Jonathan Loera is a fourth year undergraduate student at UC Merced graduating Spring 2022 with a Bachelor of science in Sciences. Physics and a Bachelor of science in Chemical At a young age, both of Jonathan’s parents were Jonathan would attend lectures with his mother . completing their Bachelor degrees. This environment instilled a deep and caused him to love learning At UC Merced, Jonathan . enrolled as a physics major. He was excited by the chemistry and decided to double major. During his time at UC Merced, the Hratchian Lab studying instances of artificial of 20 20 Jonathan worked symmetry breaking in DFT calculations. at Lawrence Livermore National Lab At times, curiosity in Jonathan overlap between physics and Jonathan conducted research in In the summer developing an active learning high school physics curriculum . In the summer of 2021, Jonathan worked at Washington State University investigating efficiency optimizing parameters for blade coated organic photovoltaic dev ices. Next Fall, Jonathan will began pursuing a PhD in physics working in an experimental condensed matter grou UCLA. p at
