August 2025
Congratulations to Josh Roan on his Outstanding Presentation Award at 2025 ACS meeting in Washington D.C.!

July 2025
Prof. Brooks Abel earns NSF award towards polymer discovery! This award is for “AI-Driven Design of Architecturally Varied and Deconstructable Polymers for a Comprehensive Circular Plastics Economy” led by Prof. Christopher Cooper (Washington University in St. Louis) and Prof. Brooks Abel.

May 2025
Welcome to undergraduate student Taylor Brewer, a Summer Undergraduate Research Diversity Program scholar visiting from Prairie View A&M!

March 2024
Congratulations to Mary Johnson for passing her qualifying exam!

December 2024
Congratulations to Madison Pugh for passing her qualifying exam!

November 2024
Congratulations to Thomas Nedungadan for passing his qualifying exam!

October 2024
Welcome to visiting scholar Puttipong Panausorn (Kaen) to the lab!

September 2024
Welcome to first year graduate student David Murillo!

February 2024
Congratulations to Connor Filbin for passing his qualifying exam!

September 23, 2023
The Abel group attends the second annual Soft Matter Symposium, this year hosted at Stanford.

September 2023
Welcome to first year graduate students Mary Johnson and Madison Pugh!


June 2023
The Abel group welcomes graduate student Thomas Nedungadan!

April 26, 2023
Congratulations to Christina Brancel for passing her qualifying exam!


March 23, 2023
Congratulations to Josh Roan for passing his qualifying exam!

October 2022
Welcome to first year graduate students Clayton Francis and Anna Moeckel!

August 15, 2022

Check out the Polymer Science Podcast where Brooks discusses his prior polymer chemistry research and his path to UC Berkeley.

July 20, 2022

Congrats to Christina Brancel and Josh Roan on completing their First Year Report requirements!

July 13, 2022

Incoming first year graduate student Connor Filbin has joined us over the summer before classes start.

March 11, 2022

150th Anniversary of the College of Chemistry at UCB – Recent Nobel Laureates Jennifer Doudna (2020) and Dave MacMillan (2021) along with Yuan T. Lee (1986)

January 18, 2022

Let the chemistry begin…

November 2021

The Abel group welcomes first year graduate students Christina Brancel and Joshua Roan and undergraduate student Daochi Yang!

July 01, 2021

The Abel Research Group opens its doors at UC Berkeley.