FORMER POST DOCTORAL STUDENTS AND RESEARCH SCIENTISTS
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Dr. Clyde Daly, Jr.
Post Doctoral Student (July ’18 – June ’20)
After : Assistant Professor, Haverford College
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Dr. Dontarie Stallings
Research & Program Manager, OXIDE (January’15 – December’19)
After: Assistant Teaching Professor (Tenure-track), UCSD
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Dr. Srikant Iyer
Assistant Research & Program Manager, OXIDE (March’15 – December19)
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Dr. Ali Rahnamoun
Post Doctoral Student (July ’16-October ‘19)
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Dr. Yutaka Nagahata
Post Doctoral Student (July ’16-October ‘19)
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Dr. Rakesh Singh
Post Doctoral Student (October ’16-February ‘19)
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Dr. Caley Allen
Post Doctoral Student (June ’13-May ‘18)
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Dr. Andrej Junginger
Post Doctoral Student (March’15 – February’16)
Feodor Lynen Research Fellow, Humboldt Foundation (March’15 – February’16)
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Dr. Dwight McGee
Visiting Post Doctoral Student (January’14 – April’15)
Information Analyst, OXIDE (June’14 – April’15)
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Dr. Shannon Watt
Research & Program Manager, OXIDE (August’12 – October’14)
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Dr. Svetlana Khokhlova
Post Doctoral Student (February’13 – March’15)
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Dr. Inga Ulusoy
Post Doctoral Student (September’12 – January’15)
Feodor Lynen Research Fellow, Humboldt Foundation (January’13 – December’14)
After : Feodor Reurn Fellow, Leibnize Institute for Innovative Microelectronics
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Dr. Douglas C. Viehman
Post Doctoral Student (October’08 – January’10)
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Dr. Shi Zhong
Post Doctoral Student (’03 – ’06)
Research Scientist (2010)
After : Bioinformatics Scientist at the MLSCN, Mathematician, Vision Gaming and Technology, Metrics Analyst, Combest, Inc.
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Dr. Thomas Bartsch
Post Doctoral Student in Uzer Group (’04 – 06)
After : Lecturer at Loughborough University
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Dr. Edward Valeev
CCMST Research Scientist (’00 – 06)
After : Professor at Virginia Tech
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Dr. Eli Hershkovitz
Post Doctoral Student (00 – 02)
After : Research Scientist in the Hernandez and Williams groups, Georgia Tech
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Dr. Frank Somer Jr.
Post Doctoral Student (’97 -’99)
After : Associate Professor at Columbia, College, MO
FORMER ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTS
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Aeryal Herrod
Faculty Support Coordinator (’14 – ?)
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Dione Morton
Faculty Support Coordinator (’12 – ’13)
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Alicia Gardner-Aben
Faculty Support Coordinator (’10 – ’12)
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Kourtnie A. Robin
Faculty Support Coordinator (’09 – ’10)
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Carmen Rivera
Administrative Assistant (’08 – ’09)
FORMER GRADUATE STUDENTS
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Benjamin D. Mahala
Ph.D. Student (Summer’11- December ‘19)
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Gene Chong
Ph.D. Student (June’14 – June’19)
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Hailey Rhea Bureau
Ph.D. Student (Summer ’12- June ‘17)
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Dr. Galen T. Craven
Post Doctoral Student (January’15 – May’15)
Ph.D. Student (’09 – ’14)
After : PostDoc with Abe Nitzan at University of Pennylvania
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Ryan Bucher
M.S. (Summer ’12-December’14)
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Dale R. Merz, Jr.
Graduate Student (’11-’13)
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Dr. Matthew Hagy
Ph.D. Student (’08 – ’13)
After : Data Scientist, LiveRamp
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Dr. Ashley Tucker
Ph.D. Student (’05 – ’11)
After : PostDoc with Mark Stevens at Sandia National Laboratories
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Dr. Gungor Ozer
PostDoc (’11)
Ph.D. Student (’04 – ’11)
After : PostDoc with Tom Keyes at Boston University
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Dr. John Gohres
Ph.D. Student (’04-’08)
After: Process Engineer, Evonik Industries (formerly known as Degussa Corp)
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Dr. Yanping Qin
Ph.D. Student (’02 – ’07)
After: Lecturer, University of Texas, Dallas
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Dr. Jeremy Moix
Ph.D. Student (’02-’07)
After: PostDoc with Prof. Eli Pollak at the Weizmann Institute of Science (’07-’10). PostDoc with Prof. Jianshu Cao at MIT (’10-?)
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Dr. Charu Shukla nee Pandey
Ph.D. Student (’02 – 07)
Now: Chemical Engineer/Operator, Southwest Research Institute
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Dr. C. Rebecca Locker
Ph.D. Student (’97 – 03)
After: PostDoc with Prof. Steve Harvey at Georgia Tech
Now: Member of Technical Staff, ExxonMobil
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Dr. Tricia Shepherd
Ph.D. Student (’97 – 02)
After: Professor at Westminster College
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Dr. Marc T. Vogt
Ph.D. Student (’96 – 02)
After: PostDoc with Prof. Lila Gierasch at U.Mass, Amherst
Later: Research Scientist, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
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Saurov Hazarika
M.S.E 2019
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Meserret Zekarias
Graduate Research Student (August’14 – ?)
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Denise Enekwa
M.S.E (’07 – ’10)
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Megan Damm
Graduate Student (’07 – ’09)
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Joanna Balsamo
M.S.? (’03 – 05)
After : Graduate program at University of Southern California (USC)
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James Doto
1st year chemistry (’03 – 04)
After : Mathematics Ph.D. program at Georgia Tech
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Amy Overmyer
M.S. (’01 – 03)
After : H.S.Teacher at St. Louis, MO
FORMER UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
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Ethan Kim
Undergraduate Research Student (? – ?)
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Abigail Lewis
Undergraduate Research Student (January’15 – ?)
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Stephanie Jennings
Undergraduate Research Student (August’14 – ?)
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Chiamaka U Ukachukwu
Undergrad Researcher (Georgia Tech’13) (September’12 – May’13)
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Melissa Mueller
REU Student (Summer ’12)
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Paul Grzybowski
Undergrad (Spring’08)
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Karan Daftary
Undergrad (Spring’08)
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Alana Canfield
Undergrad, REU Summer’06, BS Clark University
After : Graduate School at U.Michigan in Chemistry
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Jay Foley
Undergrad, PURA Spring’05, BS Georgia Tech’06
After : Graduate School at U.Chicago in Chemistry
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Aliyi Aliyi
Undergrad, AURA’04, AA Georgia Perimeter College’05
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Olaronke Olubajo
Undergrad, REU ’04, BS Georgia Tech’05
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Nga “Crystal” Nguyen
Undergrad, REU ’04, BS Mt. Holyoke’05
After : Graduate School at Brown in Chemistry
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Justin Melvin
Undergrad, REU ’03, BS Georgia Tech ’04
After : Graduate School at Georgia Tech in ISyE
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Zubin Master
Undergrad, Spring ’03, BSE Georgia Tech
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Chad Hladick
Undergrad, REU ’02, BS U. Kansas ’03
After : Graduate School at Georgia Tech (MS’05)
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Joyce Noah
Undergrad, REU ’00, BS NYU ’01
After : Graduate School at Stanford in Chemistry (DOE Fellowship)
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Hugh Hopper
Undergrad, REU ’99
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Johanna Miller
Undergrad, REU ’98, BS Duke ’99
After : Graduate School at U.Chicago in Physics (NSF Fellowship)
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Heather Bean
Undergrad, REU ’97, BS Georgia Tech ’99
After : Tech at Merck, GT Ph.D. student (’02-present)