Welcome to the E.Romero Research Group @ UCSD

We aim to merge visible light photoredox with ground-state catalysts to enable academically, industrially, and medicinally important organic transformations under mild reaction conditions.

Research Interests R2G Group Members

October 2025 Romero Research Group

Left to right: Max Schoeneberg (UG), Prof. Erik Romero, Pablo Romero Bolanos (UG), Jonathan Galicia (G5), Carlos Cruz (G4), Leonel Jimenez Barrios (G3), Samantha Bowers (UG), Nicholas McDonald (G5), Stephanie Wu (UG), Wesley Hatcher (G5), Lucas Malone (UG), Junze Hua (UG). Missing: Dale Deng (MS).

Join our team!

We are on the lookout for future group members that will help us take our research endeavors to new heights. In addition, we want team members who are positive, inclusive, and willing to help those around them. Having previous experience in photochemistry or catalysis is not required as the purpose of research is to learn new things. The only requirement is the intrinsic drive to learn and apply new experimental techniques to the development of synthetic methods.

If this sounds good to you, check out our research interests and our group members pages! We look forward to meeting and working with you.