Members

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

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