Members

Principal Investigator

Postdoctoral Research Associates

Limited Term Research Associates

Graduate Students

  • Stephen Kronenberger (5th year PhD student, UD Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)  skronen@udel.edu 
  • Tristan Myers (5th year PhD student, UD Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) tmyers@udel.edu
  • Audrey Collins (4th year PhD student, UD Chemistry) audreyc@udel.edu 
  • Jay Shah (4th year PhD student, UD Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) jayshah@udel.edu 
  • Emily Yao (2nd year PhD student, UD Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) eyao@udel.edu

Undergraduates

  • Kyle Wodehouse (Junior, UD Chemical Engineering)

Honorary members

  • Group members’ dogs and cats

Past Members (position in our group, last known position)

At University of Delaware, Newark

Dr. Jason Madinya  (Postdoc 06/2023 – 08/2025, CCNY Chemical Engineering Asst. Prof.)

Dr. Sojung Park  (Postdoc 08 2023 – 08/2025, Start-up in Korea)

Vinson Liao (PhD 2025, Air Products)

Nina Borodin (Senior thesis 2023-2025, Graduate Student at MIT)

Aanish Paruchuri (Masters program in Data Science 2024, Arkema)

Dr. Nitant Gupta  (Postdoc 02/2022-01/2025, unknown)

Kaveri Srivatsava (B.S. Chemical Engineering 2024, Univ. of Illinois Urbana Champaign Graduate student)

Shizhao Lu (PhD 2024, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Postdoc)

Zijie Wu (PhD 2023, Oak Ridge National Lab Postdoc)

Christian Heil (PhD 2023, Dow Chemical)

Arjita Kulshreshtha (PhD 2022, Dow Chemical)

Phillip Taylor (PhD 2022, UVA Chemical Engineering Asst. Prof. )

Geoffrey Bonnanzio (Senior Thesis, Grad. Student at Northwestern)

Michiel Wessels (PhD 2021, Siemens USA)

Dr. Ziyu Ye (Postdoc 2020-2021, unknown)

Dr. Utkarsh Kapoor (Postdoc 02/2019-06/2021, Asst. Prof. University of Wyoming Chemical Engineering)

Thomas Gartner (PhD 2019, Asst. Prof. Georgia Tech 01/2022-06/2023; Asst. Prof. Lehigh Univ. 07/2023-)

Christopher Johnson (Senior thesis, PhD from U. Penn, now postdoc at UMaryland)

Dr. Daniel Beltran-Villegas (Postdoc 08/2016-07/2019, Johnson & Johnson)

Dr. Ivan Lyubimov (Postdoc 07/2016-05/2019, Head of Data Science at Switch Sales Technology)

Dr. Prhashanna Ammu (Postdoc 07/2017-05/2019, Director Data Science, Standard Industries)

Daniel Intriago (Senior thesis; PhD student Princeton Fall 2023-)

Kevin Modica (Senior thesis, Dow Chemical)

Joshua Condon (MS with thesis 2017, Capital one)

Tyler Martin (PhD 2016, NIST )

Dr. Ahmadreza Ghobadi (Postdoc 08/2014- 08/2016, Procter & Gamble)

Paul Blanchard (REU undergrad researcher, Grad. student at U. Minnesota)

Dr. Francesca Stanzione (Postdoc 02/2014-03/ 2016, The Cambridge Crystallographic Center)

At University of Colorado, Boulder
Hilary Marsh (PhD 2015, Ch2M Hill )
Carla Estridge (PhD 2015, Boeing)
Sloane McNeill (Undergrad researcher CU Chem/Comp Sci)
Anna McLeland (Senior Thesis, 08/13-05/14)
Mellika Ashtiani (Undergrad research, 05/13-05/14 )
Brandon Lin (Senior Thesis, MS thesis,08/12-05/14 )
Daniel Johnson (MS non-thesis, 01/13-05/14)
Dr. Renfeng Hu (Postdoc 2013)
Dr. Eric Jankowski (Postdoc 08/11-03/14,  Director, Micron School of Materials Sciences, Boise State University)
Robert Elder (PhD 2014, Computational Materials Scientist at the FDA )
Arezou Seifpour (PhD 2013, Alteryx)
Alex VanFosson (MS with thesis 01/12-05/13, OSIsoft)
Xiao Ba (Senior thesis)
Charles Starbird (MS 01/11-06/12,Eastman Chemical)
Paul Dodd (Senior thesis, graduate student UMichigan )
Dr. Dongsheng Zhang (Postdoc 05/10-09/11, Postdoc at UT Dallas)
Chris Mckinney (REU student 05/11-07/11)
Mohamed Seyam (Grad student 01/09-07/11)
Dr. Nate Wentzel (Postdoc 07/10-05/11, Assoc. Prof. Milligan College)
Dr. Steve Dahl (Postdoc jointly with Prof.Hrenya 02/10-03/11) BP, Houston
Dr. Nitish Nair (Postdoc from 06/09-12/10, Shell, India)
Tyler Martin (REU student summer 2010)
Jeff Hajewski (Rotation student summer 2010 )
Neil Patel (Broomfield high school student, Winter 2009)
Phil Spicer (Undergrad research assistant 05/09-12/09)
Owen Lewis (Undergrad research assistant 02/09-08/09, grad student at MIT)
Philip Calabrese (Rotation student spring 2009)
Audrey Schaiberger (Undergraduate Independent study Fall 2008)