Members

Principal Investigator

Postdoctoral Research Associates

Limited Term Research Associates

Graduate Students

  • Vinson Liao (5th year PhD student, UD Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)  liaov@udel.edu
  • Stephen Kronenberger (4th year PhD student, UD Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)  skronen@udel.edu 
  • Tristan Myers (4th year PhD student, UD Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) tmyers@udel.edu
  • Audrey Collins (3rd year PhD student, UD Chemistry) audreyc@udel.edu 
  • Jay Shah (3rd year PhD student, UD Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) jayshah@udel.edu 
  • Emily Yao (1st year PhD student, UD Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) eyao@udel.edu

NRT – MIDAS currently co-advised graduate students

  • Leonardo Pierre (2nd year M.S. student, Delaware State University, Physics, Primary Advisor: Qi Lu)
  • Rudy DiMura (1st year PhD student, UD Materials Science and Engineering, Primary Advisor: Darrin Pochan)
  • Alex Sawyers (1st year PhD student, UD Biomedical Engineering, Primary Advisor: Emily Day)
  • Dillon Trott (1st year PhD student, UD Materials Science and Engineering, Primary Advisor: Christian Pester)

Undergraduates

  • Nina Borodin (senior in UD Chemistry)

Honorary members

  • Group members’ dogs and cats

Photos of the Group (2023)

Group members at the MRS Fall 2023:  Jason Madinya, Nitant Gupta, Audrey Collins, Shizhao Lu,  Jay Shah,  and Zijie Wu! Also catching up with former lab member – Tyler Martin (NIST)

Group celebration of Christian Heil’s thesis defense and a farewell dinner (February 15, 2023) From Left to Right- Jason Madinya, Shweta Burgula, Nitant Gupta, Audrey Collins, Shizhao Lu, Christian Heil, Jay Shah, Erik Anderson, Stephen Kronenberger, and Zijie Wu! (Missing from photo: our lab undergrad researcher Kaveri Srivatsava)

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

At University of Delaware, Newark

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

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

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)

Arjita Kulshreshtha (PhD 2022, Dow)

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, Grad. student at U. Penn)

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

Dr. Ivan Lyubimov (Postdoc 07/2016-05/2019, DLS)

Dr. Prhashanna Ammu (Postdoc 07/2017-05/2019, Corning 2019-2022; NobleAI 08/2022-)

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

Kevin Modica (Senior thesis, Dow)

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, Assoc. Prof. Boise State University)
Robert Elder (PhD 2014, Food & Drug Administration)
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, grad student CU)
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)

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