Former Group Members

Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr. Hussain A. N. Abdulla – Associate Professor at Texas A & M Corpus Christi

Dr. Heidi Bialk – U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center

Dr. Jackie Bortiatynski (1990 – 1991) – Associate Teaching Professor and Director of the Center for Excellence in Science Education at the Penn State University – Eberly College of Science

Dr. Sarah Caccamise (2004 – 2006) – Associate Technical Editor at American Chemical Society

Dr. Paulo Caricasole (2009 – 2011) – Associate Scientist III Alcami Corporation

Dr. Benny Chefetz – Dean of Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment and Professor at Hebrew University of Jersualem – Center for Sustainability

Dr. Ryan Fimmen – Geosyntec Consultants

Dr. Amanda Grannas – Associate Vice Provost for Research and Chief Research Officer, Professor of Chemistry at Villanova University (Google Scholar)

Dr. Elizabeth Kujawinski (2000-2001) – Senior Scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Google Scholar)

Dr. Elizabeth Guthrie Nichols – Professor at  North Carolina State University College of Natural Resources (Google Scholar)

Dr. Paula Mazzer (2003 – 2005) – Associate Professor at Dakota Wesleyan University Department of Biochemistry

Dr. Mark A. Nanny – Boggs Professor of Engineering Education at University of Oklahoma – College of Engineering

Dr. Sarah Pilkenton – Professor at Framingham State University – Chemistry and Food Science

Dr. Rakesh Sachdeva – Director of Instrumentation Facilities at Clemson University – Department of Chemistry

Dr. Elodie Salmon – Researcher at Université d’Orléans (Google Scholar)

Dr. Myrna Salloum Simpson (2002 – 2005) – Professor at University of Toronto – Scarborough Department of Chemistry (Google Scholar)

Dr. Andre Simpson (2002 – 2005) – Professor at University of Toronto – Scarborough Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences (Google Scholar)

Dr. Aron Stubbins – Northeastern University

Dr. Amanda Tadini (2020) – Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA) (Google Scholar)

Dr. Beena Thomas

Dr. Andrew Wozniak (2009 – 2012)- Assistant Professor at University of Delaware School of Marine Science & Policy (Google Scholar)

PhD Graduate Students

Dr. Daliana Abreu – Intel

Dr. Stasia Anderson (1992 – 1997) – Director, NHLBI Animal MRI Core at National Institutes of Health

Dr. Hongmei Chen (PhD 2007 – 2014, Research Scientist 2018-2020) – Associate Professor at Xiamen University, China (Google Scholar)

Dr. David J. Clifford – Penn State University

Dr. George Cody – Staff Scientist, Earth & Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science (Google Scholar)

Dr. Ashish P. Deshmukh – Senior Managing Consultant at Ramboll

Dr. Nicole DiDonato (2009 – 2017) – Postdoctoral Research Associate at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Dr. Karl Dria – Indiana University – Purdue University Indiana

Dr. Timothy R. Filley (1997) – Professor and Director of the Institute for Resilient Environmental and Energy Systems at the University of Oklahoma

Dr. Blaine Hartman (2010 – 2015)

Dr. William Hockaday (2001 – 2005) – Associate Professor at Baylor University Department of Geosciences (Google Scholar)

Dr. Bob Hou – Professor of MRI Physics at West Virginia University – Department of Neuroradiology

Dr. Pang-hung Hsu – Associate Professor and Chair at National Taiwan Ocean University (Research Gate)

Dr. Albert Kamga (2008 – 2016) – R&D Packaging Engineer at Intel Corporation

Dr. Seyyedhadi Khatami (2015 – 2020) –  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Old Dominion University

Dr. Sunghwan Kim (2001 – 2003) – Professor at Kyungpook National University Department of Chemistry – Environmental Energy Mass Spectrometry Lab (Google Scholar)

Dr. Jonathan Mathews – Penn State University

Dr. Gina A. McKee Burrows (2007 – 2011)

Dr. Daniel E. McKinney (1992 – 1998) – Shell Oil Company

Dr. Rajaa Mesfioui (2008 – 2014) –  Forensic Chemist (DEA)

Dr. Wassim Obeid (2008 – 2015) – Research Associate at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Google Scholar)

Dr. Derek Waggoner (2010 – 2017) – Assistant Professor, University of Miami (Google Scholar)

Dr. Amanda Willoughby (2010 – 2015) –  Instructor at Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi

Dr. Xu Zang (2001) – Pfizer Chemical

Dr. Etuan Zhang – Shell Oil Company

MS Graduate Students

Ryan Anstatt (2000 – 2003) – Scientist at Charles River Laboratories

Mary Briggs

Daniel M. Carson

Macey Cohen (2017 – 2020)

Sarah Gurganus (2010 – 2013)

Amanda Koenig (2003 – 2006) – Senior Editor at Biolumina

Robert Kramer (2000 – 2003) – Technical Sales and Business Development Manager at GFS Chemicals

Eunjee Lee (2005) – Senior Research Scientist NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Dr. Joshua Marsh (2008 – 2010) – Instructional Designer at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University

Isaiah RuhlDirector of The COSMIC Facility

Jeffrey Turner – Senior Lecturer Chemistry and Biochemistry Ohio State

Sarah Ware (2017 – 2023) (Google Scholar)

Stephanie Witty (2013 – 2020) Chemist, U.S. Department of Defense

Recent Undergraduate Members 

Scarlet Aguilar-Martinez (graduated 2021) – pursuing her Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Michigan. Awardee of the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship.

Alicia Bryan (graduated 2020) – pursuing her Ph.D. in Chemistry at UNC – Chapel Hill

Kate Cipriano (summer 2021) – R.E.U.  intern

Jacob Greenberg (spring 2021)

Nathan Jentink (graduated 2019) – pursuing his Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences at Penn State College of Medicine

Becca Sherman (graduated 2023) – pursing her Ph.D.

Ella Wofford (summer 2022) – R.E.U. intern

Visiting Scholars

Dr. Sonja Brodowski – sonja.brodowski@uni-bonn.de

Dr. Corinna Byrne

Dr. Yona Chen – Professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Dr. Olga Trubetskaya – Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia

Dr. Oleg Trubetskoy – Institute of Basic Biological Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia  (Google Scholar)