The achievements of UCSB Materials graduate students speak for themselves: significant contributions to their disciplines, groundbreaking research, and prestigious fellowships. Our graduate students engage in interdisciplinary research collaborations unique to the UCSB environment. Mentored by world-class faculty and researchers, our students are the scientists and engineers making global contributions to the field of materials.
National Science Foundation Fellowship
- Anya Mulligan (2025)
- Logan Winston (2025)
- Tyler Pennebaker (2024)
- Andrew Rhode (2023)
- Simon Munyan (2022)
- Emily Trageser (2022)
- Patrick Getty (2021)
- Binghao Guo (2021)
- Lillian Hughes (2021)
- Emily Morgan (2021)
- Kaitlyn Mullin (2021)
- Allison Chau (2020)
- Emily Foley (2020)
- Justin Mayer (2020)
- Colleen Reynolds (2020)
- Rebecca Vincent (2020)
- Virginia Collier (2019)
- Jacob Ewing (2019)
- Steven Gomez (2019)
- Eliovardo Gonzalez-Correa (2019)
- Alexander Lygo (2019)
- Yuzki Oey (2019)
- Tyler Pardue (2019)
- Elias Sebti (2019)
- Vincent Wu (2019)
- Julia Zuo (2019)
- Victoria Christensen (2018)
- Brian Haidet (2018)
- Nelson Moreno (2018)
- Samuel Teicher (2018)
- Mikayla Barry (2017)
- Veronica Reynolds (2017)
- Jordan Smith (2017)
- Ryan White (2017)
- Mayela Aldaz-Cervantes (2017)
- Elayne Thomas (2017)
- Sara Messina (2016)
- Glenn Balbus (2016)
- Mitchell Bordelon (2016)
- Nicole Michenfelder-Schauser (2016)
- Andrew Rowberg (2016)
- Christian Zollner (2016)
- Joshua Bocarsly (2016)
- Jennifer Selvidge (2016)
National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship
- Erick Lawrence (2025)
- Amir M’Saad (2025)
- Akhila Mattapalli (2025)
- Joshua Baston (2024)
- Griffin Tong (2024)
- Bailey Rhodes (2023)
- Tanay Tak (2023)
- Lillian Hughes (2021)
- Emily Morgan (2021)
- Virginia Collier (2019)
- Flynn Walsh (2018)
- Rhys Kennard (2017)
- Brandon Leu (2017)
- Sean Murray (2017)
- Claire Weaver (2017)
- Eric Yao (2016)
NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities
- Lucas Erich (2024)
- Caelin Muir (2019)
- Jeffrey Rossin (2018)
- Bhavana Swaminathan (2017)
Bridge to Doctorate Fellowship
- Magdalena Ravello (2024)
- Eliovardo Gonzalez-Correa (2018)
Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation Scholarship
- Nolan Hendricks (2019)
DOE NNSA Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship
- Lauren Smith (2019)
DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
- Jonas Kaufman (2017)
Hertz Foundation Fellowship
- Nicole Michenfelder-Schauser (2016)
