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Visiting Faculty

Dale Harak

  • Postdoctoral Scholar
  • Visiting Professor, Rockhurst University

Anne Bentley

  • Visiting Faculty from Lewis & Clark

Postdoctoral Scholars

Dileka Abeysinghe

  • Post-Doctoral Research Associate
  • Last known position: Process Engineer, Intel, Portland OR
  • Ph.D. (Inorganic Chemistry) University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
  • B.S. Chemistry, University of Sri Jayewardanepura, Sri Lanka

Kallum Koczkur

  • Post-Doctoral Research Associate
  • Last known position: Assistant Research Professor, Louisiana Tech
  • Ph.D. (Physical Chemistry) University of Guelph, Canada
  • MSc. (Electrochemistry) Lakehead University, Canada
  • HBSc. (Organic Chemistry) Lakehead University, Canada

Hamed Ataee-Esfahani

  • Postdoctoral Scholar
  • Last known positions:Product Specialist, Shimadzu Scientific Instruments; Post-doctoral Scholar, Georgetown University
  • Ph.D. (Nano-science and Nano-engineering): Waseda University, Japan
  • M.S. (Materials Science and Engineering): Sharif University of Technology, Iran
  • B.S. (Materials Science and Engineering): Sharif University of Technology, Iran

Nathan Motl

  • Last Known Position: Huber Engineered Materials
  • Post-doctoral Scholar - Department of Chemistry
  • Ph.D. (Chemistry): The Pennsylvania State University (with Raymond Schaak), 2012
  • B.S. (Chemistry): Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, 2007

Solomon Gizaw

  • Last Known Position: Assistant Professor Addis Ababa University
  • October, 2015 - 2017: Postdoctoral Researcher, IU
  • Ph. D (Life Sciences), Hokkaido University, Japan
  • M.Sc. (Biochemistry), Andhra University, India
  • B.Sc. (Applied Chemistry), Debub (now Hawassa) University, Ethiopia

Ellen Steinmiller

  • Last known position: Assistant Professor, University of Dallas Department of Chemistry
  • Post-doctoral Scholar - Department of Chemistry
  • Ph.D. (Chemistry): Purdue University, Kyoung-Shin Choi
  • B.S. (Chemistry): University of Arkansas, Ingrid Fritsch

Chenyu (Walter) Wang

  • Last known position(s): Postdoctoral Scholar - Los Alamos National Laboratory; Postdoctoral Scholar - University of Wisconsin
  • Postdoctoral Scholar - Department of Chemistry
  • Ph.D. (Chemistry): Binghamton University
  • B.S. (Polymer Materials and Engineering): Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China

Lin Xu

  • Last known position(s): Associate Professor - Nanjing Normal University; Post-doctoral Scholar in Can Xue's Laboratory at NTU, Singapore
  • Post-doctoral Scholar - Department of Chemistry
  • Ph.D. (Chemistry): Nanjing University, Wenhua Hou
  • B.S. (Chemistry): Nantong University

Graduate Students (PhD)

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Jack Googasian

  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry): University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Matt Gordon

  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • Last Known Position: Savannah River National Laboratory
  • B.S. (Chemistry): The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

Kaustav Chatterjee

  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • Last Known Position: Merck
  • M.S. (Chemistry; thesis research with Prof. Ujjal K. Gautam) - Indian Institute of Science, Education, and Research (IISER), Mohali, India
  • B.S. (Chemistry) - St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, India

Zach Woessner

  • Last Known Position: Scientist at STA Technologies
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. degree in Chemistry: B.A. degree in Music from Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA

Kelly Rudman

  • Last Known Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, John Hopkins (Dr. Shoji Hall)
  • Graduate Student- Department of Chemistry (Peters/Skrabalak Group)
  • B.S. (Chemistry): University of Virginia

Sandra Atehortua Bueno

  • Last Known Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, Molecular Foundry (Dr. Emory Chan)
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry): University of Antioquia, Colombia

Hannah Ashberry

  • Last Known Position: Research Associateship, Naval Research Laboratory (Dr. Albert Epshteyn)
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry): Millersville University

Alex Chen

  • Last Known Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, EPFL, Raffaella Buonsanti
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Biological Chemistry): University of Chicago

Joshua Smith

  • Last Known Position: Luna, Inc.
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry A.C.S.): Ball State University, Muncie, IN

Josie Legere Gamler

  • Last Known Position: W.L. Gore and Associates
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S Chemistry with a concentration in Nanotechnology
  • Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

Josh Santana

  • Last Known Position: Intel
  • Graduate Student- Department of Chemistry
  • BA (Chemistry) - Wabash College in Crawfordsville, IN

Alison Smith

  • Last Known Position: Materials Chemist: NSWC CRANE
  • Graduate Student (2012-2016) - Department of Chemistry
  • Materials Chemist: Naval Surface Warefare Center, Crane Division
  • M.S. (Materials Engineering): University of Florida
  • B.S. (Chemistry and Mathematics): Southeastern Louisiana University

Jie Fu

  • Last Known Position: Intertek, Champaign-Urbana, IL
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry): Xiamen University, China

Dennis Chen

  • Last known position(s): Advanced Potash Technologies; Postdoctoral Scholar - MIT
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • M.S. (Envirionmental, Energy, Water, and Sustainability Engineering): Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology - 2012
  • Research Chemist: AquaNano Technologies - 2009-2010
  • B.S. (Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology): University of California, Los Angeles - 2008

Rebecca Weiner

  • Last Known Position(s): Mars Global Services - Senior Scientist; FDA - Postdoctoral Scholar
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry and Spanish): University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Moitree Laskar

  • Last Known Position: GGDSD College - Assistant Professor
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • M.S. (Chemistry): IIT Guwahati, India
  • B.S. (Chemistry): Calcutta University, India

Chris DeSantis

  • Last known positions: Managing Editor, ACS Nano; Postdoctoral Scholar, Rice University (Halas Group)
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry): Penn State University

Nancy Ortiz

  • Last Known Positions: Quaker Chemicals; Exxon-Mobil, New Jersey
  • Graduate Student Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry and Criminal Justice): Sam Houston University

Amanda (Peterson) Mann

  • Last Known Position: Merck & Co. New Jersey (2014 -); Post-doctoral Scholar Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Steve Overbury Group
  • Graduate Student – Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry and Biology): University of Indianapolis

Graduate Students (MS)

Ibrahim Shafei

  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry): Indiana University - Bloomington (undergrad research with Xingchen Ye)

Mattea Scanlan

  • Graduate Student- Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry): Western Illinois University

Nick Daanen

  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry and Biological and Physical Sciences): Indiana University - Kokomo - 2015

Evan Rugen

  • Last Known Position: Battery Innovation Center
  • Graduate Student- Department of Chemistry
  • BS (Chemistry A.C.S.) - Hope College

Ethan Harak

  • Last Known Position: MRI Global
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry): Rockhurst University

Meredith (Hartley) Kunz

  • Last Known Position: Park Tudor, Indianapolis
  • Graduate Student- Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry): North Park University, Chicago, IL

Kun ha Park

  • Last known position: LG Chem Research Park, South Korea
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • M.S. Hanyang University (Chemical Engineering)
  • B.S. Hanyang University (Chemical Engineering)

Graduate Students (Other)

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Yuda Li

  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry): University of Sci & Tech of China, Hefei, China

Skylar Wappes

  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • M.Sc. (Chemistry) - Texas Woman's University
  • B.Sc. (Chemistry) - Texas Woman's University
  • Research with Dr. Nasrin Miraleh-Kohan

Abbey McMahon

  • Last Known Position: C. C. Jarrold Research Group, Indiana University
  • Summer Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S Chemistry with a minor in Environmental Studies
  • Binghamton University (SUNY)

William Bowers

  • Last Known Position: R&D Manager, Diamond Wire Materials Technology
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry): Indiana University, 1991
  • B.A. (Mathematics): Indiana University, 1991
  • M.S. (Chemical Engineering): University of Houston, 1994

Corinne Weinel

  • Last known position: Indiana University MAT Program
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry): Thomas More College
  • B.S. (Marine Science and Biology; Minor: Chemistry): Coastal Carolina University

Craig Girten

  • Last known position: Q.A. Technician, Ashland, Inc.
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry): Northern Kentucky University

Visiting Graduate Students

Philipp Ulmen

  • Visiting PhD Student
  • University of Hamburg (advisor: Dorota Koziej)

Hongxiao Xiang

  • Visiting PhD Student
  • University of Hamburg (advisor: Eric Hill)

Youngtae Park

  • Visiting Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • Graduate Student (Materials Science and Technology) - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  • M.S. (Materials Science and Engineering) - KAIST
  • B.S. (Materials Science and Engineering) - Pusan National University, Korea

Yifan Chen

  • Visiting Ph.D. Researcher
  • Ph.D. (Physical Chemistry)-Nanjing Normal University, China
  • B.S. (Applied Chemistry)-East China Jiaotong University, China

Jette Katja Mathiesen

  • Visiting Ph.D. Researcher
  • Ph.D. (Chemistry and Nanoscience), Department of Chemistry and Nanoscience Center, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • M.Sc. (Applied and Advanced Chemistry), Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark.
  • B.Sc. (Chemistry), Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Susanne Wicker

  • Last known position: finishing degree at University of Tuebingen, Germany
  • Visiting C500 Chemistry Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • University of Tuebingen, Germany

Undergraduate Researchers

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Max Perkins

  • Undergraduate Researcher
  • Major: Chemistry
  • Minor: Sociology

Joshua Wolfe

  • Undergraduate Researcher
  • Majors: Biochemistry and English
  • Minor: Spanish

Jared Stanley

  • Last Known Position: UC-Irvine Graduate School
  • Undergraduate Researcher
  • Majors: Chemistry and Mathematics
Emma Endres

Emma Endres

  • Last Known Position: Vanderbilt Graduate School
  • Undergraduate Researcher
  • Major: Chemistry (BS)

Nate Smith

  • Last Known Position: Penn State Graduate School
  • Undergraduate Researcher
  • Major: Chemistry, Minor: Criminal Justice

Sophie McClain

  • Last Known Position: UIUC Graduate School
  • Undergraduate Researcher
  • Major: Chemistry
  • Minor: Spanish

Cari Rice

  • Last Known Position: NYU Gradaute School
  • Undergraduate Researcher
  • Major: Biochemistry and Italian
  • Minor: Mathematics

Connor Bunch

  • Last Known Position: IU Medical School
  • Undergraduate Researcher
  • Majors: Biochemistry & Neuroscience
  • Minor: Biology

Michael Glennon

  • Last Known Position: IU Law School
  • Undergraduate Researcher
  • Major: Chemistry

Samantha Harvey

  • Last Known Position: Graduate School – Northwestern
  • Undergraduate Researcher
  • Major: Chemistry, Minor: Math

Andjela Radmilovic

  • Last Known Position: Graduate School – University of Wisconsin
  • Undergraduate Researcher
  • Majors: Chemistry and Spanish

Connor Moreillon

  • Undergraduate Researcher
  • Major: Biochemistry

Matthew Bower

  • Last Known Position: UC-Irvine Medical School
  • Research Associate
  • Indiana University Graduate: Biochemistry

Aaron Sue

  • Last known position: Northwestern University (graduate school)
  • Undergraduate Researcher
  • Major: Chemistry

Adam Richter

  • Last known position: Graduate student, University College London
  • Undergraduate Researcher
  • Major: Chemistry

Rohit Patel

  • Last known position: Graduate student, NEOMED PharmaD Program
  • Undergraduate Researcher
  • Major: Biochemistry Minor: Psychology

Patrick McChesney

  • Last known position: graduate student, Indiana University Department of Physics
  • Undergraduate Student – Departments of Physics and Math

Visiting Undergraduate Researchers

Ayanna Culmer-Gilbert

Ayanna Culmer-Gilbert

  • Undergraduate Researcher
  • Major: Chemistry; Minor: Biology- Morgan State University

Eunji Kim

  • Visiting Undergraduate Student
  • Ewha Womens University - Korea

Minjoo Kim

  • Visiting Undergraduate Researcher
  • Ewha Womans University (Seoul, Korea) - Chemistry

Sarah Severson

  • REU Student- Department of Chemistry
  • Undergraduate Student - University of Minnesota, Morris

Yuda Li

  • University: USTC (University of science and technology of China)
  • Lab in USTC: Prof. Shuhong Yu
  • 3rd year undergraduate

Mattea Scanlan

  • Undergraduate student-Western Illinois University
  • Major: Chemistry
  • Minors: Math and Spanish

Joseph Burkhart

  • REU Researcher
  • St. Olaf College
  • Majors: Chemistry, Classics

Yeon Hyeong Sim

  • Ewha Womans University - Chemistry

Jingyao Wang

  • Visiting undergraduate researcher
  • University of Science & Technology China

Cheng Peng

  • Visiting Undergraduate Researcher
  • Tsinghua University

Mariana B. T. Cardoso

  • Visting Undergraduate Researcher from Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Bachelo's degree in Chemistry

Haoming Liu

  • Last known position: finishing degree at Tsinghua University, China
  • Visiting Undergraduate Researcher from Tsinghua University, China

Ji Chen

  • Last known position: Postdoc (2016-) Prof. Chunsheng Wang at University of Maryland
  • Previous position: Graduate Student Tsinghua University, China
  • Visiting Undergradaute Research from Tsinghua University, China

Long Sun

  • Last known position: finishing degree at Tsinghua University, China
  • Visiting Undergraduate Researcher
  • Major: Chemistry

Prospective Graduate Students

We seek 1-3 graduate students per year. All prospective students must apply directly to the program (link). Upon arrival at IU, students rotate in research groups and advisors are finalized then. Given the number of emails received, individual inquiries will likely go unanswered but you are encouraged to learn more through our website.

Undergraduate Research

Research opportunities available for undergraduates! Inquire via email. Include your resume, list of science courses completed, and gpa. Also, check out our Science Ambassadors' Program.

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