Group Members
Principal Investigator
April M. Kloxin, Ph.D.
Thomas and Kipp Gutshall Development Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Associate Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering
Q & A in UD Research Magazine, Sidewalks to Science
Staff
- Will Trout – Specialist in Instrumentation & Chemistry
- Email: Wtrout@udel.edu
- Zaining (Jenny) Yun – Specialist in Molecular & Cellular Biology and Laboratory Manager
- Email: zyun@udel.edu
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Lina Pradhan,
Email: linap@udel.edu , joined group in 2017
Dr. Eden Ford, Defensed in January 10th 2022, work as postdoc since then.
Email: edenford@udel.edu
Dr. Aida Ruiz, joined group in January 2023
email: alopezr@udel.edu
Graduate Students
At Eden’s defense!
Eric Slaughter
Email: ersla@udel.edu
Jodi Graf
Email: grafjo@udel.edu
Shweta Burgula
Email: shwetab@udel.edu
Samantha Cassel
Email: secassel@udel.edu
Kartik Bomb
Email: kbomb@udel.edu
DeVonte Moore
Email: jayhawk@udel.edu
Rafael Castro
Email: rcastro@udel.edu
Caitlin DAmbrosio
Email: cdambro@udel.edu
Bree Huntington
Email: breehunt@udel.edu
Sam Swedzinski
Email: sswedz@udel.edu
Undergraduate Students
Qi (Matthew) Zhang
Email: zhangqi@udel.edu
Alumni include
Post-Doctoral Researchers
Paige LeValley, Ph.D. (2021) – Currently: Post-doc at ETH Zürich and Empa
Bryan Sutherland, Ph.D. (2020) – Currently: Post-doc at Boston University
Raghupathi Neelarapu, Ph.D. (2018) – Currently: Adesis
Srimoyee Dasgupta, Ph.D. (2017-2018) – Currently: Adesis
Lisa Sawicki, Ph.D. (2017) – Currently: Boehringer Ingelheim
Chen Guo, Ph.D. (2014-2016) – Currently: University of Minnesota
Graduate Students
Phillip Taylor, Ph.D (2022), Currently: Post-doc at Sandia National Lab, Albuquerque, NM
Kimberly Wodzanowski , Ph.D (2022), Currently: Post-doc at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Katherine Wiley, Ph.D.(2020) – Currently: Merck
Amber Hiderbrand, Ph.D (2019) – Currently: Merck
Elisa Ovadia, Ph.D. (2018) – Currently: Kite Pharma
Megan Smithmyer, Ph.D. (2018) – Currently: University of North Carolina and the University of Zambia on UJMT Fogarty Global Health Fellowship
Lisa Sawicki, Ph.D. (2017) – Currently: Boehringer Ingelheim
Matthew Rehmann, Ph.D. (2016) – Currently: Bristol-Myers Squibb
Prathamesh Kharkar, Ph.D (2016) – Currently: KCI, an Acelity Company
Undergraduates
Christopher Calo (2017-2019) – Currently: Ph.D. student at University of Colorado
Becca Huber (2017-2019) – Currently: Ph.D. student at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Mark LaRue (2016-2018) – Currently: Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories at Merck & Co.
Harrison Ball (2017-2018) – Currently: Ph.D. student at Michigan
Christopher Bressette (2015-2017) – Currently: Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech
Joseph Spohn (2016-2017) – Currently: Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories at Merck & Co.
Cody Reeves (2014-2016) – Currently: Law student at University of Virginia
William Ballance (2013 – 2015) – Currently: Ph.D. student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Morgan Dezendorf (2015) – Currently: Chemical Engineering student at University of Delaware
Elaine Stewart (2015) – Currently: Chemical Engineering student at University of Delaware
Rachel Kennel (2013 – 2015) – Currently: DeNovix
Harry Yang (2014 – 2015)
Kelsi Skeens (2013 – 2014) – Currently: Ph.D. student at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Michael Dummeldinger (2013 – 2014) – Currently: Bristol-Myers Squibb
Carolin Hartwig (2013) – Fraunhofer Exchange Program
Eric Macedo (2011 – 2013) – Currently: CB&I
Andrew Garibian (2012) – Currently: Marathon Petroleum Corporation
Visiting Scholar
Johannes Dressel(2022.10-2023.03) – Grad student of University of Mainz, Germany