Alumni

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Joe Zadrozny
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2013–2017

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2013
B.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Joe is now an Associate Professor at Ohio State University. Click here to visit the Zadrozny Lab.

James Walsh
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2015–2019

Ph.D., University of Manchester, 2014
MChem, University of Manchester, 2010

James is now an Associate Professor at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Click here to visit the Walsh Lab.

Lei Sun
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016–2019

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017
B.S., Nanjing University, 2011

Lei is now an Assistant Professor at Westlake University in China. Click here to visit the Sun Lab.

Lujia (Luke) Liu
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018-2019

Ph.D., Massey University, 2015
B.S., Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2012

Luke is now a Senior Lecturer and Principal Investigator at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Click here to visit the Porous Materials Research Group.

Alison Altman
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017-2022

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2017
B.S., Yale University, 2012

Alison is now an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University. Click here to visit the Altman Lab.

Stephen von Kugelgen
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019-2022

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2018
B.A., Reed College, 2011

Stephen is now a Research Scientist in Chemistry at Sound Agriculture.

Eren J. Peterson
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022-2024

Ph.D., Duke University, 2022
B.S., Villanova University, 2017

Eren is now an associate editor at Nature Communications.

Doug Fabini
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022-2024

Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2018
B.S., University of California, Berkeley, 2011

Doug is now an Instrument Scientist at the Laboratory of Neutron Scattering and Imaging of the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland.

Mikey Wojnar
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019-2025

Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 2019
B.S., Boston College, 2013

Mikey is now the Principal Chemist at SynthBits.

Michael Graham
Graduate Student, Ph.D. 2017

Michael is now a PTD Module and Integration Device Yield Engineer at Intel Corporation.

Samantha Clarke
Graduate Student, Ph.D. 2018

Sam is now a Staff Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Majed Fataftah
Graduate Student, Ph.D. 2019

Majed is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Click here to visit the Fataftah Lab.

Scott Coste
Graduate Student, Ph.D. 2019

Scott is now a Chemical Microfabrication Engineer at SSAI/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

Ryan Klein
Graduate Student, Ph.D. 2019

Ryan is now the Team Lead for neutron and x-ray scattering measurements in the Early-stage Materials Testing Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley.

Agnes Thorarinsdottir
Graduate Student, Ph.D. 2019

Agnes is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester. Click here to visit the Thorarinsdottir Lab.

Tyler Pearson
Graduate Student, Ph.D. 2020

Tyler is now a Senior Scientist at AbbVie.

Chung-Jui (Raymond) Yu
Graduate Student, Ph.D. 2020

Raymond is now a postdoctoral fellow in the Gordts Laboratory at University of California, San Diego.

Alexandra Tamerius
Graduate Student, Ph.D. 2021

Alex is now an Assistant Professor at Marian University.

Kelsey Collins
Graduate Student, Ph.D. 2021

Kelsey is now a Magneto-optics Research Scientist with the Air Force Research Laboratory.

Jeremy Amtry
Graduate Student, Ph.D. 2022

Jeremy is now a Patent Agent at Womble Bond Dickinson.

Daniel Laorenza
Graduate Student, Ph.D. 2023

Dan is an incoming Assistant Professor at University of Chicago.

Stephanie Amtry
Graduate Student, Ph.D. 2024

Stephanie is now an Electro-Optic and Nonlinear Optic Research Scientist with the Air Force Research Laboratory.

Rianna Greer
Graduate Student, Ph.D. 2025

Rianna is now a Patent Examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Audrey Bartlett
Graduate Student, 2022 - 2025

Audrey is now a Graduate Student in the Vuletic Laboratory of the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms.

Seungyeon Yi (Agnes)
Graduate Student, Ph.D. 2025
Eric Riesel
Graduate Student, Ph.D. 2025

Eric is now a Frontier Year Fellow at Engine Ventures.

Catherine Badding
Graduate Student, Ph.D. 2025

Cathy is now a NRC Research Associate at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC.

Mike Sapiro
M.S. 2013

Lawyer (NYU 2017).

Kallie Yeager
M.S. 2013

Kelly Powderly
Undergraduate Student, 2017

Kelly is now an Assistant Professor at Washington University. Click here to visit the Powderly Lab.

Dylan Rogers
Undergraduate Student, 2016

Dylan is now a graduate student at the University of Washington in the Kovacs lab.

Tsach Mackey
Undergraduate Student, 2023
Sonja Larson
Undergraduate Student, 2025
Christopher Tong
Undergraduate Student, 2022-2025

Chris is now a Graduate Student at Princeton University.