
James H. Rudy Professor Sara E. Skrabalak
Sara Skrabalak received her BA (chemistry) from Washington University in St. Louis (2002) where she conducted research with Prof. William Buhro. She then moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she completed her PhD (chemistry, 2006) under the tutelage of Prof. Kenneth Suslick. After postdoctoral research at the University of Washington - Seattle with Profs. Younan Xia and Xingde Li, she began on the faculty at Indiana University - Bloomington in 2008. She is the James Rudy Professor. She is a recipient of both NSF CAREER and DOE Early Career Awards. She is a 2012 Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar, a 2013 Sloan Research Fellow, a 2014 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar and 2017 Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellows. In 2014, she received the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry and in 2017 was the recipient of the Frontiers in Research Excellence & Discovery Award from Research Corporation. She was an Editor for Nanoscale (2017-20) and Nanoscale Advances (2018-20), both RSC journals. In 2020, Sara was named Editor-in-Chief of Chemistry of Materials and ACS Materials Letters
Post-doctoral Research Associate: University of Washington – Seattle, Younan Xia (Chemistry) and Xingde Li (Bioengineering)
Ph.D. (Chemistry): University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign, Kenneth S. Suslick
B.A. (Chemistry): Washington University in St. Louis, William E. Buhro
Skrabalak CV (PDF)

Aditi Aggarwal
- Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
- M.S. Chemistry - IISER Mohali (advisor: Prof. Santanu K. Pal)
- B.S. Chemistry - IISER Mohali

Nayana Christudas Beena
- Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
- M.S. (Chemistry; thesis research with Prof. Ujjal K. Gautam) - Indian Institute of Science, Education, and Research (IISER), Mohali, India
- B.S. (Chemistry) - Indian Institute of Science, Education, and Research (IISER), Mohali, India

Kaustav Chatterjee
- Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
- 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

Jack Googasian
- Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
- B.S. (Chemistry): University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Matt Gordon
- Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
- B.S. (Chemistry): The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

Sarah Gorski
- Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
- B.S. (Chemistry): Taylor University

Maha Ibrar
- Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
- B.S. (Chemistry): Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan

Nabojit Kar
- Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
- M.S. (Chemistry): IISER, Kolkata, India (Thesis research with Prof. V. Mahalingan)
- B.S. (Chemistry): IISER, Kolkata, India

Megan Knobeloch
- Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
- B.S. (Chemistry): Iowa State University; research with Javier Vela

Yuda Li
- Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
- B.S. (Chemistry): University of Sci & Tech of China, Hefei, China

Ekta Verma
- Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
- M.Sc. (Chemistry) - Punjabi University, Patiala, India
- B.Sc. (Chemistry) - DAV University, Jalandhar, India
- Research with Dr. Vivek Bagchi, Institute of Nanoscience and Technology, Mohali, India

Hongxiao Xiang
- Visiting PhD Student
- University of Hamburg (advisor: Eric Hill)