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Visiting Faculty

Dale Harak

dale.harak@rockhurst.edu
  • Postdoctoral Scholar
  • Visiting Professor, Rockhurst University

Anne Bentley

annebent@iu.edu
  • Visiting Faculty from Lewis & Clark

Postdoctoral Scholars

Dileka Abeysinghe

diabey@iu.edu
  • Post-Doctoral Research Associate
  • Last known position: Process Engineer, Intel, Portland OR
  • Ph.D. (Inorganic Chemistry) University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
  • B.S. Chemistry, University of Sri Jayewardanepura, Sri Lanka

Kallum Koczkur

kkoczkur@indiana.edu
  • Post-Doctoral Research Associate
  • Last known position: Assistant Research Professor, Louisiana Tech
  • Ph.D. (Physical Chemistry) University of Guelph, Canada
  • MSc. (Electrochemistry) Lakehead University, Canada
  • HBSc. (Organic Chemistry) Lakehead University, Canada

Hamed Ataee-Esfahani

hameatae@indiana.edu
  • Postdoctoral Scholar
  • Last known positions:Product Specialist, Shimadzu Scientific Instruments; Post-doctoral Scholar, Georgetown University
  • Ph.D. (Nano-science and Nano-engineering): Waseda University, Japan
  • M.S. (Materials Science and Engineering): Sharif University of Technology, Iran
  • B.S. (Materials Science and Engineering): Sharif University of Technology, Iran

Nathan Motl

nmotl@indiana.edu
  • Last Known Position: Huber Engineered Materials
  • Post-doctoral Scholar - Department of Chemistry
  • Ph.D. (Chemistry): The Pennsylvania State University (with Raymond Schaak), 2012
  • B.S. (Chemistry): Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, 2007

Solomon Gizaw

  • Last Known Position: Assistant Professor Addis Ababa University
  • October, 2015 - 2017: Postdoctoral Researcher, IU
  • Ph. D (Life Sciences), Hokkaido University, Japan
  • M.Sc. (Biochemistry), Andhra University, India
  • B.Sc. (Applied Chemistry), Debub (now Hawassa) University, Ethiopia

Ellen Steinmiller

  • Last known position: Assistant Professor, University of Dallas Department of Chemistry
  • Post-doctoral Scholar - Department of Chemistry
  • Ph.D. (Chemistry): Purdue University, Kyoung-Shin Choi
  • B.S. (Chemistry): University of Arkansas, Ingrid Fritsch

Chenyu (Walter) Wang

Cwang10@binghamton.edu
  • Last known position(s): Postdoctoral Scholar - Los Alamos National Laboratory; Postdoctoral Scholar - University of Wisconsin
  • Postdoctoral Scholar - Department of Chemistry
  • Ph.D. (Chemistry): Binghamton University
  • B.S. (Polymer Materials and Engineering): Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China

Lin Xu

  • Last known position(s): Associate Professor - Nanjing Normal University; Post-doctoral Scholar in Can Xue's Laboratory at NTU, Singapore
  • Post-doctoral Scholar - Department of Chemistry
  • Ph.D. (Chemistry): Nanjing University, Wenhua Hou
  • B.S. (Chemistry): Nantong University

Graduate Students (PhD)

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Nabojit Kar

nabokar@iu.edu
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • Last Known Position: Lam Electronics
  • M.S. (Chemistry): IISER, Kolkata, India (Thesis research with Prof. V. Mahalingan)
  • B.S. (Chemistry): IISER, Kolkata, India
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Jack Googasian

jgoogasi@iu.edu
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • Last Known Position: Ballydel Technologies
  • B.S. (Chemistry): University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Matt Gordon

mngordon@iu.edu
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • Last Known Position: Savannah River National Laboratory
  • B.S. (Chemistry): The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

Kaustav Chatterjee

kauchatt@iu.edu
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • Last Known Position: Merck
  • M.S. (Chemistry; thesis research with Prof. Ujjal K. Gautam) - Indian Institute of Science, Education, and Research (IISER), Mohali, India
  • B.S. (Chemistry) - St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, India

Zach Woessner

zjwoessn@iu.edu
  • Last Known Position: Scientist at STA Technologies
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. degree in Chemistry: B.A. degree in Music from Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA

Kelly Rudman

kkrudman@indiana.edu
  • Last Known Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, John Hopkins (Dr. Shoji Hall)
  • Graduate Student- Department of Chemistry (Peters/Skrabalak Group)
  • B.S. (Chemistry): University of Virginia

Sandra Atehortua Bueno

slatehor@umail.iu.edu
  • Last Known Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, Molecular Foundry (Dr. Emory Chan)
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry): University of Antioquia, Colombia

Hannah Ashberry

hmashber@umail.iu.edu
  • Last Known Position: Research Associateship, Naval Research Laboratory (Dr. Albert Epshteyn)
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry): Millersville University

Alex Chen

alnchen@umail.iu.edu
  • Last Known Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, EPFL, Raffaella Buonsanti
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Biological Chemistry): University of Chicago

Joshua Smith

jds34@indiana.edu
  • Last Known Position: Luna, Inc.
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry A.C.S.): Ball State University, Muncie, IN

Josie Legere Gamler

jtlegere@umail.iu.edu
  • Last Known Position: W.L. Gore and Associates
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S Chemistry with a concentration in Nanotechnology
  • Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

Josh Santana

jssantan@umail.iu.edu
  • Last Known Position: Intel
  • Graduate Student- Department of Chemistry
  • BA (Chemistry) - Wabash College in Crawfordsville, IN

Alison Smith

smithalf@umail.iu.edu
  • Last Known Position: Materials Chemist: NSWC CRANE
  • Graduate Student (2012-2016) - Department of Chemistry
  • Materials Chemist: Naval Surface Warefare Center, Crane Division
  • M.S. (Materials Engineering): University of Florida
  • B.S. (Chemistry and Mathematics): Southeastern Louisiana University

Jie Fu

butterflyjly@gmail.com
  • Last Known Position: Intertek, Champaign-Urbana, IL
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry): Xiamen University, China

Dennis Chen

dpchen@umail.iu.edu
  • Last known position(s): Advanced Potash Technologies; Postdoctoral Scholar - MIT
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • M.S. (Envirionmental, Energy, Water, and Sustainability Engineering): Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology - 2012
  • Research Chemist: AquaNano Technologies - 2009-2010
  • B.S. (Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology): University of California, Los Angeles - 2008

Rebecca Weiner

rgweiner@indiana.edu
  • Last Known Position(s): Mars Global Services - Senior Scientist; FDA - Postdoctoral Scholar
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry and Spanish): University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Moitree Laskar

mlaskar@umail.iu.edu
  • Last Known Position: GGDSD College - Assistant Professor
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • M.S. (Chemistry): IIT Guwahati, India
  • B.S. (Chemistry): Calcutta University, India

Chris DeSantis

cdesanti@indiana.edu
  • Last known positions: Managing Editor, ACS Nano; Postdoctoral Scholar, Rice University (Halas Group)
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry): Penn State University

Nancy Ortiz

nortiz@indiana.edu
  • Last Known Positions: Quaker Chemicals; Exxon-Mobil, New Jersey
  • Graduate Student Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry and Criminal Justice): Sam Houston University

Amanda (Peterson) Mann

  • Last Known Position: Merck & Co. New Jersey (2014 -); Post-doctoral Scholar Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Steve Overbury Group
  • Graduate Student – Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry and Biology): University of Indianapolis

Graduate Students (MS)

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Yuda Li

liyuda@iu.edu
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry): University of Sci & Tech of China, Hefei, China

Ibrahim Shafei

ishafei@indiana.edu
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry): Indiana University - Bloomington (undergrad research with Xingchen Ye)

Mattea Scanlan

mamascan@iu.edu
  • Graduate Student- Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry): Western Illinois University

Nick Daanen

ndaanen@umail.iu.edu
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry and Biological and Physical Sciences): Indiana University - Kokomo - 2015

Evan Rugen

erugen@umail.iu.edu
  • Last Known Position: Battery Innovation Center
  • Graduate Student- Department of Chemistry
  • BS (Chemistry A.C.S.) - Hope College

Ethan Harak

eharak@umail.iu.edu
  • Last Known Position: MRI Global
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry): Rockhurst University

Meredith (Hartley) Kunz

mrhartle@umail.iu.edu
  • Last Known Position: Park Tudor, Indianapolis
  • Graduate Student- Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry): North Park University, Chicago, IL

Kun ha Park

  • Last known position: LG Chem Research Park, South Korea
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • M.S. Hanyang University (Chemical Engineering)
  • B.S. Hanyang University (Chemical Engineering)

Graduate Students (Other)

Skylar Wappes

swappes@iu.edu
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • M.Sc. (Chemistry) - Texas Woman's University
  • B.Sc. (Chemistry) - Texas Woman's University
  • Research with Dr. Nasrin Miraleh-Kohan

Abbey McMahon

abbmcmah@iu.edu
  • Last Known Position: C. C. Jarrold Research Group, Indiana University
  • Summer Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S Chemistry with a minor in Environmental Studies
  • Binghamton University (SUNY)

William Bowers

  • Last Known Position: R&D Manager, Diamond Wire Materials Technology
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry): Indiana University, 1991
  • B.A. (Mathematics): Indiana University, 1991
  • M.S. (Chemical Engineering): University of Houston, 1994

Corinne Weinel

  • Last known position: Indiana University MAT Program
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry): Thomas More College
  • B.S. (Marine Science and Biology; Minor: Chemistry): Coastal Carolina University

Craig Girten

  • Last known position: Q.A. Technician, Ashland, Inc.
  • Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • B.S. (Chemistry): Northern Kentucky University

Visiting Graduate Students

Philipp Ulmen

philipp.ulmen@studium.uni-hamburg.de
  • Visiting PhD Student
  • University of Hamburg (advisor: Dorota Koziej)

Hongxiao Xiang

hongxiao.xiang@uni-hamburg.de
  • Visiting PhD Student
  • University of Hamburg (advisor: Eric Hill)

Youngtae Park

yp19@iu.edu
  • Visiting Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • Graduate Student (Materials Science and Technology) - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  • M.S. (Materials Science and Engineering) - KAIST
  • B.S. (Materials Science and Engineering) - Pusan National University, Korea

Yifan Chen

ych3@iu.edu
  • Visiting Ph.D. Researcher
  • Ph.D. (Physical Chemistry)-Nanjing Normal University, China
  • B.S. (Applied Chemistry)-East China Jiaotong University, China

Jette Katja Mathiesen

jkm@chem.ku.dk
  • Visiting Ph.D. Researcher
  • Ph.D. (Chemistry and Nanoscience), Department of Chemistry and Nanoscience Center, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • M.Sc. (Applied and Advanced Chemistry), Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark.
  • B.Sc. (Chemistry), Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Susanne Wicker

  • Last known position: finishing degree at University of Tuebingen, Germany
  • Visiting C500 Chemistry Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
  • University of Tuebingen, Germany

Undergraduate Researchers

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Max Perkins

maxperk@iu.edu
  • Undergraduate Researcher
  • Major: Chemistry
  • Minor: Sociology

Joshua Wolfe

jomwolfe@iu.edu
  • Undergraduate Researcher
  • Majors: Biochemistry and English
  • Minor: Spanish

Jared Stanley

jarestan@iu.edu
  • Last Known Position: UC-Irvine Graduate School
  • Undergraduate Researcher
  • Majors: Chemistry and Mathematics
Emma Endres

Emma Endres

ejendres@iu.edu
  • Last Known Position: Vanderbilt Graduate School
  • Undergraduate Researcher
  • Major: Chemistry (BS)

Nate Smith

nalasmit@iu.edu
  • Last Known Position: Penn State Graduate School
  • Undergraduate Researcher
  • Major: Chemistry, Minor: Criminal Justice

Sophie McClain

sopmccla@umail.iu.edu
  • Last Known Position: UIUC Graduate School
  • Undergraduate Researcher
  • Major: Chemistry
  • Minor: Spanish

Cari Rice

carrice@indiana.edu
  • Last Known Position: NYU Gradaute School
  • Undergraduate Researcher
  • Major: Biochemistry and Italian
  • Minor: Mathematics

Connor Bunch

cmbunch@imail.iu.edu
  • Last Known Position: IU Medical School
  • Undergraduate Researcher
  • Majors: Biochemistry & Neuroscience
  • Minor: Biology

Michael Glennon

meglenno@umail.iu.edu
  • Last Known Position: IU Law School
  • Undergraduate Researcher
  • Major: Chemistry

Samantha Harvey

samaharv@umail.iu.edu
  • Last Known Position: Graduate School – Northwestern
  • Undergraduate Researcher
  • Major: Chemistry, Minor: Math

Andjela Radmilovic

aradmilo@umail.iu.edu
  • Last Known Position: Graduate School – University of Wisconsin
  • Undergraduate Researcher
  • Majors: Chemistry and Spanish

Connor Moreillon

cpmoreil@indiana.edu
  • Undergraduate Researcher
  • Major: Biochemistry

Matthew Bower

msquaredb@gmail.com
  • Last Known Position: UC-Irvine Medical School
  • Research Associate
  • Indiana University Graduate: Biochemistry

Aaron Sue

  • Last known position: Northwestern University (graduate school)
  • Undergraduate Researcher
  • Major: Chemistry

Adam Richter

  • Last known position: Graduate student, University College London
  • Undergraduate Researcher
  • Major: Chemistry

Rohit Patel

  • Last known position: Graduate student, NEOMED PharmaD Program
  • Undergraduate Researcher
  • Major: Biochemistry Minor: Psychology

Patrick McChesney

  • Last known position: graduate student, Indiana University Department of Physics
  • Undergraduate Student – Departments of Physics and Math

Visiting Undergraduate Researchers

Ayanna Culmer-Gilbert

Ayanna Culmer-Gilbert

aculmer@iu.edu
  • Undergraduate Researcher
  • Major: Chemistry; Minor: Biology- Morgan State University

Eunji Kim

  • Visiting Undergraduate Student
  • Ewha Womens University - Korea

Minjoo Kim

6minjoo6@hanmail.net
  • Visiting Undergraduate Researcher
  • Ewha Womans University (Seoul, Korea) - Chemistry

Sarah Severson

  • REU Student- Department of Chemistry
  • Undergraduate Student - University of Minnesota, Morris

Yuda Li

liyuda@umail.iu.edu
  • University: USTC (University of science and technology of China)
  • Lab in USTC: Prof. Shuhong Yu
  • 3rd year undergraduate

Mattea Scanlan

mamascan@iu.edu
  • Undergraduate student-Western Illinois University
  • Major: Chemistry
  • Minors: Math and Spanish

Joseph Burkhart

joaburkh@indiana.edu
  • REU Researcher
  • St. Olaf College
  • Majors: Chemistry, Classics

Yeon Hyeong Sim

ysim@iu.edu
  • Ewha Womans University - Chemistry

Jingyao Wang

Wjy560@mail.ustc.edu.cn
  • Visiting undergraduate researcher
  • University of Science & Technology China

Cheng Peng

peng9@indiana.edu
  • Visiting Undergraduate Researcher
  • Tsinghua University

Mariana B. T. Cardoso

  • Visting Undergraduate Researcher from Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Bachelo's degree in Chemistry

Haoming Liu

  • Last known position: finishing degree at Tsinghua University, China
  • Visiting Undergraduate Researcher from Tsinghua University, China

Ji Chen

  • Last known position: Postdoc (2016-) Prof. Chunsheng Wang at University of Maryland
  • Previous position: Graduate Student Tsinghua University, China
  • Visiting Undergradaute Research from Tsinghua University, China

Long Sun

  • Last known position: finishing degree at Tsinghua University, China
  • Visiting Undergraduate Researcher
  • Major: Chemistry

Prospective Graduate Students

We seek 1-3 graduate students per year. All prospective students must apply directly to the program (link). Upon arrival at IU, students rotate in research groups and advisors are finalized then. Given the number of emails received, individual inquiries will likely go unanswered but you are encouraged to learn more through our website.

Undergraduate Research

Research opportunities available for undergraduates! Inquire via email. Include your resume, list of science courses completed, and gpa. Also, check out our Science Ambassadors' Program.

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