Postdoctoral Fellows
| Name | Year(s) | Current Position |
|---|---|---|
| Mohan Sikka | 3/94 – 7/96 | |
| Jonathan H. Laurer | 1/98 – 4/99 | IRC, Inc. |
| Andreas H. Taubert | 8/00 – 12/02 | Dept Chair, Chemistry, Univ. of Potsdam, Germany |
| Hansoo Kim | 2/04 – 1/06 | |
| Mohammad Moniruzzaman | 4/05 – 1/08 | Senior Research Assoc, BASF |
| Arun Kota | 2/08 – 6/08 | Assoc. Professor, North Carolina State University |
| Michelle Seitz | 9/09 – 11/10 | Program Director, NIST Circular Economy Program |
| T. Jamie Ford | 4/11 – 1/12 | Staff Scientist, University of Pennsylvania |
| Philip J. Griffin | 8/14 – 5/17 | Director of Soft Matter Lab., University of Chicago |
| Francisco Buitrago | 2/18 – 4/19 | Senior Research Scientist, Arkema |
| Holden Lai (joint w/Osuji) | 9/20 – 5/21 | Co-Founder, Osmoses |
| James Pressly | 9/19 – 12/21 | Senior Scientist, Axalta |
| Ye Chan Kim (joint w/Composto) | 11/21 – 8/24 | Staff Engineer, Samsung |
| Solmi Oh | 10/22 – 10/24 | Staff Engineer, Samsung |
| Chien-Hua Tu | 1/23 – 12/24 | R&D Chemist, Dupont |
| William Drayer (w/Frischknecht) | 7/23 – | |
| Hoda Shokrollahzadeh Behbahani | 6/24 – |
Doctoral Students
| Name | Department | Current Position |
|---|---|---|
| B. Scott Pinheiro | MSE | |
| Daniel L. Polis | MSE | Vice President, Sierra Space |
| Nicole N. Pellegrini | ChE | |
| Lei Qiao | MSE | Vice President, Global Mobility Technology, Axalta |
| Brian P. Kirkmeyer | MSE | Senior Assistant Dean, Miami University, Oxford, OH |
| Reto Haggenmueller | MSE | Senior Test Engineer, Daimler Trucks |
| Fangming Du | CBE | Technology Manager, Current Chemicals |
| Avinash Budhian | CBE | Global Manager, Reckitt Benckise, NJ |
| Nicholas M. Benetatos | MSE | Principal Consultant, Exponent |
| Nancy C. Zhou | CBE | National Institute of Child Health and Human Dev. |
| Christopher Chan | CBE | Research Scientist, The Chemours Company |
| Minfang Mu | MSE | Project Leader, Shanghai, China |
| Sadie I. White | MSE | United States Patent and Trademark Office |
| Wenqin “Sunny” Wang | MSE | Senior R&D TS&D Scientist, Dow Chemical |
| David Salas-de la Cruz | CBE | Assoc. Prof., Chemistry, Rutgers University – Camden |
| Jae-Hong Choi | MSE | Principal Engineer, Samsung SDI, Korea |
| C. Francisco Buitrago | CBE | Research Scientist, Arkema |
| Rose M. Mutiso | MSE | Research Director, The Energy for Growth Hub |
| Michael O’Reilly | MSE | CMC Consultant, MVO Insights LLC |
| Wei-Shao “Walter” Tung | MSE | R&D Director, China Contact Probe |
| Tsen-Shan Sharon Sharick | MSE | Materials Scientist, W. L. Gore & Associates |
| L. Robert Middleton | MSE | Director of Product & Automation, Labcorp |
| Edward “Ted” Trigg | MSE | Vice President of R&D, Cambium |
| James F. Pressly | MSE | Scientist, Axalta |
| Lu Yan | CBE | Patent Lawyer, Associate, Baker Botts L.L.P. |
| Eric Bailey | MSE | Research Scientist, Arkema |
| Benjamin Paren | MSE | Assistant Prof. Stevens Institute of Technology |
| Tianren Zhang | CBE | Postdoctoral Fellow, UDel (co-advised with Riggleman) |
| Jinseok Park | MSE | Postdoctoral Fellow, KAIST |
| Kaitlin Wang | MSE | Postdoctoral Fellow, Merck |
| Eli Fastow | MSE | Dow Chemical |
| Benjamin Ferko | MSE | |
| Katie Sun | MSE | |
| Margaret Brown | MSE | |
| Benjamin Indeglia | CBE | |
| Lily Wang | CBE | |
| Lindsay Jones | MSE | |
| Aubry Hymel | CBE | |
| William Presson | MSE | |
| Sam Chen | CBE |
Master’s Degree Students (partial listing)
| Name | Department | Year | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Theresa E. Derderian | MSE | 1994 | |
| Maria L. Berba | MSE | 1994 | Johnson and Johnson Philippines, Manila, Philippines |
| Micheala Tymichova | MSE | 1996 | |
| Joyce J. Espiritu | MSE | 1997 | R. J. Composto co-advisor. |
| Oyekunbi Delano | CBE | 2001 | |
| Forrest Pilgrim | CBE | 2002 | |
| Marcus Hsu | MSE | 2003 | Intel |
| Yongsoo Kim | CBE | 2004 | |
| Naiffer Romero | MSE | 2005 | Dow |
| Amod Saxena | CBE | 2006 | Liberty Mutual Insurance |
| Tsung-Ta “Ethan” Chan | MSE | 2007 | Doctoral program |
| Lai-Ching Chou | MSE | 2007 | DuPont Taiwan |
| Thomas Acchione | MSE | 2008 | Engineering Manager, STX |
| Kristin Metkus | MSE | 2009 | Nova Research Inc. |
| Xiang “Tracy” Hao | MSE | 2010 | Vice President, IDG Capital |
| Kun Sun | MSE | worked in group Fall 2012 | |
| Steven T. Szewczyk | MSE | 2014 | University of Pennsylvania |
| William Kyei-Manu | MSE | 2013 | Schlumberger, Houston TX |
| James Borchert | MSE | 2013 | Innovo Dynamics |
| Devdatt Maganty | MSE | 2014 | Wood Mackenzie |
| Han-Chang “Cathy” Yang | MSE | 2015 | Senior Scientist, Exponent |
| Clark Shurtleff | MSE | 2016 | Naval Sea Systems Command |
| Drew Wang | MSE | 2019 | Deloitte Consulting |
| Miko Stulajter | MSE | 2020 | Doctoral program, UC Irvine |
| Junwei Xiang | CBE | 2021 | Changjiang Securities |
| Valerie Ballance | MSE | 2021 | Estee Lauder Companies |
| Monika Ramini | CBE | 2022 |
Undergraduate Students (includes NSF REU students, senior design groups)
(includes NSF REU students, senior design groups; bold indicates coauthors on peer-reviewed papers)
| Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992-93 | Andre Sanders | Laura F. Cerini | |
| 1993-94 | Y. Lynn Loo | ||
| 1994-95 | W. Loong Chen | Foo-Sing Wong | Heather M. Koehler |
| 1995-96 | Heather M. Koehler | Francis J. Gramkowski | |
| 1996-97 | John Nugent | Gregory Booker | Alison Olver |
| 1997-98 | Nikeva Brown | Robert D. Armitage | |
| 1998-99 | Michael D. Grubb | Jason R. Vollbracht | Anna K. Johnsen |
| 1999-00 | Reto Haggenmueller | Neel Gandhi | |
| 2000-01 | Neel Gandhi | Nakiva Showell | Jason DeGaetano |
| Tiffany Selman | Sarah Rothman | Karen Sohn | |
| 2001-02 | Anna H. Pilipienko | Joyce Tam | |
| 2002-03 | Joyce Tam | Anthony Barsotti | Lindsey Karpowich |
| 2003-04 | Robert C. Scogna | Leah Henderson | Tarin Hart |
| Stijn Brand | |||
| 2004-05 | Josh Stillman | Justin Samuels | Clarinda Lim |
| Thomas Acchione | |||
| 2005-06 | Thomas Acchione | Zachary Williams | |
| 2006-07 | Michael Purdham | Michael Young | Bruce Hilman |
| Asli Sahin | Thomas Acchione | Henry Friedman | |
| Jena Deng | Nicholas Smeets | ||
| 2007-08 | Michael DeLiso | Zachary Combs | Jason Ginsberg |
| Nicholas Smeets | Rebecca Goldman | Patrick Curran | |
| Scott Juang | Lea Nowar | ||
| 2008-09 | Layla Houshmand | Conor Donnely | Michael Frankel |
| Samuel Hsu | David Jahnke | Tarun Vemulkar | |
| Amanda Levy | Matt Bramson | ||
| 2009-10 | Matt Bramson | Dan King | Shaina Oake |
| Jen Ehrich | Michelle Sherrott | Jeff Denis | |
| 2010-11 | Matt Bramson | Michelle Sherrott | Jeff Denis |
| Katharine Oleske | Alex Dolgonos | Michael Engber | |
| Jason Bernstein | Miten Mistry | Erik ReVeal | |
| 2011-12 | Angeles C. Chaparro | Maria E. Vincent | Michelle Sherrott |
| Sneha Deshpande | Tyler Citek | Eric Maltiel | |
| 2012-13 | Michelle Sherrott | Colleen Reynolds | Kathryn Johnson |
| Ruben Waldman | |||
| 2013-14 | Alexa Kuenstler | Jacob Gissinger | Eric Schwartz |
| 2014-15 | Alexa Kuenstler | Eric Schwartz | Grace Salmon |
| 2015-16 | Eric Schwartz | Demi Moed | Noah Geller |
| Gracie Salmon | Sonya Kripke | Jason Woo | |
| 2016-17 | Demi Moed | Nicholas Han | Neha Goswami |
| 2017-18 | Demi Moed | Nicholas Han | Dakota Wallach |
| Lauren Hoang | Olivia Landgrover | Grant Shao | |
| 2018-19 | Lauren Hoang | Nicholas Han | Nathan Xu |
| Anita Yang | Arjun Kanthawar | ||
| 2019-20 | Tia Denby | Arjun Kanthawar | Zach Whitlock |
| Eli Newberger | Alexander Proschel | ||
| 2020-21 | Son Hoang | Madina Arapova | Caroline Birkel |
| 2021-22 | Son Hoang | Caroline Birkel | Sarah Beth Gleeson |
| Julia Yan | Shoshana Weintraub | Leah Narun | |
| Lauren Chua | Lynn Ahrens | Erin Siciliano | |
| Caroline de Andrade | |||
| 2022-23 | Caroline Birkel | Caroline de Andrade | Son Hoang |
| Jae Wan Lee | Jacob Reisner | Sean Deresh | |
| Victoria Lee | James Votruba-Drzal | Vivek Nair | |
| 2023-24 | Victoria Lee | James Votruba-Drzal | Vivek Nair |
| Madeline G. Port | Emily Duanhoa | James Johnson | |
| Anthony Senouillet | James Votruba-Drzal | Awahan Sapkota | |
| Allen Jiang | |||
| 2024-25 | Allen Jiang | Anthony M. Senouillet | Emily Duan |
| Zixuan (Gina) Lin | Madeline Port | Victoria Lee | |
| William McCambridge | |||
| 2025-26 | Anatoli Beyene | Allen Jiang | Victoria Lee |
| Zixuan (Gina) Lin | William McCambridge | Anthony M. Senouillet | |
| Alexandra Whittle |