About S-lab

Student Executive Board

Ishan Madan
Treasurer

Qingyuan Cao
Secretary

Abeed Nazar
Vice President

Naomi Rehman
Food & Water Security

Eliot Wachtel
President

Sri Ram Neravati
Sustainable Power Representatvie

Jakob Smith
Transportation Technologies Representative

Khushi Shah
Green Building Representative

India Spott
Health & Safety Officer

Cole Scott
Health and Safety Officer

Morgan Yacullo
Environmental Stewardship and Social Justice Representative

Current S-lab Fellows

Spencer Jaseph
3D Fabrication

Wren Sakai
3D Fabrication & Troubleshooting

Staff at the S-Lab

Professor Sue Carter
Lab Founder
Professor of the Physics Department, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at UCSC

Sue Carter is a distinguished Professor at UCSC, where she has worked for over 20 years, and the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies. She is also the Director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development (CIED) and has founded several companies during her remarkable career.

Tela Favaloro
S-lab Director

Tela is a UCSC PhD program graduate and engineer. She is skilled in all stages of component and apparatus development for device testing: design prototyping, fabrication and assembly, and implementation, as well as instrumentation control and data acquisition. Her professional focus is on sustainable energy practices.

Katie Hellier
Graduate Fellow

Katie is a graduate student in the Physics Department and lab manager of Carter Labs, and the former lab manager of the S-lab. Her research focuses on the development and characterization of materials in photovoltiac systems, with an emphasis in thin-film devices. She specializes in fabrication techniques and a variety of spectroscopy methods.