Nicholas Watkins

Biography

Nick grew up in San Diego, California and attended UC Berkeley for undergrad, where he obtained a B.S. in Chemistry. He then obtained a Ph.D. from Caltech in Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Jonas C. Peters and Prof. John M. Gregoire. His graduate work concerned the effects of mass/thermal transport and organic films on electrochemical CO2 reduction on copper electrodes. Nick joined Prof. Sepunaru’s group at UCSB in 2023, where his current research is focused on the electrochemistry of atomically precise nanoclusters.