Group Alumni

Postdoctoral Research Associates

Brian Pattengale
Patent Agent
Wiggin and Dana

Jason Baxter
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
Drexel University

Christopher Koenigsmann
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry
Fordham Univeristy

Christiaan Richter
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Iceland

John Swierk
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
SUNY Binghamton

Diyar Talbayev
Associate Professor, Department of Physics
Tulane University

Graduate Students

Daniel Aschaffenburg
PhD, 2014
Optical Engineer
Coherent-Nufern

Matthew C. Beard
PhD, 2002
Senior Scientist, Basic Energy Sciences
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO

Tim French
PhD, 2007
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry, DePaul University, Chicago, IL

Shayne Harrel
PhD, 2008
Applications Development Scientist
Olympus NDT

James Kindt
PhD, 1999
Professor
Department of Chemistry, Emory University

Rebecca Milot
PhD, 2014
Assistant Professor
Warwick University

Coleen Nemes
PhD, 2018
Scientist III, R&D
Thermo Fisher Scientific

Kevin Regan
PhD, 2018
Principal Scientist, Industrial/Manufacturing, Engineering
Physical Sciences Inc.

James M. Schleicher
PhD, 2008
Patent Practitioner
Quarles & Brady LLP

Stafford W. Sheehan
PhD, 2016
CEO of Catalytic Innovations

Alan True
PhD, 2008
Lecturer
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Gordon Turner
PhD, 2003
Investigator III - Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease Research
Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA

Dean Venables
PhD, 2000
Lecturer
University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Michael R. C. Williams
PhD, 2014
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Los Alamos National Labs (CINT)

Master’s Students

Rebecca Allred
M.S., 2013

Visiting Ph.D. Students

Gregory Rutkowski
PhD, 2022 from Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Research Scientist, HRL Laboratories

Undergraduate Students

Benjamin Ofori-Okai

Daniel Rosenfeld

Andrew Saydjari

Heinrich Nikonow (visiting student from Heidelberg University)

Ayaka Hatano

Ryotaro Okabe

High School Students

 Nathan Lin