Principal Investigator
Associate Professor, Syracuse Univeristy
Postdoctoral Fellow, Emory University (2012-2015)
Ph.D., Florida State University (FSU) (2011)
Honors and Awards
Faculty Fellow of the Syracuse Center of Excellence (CoE)
NSF CAREER Award (2020)
ACS-PRF New Investigator Award (2018)
FSU Dorothy and Russell Johnsen Graduate Dissertation Award (2012)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Graduate Students
Undergraduate Student
Former Group Members
Megan Yee (REU, summer 2024), UMass Amherst
Briella Corless (High school student, ACS Project SEED program, Summer 2024), Institute of Technology High School
Chun Chu (Ph.D. student, 2019-2024)
Alicia Leem (Undergraduate student, 2024)
Dr. Shuya Li (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022-2023): National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Jacob England (REU, summer 2023): Undergraduate student at Western Carolina University
Denver Qiao (High school student, summer 2023)
Huanxin Zhang (M.S. student, 2021-2023)
Xiangyu Zhou (Undergraduate student, 2022 – 2023)
Alicia Leem (High school student, 2022)
Mark Vu (High school student, ACS Project SEED program, Summer 2022)
Aidan Nabinger (REU, summer 2022): Ph.D student at University at Buffalo
Alexis Luglio (REU, summer 2021): Undergraduate student at the College of New Jersey
Annie J Hsu (REU, summer 2021): Ph. D student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Andrew Davis (Ph.D. student, 2016-2021): Head of R&D at Tagnite Industries, North Dakota
Likang Ding (Undergraduate student, 2020 – 2021)
Elan Hofman (Ph.D. student, 2015-2020): Research scientist at nanoComposix
Nori Zaccheo (Undergraduate student, SUSTAIN scholar, 2018 – 2020). SU M.S. student.
Dr. Zhi-Jun Li (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017-2020): Professor at Chinese Academy of Science (CAS)
Rachel Weiss (REU, summer 2019): Undergraduate student at Jacksonville University
Clare Pierret (REU, summer 2019): Undergraduate student at University of Notre Dame
Michael Vu (High school student, ACS Project SEED program, Summer 2019): Cornell University
Prof. Feng Tao (Visiting professor, 2018-2019): Anhui Polytechnic University
Oduduabasi Isaiah James (Undergraduate student, 2018 – 2019)
Olushola Coker Jr. (Undergraduate student, 2018 – 2019)
James Kimball (REU, summer 2018): Ph.D student at Florida State University
Robert Devin Nonnenman (Undergraduate student, 2017-2018): YINCAE Advanced Materials, LLC
Kevin Chen (Undergraduate student, 2017-2018)
Amanda Blaker (MS student, 2015-2017): Anheuser-Busch Companies, LLC
Phanxico Nguyen (REU, summer 2017): University at Buffalo
Richard Robinson (Undergraduate student, 2016-2017): Ph.D student at State University of New York at Binghamton
Philipp Müller (REU, summer 2016): Graz University of Technology, Austria