Meet the Team
Post-Docs
Dr. Spoorthi Bhat
Email: sbhatkri@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: Spectroscopy and Microscopy
Hobbies: Trekking, Travel and cultural exploration, Cooking
Dr. Andy Berbille
Email: aberbill@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: Isotope labelling, EPR
Hobbies: Hiking, noodling (badly) on guitars, cooking, languages
Graduate Students
Vanshika Gupta
Email: gupta916@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: Square Wave Voltammetry
Hobbies: Dancing and painting
Cristian Blanco-Combariza
Email: cblancoc@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: MALDI-TOF-MS
Hobbies: Cooking, Baking, Reading, Doing Nerd Stuff
Brady Layman
Email: layman9@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: Electrochemiluminescence Microscopy
Hobbies: Working out, Skiing, Lil' Dickies Basketball Team
Saptarshi (Rishi) Paul
Email: paul148@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: STEM-HAADF
Hobbies: International Student Ambassador duties!
Dane Wagner
Email: wagne369@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: DPV and amperometry
Hobbies: Video games, cozy tv shows, and LEGO.
Ashutosh Rana
Email: rana29@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: Cyclic Voltammetry
Hobbies: Working out, Hiking, Soccer
John Koons
Email: koons3@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: SEM and polishing macroelectrodes!
Hobbies: Almost winning IM championships, Grilling, Complaining about cats, Guitar
Patrick Herchenbach
Email: pherchen@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: Stochastic Electrochemistry
Hobbies: Music, Reading, Gaming
Sakshi Ailawar
Email: sailawar@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: SEM/XRD
Hobbies: Cooking, Cafe Hopping, and Going on Walks
Sam Nortz
Email: snortz@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: Linear sweep voltammetry
Hobbies: Soccer, fishkeeping, snowboarding, music
Megan Hill
Email: hill614@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: ECL Microscopy
Hobbies: Running, Reading, Working out
James Nguyen
Email: nguye952@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: X-Ray Diffraction
Hobbies: Working out, cooking, and hiking
Mobina Masdari
Email: mmasdari@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: SEM, TEM, CV, DPV
Hobbies: Practicing yoga, cooking, reading and hiking
Azaria Wagner
Email: wagne286@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: Stochastic Electrochemistry
Hobbies: Running, Biking, Dancing, and Cooking
Md Arif Faisal
Email: mfaisal@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: Fast Scan Cyclic Voltammetry
Hobbies: Eat 9 meals a day!
Alzahraa Eldeeb
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Email: aeldeeb@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
Hobbies: Cooking, painting, swimming, and learning new languages.
Taizhe Liu
Email: liu3787@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: FTIR, Electrochemical MS
Hobbies: cello, soccer, and gaming
Savannah Hatch
Email: potter86@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: Pulling capillary tips lol
Hobbies: Gymming and Jamming (Playing Music)
Samantha Schmidt
Email: schmi380@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: Pipetting tiny droplets
Hobbies: Hiking, baking, reading, writing, playing with my cat Sir Isaac Newton, and driving to a city >3 hours away every other weekend.
Renny Pham
Email: pham125@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: Square Wave Voltammetry, Cyclic Voltammetry
Hobbies: Playing Games and Travelling
Mackenzie Stockwell
Email: mstockw@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: Cyclic Voltammetry
Hobbies: Reading, running, gaming, hanging out with friends, and traveling
Jeremy Lawrence
Email: lawre128@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: Chronopotentiometry (multi-current step)
Hobbies: Reading, walking through nature, and playing video games
Emanuela Grechi Döll
Email: egrechid@purdue.edu
Favorite Lab Technique: Cyclic voltammetry
Hobbies: Traveling, reading, hanging out with my friends, and playing the guitar.
Educational Outreach Coordinator
Alia Nerys Pineda Medina
Email: Apinedam@purdue.edu
Favorite thing about PhD: Enhancing my Pedagogy
Hobbies: Baking and Cooking
Undergraduate Students
Favorite Lab technique: Ampoule synthesis
Hobbies: Playing banjo, fishing and exploring
Favorite Lab technique: Cell Cytometry
Hobbies: Badminton, video games, and movies
Year at Purdue: Junior
Hobbies: Cricket, hiking, and binge watching
Favorite Lab technique: Flow cytometry
Hobbies: Running, reading, and exploring West Lafayette!
Favorite Lab technique: ECL Microscopy
Hobbies: Hanging out with friends, working out, procrastinating, and lockpicking
Year at Purdue: Sophomore
Hobbies: Lifting, painting, piano, cooking
Year at Purdue: Sophomore
Hobbies: Piano, violin, photography, reading, and painting
Year at Purdue: Sophomore
Hobbies: Reading, cooking, movies
Year at Purdue: Freshman
Hobbies: Working out, hanging out with my sorority sisters, taking care of plants, and shopping.
Group Alumni
Graduate Student 2021 - 2024
Graduate Student 2020 - 2024
Visiting Scholar Summer 2024
Graduate Student 2020 - 2024
Graduate Student 2020 - 2024
Graduate Student 2019 - 2023
Graduate Student 2019 - 2023
Graduate Student 2019 - 2023
Graduate Student 2019 - 2023
Graduate Student 2018 - 2022
Graduate Student 2017 - 2021
Currently a graduate student, Northwestern
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