Sciences, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
2002-2004

ENRIQUE LOZANO DIZ
(Ph.D)

Perkin Elmer LAS, LTD, UK
2005

Maurizio Volpe
(Ph.D)

University of Palermo, Italy
2006 Christian Holtgrewe Henkel KGaA, Düsseldorf, Germany 
2005-7 Susmita Bandyopadhyay  Position in Singapore
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Visiting Scholars
1977
PROF. AKIRA OHYOSHI Visiting Professor from Kumanoto University, Japan
1978
PROF.VINCENT LANDIS Visiting Professor from San Diego State University
1979
PROF. ELIA TFOUNI Visiting Professor from University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
(CNPq Fellow)
1979 DR. BERNADETTE DIVISIA On leave from the Centre des Etudes Nucleaires de Grenoble, France
(NATO Fellow)

1979

PROF. LEIF SKIBSTED Visiting Professor from the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University,
Denmark (Danish Research Council Fellow)

1980

DR. T.M. SUZUKI Visiting Research Scientist from the Government Industrial Research Institute,
Sendai, Japan (Japanese Government Fellow)

1983

PROF. HAROLD GOODWIN Visiting Professor from the U New S. Wales, Australia
(Fullbright Fellow)
1984
PROF. ARND VOGLER Visiting Professor from the U of Regensburg, Germany
1988
PROF. AD OSKAM Visiting Professor from the U of Amsterdam, Netherlands

1989

PROF. JON SONGSTAD Visiting Professor from U of Bergen, Norway
1989
ROSE M. CARLOS
Student from USP, Ribierao Preto, Brazil (CNPq Fellow)
1990 PROF. KONSTANTINE BALASHEV
Visiting Professor from Herzen Pedagogical Inst. Leningrad, USSR
1990, 1993 FRANK SABIN Student from U Regensburg, FRG (DFG Fellow)

1992,
1994-1996

Dr. SETSUKO KUDO
Tohoko University, Sendai, Japan
Now at the University of Tokyo
1995-1996 LUCIA MAINI Student from U. Bologna, Italy
1998 LARS ANDREASEN Student from Odense University, Denmark
1998-1999 PROF. ELIZEU TRABUCO Visiting Professor, UNESP,
São José de Rio Preto, Brazil
1999 CHRISTIAN EGLER Student from U. Muenster, Germany
1999 STEFAN ELBERS Student from U. Muenster, Germany
2000 TORSTEN BÜTTNER Diplome Student from U. Jena, Germany
2000 CHRISTOPHE JOCHER Student from U. Muenster, Germany
2000 KATRIN WEDEKING Student from U. Muenster, Germany
2001 VERENA MAERTENS Student from U. Muenster, Germany
2001
PROF. ANDY ZANELLA Visting Professor, Claremont McKenna College
2001 DANTE A. CASTILLO MOLINA Student from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
2001-2002
PROF. CEYHAN KAYRAN Visiting Professor, Middle Eastern Technical University, Turkey
2002
Visiting Student, Università di Palermo, Italy
2001-2002
Assistant Professor, University of Ege Faculty of Pharmacy (Turkey)
2003 TIGRAN KURTIKYAN Head of Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory,
Molecular Structure Research Center, Armenian Academy of Sciences
2003
Graduate Student, Sheffield University (England)
2003 PROF. KIYOSHI TSUGE Research Associate, Hokkaido UniversitySapporo, Japan
2004 PROF. ANDERS DOSSING Professor, Univ. of Copenhagen
2004 PROF. ALEXEI V. IRETSKI

Professor, Lake Superior State University

2005 Birgit Birkmann Diplome Student, University of Muenster
2005 Rebecca Blomberg Diplome Student, University of Muenster
2005

Fabian Buller

Diplome Student, University of Muenster
2006 Prof. Ken Caulton Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Indiana University
2006 Prof. Roberto Santana daSilva Professor, University Sao Paulo
2006-7 Vera Janowski Diplome Student, University of Muenster
2007 Heinrich Richter Diplome Student, University of Muenster
2007 Sebastian Dueck Diplome Student, University of Muenster
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Undergraduate Students
The year listed is the estimated graduation data, and was compiled by memory. Any corrections or additions would be appreciated. Please direct any updates to either Dr. Ford or to the Webmaster.
1968 CHRIS SUTTON
1968 DAN McDONALD
1969 DAN STUERMER
1976 JEFF CURTIS Professor, University of San Francisco
1985 JANET MORROW Professor, SUNY Buffalo
1985 ANDY HAALAND
1986 ANDREAS ANDREATTA
1987 VINCE CATALANO Associate Professor, University of Nevada
1993 BOB BRAINARD
1995 BRANDON SHULMAN
1998 JASON BENTOW
1999 GWEN BART
Graduate Student, Planetary Science University of Arizona
2000 VERONICA REYES
2001 FELIPE LEAL
Graduate Student, Chemistry
UC Los Angeles
2003 JOY JACKSON
2003