Alumni

Recent Chemistry Grads Go On to Jobs, Graduate Schools, and Other Positions

by Department of Chemistry

Several recent BS Chemistry grads now have jobs in education, industry, government, or academic labs, and many of our recent BS graduates are now in graduate school pursuing advanced degrees in chemistry and related fields. Learn about their next destinations below.

  • Gabrielle Servito ’19 is now working as a lab scientist in the Weill Institute for Neurosciences at UCSF
  • Jessica Arbitman ’18 has taken a position as an analytical research associate at Lygos, Inc. in Berkeley, CA
  • Jonathan Shezaf ’19 is now teaching high school chemistry and biology at ICA Cristo Rey Academy in San Francisco. For fall 2020 he has been accepted to numerous chemistry PhD programs, including UC San Diego, UC Davis, University of Texas – Austin, and NYU
  • Queenie Lin ’19 is a research associate at AstraZeneca
  • Dakota Tan ’19 is working as a case manager at Genentech
  • Fadya Binyameen ’18 is now a staff research associate in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSF
  • Megan Farley ’18 is working as a forensic toxicologist at the San Francisco Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
  • Cedric Lozano ’18 is a research associate in the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at UCSF and has been accepted to the chemistry PhD programs at Scripps Research Institute and Caltech for fall 2020
  • Dillion Zwahlen ’18 is a lab technician at JMLord Inc
  • Lyle Ureta ’19 is now attending the School of Pharmacy at USC
  • Justin Azar ’19 is pursuing a PhD in neuroscience at Columbia University
  • Philip Lampkin ’19 has started the chemistry PhD program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Ramsess Quezada ’18 is in the chemistry PhD program at the University of Washington
  • Sophi Todtz ’19 began the chemistry PhD program at Loyola University Chicago
  • Cameron Michel ’18 is in the Peace Corps, currently working in Tanzania