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
- Anthony Moses (2024 – )
- Tanvir Ahmed (2024 – )
- Romana Akter Shathy (2025 – )
Undergraduate Student
- Louis Bercaw (REU, summer 2025, University of Alabama)
- Samantha Hart (Undergraduate student, Summer 2025, NSF Engine program)
- Aphone Shin (High school student, ACS Project SEED program, Summer 2025), Institute of Technology High School
Former Group Members
Graduate & Postdoctoral Alumni
- Dr. Hanjie Lin (Ph.D. student, 2019-2025)
- Hamidreza Yousefi (MS student, 2023-2025)
- Prof. Chun Chu (Ph.D. student, 2019-2024)
- Dr. Shuya Li (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022-2023): National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
- Huanxin Zhang (M.S. student, 2021-2023)
- Dr. Andrew Davis (Ph.D. student, 2016-2021): Head of R&D at Tagnite Industries, North Dakota
- Dr. Elan Hofman (Ph.D. student, 2015-2020): Research scientist at nanoComposix
- Prof. Zhi-Jun Li (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017-2020): Professor at Chinese Academy of Science (CAS)
- Prof. Feng Tao (Visiting professor, 2018-2019): Anhui Polytechnic University
- Amanda Blaker (MS student, 2015-2017): Anheuser-Busch Companies, LLC
Undergraduate Alumni
- Joe Hu (Undergraduate student, 2024-2025)
- Megan Yee (REU, summer 2024), UMass Amherst
- Alicia Leem (Undergraduate student, 2024)
- Jacob England (REU, summer 2023): Undergraduate student at Western Carolina University
- Xiangyu Zhou (Undergraduate student, 2022 – 2023)
- 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
- Likang Ding (Undergraduate student, 2020 – 2021)
- Nori Zaccheo (Undergraduate student, SUSTAIN scholar, 2018 – 2020). SU M.S. student.
- Rachel Weiss (REU, summer 2019): Undergraduate student at Jacksonville University
- Clare Pierret (REU, summer 2019): Undergraduate student at University of Notre Dame
- 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)
- 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
High School Alumni
- Briella Corless (High school student, ACS Project SEED program, Summer 2024), Institute of Technology High School
- Denver Qiao (High school student, summer 2023)
- Alicia Leem (High school student, 2022): Cornell University
- Mark Vu (High school student, ACS Project SEED program, Summer 2022)
- Michael Vu (High school student, ACS Project SEED program, Summer 2019): Cornell University