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Meet Our Team
PhD Students
Vanshika Gupta
Email: gupta916@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: Square Wave Voltammetry
Hobbies: Dancing and painting
Favorite Lab Technique: Square Wave Voltammetry
Hobbies: Dancing and painting
Cristian Alejandro Blanco-Combariza
Email: cblancoc@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: ESI-ALPACA
Hobbies: Improving my Chess, Cooking, Reading books that seem to have consumed other books
Favorite Lab Technique: ESI-ALPACA
Hobbies: Improving my Chess, Cooking, Reading books that seem to have consumed other books
Brady Layman
Email: layman9@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: Electrochemiluminescence (ECL)
Hobbies: Skiing, hiking, and working out.
Favorite Lab Technique: Electrochemiluminescence (ECL)
Hobbies: Skiing, hiking, and working out.
Saptarshi Paul
Email: paul148@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Hobbies: Hanging out with friends
Favorite Lab Technique: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Hobbies: Hanging out with friends
Dane Wagner
Email: wagne369@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique:
Hobbies: reading, watching my TV shows, cooking, PC gaming, TTRPGs , and traveling
Favorite Lab Technique:
Hobbies: reading, watching my TV shows, cooking, PC gaming, TTRPGs , and traveling
Ashutosh Rana
Email: rana29@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: Cyclic Voltammetry
Hobbies: Travel, Soccer, Gym
Favorite Lab Technique: Cyclic Voltammetry
Hobbies: Travel, Soccer, Gym
John Fredrick Koons
Email: koons3@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab technique: Cyclic Voltammetry
Hobbies: Running, reading, and watching videos of airplanes
Favorite Lab technique: Cyclic Voltammetry
Hobbies: Running, reading, and watching videos of airplanes
Patrick Herchenbach
Email: Pherchen@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: 3D Printing
Hobbies: Music, reading, and cooking tv shows.
Favorite Lab Technique: 3D Printing
Hobbies: Music, reading, and cooking tv shows.
Sakshi Ailawar
Email: sailawar@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: SEM/XRD
Hobbies: Cooking, Cafe Hopping, and Going on Walks
Favorite Lab Technique: SEM/XRD
Hobbies: Cooking, Cafe Hopping, and Going on Walks
Sam Nortz
Email: snortz@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: X-ray crystallography
Hobbies: Soccer, snowboarding, running, music
Favorite Lab Technique: X-ray crystallography
Hobbies: Soccer, snowboarding, running, music
Megan Hill
Email: hill614@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: Cyclic Voltammetry
Hobbies: Gym, running, reading
Favorite Lab Technique: Cyclic Voltammetry
Hobbies: Gym, running, reading
James Nguyen
Email: nguye952@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: Flash Chromatography
Hobbies: Working out, eating, and paintballing
Favorite Lab Technique: Flash Chromatography
Hobbies: Working out, eating, and paintballing
Azaria Andrew Wagner
Email: wagne286@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: Blocking
Hobbies: Reading, walking, dancing, cooking
Favorite Lab Technique: Blocking
Hobbies: Reading, walking, dancing, cooking
Arif Faisal
Email: mfaisal@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: Dynamic light scattering measurements, Optical microscopy
Hobbies: Trying different food, Watching movies, series and TRAVELLING!!!
Favorite Lab Technique: Dynamic light scattering measurements, Optical microscopy
Hobbies: Trying different food, Watching movies, series and TRAVELLING!!!
Alzahraa Eldeeb (Zoe)
Email: aeldeeb@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
Hobbies: Fashion design, Music, and Painting.
Favorite Lab Technique: Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
Hobbies: Fashion design, Music, and Painting.
Mobina Masdari
Email: mmasdari@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: Amperometry, CV, DPV
Hobbies: Hiking, Cooking
Favorite Lab Technique: Amperometry, CV, DPV
Hobbies: Hiking, Cooking
Taizhe Liu
Email: liu3787@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: Cyclic Voltammetry
Hobbies: Working out and gaming
Favorite Lab Technique: Cyclic Voltammetry
Hobbies: Working out and gaming
Undergraduate Students
Michael Harrigan
Hometown: Bainbridge Island, Washington
Year at Purdue: Junior
Hobbies: Fishing, banjo, walking and gaming
Year at Purdue: Junior
Hobbies: Fishing, banjo, walking and gaming
Sirish Meher Reddy Kayam
Hometown: Carmel, Indiana
Year at Purdue: Sophomore
Hobbies: Video games, weightlifting, and badminton
Year at Purdue: Sophomore
Hobbies: Video games, weightlifting, and badminton
Sadie Poirier
Hometown: Carmel, IN
Year at Purdue: Sophomore
Hobbies: Reading, running, and finding new coffee shops
Year at Purdue: Sophomore
Hobbies: Reading, running, and finding new coffee shops
Yashvi Choudhary
Hometown: Jaipur, India
Year at Purdue: Sophomore
Hobbies: Cricket, hiking, and binge watching
Year at Purdue: Sophomore
Hobbies: Cricket, hiking, and binge watching
Emily Richardson
Hometown: Chesterton
Year at Purdue: Sophomore
Hobbies: Lifting, painting, piano, cooking
Year at Purdue: Sophomore
Hobbies: Lifting, painting, piano, cooking
Amber Wang
Hometown: Carmel, Indiana
Year at Purdue: Sophomore
Hobbies: Piano, violin, photography, reading, and painting
Year at Purdue: Sophomore
Hobbies: Piano, violin, photography, reading, and painting
Keeley Farmer
Hometown: Fishers, Indiana
Year at Purdue: Sophomore
Hobbies: Reading, cooking, movies
Year at Purdue: Sophomore
Hobbies: Reading, cooking, movies
Hadley Rumbach
Hometown: Jasper, IN
Year at Purdue: Freshman
Hobbies: Hanging out with friends + reading
Year at Purdue: Freshman
Hobbies: Hanging out with friends + reading
Lillian Pierce
Hometown: Fort Wayne, IN
Year at Purdue: Freshman
Hobbies: Working out, hanging out with my sorority sisters, taking care of plants, and shopping.
Year at Purdue: Freshman
Hobbies: Working out, hanging out with my sorority sisters, taking care of plants, and shopping.
Daniel Carrel
Hometown: Brownsburg, Indiana
Year at Purdue: Weightlifting, watching TV, and hanging out with friends
Year at Purdue: Weightlifting, watching TV, and hanging out with friends
Educational Outreach Coordinator
Alia Nerys Pineda Medina
Email: Apinedam@purdue.edu
Favorite thing about PhD: Enhancing my Pedagogy
Hobbies: Baking and Cooking
Favorite thing about PhD: Enhancing my Pedagogy
Hobbies: Baking and Cooking
Group Alumni
Dr. Lynn Krushinski
Visiting Instructor at Wabash College
Graduate Student 2021 - 2024
Graduate Student 2021 - 2024
Dr. Thomas B. Clarke
Post Doctoral Scholar at Northwestern University
Graduate Student 2020 - 2024
Graduate Student 2020 - 2024
Francesco Falciani
Finishing PhD at the University of Bologna
Visiting Scholar Summer 2024
Visiting Scholar Summer 2024
AnhThu (Renny) Pham
PhD student at Purdue University in the Analytical Chemistry Division
Dr. Guillermo Colon-Quintana
Currently at Faraday Technology Inc.
Graduate Student 2020 - 2024
Graduate Student 2020 - 2024
Dr. Philip J. Kauffmann
Currently working at Intel
Graduate Student 2020 - 2024
Graduate Student 2020 - 2024
Dr. Kingshuk Roy
Professor at TCG Crest
Dr. Kathryn J. Vannoy
Post-Doctoral Researcher at Leiden University, Netherlands
Graduate Student 2019 - 2023
Graduate Student 2019 - 2023
Dr. Rebecca Clark
Currently at Merck
Graduate Student 2019 - 2023
Graduate Student 2019 - 2023
Dr. Joshua Reyes-Morales
Currently an assistant professor at Universidad Ana G. Mendez at Gurabo, Puerto Rico
Graduate Student 2019 - 2023
Graduate Student 2019 - 2023
Dr. Nicole Walker
Currently at the FDA
Graduate Student 2019 - 2023
Graduate Student 2019 - 2023
Dr. Silvia Voci
Currently at University of Paris
Dr. Christophe Renault
Currently an assistant professor at Loyola University
Dr.Sondrica Goines
Currently at Bristol Myers Squibb
Graduate Student 2018 - 2022
Graduate Student 2018 - 2022
Dr. Matthew W. Glasscott
Currently at United States Army Corps of Engineers Research and Development Center
Graduate Student 2017 - 2021
Graduate Student 2017 - 2021
Connor Weatherly
Undergraduate Researcher from Prof. Henry White's group, Summer 2019
Currently a graduate student, Northwestern
Currently a graduate student, Northwestern
Nicole Tarolla
Currently at KBI Biopharma
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Dr. Kazemi Rezvan
Currently at Research Triangle Institute
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Hadley
Currently pursuing her PhD at Northwestern University
Dr. Andrew Pendergast
Post Doctoral Scholar at University of Berkely
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