Postdoctoral scholars
Dr. Viraj Kirinda (2021-2023): Senior Analytical Scientist, Kraton Corporation, Houston, TX
Dr. Pradipta Das (2018-2021): Senior Scientist Discovery Chemistry, Level R3, Merck West Point
Dr. Bassil El-Zaatari (2018-2021): Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Davidson College, Davidson, NC
Dr. Jacob Ishibashi (2017-2020): Scientist II, Fluent Biosciences, Watertown, MA
Dr. Youlong Zhu (2016-2017): Faculty, Sun Yat-Sen University
Graduate students
Dr. Ian Pierce (2019-2024, PhD): Research Chemist, Liquid Protective Coatings, PPG, Pittsburgh, PA
Dr. Emily McClure (2018-2023, PhD): Clean Energy Innovator Fellow, Illinois Commerce Commission, Chicago, IL
Dr. Vivian Zhang (2019-2023, PhD): Medical student, Feinberg School of Medicine, MSTP M3, Chicago, IL
Dr. Alexandra Berl (2018-2023, PhD): Consultant, McKinsey & Company, Chicago, IL
Dr. Boyeong Kang (2017-2022, PhD): Senior Scientist I, AbbVie, Irvine, CA
Dr. Christopher Eckdahl (2017-2022, PhD): Lecturer in the Discipline of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY
Dr. Joseph Accardo (2016-2021, PhD): Senior Research Specialist, Formulation, Automation, and Material Science (FAMS) group, Dow, Collegeville, PA
Dr. David Barsoum (2017-2021, PhD): Owner, Carefully Picked, Chicago, IL
Dr. Eliot Woods (2016-2021, PhD): Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemical Science and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, IL
Dr. Xiaodi Wang (2016-2020, PhD): Presidential Associate at Estée Lauder Companies APAC Innovation, Hong Kong
Undergraduates
Carrie Ou (2020-2022): Northwestern BA/MA ’22; Associate Scientist, Snapdragon Chemistry, Waltham, MA
Yan Fang (2017-2019): Northwestern BS ’19; graduate student, U. Chicago Institute of Molecular Engineering
Colin Clayton (2016-2017): Northwestern BA ’18
Visiting researchers
Marnie Klein (MRSEC RET 2023): middle school science teacher, Buckingham Browne & Nichols School, Cambridge, MA
Feiyang Liu (MONET summer researcher 2023): Davidson College ’24
Joanne Ko (CSP summer researcher 2022): Washington and Lee University ’23
Jeffrey Kurian (MRSEC RET 2022): science teacher, Glenbrook South High School
Sonia Li (CSP summer researcher 2021): UMN-Duluth ’21; graduate student, U. Delaware Chemical Engineering
Joanne Yonan (MRSEC RET 2020): science teacher, Lake View High School
Alayna Johnson (CSP summer researcher 2018): UIUC ’20; graduate student, MIT Chemistry
Kim Phan (SROP 2017): Augustana College ’19; Doctoral Diversity Program Research Scholar, Johns Hopkins Medicine