Members
graduate Students

Dhruv Sharma
5th Year
email

Chris Birch
4th Year
email

Jess Vinskus
4th Year, Lab Manager
email


Bella Stranick
1st Year
email
Undergraduate Students
Liam McDowell – working under Dhruv
Nolan Cynkar – working under Dhruv and Bella
Suhaas Sontyana – working under Jess
Sachi Amanze – working under Chris
Gwyneth Farley – working under Karl
Miles Williams – working under Chris
Former Graduate Students
JAMIE C. GAITOR
“Anion Exchange Membranes derived from Phosphonium and Ammonium Functionalized Polynorbornenes”
Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2023
MANAMI KAWIKAMI
“Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of Ester-Functionalized Group 16 Conjugated Polymers and Macrocycles”
Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2023
MEGAN TREICHEL
“Designing Phosphonium and Sulfoxonium Functionalized Polynorbornenes for Alkaline Stable Anion-Exchange Membranes”
Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2022
MICHAEL V. BATISTA
“Refining Synthetic Strategies in Suzuki-Miyaura Catalyst Transfer Polymerization”
Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2022
ANTHONY VARNI
“Design, Synthesis, and Properties of Furan-Based Conjugated Materials”
Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2021
SOPHIA ZAHN
“TAML Activator Membranes: New Materials for Water Treatment”
B.S. with Departmental Honors/M.S. in Chemistry, 2019
MATTHEW BAKER
“Development and Mechanistic Understanding of Nickel-catalyzed Suzuki Catalyst Transfer Polycondensation”
Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2019
CHIA-HUA TSAI
“Chemical Strategies and Controlled Synthesis of Thiophene-based Organic Electronics for Property Tuning”
Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2018
TYLER WOMBLE
“Synthesis, Characterization, and Polymerization of Tetrakis(dialkylamino)phosphonium Cations”
Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2017
YUNYAN (BILL) QIU
“Diversifying Catalysts, Monomers, Cross-Coupling Strategies and Functional Groups in the Controlled Synthesis of Conjugated Polymers”,
Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2016
JOSHUA WORCH
“Well-Defined Semiconducting Materials with Stabilized Molecular Orbitals: Thiaphospholes to Polythiophenes”
Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2016
NADINE CURRIE
M.S. in Chemistry, 2015
WEINAN YANG
M.S. in Chemistry, 2013