Graduate Student Profiles

Office Location: Mudd 573

Area of Specialization: Solid-State Transient Absorption Spectroscopy

I am primarily interested in solar cells due to their potential environmental and economic benefits. I work collaboratively with synthetic chemists, studying complete or partial solar cell stacks to grant insight into rational modifications to improve efficiency. My goal in studying charge transfer dynamics is to help push us toward a future where environmentally friendly energy generation is also efficient and inexpensive, allowing the technology to be deployed at scale.

Office Location: Mudd 648

Area of Specialization: Biochemistry/Biophysics

I am a graduate student in Damien Thévenin’s lab. My work focuses on using the pH (Low) insertion peptide (pHLIP) as a model for other pH dependent proteins and peptides by distinguishing how specific residues and environmental factors affect pHLIP’s pH dependent insertion. In my free time I enjoy playing tabletop and board games.

Office Location: Mudd 412

Area Of Specialization: Ph.D. Candidate

Office Location: Mudd 432

Area of Specialization: Organometallics

My research involves making nickel complexes that can perform reductive elimination reactions to form fluorinated molecules that have potential applications in medicinal chemistry.

Office Location: Mudd 648

Area of Specialization: Biochemistry

I am in Dr. Damien Thévenin’s lab where my project focuses on promoting PTPRJ activity towards oncogenic RTK’s through specific point mutations or agonist peptides.

Office Location: Mudd 523

Area of Specialization: Physical Organic Chemistry

I am currently a doctoral student in the Young lab.  My primary investigation involves bisphenalenyl molecules in solution, with a focus on understanding their photopohysical properties.

Office Location: Mudd 423

Area of Specialization: Organometallics

I'm interested in developing methods and reagents for fluorination and/or fluoroalkylation of organic molecules. I'm also currently working on ways to recycle some C2 refrigerants mainly by dehydrofluorination using neutral organic superbases.

Office Location: Mudd 476

Area Of Specialization: Ph.D. Candidate

Office Location: Mudd 657

Area of Specialization: Bioanalytical Chemistry

My research is focused on the biophysical properties of lipid bilayer membranes and molecular interactions that occur at biological surfaces. Specifically, I use techniques like optical microscopy, spectroscopy, and QCM-D to examine how oxidized lipids involved in cardiovascular disease alter membrane structure, and how these lipids are recognized by innate immune cells.

Office Location: Mudd 289

Area Of Specialization: Ph.D. Candidate