Members
Kevin Noonan
Associate Professor
noonan@andrew.cmu.edu
412-268-3128
Mellon Institute 849A
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
Sam Glowasky – working under Jess
Nina Fisherman – working under Chris
Liam McDowell – working under Dhruv
Tracy Zhang – working underr Dhruv
Nolan Cynkar – working under Joshua and Dhruv
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