Dr. Gruhn has been with the Vagelos Institute since 2017. From 2008 to 2017 she was the Managing Director of the first NSF Center for Chemical Innovation, the Center for Enabling New Technologies through Catalysis, led by the University of Washington. Prior to that, she was a Staff Scientist at the University of Arizona and Director of the Center for Gas-Phase Electron Spectroscopy. She earned a B.S. degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, her Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Arizona, and did postdoctoral research at Indiana University.

Ms. Martinez has been with the Vagelos Institute since 2023. She received her B.A. in Chemistry and History from the University of Miami (FL) in 2011, and a M.A. in Modern European Studies at Columbia University in 2015. She spent the next few years working at the College of Central Florida, including two years as Dual Enrollment Coordinator working directly with high school students taking college credit courses. In 2023, she completed her M.S. in Education at Penn’s Graduate School of Education. She is also the administrative coordinator for the undergraduate, dual-degree Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research (VIPER).