Members
graduate Students
Dhruv Sharma
4th Year
dhruvsha@andrew.cmu.edu
Chris Birch
3rd Year
cbirch@andrew.cmu.edu
Jess Vinskus
3rd Year
jvinskus@andrew.cmu.edu
Joshua Tippett
2nd Year
joshuati@andrew.cmu.edu
Undergraduate Students
Liam McDowell – working under Dhruv
Tracy Zhang – working underr Dhruv
Nolan Cynkar – working under Joshua and Dhruv
Leo Westrey – working under Chris
Former 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