Group Alumni

Postdoctoral Fellows

Name Year(s) Current Position
Mohan Sikka 3/94 – 7/96
Jonathan H. Laurer 1/98 – 4/99 IRC, Inc.
Andreas H. Taubert 8/00 – 12/02 Dept Chair, Chemistry, Univ. of Potsdam, Germany
Hansoo Kim 2/04 – 1/06
Mohammad Moniruzzaman  4/05 – 1/08 Senior Research Assoc, BASF
Arun Kota 2/08 – 6/08 Assoc. Professor, North Carolina State University
Michelle Seitz 9/09 – 11/10 Program Director, NIST Circular Economy Program
T. Jamie Ford 4/11 – 1/12 Staff Scientist, University of Pennsylvania
Philip J. Griffin 8/14 – 5/17 Director of Soft Matter Lab., University of Chicago
Francisco Buitrago 2/18 – 4/19 Senior Research Scientist, Arkema
Holden Lai (joint w/Osuji) 9/20 – 5/21 Co-Founder, Osmoses
James Pressly 9/19 – 12/21 Senior Scientist, Axalta
Ye Chan Kim (joint w/Composto) 11/21 – 8/24 Staff Engineer, Samsung
Solmi Oh 10/22 – 10/24 Staff Engineer, Samsung
Chien-Hua Tu 1/23 – 12/24 PCB Process Engineer, Unimicron Germany GmbH
William Drayer (w/Frischknecht) 7/23 – 01/26 System Engineer, RoviSys
Hoda Shokrollahzadeh Behbahani  6/24 –  

Doctoral Students

# Name Department Current Position
1 B. Scott Pinheiro  MSE  
2 Daniel L. Polis MSE  Vice President, Sierra Space
3 Nicole N. Pellegrini ChE   
4 Lei Qiao MSE  Vice President, Global Mobility Technology, Axalta 
5 Brian P. Kirkmeyer MSE  Senior Assistant Dean, Miami University, Oxford, OH
6 Reto Haggenmueller MSE Senior Test Engineer, Daimler Trucks
7 Fangming Du CBE Technology VP, Current Chemicals
8 Avinash Budhian CBE Global Manager, Reckitt Benckise, NJ
9 Nicholas M. Benetatos MSE Principal Consultant, Exponent
10 Nancy C. Zhou CBE National Institute of Child Health and Human Dev.
11 Christopher Chan CBE Research Scientist, The Chemours Company
12 Minfang Mu MSE Project Leader, Shanghai, China
13 Sadie I. White MSE United States Patent and Trademark Office
14 Wenqin “Sunny” Wang MSE Senior R&D TS&D Scientist, Dow Chemical
15 David Salas-de la Cruz CBE Assoc. Prof., Chemistry, Rutgers University – Camden
16 Jae-Hong Choi MSE Principal Engineer, Samsung SDI, Korea
17 C. Francisco Buitrago CBE Research Scientist, Arkema
18 Rose M. Mutiso MSE Research Director, The Energy for Growth Hub 
19 Michael O’Reilly MSE CMC Consultant, MVO Insights LLC
20 Wei-Shao “Walter” Tung MSE R&D Director, China Contact Probe
21 Tsen-Shan Sharon Sharick MSE Materials Scientist, W. L. Gore & Associates
22 L. Robert Middleton MSE Director of Product & Automation, Labcorp
23 Edward  “Ted” Trigg MSE Vice President of R&D, Cambium
24 James F. Pressly MSE Scientist, Axalta
25 Lu Yan CBE Patent Lawyer, Associate, Baker Botts L.L.P.
26 Eric Bailey MSE Research Scientist, Arkema
27 Benjamin Paren MSE Assistant Prof. Stevens Institute of Technology
28 Tianren Zhang CBE  Postdoctoral Fellow, UDel (co-advised with Riggleman)
29 Jinseok Park MSE  Assistant Professor, Kyung Hee University
30 Kaitlin Wang MSE Senior Scientist, Merck
31 Eli Fastow MSE  Dow Chemical
32 Benjamin Ferko MSE Research Scientist, Greene Tweed
33 Katie Sun MSE  
34 Margaret Brown MSE  
35 Benjamin Indeglia CBE  
36 Lily Wang CBE  
37 Lindsay Jones MSE  
38 Aubry Hymel CBE  
39 William Presson MSE  
40 Sam Chen CBE  

Master’s Degree Students (partial listing)

Name Department Year Current Position
Theresa E. Derderian MSE  1994
Maria L. Berba  MSE  1994 Johnson and Johnson Philippines, Manila, Philippines
Micheala Tymichova  MSE  1996
Joyce J. Espiritu  MSE  1997 R. J. Composto co-advisor.
Oyekunbi Delano CBE  2001
Forrest Pilgrim CBE 2002
Marcus Hsu MSE 2003 Intel
Yongsoo Kim CBE 2004
Naiffer Romero MSE 2005 Dow
Amod Saxena CBE 2006 Liberty Mutual Insurance
Tsung-Ta “Ethan” Chan MSE 2007 Doctoral program
Lai-Ching Chou MSE 2007 DuPont Taiwan
Thomas Acchione MSE 2008 Engineering Manager, STX
Kristin Metkus MSE 2009 Nova Research Inc.
Xiang “Tracy” Hao MSE 2010 Vice President, IDG Capital
Kun Sun MSE worked in group Fall 2012
Steven T. Szewczyk MSE 2014 University of Pennsylvania
William Kyei-Manu MSE 2013 Schlumberger, Houston TX
James Borchert MSE 2013 Innovo Dynamics
Devdatt Maganty MSE 2014 Wood Mackenzie
Han-Chang “Cathy” Yang MSE 2015 Senior Scientist, Exponent
Clark Shurtleff MSE 2016 Naval Sea Systems Command
Drew Wang MSE  2019 Deloitte Consulting
Miko Stulajter MSE 2020 Doctoral program, UC Irvine
Junwei Xiang CBE 2021 Changjiang Securities
Valerie Ballance MSE  2021 Estee Lauder Companies
Monika Ramini CBE 2022

Undergraduate Students (includes NSF REU students, senior design groups)
(includes NSF REU students, senior design groups; bold indicates coauthors on peer-reviewed papers)

Year
1992-93 Andre Sanders Laura F. Cerini 
1993-94 Y. Lynn Loo
1994-95 W. Loong Chen Foo-Sing Wong Heather M. Koehler
1995-96 Heather M. Koehler Francis J. Gramkowski
1996-97 John Nugent Gregory Booker Alison Olver
1997-98 Nikeva Brown Robert D. Armitage
1998-99 Michael D. Grubb Jason R. Vollbracht Anna K. Johnsen
1999-00 Reto Haggenmueller Neel Gandhi
2000-01 Neel Gandhi  Nakiva Showell Jason DeGaetano
Tiffany Selman Sarah Rothman Karen Sohn
2001-02 Anna H. Pilipienko Joyce Tam
2002-03 Joyce Tam Anthony Barsotti Lindsey Karpowich
2003-04 Robert C. Scogna Leah Henderson Tarin Hart
Stijn Brand
2004-05 Josh Stillman Justin Samuels Clarinda Lim
Thomas Acchione
2005-06 Thomas Acchione  Zachary Williams
2006-07 Michael Purdham Michael Young Bruce Hilman
Asli Sahin Thomas Acchione Henry Friedman
Jena Deng Nicholas Smeets
2007-08 Michael DeLiso Zachary Combs Jason Ginsberg
Nicholas Smeets Rebecca Goldman Patrick Curran
Scott Juang Lea Nowar
2008-09 Layla Houshmand Conor Donnely Michael Frankel
Samuel Hsu David Jahnke Tarun Vemulkar
Amanda Levy Matt Bramson
2009-10 Matt Bramson Dan King Shaina Oake
Jen Ehrich Michelle Sherrott Jeff Denis
2010-11 Matt Bramson Michelle Sherrott Jeff Denis
Katharine Oleske Alex Dolgonos Michael Engber
Jason Bernstein  Miten Mistry Erik ReVeal
2011-12 Angeles C. Chaparro Maria E. Vincent Michelle Sherrott
Sneha Deshpande Tyler Citek Eric Maltiel
2012-13 Michelle Sherrott Colleen Reynolds Kathryn Johnson
Ruben Waldman
2013-14 Alexa Kuenstler Jacob Gissinger Eric Schwartz
2014-15 Alexa Kuenstler Eric Schwartz Grace Salmon
2015-16 Eric Schwartz Demi Moed Noah Geller
Gracie Salmon Sonya Kripke Jason Woo
2016-17 Demi Moed Nicholas Han Neha Goswami
2017-18 Demi Moed Nicholas Han Dakota Wallach
Lauren Hoang Olivia Landgrover Grant Shao
2018-19 Lauren Hoang Nicholas Han Nathan Xu
Anita Yang Arjun Kanthawar
2019-20 Tia Denby Arjun Kanthawar Zach Whitlock
Eli Newberger Alexander Proschel
2020-21 Son Hoang Madina Arapova  Caroline Birkel
2021-22 Son Hoang Caroline Birkel Sarah Beth Gleeson
Julia Yan Shoshana Weintraub Leah Narun
Lauren Chua Lynn Ahrens Erin Siciliano
Caroline de Andrade
2022-23 Caroline Birkel  Caroline de Andrade Son Hoang
Jae Wan Lee  Jacob Reisner  Sean Deresh
Victoria Lee  James Votruba-Drzal   Vivek Nair
2023-24 Victoria Lee James Votruba-Drzal   Vivek Nair
Madeline G. Port Emily Duanhoa James Johnson
Anthony Senouillet James Votruba-Drzal Awahan Sapkota
Allen Jiang
2024-25  Allen Jiang Anthony M. Senouillet Emily Duan
Zixuan (Gina) Lin Madeline Port Victoria Lee
William McCambridge
2025-26  Anatoli Beyene Allen Jiang Victoria Lee
Zixuan (Gina) Lin William McCambridge Anthony M. Senouillet
Alexandra Whittle Phillip Delikouras Sunehra Chowdhury