Mayesha Ahmed

• Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry
• Dissertation (Anticipated): Investigation of Ir complexes for CO₂ reduction (Advisor: Prof. Karen Goldberg)

Rani Baidoun

• Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
• Dissertation (Anticipated): Engineering the Electrochemical Interface for Enhanced Control Over The CO₂ Reduction Reaction (Advisor: Prof. Dohyung Kim) 

Stephen Crane

• Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
• Dissertation (Anticipated): Lanthanide binding peptide surfactants for rare earth element separation (Advisor: Profs. Kathleen Stebe & Ivan Dmochowski)

Kritika Jha

• Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry
• Dissertation (Anticipated): Exploring the Relaxation Dynamics of Bulk Nanoconfined Molecular Glasses (Advisor: Prof. Zahra Fakhraai)

Pedro Jimenez Antenucci

• Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry
• Dissertation (Anticipated): Development of Novel Methods for Waste Polymer Recycling Methods of post-modification of polyethylene feedstocks (Advisor: Prof. Marisa Kozlowski)

Kelly Kopera

• Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry
• Dissertation (Anticipated): Charge Transfer Kinetics of Z-Scheme Water-Splitting Photocatalysts (Advisor: Prof. Thomas Mallouk)

William Oprisu

• Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry
• Dissertation (Anticipated): Liquid Anvil Cell: A New Platform for Stress State-Controlled Mechanochemistry (Advisor: Prof. Robert Carpick)

Rachel Thatcher

• Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
• Dissertation (Anticipated): From Perfect to Imperfect: Thermodynamic and Kinetic Studies of Metal Oxide Surfaces (Advisor: Prof. Aleksandra Vojvodic)

Boyang "Bobby" Zhang

• Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry
• Dissertation (Anticipated): Sustainable Cobalt/Nickel Separations Through the Use of Second-Sphere Non-Covalent Interactions (Advisor: Prof. Eric Schelter)

Adam Alfieri

• Ph.D. in Electrical and Systems Engineering, 2025
• Dissertation: Novel van der Waals Chalcogenides for Sustainable Light Harvesting (Advisor: Prof. Deep Jariwala)

Yotam Ardon

• Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry
• Dissertation (Anticipated): Acid-mediated reactivity of organogold (III) pincer complexes (Advisor: Prof. Karen Goldberg)

Qinwen Deng

• Ph.D. Candidate in Physics and Astronomy
• Dissertation (Anticipated): Manipulation and application of large nonlinear optical effects in novel quantum materials (Advisor: Prof. Liang Wu)

Wenxiao Deng

• Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry
• Dissertation (Anticipated): Understanding microenvironment within electrochemical device from operando characterization (Advisor: Prof. Thomas Mallouk)

Weiwei Kong 

• Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, 2024
• Dissertation: Polymer Infiltrated Nanoporous Gold: Kinetics and Optical Properties of Novel Polymer Nanocomposites (Advisor: Prof. Russell Composto)
• Current Position: Editor in Chief, Wiley

Anirban Majumder

• Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2025
• Dissertation: Understanding and Modulating Interactions Between Polymers and Nanoparticles for Effective Catalyst Design in Polymer Upcycling (Advisor: Prof. Daeyeon Lee)
• Current Position: Consultant, Boston Consulting Group

Jason Marmorstein 

• Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry
• Research: Lanthanide binding peptides with the goal of generating more selective peptides for use in environmentally friendly separation techniques (Advisor: Prof. James Petersson)

Sabina Maurer 

• Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry
• Dissertation (Anticipated): Harnessing Nature’s Machinery: Characterization and Adaptation of Biosynthetic Enzymes for Broader Use (Advisor: Prof. Monica E. McCallum)

Cassandra Vu

• Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry
• Dissertation (Anticipated): Oxidative Coupling of Phenols to Synthesize Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, Direct Carboxylation of Polyethylene, and Isotopic Analysis of Reaction Mixtures (Advisor: Prof. Marisa Kozlowski)

Jiashu (Patrick) Wang

• Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry
• Dissertation (Anticipated): Investigating Stepwise N–N Bond Reduction with Diiron Cluster Complexes (Advisor: Prof. Neil Tomson)

Yuxuan (Ivy) Dai 

• Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2025
• Dissertation: Silica Nanoparticle-Based Platform for Rare Earth Element Recovery and Separation (Advisor: Profs. Kathleen Stebe & Daeyeon Lee)

Eli Fastow 

• Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, 2025
• Dissertation: Chain and Pendant Architecture Effects in Associating Polyolefins (Advisor: Prof. Karen Winey)
• Current Position: Researcher, Dow, Inc.

Tianyue (Mary) Gao 

• Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2024
• Dissertation: Interfacial Ion Transport in Spatially Patterned Microenvironments (Advisor: Prof. Thomas Mallouk)
• Current Position: Postdoc, Argonne National Laboratory

Maura Gibbs 

• Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry
• Research: Development of homogeneous catalysts for the dehydrogenation of saturated polymers (Advisor: Prof. Karen Goldberg)

Himanshu Gupta 

• Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry
• Research: Investigation of f-electron behavior in conducting lattices of redox active small molecules and develop photoconductive and photomagnetic molecular materials (Advisor: Prof. Eric Schelter)

Christopher Johnson 

• Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2025
• Dissertation: Structure and transport properties of nanoporous polymers derived from lyotropic mesophases (Advisor: Prof. Chinedum Osuji)
• Current Position: Postdoc, University of Pennsylvania

Chenshuai Li

• Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2024
• Dissertation: Elucidating Photoinduced Processes Related to Red Chlorophyll, Bulk Chlorophyll, and Reaction Center Mutants of Photosystem I Complexes by Two-dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy (Advisor: Prof. Jessica Anna)

Yamilée Morency 

• Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2025
• Dissertation: Tailoring MXene Chemistry Through Composition and Undercoordination for Applications in Hydrogen Chemistries (Advisor: Prof. Aleksandra Vojvodic)

Maxwell Pisciotta

• Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2024
• Dissertation: A Multifaceted Approach to CO₂ Emissions Reductions and Removals (Advisor: Profs. Jennifer Wilcox & Peter Psarras)
• Current Position: Process Engineer, Limelight Steel

John Russell

• Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2024
• Dissertation: First-Row Deprotiometallacyclobutadienes: Synthesis, Structure, And Reactivity (Advisor: Prof. Daniel Mindiola)
• Current Position: Postdoc, Argonne National Laboratory

Ranadeb Ball 

• Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2024
• Dissertation: Investigating Ultrafast Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium Dynamics in the Condensed Phase with Molecular Vibrations (Advisor: Prof. Jessica Anna)
• Current Position: Postdoc, Northwestern University

Sayan Banerjee 

• Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2023
• Dissertation: First-Principles Insights into Surface Processes: From Electrochemical Transformations to Mechanochemical Molecular Motion (Advisor: Prof. Andrew Rappe)
• Current Position: Assistant Professor (Chemistry), University of Tennessee

Jian Chang

• Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2023
• Dissertation: Support Effects for the Water-Gas-Shift Reaction over Cu (Advisor: Profs. John Vohs & Raymond Gorte)
• Current Position: Chemical Engineer, Align Technologies

Kiyoung Jo

• Ph.D. in Electrical and Systems Engineering, 2023
• Dissertation: Nano-Optical and Electrical Imaging of Excitonic Semiconductor Interfaces (Advisor: Prof. Deep Jariwala)
• Current Position: Postdoc, Argonne National Laboratory

Colin Lehman-Chong 

• Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2023
• Dissertation: Modeling Diverse Processes at Oxide Interfaces (Advisor: Prof. Aleksandra Vojvodic)
• Current Position: Assistant Professor (Chemical Engineering), Washington State University

Amy Metlay

• Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2024
• Dissertation: Interfacial Chemistry in Bipolar Membrane-Containing Redox Flow Battery Systems (Advisor: Prof. Thomas Mallouk)
• Current Position: Postdoc, Columbia University

Zhuoliang Ni 

• Ph.D. in Physics and Astronomy, 2023
• Dissertation: Nonlinear Optical Studies on Two-Dimensional Antiferromagnets and Topological Materials (Advisor: Prof. Liang Wu)
• Current Position: Optical Scientist, Meta Reality Lab

Lucille Wells 

• Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2023
• Dissertation: Copper and Nickel Catalyzed Reaction in Chan-Lam Coupling, Isourea Formation, and Polyolefin Upcycling (Advisor: Prof. Marisa Kozlowski)

Anthony Curto 

• Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2022
• Dissertation: Modeling of Earth Abundant Oxide Nanoparticles to Guide Materials Design for Energy Applications (Advisor: Prof. Aleksandra Vojvodic)
• Current Position: Business Excellence Lead, BASF Performance Materials

Anant Jain 

• Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2023
• Dissertation: Homogeneous Platinum Group Metal Complexes Bearing Protic Ligands: Progress Towards Oxygen Activation and Oxygen Atom Transfer for Catalytic Aerobic Oxidations (Advisor: Prof. Karen Goldberg)
• Current Position: Scientist, Adesic

Walter Johnsen 

• Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2023
• Dissertation: Investigations of Copper Catalyzed CO₂ Reduction with Molecular Copper Models, Technoeconomics, and Green Policy (Advisor: Profs. Karen Goldberg & Thomas Mallouk)
• Current Position: Venture Science Associate, Marble

Alison Knasin 

• Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2023
• Dissertation: Structure and Reactivity Studies of a Synthetic Model System for a Rare Earth Metal−Containing Enzyme (Advisor: Prof. Eric Schelter)
• Current Position: Lab Manager, Penn Energy Justice Lab

Tianchang Liu

• Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2023
• Dissertation: Synthesis And Reactivity Studies Towards Small Molecule Activation Of Pyridyldiimine-Derived Macrocyclic Diiron Complexes (Advisor: Prof. Neil Tomson)
• Current Position: Postdoc, UC Berkeley

Jinseok Park 

• Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, 2022
• Dissertation: Morphologies, Phase Behavior, and Applications of Precise Ion-Containing Multiblock Copolymers (Advisor: Prof. Karen Winey)

Daniel Rosen 

• Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, 2023
• Dissertation: High-Controlled Transition Metal and Transition Metal Oxides for Enhanced Catalytic and Magnetic Properties (Advisor: Prof. Christopher Murray)
• Current Position: Strategic Materials Engineer, Defense Logistics Agency

Nathan Rudman

• Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry
• Research: Xenon binding inorganic cages and Xe-129 NMR spectroscopy (Advisor: Prof. Ivan Dmochowski)

Carolyn White

• M.Sc. in Chemistry, 2021
• Current Position: Scientist, Catalent Pharma Solutions

Huiqin Zhang 

• Ph.D. in Electrical and Systems Engineering, 2024
• Dissertation: Light Matter Interaction in Low Dimensional Semiconductors (Advisor: Prof. Deep Jariwala)
• Current Position: XR Camera Engineer, ByteDance

Phoebe Askelson 

• Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2023
• Dissertation: Using Carbonyl Vibrational Probes to Characterize Changes to the Local Environment with Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy (Advisor: Prof. Jessica Anna)
• Current Position: Senior IR Spectroscopist, Kalman & Company, Inc.

Alexandre Foucher

• Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, 2022
• Dissertation: Ex Situ and In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy Analysis of Bimetallic Nanocatalysts (Advisor: Prof. Eric Stach)
• Current Position: Staff Research Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Jeremy Hitt

• Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2022
• Dissertation: Electrocatalysts and Supports for Polymer Fuel Cells and Electrolyzers (Advisor: Prof. Thomas Mallouk)
• Current Position: Senior Engineer, Form Energy

Heesuk Jung 

• Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, 2022
• Dissertation: Design and Fabrication of Passive Cooling Materials for Sustainable Solar Energy and Building Applications (Advisor: Prof. Shu Yang)
• Current Position: Senior Researcher, Korea Institute of Science and Technology

Tao Li

• Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2021
• Dissertation: Modeling light-matter interactions: From fundamental processes to polariton chemistry (Advisor: Prof. Joe Subotnik)
• Current Position: Assistant Professor (Physics), University of Delaware

William Neuhaus

• Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2021
• Dissertation: Selective Oxidative Methods for Dehydrogenative Coupling and Hydrogen Peroxide Generation (Advisor: Prof. Marisa Kozlowski)
• Current Position: Scientist, Vernaova

Drew Newman

• Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2022
• Dissertation: Design and Synthesis of Late-Transition Metal Complexes: Progress towards Selective Alkane Functionalization (Advisor: Prof. Karen Goldberg)
• Current Position: Patent Examiner, US Patent Office

Abhinav Raman

• Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2021
• Dissertation: Understanding and predicting the chemical properties of complex oxides using first-principles methods (Advisor: Prof. Aleksandra Vojvodic)
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, IIT Madras

Sam Welborn

• Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, 2022
• Dissertation: X-Ray Scattering Investigations into the Kinetic Behavior of Dealloying and Coursening of Nanoporous Gold for Applications in 3D Electrochemical Energy Storage (Advisor: Prof. Eric Detsi)
• Current Position: Postdoc, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

Jiahao Zhang

• Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2023
• Dissertation: Phenomenological and Atomistic Study of Ferroelectric Material (Advisor: Prof. Andrew Rappe)
• Current Position: Qualitative Analyst Specialist, Wells Fargo

Joshua A. Bulos

• Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2022
• Dissertation: Directed Self-Assembly of Ferritin Nanocages by Surface-Redesigned Cargo (Advisor: Prof. Ivan Dmochowski)
• Current Position: Scientist, Regeneron

John S. Corsi

• Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, 2021
• Dissertation: Fabrication and Study of Microstructure, Solid-Electrolyte Interphase, and Phase Evolution of Nanoporous Metals used as Li-Ion Battery Alloy Anodes (Advisor: Prof. Eric Detsi)
• Current Position: Senior Battery Engineer, 24M Technologies

Jiawei Lu

• Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2022
• Dissertation: Extracting the Frequency Fluctuation Correlation Function from Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectra via the Dynamic Stokes Shift (Advisor: Prof. Jessica Anna)
• Current Position: Sr. Project Manager - Strategy of Clinical Drug Supply, Genmab

Benjamin A. Paren

• Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, 2021
• Dissertation: Interconnected Aggregates in Precise Single-Ion Conducting Polymers and Pathways for Ion and Proton Transport (Advisor: Prof. Karen Winey)
• Current Position: Assistant Professor (Chemical and Materials Science Engineering), Stevens Institute of Technology

Paul A. Pepin

• Ph.D., in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 2019
• Dissertation: Insights For Catalyst Design: A Systematic Investigation of the Morphological Dependence of Catalytic and Photocatalytic Activity for Nanostructured Titania (Advisor: Prof. John Vohs)
• Current Position: Technical Manager, Ingevity

Sophie Rubashkin

• Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2021
• Dissertation: Aerobic Oxidation of Hydrocarbons with Iridium (III) Pincer Complexes (Advisor: Prof. Karen Goldberg)
• Current Position: Pharmaceutical Scientist, FDA

Jothi Priyanka Thiruraman

• Ph.D. in Electrical and Systems Engineering, 2021
• Dissertation: Low-dimensional material device for atomic defect engineering, ionic and molecular transport (Advisor: Prof. Marija Drndíc)
• Current Position: Hardware Engineer, Google Quantum AI

Alexander B. Weberg

• Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2021
• Dissertation: Investigating the impacts of internal electrostatic fields on homogeneous transition metal complexes (Advisor: Prof. Neil Tomson)
• Current Position: Postdoc, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Qinghua Zhao

• Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2020
• Dissertation: Characterization of Charge Carrier Behaviors in II-VI and IV-VI Nanocrystal Assemblies (Advisor: Prof. Cherie Kagan)
• Current Position: Staff Engineer, SanDisk

Santanu Malakar 

• Ph.D. in Chemistry (2022), Rutgers University
• Advisors: Profs. Karen Goldberg & Marisa Kozlowski
• Current Position: Assistant Professor (Chemistry), Rutgers University

Leanna Schulte

• Ph.D. in Physical Materials Chemistry (2022), University of California, Irvine
• Advisors: Profs. Thomas Mallouk & Zahra Fakhraai
• Current Position: Lecturer (Chemistry & Biochemistry), California Polytechnic University

Clàudia Climent 

• Ph.D. in Nanoscience (2021), Universitat de Barcelona
• Advisors: Profs. Joseph Subotnik & Abraham Nitzan
• Current Position: Assistant Professor (Materials Science and Engineering), Universitat de Barcelona

Siwon Lee

• Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering (2021), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
• Advisors: Profs. Daeyeon Lee & Raymond Gorte
• Current Position: Assistant Professor (Materials Science and Engineering), Hanbat National University

Yue Gao

• Ph.D. in Chemistry (2020), The Pennsylvania State University
• Advisors: Profs. James Pikul & Karen Winey
• Current Position: Professor (Macromolecule Science), Fudan University

Holden Lai

• Ph.D. in Chemistry (2020), Stanford University
• Advisors: Profs. Chinedum Osuji & Karen Winey
• Current Position: Chief Technology Officer, Osmoses

Alex Confer

• Ph.D. in Chemistry (2019), John Hopkins University
• Advisors: Profs. Neil Tomson & Eric Schelter
• Current Position: Associate Principal Scientist, Merck

Nathanael Hirscher

• Ph.D. in Chemistry (2019), California Institute of Technology
• Advisors: Profs. Karen Goldberg & Eric Schelter
• Current Position: Assistant Professor (Chemistry), Montclair State University

Ahmad Shamsabadi

• Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (2019), Drexel University
• Advisors: Profs. Zahra Fakhraai & Raymond Gorte
• Current Position: Senior Scientist, Pall Corporation