Alumni
Ph.D. Recipients
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2010
Martin Christen
Structural/Functional Insights into the Plasminogen Kringle 3 Domain
Advisor: M. Llinás
Hongchen Dong
From New Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization Initiating Systems for Functional Nanomaterials and Surfaces
Advisor: K. Matyjaszewski
Current Position: Research Scientist, GE Global Research
William Chadwick Ellis
Green Design, Synthesis, Characterization and Application of a Novel Family of Fe-TAML Peroxide Activating Homogeneous Catalysts
Advisor: T. J. Collins
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (Geoff Coates)
Patricia Lynn Golas
Rational Design of Polymeric Dispersants for Nanoparticles and Substrates for Click Chemistry Using Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization
Advisor: K. Matyjaszewski
Anna Esmeralda Javier
Solution-Processable Materials for Printable Electronics
Advisor: R. McCullough
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Nitash Balsara)
Junying Liu
Development of Solution-Processable High Performance Organic Semiconductors for Field Effect Transistors
Advisor: R. McCullough
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemical Engineering, MIT (Paula Hammond)
Laura Anne Mueller
Expanding the Scope of Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization with Low Catalyst Concentrations
Advisor: K. Matyjaszewski
Current Position: Research Scientist, ATRP Solutions
Hayriye Ünal
Combining Biomolecules and Fluorogenic Cynanine Dyes into Novel Flourescent Labels
Advisor: B. Armitage
Current Position: Research Manager, UPMC Magee Womens Hospital
Tomasz Young
Nanoscale Morphology and Phase Structure of Regioregular Poly (3-hexylthiophene) in Single and Multicomponent Systems
Advisor: T. Kowalewski
Current Position: Research Scientist, Exxon Mobil
2009
Marcos Battistel
Profiling Plasminogen Kringle Domains According to Ligand Specificity
Advisor: M. Llinás
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow/Contractor, Food & Drug Administration, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (Daron Freedberg)
Sidi Bencherif
Synthesis, Characterization, and Evaluation of Biodegradable Polymers and Biomimetic Hydrogel Scaffolds for Biomedical Applications
Advisors: N.R. Washburn and K. Matyjaszewski
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science (David Edwards and David Mooney)
Tudor Constantin
Selection and Characterization of RNA Aptamers that Bind Fluorogenic Cyanine Dyes
Advisor: B. Armitage
Current Position: Scientist, Investigen
Brian Francis Cusick
Techniques for Proximal Probe Characterization of Designer Surfaces Tailored by Controlled Radical Polymerization
Advisor: T. Kowalewski
William Gunderson
Spectroscopic Studies of Intermediates in Metalloenzymes and Biomimetic Complexes
Advisor: M. Hendrich
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Emory University, Dept. of Physics (Kurt Warncke)
Wei He
Structural Characterization of Non-Modified and Modified Peptide Nucleic Acids
Advisor: C. Achim
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (Wei Wang)
Sabrina Lusvarghi
From Molecules to Organisms: Molecular Recognition Using Proteins, Peptides and Peptide Nucleic Acids
Advisor: B. Armitage
Current Position: Visiting Fellow, National Cancer Institute, HIV Drug Resistance Program (Stuart Le Grice)
Lynne A. McCullough
Nanostructured Conducting Materials Templated on Block Copolymers
Advisor: K. Matyjaszewski
Current Position: Advanced Chemist, E-Ink
Renaud Nicolaÿ
Enhancing Control of Macromolecular Architecture by Synergistic Combination of ATRP, NMP and RAFT Polymerization
Advisor: K. Matyjaszewski
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Molecular Science and Technology Group (E.W. (Bert) Meijer)
Anna (Zatsman) Twigg
Mechanistic Studies of Multiheme Proteins Using EPR Spectroscopy
Advisor: M. Hendrich
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Energy Biosciences Institute, UC Berkeley
Rui Zhang
The Impact of Morphology and Molecular Structure on Charge Transport Properties in Thin Film of Polythiophene and its Derivatives
Advisor: T. Kowalewski and R. McCullough
Current Position: University of Texas, Austin (Paul Barbera)
2008
Andrea Benvin Stadler
DNA Templated Supramolecular Assemblies of Cyanine Dyes
Advisor: B. Armitage
Current Position: Research Associate, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Lindsay Bombalski
Growth and Effect of Polymeric Ligands on Colloidal Particles and Tailoring the Optical Properties of Particle Additives
Advisor: Michael R. Bockstaller
Current Position: ORISE Post Doctoral Fellow, U.S. Department of Energy-National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh
Jessica Cooper
Chain-end Functionalized Regioregular Poly(3-hexylthiophenes)s: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications
Advisor: R. McCullough and T. Kowalewski
Current Position: Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Wade Braunecker
Catalyst Development in Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization from a Thermodynamic Perspective
Advisor: K. Matyjaszewski
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Colorado (Josef Michl)
Haifeng Gao
Synthesis of Functional Polymers with Controlled Architecture by ATRP of Monomers in the Presence of Cross-Linkers: From Stars to Gels
Advisor: K. Matyjaszewski
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, U.C. Berkeley (Jean Frechet)
Gaofei He
Development of Conformationally-Preorganized γ-Peptide Nucleic Acid (γ-PNA) for Recognition of Double helical B-form DNA (B-DNA)
Advisor: D. Ly
Ke Min
Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization in Aqueous Dispersed Media
Advisor: K. Matyjaszewski
Current Position: Postdoc, E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Gizelle Sherwood
The Effects of Aggregation on the Photophysics of Oligomers Related to MEH-PPV and CN-PPV
Advisor: L. Peteanu
Current Position: Lab Instructor/Special Lecturer, Carnegie Mellon
Daniel Siegwart
Application of Controlled Radical Polymerization (CRP) in the Design of Functional Biomedical Architectures
Advisor: K. Matyjaszewski
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT (Robert Langer)
Wei Tang
Kinetics of Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization
Advisor: K. Matyjaszewski
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton (Lynn Loo)
Richard Watson
Metal Binding to Peptide Nucleic Acids Modified with 8-Hydroxyquinoline or 2,2’-Bipyridine
Advisor: C. Achim
Current Position: Postdoc, University of Rochester (William Bernhard)
Wei Wu
Control, Manipulation, Characterization and Complex Crystallization Behavior of Macromolecular Assemblies
Advisors: T. Kowalewski, K. Matyjaszewski
Current Position: Materials Packaging Engineer, Intel
2007
Deboshri Banerjee
Green Oxidation Catalysis with Fe-TAML/Peroxide: Novel Applications in Microbial Deactivation, Kinetic and Reactivity Studies
Advisor: T. J. Collins
Current Position: Scripps Research Institute (M.G. Finn)
Evan S. Beach
Fe-TAML Catalyzed Oxidation Chemistry for Water Cleaning Applications
Advisor: T. J. Collins
Current Position: Program Manager, Center for Green Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yale University
Previous Position: Postdoctoral fellow, Yale University (Paul Anastas)
Arani Chanda
Iron-TAML Activators of Peroxide — A Green Catalytic Oxidation System: Environmental Applications, Kinetic and Mechanistic Studies
Advisor: T. J. Collins
Current Position: Scripps Research Institute (Valery Folkin and K. Barry Sharpless)
Alina Dragulescu-Andrasi
Spin-Crossover and Charge-Transfer Phenomena in Iron-Based Polynuclear Complexes
Advisor: C. Achim
Current Position: University of Massachusetts Medical School (Jie Song)
Jinyu Huang
Functional Polymers and Surfaces via Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization
Advisor: K. Matyjaszewski
Current Position: Research Scientist, Ciba Vision
Wojciech Jakubowski
From New Initiating Systems for Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization to Block Copolymers
Advisor: K. Matyjaszewski
Current Position: VP of Manufacturing, ATRP Solutions
Hyung-il Lee
Macromolecular Brushes: From Synthesis to Functional Material
Advisor: K. Matyjaszewski
Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow, M.I.T. Department of Chemical Engineering
Xin Li
Transition States for Surface-Catalyzed Reactions
Advisor: D. Sholl
Delia-Laura Popescu
Green Oxidation Technologies for Environmental Applications: Degradation of Persistent Pollutants by FeIII-TAML® Activated Peroxides and Kinetic and Mechanistic Studies
Advisor: T. J. Collins
Current Position: Faculty, University of Bucharest
Kelly Robertson
Nucleic Acid Reagents for Imaging and Detection
Advisor: B. Armitage
Current Position: Naval Research Labs, Washington D.C.
Subhadeep Roy
Exploring Interactions of Peptide Nucleic Acids with Quadruplex Forming DNA Motifs
Advisor: B. Armitage
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Colorado (Josef Michl)
Amy Sage
Atmospheric Oxidation of Organic Compounds: Gas-Phase Reactivity, Gas-to-Particle Conversion, and Particle Aging
Advisor: N. Donahue
Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate, Kent State University (Shan-Hu Lee)
Previous Position: Postdoctoral scholar, Case Western Reserve University (Carlos Crespo)
Matthew Stadler
A New Family of Fe-TAML Peroxide Activators for Green Oxidation Chemistry: Synthesis, Characterization, and Properties
Advisor: T. J. Collins
Current Position: Managing Director, Life Sciences Network, Pittsburgh Technology Council
2006
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: Director, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Laboratory, University of Kansas
Previous 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) Roy
The Effects of Nucleic Acid Template and Dye Structure on Cyanine Dye Aggregation: An NMR and Optical Spectroscopic Investigation
Advisor: B. Armitage
Current Position: Instructor, University of Colorado
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. J. Kim
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Previous Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, 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, Carnegie Mellon (E. Münck)
Previous 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: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and NanoCenter at the University of South Carolina
Previous 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
2005
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
Accepted new position: Assistant Professor, Texas Christian University
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: Assistant Professor, University of West Virginia
Previous 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: Sr. Research Scientist, Abbott Laboratories
Previous 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: CSO, ATRP Solutions
Previous Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon
2004
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: Assistant Professor, Missouri State University
Previous 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: University of Arkansas Little Rock, Assistant Professor
Previous Position: University of Texas Arlington, Assistant Professor
Previous 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: Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Previous 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: Assistant Professor of Chemistry, North Georgia College & State University
Previous Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, New College of Florida
Anup Upadhyay
Spectroscopic Characterization of Multiheme Proteins from Nitrosomonas Europaea
Advisor: M. Hendrich
Current Position: Research Associate, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Emory University
Previous Position: Postdoc, Emory University (Dale Edmondson)
2003
Rong Cao
Biomolecular Recognition: From Cyanine Dye-DNA Complexes to Recyclable Enzymes
Advisor: B. Armitage
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Community College of Allegheny College
Previous 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: NMR Staff, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Toronto
Previous 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: Staff Scientist, 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: Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Arlington
Previous Position: Postdoc, University of Wisconsin (Brian Hoffman)
2002
Arindam Chowdhury
Electronic delocalization and charge-transfer properties of chemical and biological systems as measured by Stark spectroscopy
Advisor: L. A. Peteanu
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Previous 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: Scientist (Assistant Professor), National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India
Previous 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 of Chemistry, Eckerd College
Previous 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: Assistant Professor, Duquesne University
Previous Position: Postdoc, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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 Southern Mississippi, School of Polymers
Previous 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: Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida
Previous Position: Postdoc, MIT
2001
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: Staff Scientist, 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: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)
Previous Positions:Assistant Professor of Radiology, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical College of Georgia; Principal Scientist, MRI/S Facility, GlaxoSmithKline; 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: Global Marketing Manager of Vertrel specialty fluids product line, DuPont
Previous Position: Chief Technology Officer, Plextronics, Inc.
Jason Weibel
New Methodologies for Electronic Structure Calculations on Organic Materials
Advisor: D. Yaron
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Physics, Belmont University
Previous Position: Postdoc, Caltech (Virtual Planetary Lab)
2000
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: Adjunct Professor, Saint John's University and Brooklyn College.
Previous Position: Postdoc, New Jersey Institute of Technology
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
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Ursinus College
Previous Position: Postdoc, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
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: Assistant Teaching Professor, 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: Research Staff, Cleveland Clinic
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
1999
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: Associate 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