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
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 Daivs (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