Former Lab Members
Ph.D. Alumni
| Alumni | Information | Alumni | Information |
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Dr. Xuyao Gao CBE Ph.D. 2024 Sinopec |
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Dr. Chang Yan CBE Ph.D. 2024 Post Doc., Argonne National Lab. |
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Dr. Craig Waitt Chemistry Ph.D. 2023 Post Doc., U. Notre Dame |
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Dr. Anshuman Goswami CBE Ph.D. 2023 Post Doc., Stanford U. |
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Dr. Neha Mehra CBE Ph.D. 2023 National Renew. Energy Lab. |
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Dr. Yujia Wang Chemistry Ph.D. 2022 Assist. Prof., Bethel U. |
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Dr. Jerry Crum CBE Ph.D. 2022 Systems Planning and Analysis |
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Dr. Jeonghyun Ko CBE Ph.D. 2021 SK On |
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Dr. Sichi Li CBE Ph.D. 2019 LLNL |
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Dr. Prateek Mehta CBE Ph.D. 2019 ExxonMobil |
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Dr. Hui Li CBE Ph.D. 2018 Cummins |
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Dr. Anshumaan Bajpai CBE Ph.D., 2017 Intel |
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Dr. Quintin Sheridan CBE Ph.D., 2017 |
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Dr. Chris Paolucci CBE Ph.D., 2017 Asst. Prof., U of Virginia |
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Dr. Laura Herder CBE Ph.D., 2015 UW - Lacrosse |
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Dr. Trunojoyo Anggara CBE Ph.D., 2015 Notre Dame |
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Dr. Michael Penninger CBE Ph.D., 2015 UOP |
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Dr. John Clay CBE Ph.D., 2014 U. Missouri |
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Dr. Jason Bray CBE Ph.D., 2013 Phillips 66 |
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Dr. Dorrell McCalman CBE Ph.D., 2013 Notre Dame |
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Dr. David Schmidt CBE Ph.D., 2012 |
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Dr. Elaine Mindrup CBE Ph.D., 2011 US PTO |
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Dr. Hangyao Wang CBE Ph.D., 2009 Dow Chemical Company |
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Dr. Rachel Getman CBE Ph.D., 2009 Assoc. Prof., Clemson U. |
M.Sc. Alumni
| Alumni | Information | Current Affiliation | Thesis Title |
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| Jian Ren Lim | CBE M.Sc., 2021 | First-Principles Interrogation of H2 Reduction Mechanisms on Copper Active Sites in Cu-SSZ-13 Zeolite | |
| Amanda Brown | CBE M.Sc., 2021 | Microkinetic Modeling of HCN Formation from Methane and Nitrogen with the Addition of Vibrational Energy Effects | |
| Gray N Laughlin | CBE M.Sc., 2018 | ||
| Solomon Assefa | Chemistry M.Sc., 2016 | G+B+9 MultiPurpose Commercial Building | Elucidating Thermodynamics and Kinetics of CO-Oxidation-Induced Missing-Row Reconstruction of Ph(110) via DFT Methods |
| Steven McDonough | Chemistry M.Sc., 2015 | Using Through-Space, Dipole-Dipole, and CO-d-band Interactions to Predict the Formation Energy of CO/Pd(111) Configurations | |
| Michelle Morton | Chemistry M.Sc., 2013 | Teacher | Effects of Nitrogen Based Anions on CO2 Binding and Proton Affinity |
| Mandelle Danser | Chemistry M.Sc., 2011 | New Jersey Police Department | Beyond the gas phase: towards modeling bulk ionic liquids with a comparison of Density Functional Tight Binding (DFTB) to Density Functional Theory (DFT) |
| Wenguang Lin | Chemistry M.Sc., 2009 | Notre Dame Business School | DFT Simulations of Re3 Cluster Catalysts |
Undergraduate Alumni
| Alumni | Information | Current Affiliation | Thesis Title |
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| Audrey Miles | Undergrad researcher 2019-2020 | Graduate School | Adsorbate Free Energies |
| Andrew Lehmer | Undergrad researcher 2016-2017 | Phigenics | Adsorbate free energies |
| Sean Dwyer | Undergrad researcher 2013-2015 | Graduate school | Charge distributions in ionic liquids |
| Patrick Connelly | Undergrad researcher 2012-2014 | Periodic trends in zeolite chemistry | |
| Jimmy Carlsten | CHUST visitor Summer 2014 | RIT Stockholm Sulfur adsorption on perovskites | |
| Kate Bowie | Undergrad researcher 2013-2014 | Natural bond order analyses | |
| Sam Mingo | Undergrad researcher 2013 | Ionic liquids for CO2 capture | |
| Ryan Anderson | Undergrad researcher 2012-2013 | Cu dimers in SSZ-13 catalysts | |
| Mark Sullivan | Undergrad researcher 2011-2012 | University of Minnesota grad. school | Carbenes for CO2 capture |
| Jennifer Smith | Undergrad researcher 2011-2012 | ExxonMobil | XPS of oxygen on Pt |
| Allison Hamman | Undergrad researcher 2011-2012 | Phase change ionic liquids | |
| Jonathan Conway | Undergrad researcher 2009-2010 | NC State graduate school | Adsorbate-adsorbate electronic interaction modeling |
| Thomas Senftle | Undergrad researcher 2009-2010 | Penn. State grad. school | AHA Ionic Liquids for CO2 capture |
| Martin Beres | Undergrad researcher 2009-2010 | Ohio State U. grad. school | Cluster expansions of surface adsorption |
| Shawn Coleman | Undergrad researcher 2007-2009 | U. Arkansas grad. school | Metal cluster calculations |
| Nate Menendez | Undergrad. researcher 2008-2009 | Air Products | DFT calculations of NDMA decomposition |
| Danny Beyrer | Undergrad. researcher Summer 2008 | Rose-Hulman | NO adsorption on Pd and Pd alloys |
| Miriam Shakalli Tang | Undergrad. researcher Summer 2008 | Ohio State University | |
| Jessica Nadai | Undergrad. researcher 2006-2007 | BP | DFT Calculations of Oxygen Adsorption on Gold, Iridium, and Nickel |
| Josh Bruce | Undergrad. researcher 2006-2007 | Travelers | Cl Atom Reactions with iso-Propanol |
Former Post-Docs
| Alumni | Information | Current Affiliation | Thesis Title |
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| Dr. Mingyuan Cao | Post-doc, 2023-2024 | ||
| Dr. Haoran He | Post-doc, 2021-2021 | BASF | Zeolite catalysis |
| Dr. Hanyu Ma | Post-doc, 2017-2021 Assistant Research Professor, 2021-2022 |
Heterogeneous and plasma catalysis | |
| Dr. Zhenghang Zhao | Post-doc, 2018-2020 | Vanderbilt | Zeolite catalysis |
| Dr. Tong Wu | Post-doc, 2017-2018 | Future Finance | Cluster Distributions in Zeolites |
| Dr. Onise Sharia | Post-doc, 2014-2016 | Bank of America | Hybrid Perovskites |
| Dr. Kurt Frey | Post-doc, 2013-2015 | ||
| Dr. Dorrell McCalman | Post-doc, 2013-2014 | ||
| Dr. Houyu Zhu | Post-doc, 2012-2014 | ||
| Dr. Katie Maerzke | Post-doc, 2012-2014 | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Actinides in ionic liquids |
| Mr. Xue-Sen Du | Visiting scientist, 2012-2013 | Chongqing University | Zeolite catalysis |
| Dr. Shuguang Zhang | Visiting scientist, 2012 | Shandong University of Technology | Perovskite oxides |
| Dr. Sonia Antony | Post-doc, 2011-2013 | CO2 reduction | |
| Dr. Jean-Sabin McEwen | Research scientist, 2011-2012 | Chemical Enginnering faculty, Washington State University | |
| Dr. Chao Wu | Research scientist, 2009-2012 | Chemistry faculty, Xi’an Jiaotong University | |
| Dr. ZhengZheng Chen | Post-doc, 2010-2011 | UCLA | |
| Dr. Bhabani Mallik | Post-doc, 2010-2011 | IIT Hyderabad - India | |
| Dr. Hannah Fox | Post-doc, 2009-2010 | ||
| Dr. Victor Ranea | Visiting scientist, 2006-2009 | Conicet Argentina | |
| Dr. Abhijit Phatak | Post-doc, 2007-2008 | Intel Corp. | |
| Dr. Li Xiao | Post-doc, 2006-2007 | Accelrys Corp. | |
| Dr. Ye Xu | Post-doc, 2004-2005 | Chemical Engineering Faculty, Louisiana State |