Principal Investigator
Tatyana Polenova
Professor; Director, NIH-COBRE “Molecular Design of Advanced Biomaterials”
Ph.D. (Chemistry), Columbia University, New York, NY, 1997
B.S. (Chemistry, diploma with excellence), Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation, 1992
E-mail: tpolenov@udel.edu
COBRE Business Administrator
Vera Vladimirova
COBRE Business Administrator
B.S. (Chemistry), The Higher Institute of Chemical Technology,
Sofia, Bulgaria, 1974
E-mail: veravlad@udel.edu
Research Scientists, Postdoctoral
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Lex Vega Senior Research Specialist Ph.D. (Chemistry), Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, 1974 M.S. (Physics), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1967 B.S. (Physics and Chemistry), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1962 E-mail: lexvega@udel.edu |
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Huilan Zhang Research Specialist Ph.D. (Physics), Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2007 B.S. (Physics), Central China Normal University, China, 2001 E-mail: zhang@udel.edu |
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Xingyu Lu Postdoctoral Researcher Ph.D. (Chemistry), University of Lille I, Lille, France, 2013 M.S. (Radio Physics), Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, 2009 B.S. (Applied Physics), University of Science & Technology of China, 2006 E-mail: luxingyu@udel.edu |
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Caitlin Quinn NIH Ruth Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow Ph.D. (Chemistry), Columbia University, New York, NY, 2013 B.S. (Chemistry), Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT, 2007 E-mail: cmquinn@udel.edu |
PhD Doctoral Students
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Matthew Fritz (co-mentored with Sharon Rozovsky) PhD student B.S. (Chemistry), Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, 2013 Email: mpfritz@udel.edu |
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Changmiao Guo PhD student B.S. Shandong University, China, 2011 E-mail: cmguo@udel.edu |
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Olga Goncharova-Zapata PhD student B.A. (Chemistry), University of Delaware, 2008 Email: ozapata@udel.edu |
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Jodi KrausPhD student B.S. (Chemistry), Drexel University, 2015 E-mail: jkraus@udel.edu |
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Manman Lu PhD student B.S. (Chemistry), Nankai University, China, 2011 E-mail: lumm@udel.edu |
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Ryan W. Russell PhD student B.S. (Chemistry), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015 E-mail: russellr@udel.edu |
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Wenfei Tian PhD student B.S. (Chemistry), Shandong University, China, 2010 E-mail: wtian@udel.edu |
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Mingzhang (Maple) Wang PhD student B.S. East China University of Science and Technology, 2012 E-mail: wmzmaple@udel.edu |
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Chunting Zhang PhD student B.S. (Chemistry), Jilin University (JLU), China, 2013 Email: zhangct@udel.edu |
Undergraduate Students
Lucas Onisk
Undergraduate student
B.S. (Chemistry), University of Delaware, 2017 expected graduation
E-mail: lonisk@udel.edu
Group Alumni
Postdocs:
Rupal Gupta (2012-2016; currently an Assistant Professor at CUNY-CSI)
Guangjin Hou (2010-2012; currently an NMR Spectroscopist at the University of Delaware)
Sivakumar Paramasivam (2011-2012; currently an Assistant Professor at SRM University, India)
Kristopher J. Ooms (2007-2008; currently an Associate Professor at the Kings’ University College, Edmonton, AB, Canada)
Jun Yang (2006-2008; currently a Professor at Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Wuhan, P. R. China)
Graduate students:
Jenna Yehl (Ph.D., 2016;)
Mingyu Li (Ph.D., 2016; currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Pittsburgh)
Christopher L. Suiter (Ph.D., 2016; currently an NRC Postdoctoral Fellow at NIST)
Si Yan (Ph.D., 2014; currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at Novartis)
Yun Han (Ph.D., 2012; currently a Research Associate at Old Dominion University)
Sivakumar Paramasivam (Ph.D., 2011; currently an Assistant Professor at SRM University, India)
Shangjin Sun (Ph.D., 2011; currently at Procter and Gamble)
Stephanie (Bolte) Frankel (M.S., 2009; currently at SAP)
Wenlin Huang (Ph.D., 2007; currently at ICL)
Dabeiba Marulanda (Ph.D., 2006; currently an Associate Chemist at the Bureau of Engineering Design & Construction, New York City Department of Environmental Protection, Corona, NY)
William Perea (M.A., 2006; currently a Ph.D. student at Hunter College)
Neela Pooransingh-Margolis (Ph. D, 2006; currently an Assistant Technical Director at Wards Island Metals Lab, New York City Department of Environmental Protection, Wards Island/Randalls Island, NY)
Undergraduate, rotation and high-school students:
Nicholas Audette (undergraduate HHMI scholar at UD)
Donald Allen (undergraduate HHMI scholar at UD)
Amanda Kee (2010 summer ACS-SEED high school student)
Briana Elmore (2010 summer ACS-SEED high school student)
Abeo Ngozi (2009 summer ACS-SEED high school student)
Kristin Nuzzio (undergraduate HHMI scholar at UD)
Amanda Pickard (undergraduate researcher at UD)
Hazel Gauani (undergraduate researcher at UD)
Anant Patel (undergraduate HHMI scholar at UD)
Tarjani Thaker (undergraduate HHMI scholar at UD)
Fumie Koyoshi (undergraduate summer NIH-INBRE scholar, Wesley College)
Kate Frysinger (undergraduate research scholar at UD)
Chris Willis (undergraduate HHMI scholar at UD)
Steven Hill (undergraduate student at UD)
Jeremy Wolfe (undergraduate student at UD)
Mark Schopfer (undergraduate student at UD)
Wilton Williams (undergraduate student at Hunter College)
Iwona Nowak (ungraduate student at the City University of New York- Hunter College)
Tom Dugan (undergraduate student at UD)
Anjana Rajalakshmi (undergraduate student at Hunter College)
William Yu (undergraduate student at Hunter College)
JeeSoo Lee (Hunter High School student)
Mariel Poole (Hunter High School student)
