Lab Members
Parikh Lab Group
November 2023: Rafa Clemente, Abhishek Kumar, Sanjai Parikh, Zane Taylor, and Omid Zandvakili.
Sanjai J. Parikh - Group Leader
Associate Professor of Soil Chemistry
Department of Land, Air and Water Resources
3230 PES Building
One Shields Ave
Davis, CA 95616
email: sjparikh@ucdavis.edu
UCD Graduate Group Membership:
-Soils and Biogeochemistry
-Agriculture and Environmental Chemistry
-Forensic Science
Rafael Clemente
Visiting Scholar - CEBAS-CSIC
Department of Land, Air and Water Resources
3233 PES Building
One Shields Ave
Davis, CA 95616
email: rclemente@ucdavis.edu
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Abhishek Kumar
Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Land, Air and Water Resources
3233 PES Building
One Shields Ave
Davis, CA 95616
email: abikumar@ucdavis.edu
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ORCID
SCOPUS: 57198891400
Web of Science Researcher ID: ABD-3363-2020
Omid Zandvakili
Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Land, Air and Water Resources
3233 PES Building
One Shields Ave
Davis, CA 95616
email: orzandvakili@ucdavis.edu
Ashley Fricker
Graduate Student (MS)
Department of Land, Air and Water Resources
3233 PES Building
One Shields Ave
Davis, CA 95616
email: aefricker@ucdavis.edu
Zane Taylor
Undergraduate Researcher
Department of Land, Air and Water Resources
3233 PES Building
One Shields Ave
Davis, CA 95616
email: zftaylor@ucdavis.edu
Lab Alumni
Graduate Students
Janet Patino, M.S. University of California - Davis (Soils and Biogeochemistry), 8/2022
Lizette Andrea Aguilera, Ph.D. University of California - Davis (Agriculture and Environmental Chemistry), 8/2022
Alice Henderson, M.S. University of California - Davis (Agriculture and Environmental Chemistry), 8/2022
Devin Rippner - Ph.D., University of California - Davis (Soils and Biogeochemistry), 12/2018
Deirdre Griffin - Ph.D., University of California - Davis (Soils and Biogeochemistry), 12/2018
Chongyang Li - Ph.D., University of California - Davis (Soils and Biogeochemistry), 01/2018
Andrew Margenot - Ph.D., University of California - Davis (Soils and Biogeochemistry), 08/2016
Sarah Hafner - Ph.D., University of California - Davis (Agriculture and Environmental Chemistry), 09/2016
Daniel Bair - Ph.D., University of California - Davis (Soils and Biogeochemistry), 09/2015
Maya Buelow - M.S., University of California - Davis (Soils and Biogeochemistry), 08/2013
Melissa Suarez - M.S., University of California - Davis (Forensic Science), 08/2012
Lina Bachert - M.S., University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, Research at UCD, 05/2011
Postdoctoral Scholars
Shalini Rajput
Devin Rippner, current location - USDA-ARS, UC Davis Campus
Chongyang Li, current location - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Andrew Margenot, current location - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Fungai Mukome, current location - William Jessup University
Ina Popova, current location - University of Idaho
Undergraduate Students
Geli Ou
Chanceuse Twagirimana
Jessica Landesman
Natalie McElroy
Micahel Bancroft
Alex Niewczas
Yuhei Nakayma- B.S., UCD 06/2017
Hagr Bala - B.E. UCD 06/2017
Zahir Howard - UCD, 06/2017
Michael Rodriguez - B.S. UCD 06/2016
Emily Tibbett - B.S. UCD 06/2016
Amy Silchuk - UCD, 06/2016
Lizette Andrea Aguilera -B.S. 06/2015
Martha Sayre - B.S. UCD 06/2014
George Robertson - B.S. UCD 04/2014
Young Chung - B.S., UCD 12/2013
Laura Emberson - B.S., UCD, 06/2013
Lian Rother - B.S., UCD, 06/2013
Xiaoming Ellen Zhang - B.S., UCD, 06/2012
Allie Jefferson - B.S., UCD 08/2011
Abdurhman Shemsu - UCD 08/2011
Niloufar Ghazal - B.S., UCD 09/2010
Staff
Alexander Barbour
Maya Buelow
Christopher P. Alaimo
Visiting Scholars
Andrea Goglio, Visiting PhD Student, University of Milan
Jizi (Daniel) Wu, Visiting PhD Student, Zhejiang University
Meng Cao, Visiting PhD Student, China Agricultural University
Xiaoming Wan, Visiting Professor, Geographic Science and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences
Luiz Arnaldo Fernandes, Visiting Professor, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Sungpyo Kim, Visiting Professor, Korea University Sejong Campus, Sejong City, Korea
Abid Mahmood, Visiting Ph.D. Student, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan