Stefano Cestellos Blanco

Stefano earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University in 2016, before moving across the Bay to complete a Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2022 with Peidong Yang. During his graduate studies, Stefano interrogated the synergistic interplay between functional materials and biology for biocatalysis and protein delivery. As a co-advised postdoctoral scientist between the Deisseroth and Bao labs, Stefano is exploring the correlation between chemical material properties and neurobiology in genetically targeted assemblies.