Jesse Jokerst PhD

Jesse V. Jokerst is a Professor in the Departments of Nano and Chemical Engineering and Radiology (by courtesy) at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Jokerst graduated cum laude from Truman State University in 2003 with a B.S. in Chemistry and then completed a Ph.D. in Chemistry at The University of Texas at Austin in 2009. Dr. Jokerst was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford Radiology from 2009 to 2013 before becoming an instructor in that same department from 2013-2015.

Dr. Jokerst started his independent lab at UC San Diego in July of 2015, and he has received the NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award, the NIH New Innovator Award, the NSF CAREER Award, and the Stanford MIPS Alumni of the Year Award. He has been the PI of 15+ federal grants and has published over 150 manuscripts. He is an Associate Editor at ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces and also serves as the founding advisor of UC San Diego's chapter of oSTEM—a national society dedicated to educating and fostering leadership for LGBT+ communities in the STEM fields.