Justin Douglas

Spectroscopic Characterization of the Interactions Between Peptide Ligands and the Multi-Domain Proteins Plasminogen and Matrix Metalloprotenase 2

Advisor: M. Llinás

Current Position: Postdoc, U. of Colorado (Arthur Pardi)

Anca Dragulescu-Andrasi

Development of Cell-Permeable and Helically Preorganized Peptide Nucleic Acids

Advisor: D. Ly

Current Position: Postdoc, Stanford University (Molecular Imaging Program, School of Medicine, J. Rao)

Kristen Hannah

The Effects of Nucleic Acid Template and Dye Structure on Cyanine Dye Aggregation: An NMR and Optical Spectroscopic Investigation

Advisor: B. Armitage

Current Position: Lab Instructor, Carnegie Mellon

Lu Liu

Effects of Rotation on the Photophysics of Conductive Polymers

Advisor: D. Yaron

Current Position: Research Associate, Anesthesiology, University of Pittsburgh

Swati R. Manjari

Thermodynamics of Solvation — A Continuum Perspective

Advisor: H. Kim

Current Position: Postdoc, Carnegie Mellon (H. Kim)

Timothy Smith

Spectral Properties and Photophysics of Conjugated Polymers in Electric Fields

Advisor: L. Peteanu

Current Position: Director of Instrument Facilities, University of Richmond

Sebastian Stoian

Mössbauer and Quantum Chemical Studies of Fe(I) and Fe(II) Diketiminate Complexes, and of a Short-Lived Aqueous Fe(IV)=O Intermediate

Advisor: E. Münck

Current Position: Postdoc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Daniel G. Nocera)

Audria Stubna

Mössbauer Spectroscopy and DFT Studies of High-Valent Fe(IV) Species

Advisor: E. Münck

Current Position: Postdoc, University of Pennsylvania (Les Dutton)

Chuanbing Tang

Nanostructured Carbon from Well-Defined Polyacrylonitrile (Co) Polymers Obtained by Controlled/Living Radical Polymerizations: From Synthesis and Characterization to Devices

Advisor: T. Kowalewski and K. Matyjaszewski

Current Position: Postdoc, U. of California Santa Barbara (E. Kramer and C. Hawker, Materials Research Laboratory)

Filipe Alexandre Ferreira Tiago de Oliveira

Mössbauer, Electron Paramagnetic Resonance and Density Functional Theory Studies of Iron (IV) and Iron (V) Complexes Involving Tetraamido Macrocyclic Ligands

Advisor: E. Münck

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

PingPing Ye

Hydrogenation and β-Hydride Elimination on Pt(III) and Ni/Pt(III) and Surface Segregation in a PdCu Alloy

Advisor: A. Gellman

Current Position: Research Scientist, Surface Analysis and Materials Properties Lab, Cookson Electronics/Enthone

Liping Yu

Single Molecule Spectroscopy of Pre-RNA Splicing with Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET)

Advisor: L. Peteanu

Current Position: Research Scientist, BD Biosystems

Peng Zhou

Synthesis and Properties of Guanidine-Peptide Nucleic Acid

Advisor: D. Ly

Current Position:

Sudha Dorairaj

Solvation in Quadrupolar Solvents: A Continuum Approach

Advisor: H. J. Kim

Current Position: Postdoc, University of Califonia at Davis (Toby Allen)

Benjamin Janesko

New Methods in Semiempirical Quantum Chemistry

Advisor: D. Yaron

Current Position: Postdoc, Rice University (G. Scuseria)

Justin Legleiter

Atomic Force Microscopy for Studying Physicochemical Aspects of Alzheimer’s Disease

Advisor: T. Kowalewski

Current Position: Postdoc, University of Washington, Dept. of Pharmacology ( Paul Muchowski)

Violeta L. Marin

Thermodynamic and Kinetic Investigation of Nucleic Acid Molecular Recognition by Synthetic Oligomers and Small Molecules

Advisor: B. Armitage

Current Position: Postdoc, Joint appointment, The University of Chicago (Milan Mrksich) and Argonne National Lab (Brian Kay)

Nicolay V. Tsarevsky

Synthesis of Well-Defined Polymeric Materials with Polar Functional Groups by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

Advisor: K. Matyjaszewski

Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon

Hy Bui

Viscoelastic Study of Reversible Gels and Block Copolymer Melts

Advisor: G. C. Berry

Current Position: Scientist, New Technology, L'Oreal USA

Bhaskar Datta

Molecular Recognition Involving Guanine-Quartets and Hybrid Aptamers

Advisor: B. Armitage

Current Position: Postdoc, University of Georgia

Anindya Ghosh

Design, Synthesis and Mechanistic Studies of Iron-TAML Catalytic Activators of Hydrogen Peroxide and a New Activation Chemistry of Dioxygen by Iron

Advisor: T. J. Collins

Current Position: Postdoc, University of Kansas (Daryle Busch)

Zhenyu Gu

Nano-Scale Structures of Supramolecules: From Fractal Bio-Microgels to Micellar Aggregates

Advisor: G. D. Patterson

Current Position: Scientist, PR China

Limin Angela Liu

Modeling the Effects of Disorder on the Photophysics of Organic Materials

Advisor: D. Yaron

Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University (Joel Bader)

Elena Sheina

Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Regioregular Thiophene Polymers with Polyetheric Substituents

Advisor: R. D. McCullough

Current Position: Research Chemist, Plextronics

Previous Position: Postdoc, Carnegie Mellon (R.D. McCullough)

Aimeé Tomlinson

Modeling the Photophysics of Biological Dye Assemblies

Advisor: D. Yaron

Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, New College of Florida

Anup Upadhyay

Spectroscopic Characterization of Multiheme Proteins from Nitrosomonas Europaea

Advisor: M. Hendrich

Current Position: Postdoc, Emory University (Dale Edmondson)

Rong Cao

Biomolecular Recognition: From Cyanine Dye-DNA Complexes to Recyclable Enzymes

Advisor: B. Armitage

Current Position: Postdoc, University of Pittsburgh (Bruce Pitt)

Isil Dilek

Supramolecular Structures Involving Peptide Nucleic Acid

Advisor: B. Armitage

Current Position: Research Scientist, Cerilliant Corp., Round Rock, TX

Previous Position: Postdoc, University of Texas, Austin (Sean Kerwin)

Adina Golombek

EPR and Mössbauer Studies of Manganese and Iron Small Molecule Model Complexes and Proteins

Advisor: Hendrich

Current Position: Posdoc, Weizmann Inst. of Science, Israel

Chris Kunz

Charged Kaon Ratios and Yields Measured with the STAR Detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

Advisor: M. Kaplan

Current Position: Sandia National Laboratories

Brad Pierce

The Use of Quantitative EPR Techniques to Observe Active Site Assembly Within the Small Subunit of Ribonucleotide Reductase

Advisor: M. Hendrich

Current Position: Postdoc, University of Wisconsin (Brian Hoffman)

Arindam Chowdhury

Electronic delocalization and charge-transfer properties of chemical and biological systems as measured by Stark spectroscopy

Advisor: L. A. Peteanu

Current Position: Postdoc, Columbia University (David Adams)

Marion Gehrmann

Structural and Functional Similarities Between FII and Kringle Domains

Advisor: M. Llinás

Current Position: Postdoc, University of Maryland

Sayam Sen Gupta

Iron-TAML Activators of Hydrogen Peroxide: Synthesis, Characterization and Environmental Applications

Advisor: T. J. Collins

Current Position: Postdoc, Scripps Research Institute (M.G. Finn)

Yelda Hangun

Design and Study of Catalytic Activators of Hydrogen Peroxide Promising Rapid Efficient Petroleum Desulfurization and Bleaching Technologies

Advisor: T. J. Collins

Current Position: Assistant Professor, California University of Pennsylvania

Boonchuan Immaraporn

Kinetics Study of Acid Deprotonation and Dechlorination Reactions on Single Crystal Metal Surfaces

Advisor: A. Gellman

Current Position: Postdoc, Fritz-Haber Institute, Berlin

Stuart Kushon

A Thermodynamic and Kinetic Study of the Binding of PNA Probes to DNA and RNA Hairpin Structures

Advisor: B. A. Armitage

Current Position: Manager of Chemistry R&D, QTL Biosystems, CA

Jinsong Liu

End-Group Functionalization of Regioregular Head-to-Tail Poly(3-alkylthiophenes) and its Application to the Synthesis of Well-Defined Rod-Coil Block Copolymers: Tuning the Self-Assembly and Functional Properties of Conducting Polymers

Advisor: R. D. McCullough

Current Position: Senior Chemist, Waters Corp.

Previous Position: Postdoc, University of California, Berkeley (Jean Frechet)

Melissa Pasquinelli

An Effective Particle Approach to the Photophysics of Conjugated Polymers

Advisor: D. Yaron

Current Position: Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University (Fiber and Polymer Science Program, Dept. of Textiles Engineering, Chemistry, and Science)

Previous Positions: Postdoc, Duke University (D. Beratan); Postdoc, Environmental Protection Agency (J. Rabinowitz)

Tomislav Pintauer

Structural and mechanistic aspects of copper catalyzed atom transfer radical processes

Advisor: K. Matyjaszewski

Current Position: Postdoc, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Accepted New Position: Assistant Professor, Duquesne University

Dong-Chul (Jeff) Pyun

Synthesis of Nanostructural Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Materials Using Controlled/Living Radical Polymerization

Advisor: K. Matyjaszewski

Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Arizona

Previous Position: Postdoc, University of California Berkley (Jean Frechet) and IBM Almaden (Craig Hawker)

Daniel Savin

Rayleigh-Brillouin and Photon Correlation Spectroscopy of Poly (n-hexyl methacrylate) Near the Glass Transition, and Light Scattering and Thermal Characterization of Hybrid Nanoparticles

Advisor: G.D. Patterson

Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Vermont

Previous Position: Postdoc, University of Minnesota (Tim Lodge)

Miaomiao Wang

Interactions of Cyanine Dyes with DNA or PNA Duplexes: Formation of Supramolecular Structures

Advisor: B. A. Armitage

Current Position: Postdoc, Investigen, Inc.

Previous Position: Postdoc, Carnegie Mellon (Danith Ly)

Lei Zhai

Fabrication of Micro- and Nanostructures from Functionalized Regioregular Poly (3-alkylthiophenes)

Advisor: R. D. McCullough

Current Position: Postdoc, MIT

Accepted New Position: Assistant Professor, Univerity of Central Florida

Kelly A. Davis

Segmented Copolymers by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

Advisor: K. Matyjaszewski

Current Position: Scientist, Kimberly-Clark

Previous Position: Postdoc, University of Colorado-Boulder (Kristi Anseth)

Alexander Grishaev

CLOUDS: A Computational Protocol for Protein Structure Elucidation via NMR Proton Densities

Advisor: M. Llinás

Current Position: Postdoc, NIH

Tom Chih-Chuang Hu

Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Mice: Assessment of Left-Ventricular Function, and Development of Manganese as a Functional Contrast Agent

Advisor: A. Koretsky

Current Position: Principal Scientist, MRI/S Facility, GlaxoSmithKline

Previous Position: Postdoc, NIH

Jonggu Jeon

Solvation and solute electronic structure in a continuum solvent picture

Advisor: H. J. Kim

Current Position: Research Scientist, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea

Previous Position: University of California, Davis (A. Stuchebrukhov)

Previous Position: Postdoc, University of Utah (Gregory Voth)

Hyun-Jong Paik

Kinetic studies and applications of atom transfer radical polymerization

Advisor: K. Matyjaszewski

Current Position: Professor, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Pusan National University, Korea

Previous Position: Postdoc, Cornell University

Richard Pilston

Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Regioregular Polythiophenes, Random Copolymers of Thiophene and Studies of the GRIM Polymerization Method for the Synthesis of Polythiophenes

Advisor: R. D. McCullough

Current Position: MBA Student, Pennsylvania State University

Previous Position: Chief Technology Officer, Plextronics, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA

Jason Weibel

New Methodologies for Electronic Structure Calculations on Organic Materials

Advisor: D. Yaron

Current Position: Postdoc, Caltech (Virtual Planetary Lab)

Kathryn L. Beers

Design, synthesis and properties of comb copolymers with variable grafting density by controlled radical polymerization

Advisor: K. Matyjaszewski

Current Position: Research Chemist and Project Manager, NIST

Robert Scott Loewe

Synthesis, characterization, and development of structurally homogeneous polythiophenes (pts) and polythienylene vinylenes

Advisor: R. D. McCullough

Current Position: Discovery Chemist, Zettacore Inc.

Previous Position: Postdoc, North Carolina State University

Eric Edward Moore

Solid-state effects on the electronic structure of conjugated polymers

Advisor: D. Yaron

Current Position: Postdoc, University of Sheffield, England

Victoria-Codrina Popescu

Mössbauer and EPR studies of the hydrogen-cluster of the iron-hydrogenases from C. pasteurianum and of synthetic complexes designed to model the iron sites of the [(2)iron](H)-subcluster and Mössbauer studies of the transcription factor FNR of Escherichia coli

Advisor: E. Münck

Previous Position: Postdoc, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Ursinus College

Lavanya Louisa Premvardhan

Electrostatic properties of charge-transfer systems

Advisor: L. A. Peteanu

Current Position: Researcher, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

Jian Qiu

Atom transfer radical polymerization in aqueous dispersed media

Advisor: K. Matyjaszewski

Current Position: Research Scientist, Pall Corporation, East Hills, NY

Leonard Domenick Vuocolo

The preparation of iron complexes as green catalytic oxidant activators of hydrogen peroxide

Advisor: T. J. Collins

Current Position: Lecturer, Carnegie Mellon University

Previous Position: Assistant Professor, Allegheny College

Belinda Belle Willard

Experimental and theoretical investigations of the metastable dissociations of organosilicon ions

Advisor: S. T. Graul

Current Position: Postdoc, Cleveland Clinic (Michael Kinter)

Stacy Alayne Williams

Synthesis, characterization and reactivity of high-valent copper complexes of macrocyclic tetraamido-N ligands

Advisor: T. J. Collins

Current Position: Partner, Perception Partners, Atlanta, GA

Previous Position: Founder, Dr. DaBrain Scientific Toys, Watkinsville, GA

Sun Jae Yoo

Spectroscopic studies of novel metal clusters in iron-sulfur proteins

Advisor: E. Münck

Current Position: Research Scientist, Magellan Laboratories, Triangle Park, NC

Klára Briknarová

The second and third fibronectin type II modules from human matrix Metalloproteinase 2: Structure, function and dynamics

Advisor: M. Llinás

Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Montana, Missoula

Previous Position: Assistant Research Professor, Burham Institute, La Jolla, CA

Joanne Kehlbeck

Dynamic Processes of Cyclooctatetraenes and Aryl-Bridged Dicyclooctatetraenes and their Dianions

Advisor: S. W. Staley

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Union College, Schenectady, NY

Previous Position: Postdoc, Yale University (Alanna Schepartz)

Sarah Locknar

Calculations and Experimental Measurements of the Effects of Solvent and External Electric Fields on the Absorption and Resonance Raman Spectra of Donor-Acceptor Polyenes and Retinals

Advisor: L. A. Peteanu

Current Position: Research Assistant Professor, University of Vermont School of Medicine

Previous Position: Supervisor, Confocal Microscopy Facility, University of Vermont School of Medicine

Gregory S. Martin

Dynamic processes of monosubstituted cyclooctatetraenes, bridged dicyclooctatetraenes and bridged dicyclooctatetraenyl dianions

Advisor: S. W. Staley

Current Position: Senior Research Chemist, Albany Molecular Research, Albany, NY

Peter Miller

Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization and the Synthesis of Well-Defined Inorganic/Organic Hybrid Polymeric Materials

Advisor: K. Matyjaszewski

Current Position: Group Leader, Polymer Synthesis Research and Development Laboratory, Eastman Chemicals

Previous Position: Research Scientist, Bayer Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA

Matthew L. Peterson

1. Molecular Structure, Electronic Properties and Crystal Packing of 6-Arylfulvenes; 2. Charger Transfer in Biphenyl Bridged Dicyclooctatetraenes

Advisor: S. W. Staley

Current Position: Senior Scientist, Transform Pharmaceuticals, Waltham, MA

Jianhui Xia

Development and Applications of New Catalysts in Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

Advisor: K. Matyjaszewski

Current Position: Research Scientist, 3M Corporation, St. Paul, MN