Former Postdoctoral Reserachers

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Atashi Basu (Mukhopadhyay)

2005-2007
Chemical and Biological Engineering - Stanford University
Atashi was a postcotral reseach with Charles while he was still at Stanford University. After leaving the group, she joined Intel as a Staff Engineer. After 7 years, she moved to Applied Materials to work as a Technology Manager in the Modeling & Surface Analysis / Computational Chemistry & Materials Design department. More recently, she joined Lam Research as a Senior Director of Internal Computational Products.
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Ankan Paul

2005-2008
Chemical and Biological Engineering - Stanford University
Ankan was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University before Charles moved to CU. After leaving the group, he moved back to India to be a Professor at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
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Alessandra Ricca

1997-1998
Chemistry - Stanford University
Alessandra was a postdoctoral fellow with Charles at Stanford University. Once she left the group, she joined NASA in the SETI Institute at Ames Research Center
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Gang Zhang

2004-2006
Chemical and Biological Engineering - Stanford University
Gang was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University before Charles moved to CU. After leaving the group, he took a position as a Senior Research Engineer at the Agency for Science, Research and Technology (A*STAR) in the Institute of Microelectronics. After 3 years, he accepted an offer to join Peking University as a Professor. He now shares an appointment with A*STAR in the Institute of High Perfomance Computing as a...

Former PhD Students

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Aziz Alherz

Graduated March 2023
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Design and Modeling of Electrocatalytic Systems for CO2 Reduction Reactions
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Mohammed Alkhater

Graduated June 2022
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Evaluation and Application of DFT Methods on Molecular Systems
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Yousef Alsunni

Graduated February 2023
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Modeling Electrochemical Reactions by Grand Canonical Density Functional Theory
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Pendar Ardalan

Graduated December 2010
Chemical and Biological Engineering - Stanford University
Organic and Inorganic Surface Modification of Semiconductors for Electronic and Energy Conversion Devices
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Zach Bare

Graduated January 2023
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Computationally Accelerated Discovery of Perovskite Oxides for Solar Thermochemical Hydrogen Production
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Chris Bartel

Graduated December 2018
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Data-Driven Descriptors for the Thermochemistry of Inorganic Crystalline Solids
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Paige Brimley

5th Year PhD Student • Co-advised with Wilson Smith
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Multiscale Modeling of Decarbonization Technologies and Electrochemical Systems
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Sarah Bull

Graduated June 2021
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Atomic Layer Deposition of Environmental Barrier Coatings for Preventing Hydrogen Ingress
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Scott Centoni

Graduated March 2003
Materials Science and Engineering - Stanford Univeristy
First-principles calculation of self-diffusion, arsenic diffusion, and surface segregation in silicon
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Jacob Clary

Graduated April 2020
Chemical and Biological Engineering
High-Fidelity and Reaction Conditions Corrected Density Functional Theory for the Accurate Prediction of Catalytic, Thermochemical and Optical Properties of Materials
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Ann Deml

Graduated August 2014
Materials Science and Engineering - Colorado School of Mines
New insights into the properties determining oxygen vacancy formation energies in oxides
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Joseph Han

Graduated June 2004
Chemical and Biological Engineering - Stanford University
Quantum chemical simulations of organometallic systems: Atomic layer deposition of dielectric films and ethylene /styrene copolymerization using a titanium metallocene catalyst
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Aaron Holder

Graduated April 2014
Physics
Role of Defects in Metal Oxides for Applications in Quantum Computing and Pseudocapacitive Charge Storage
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Amanda Hoskins

Graduated November 2019
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Ultrathin Environmental Barrier Coatings for Energy Applications
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Alex Jenkins

Graduated in June 2022 • Co-advised with Will Medlin
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Improving the Performance of Supported Metal Catalysts with Organic Monolayers
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Jeung Ku Kang

Graduated March 2002
Materials Science and Engineering - Stanford Univeristy
Development of the KMLYP density functional theory method, and application of quantum chemistry in modeling surface chemical reactions
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Kangmin Kim

Graduated September 2020
Chemistry
Rational Design and Evaluation of Novel Polymerization Initiators Based on Amine-Peroxide Redox Reactions
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Chern-Hooi Lim

Graduated December 2015
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Controlling the Redox Properties of Organic Catalysts and Organic Photocatalysts – CO2 Reduction by Renewable Organo-Hydrides and Photocatalyzed Polymerization using Visible Light
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Samantha Millican

Graduated May 2019
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Alloy and Defect Properties of Oxides and Nitrides for Energy Applications
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Ryan Morelock

Graduated July 2023
Chemical and Biological Engineering
High-Throughput Computational Modelling of Perovskites for Renewable Energy Applications
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Christopher Muhich

Graduated December 2014
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Metal oxide catalysts for renewable energy generation and green chemistry purposes
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Collin Mui

Graduated December 2002
Chemical and Biological Engineering - Stanford University
Growth and functionalization of group-IV semiconductor surfaces
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Rebecca O'Toole

Graduated April 2021
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Sintering of Technical Ceramics with Secondary Phase Addition by Particle Atomic Layer Deposition
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Seongjun Park

Graduated June 2003
Chemical and Biological Engineering - Stanford University
Multi-scale computational engineering of nanotechnology
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Juan Pablo Senosiain

Graduated January 2003
Materials Science and Engineering - Stanford Univeristy
Applications of quantum chemistry to gas and solid phase reaction kinetics
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Nick Singstock

Graduated May 2022
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Rational Design of Multinary Chevrel Phases as Advanced Energy Materials

Jonathon Tebbe

Graduated January 2015
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Electrolyte and Cathode Degradation Mechanisms in Lithium Ion Batteries
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Ryan Trottier

Graduated May 2020
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Understanding and Predicting the Kinetic Behavior of Metal Oxide Materials for Solar Thermochemical Hydrogen Production
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Yuniarto Widjaja

Graduated June 2002
Chemical and Biological Engineering - Stanford University
Quantum chemistry study of dielectric materials deposition

Ye Xu

Graduated June 2006
Materials Science and Engineering - Stanford Univeristy
Quantum chemical simulations of atomic layer deposition of metal oxides and metal nitrides
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Matthias Young

Graduated June 2015
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Charge Storage in Thin Films of Cation-Incorporated Manganese Dioxide
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Paul Zimmerman

Graduated May 2010
Chemical and Biological Engineering - Stanford University
Mechanisms for Delivering Hydrogen from Ammonia-Borane via Protons, Hydrides, and a Dative Bond

Former Master's Students

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Hussain Almajed

Graduated August 2021
Chemical and Biological Engineering
A Theoretical Study of the Electrochemical CO2 Reduction over Single Atom Catalysts Using Grand-Canonical DFT
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Marie Armbruster

Graduated May 2021
Chemical and Biological Engineering
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Guillaume Dupont

Graduated 2004
Chemical and Biological Engineering - Stanford University
Guillaume graduated from Stanford Univeristy before Charles moved to CU. After graduating, he held several jobs in venture capital before founding his own firm, CapHorn, where he is a VC and Managing Partner

Michael Hall

Graduated 2000
Chemical and Biological Engineering - Stanford University
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Yu-Ching Kuo

Graduated May 2015
Chemical and Biological Engineering
After graduating, Yu-Ching took a position as a Process Engineer at WaferTech

Philip Lehman

Graduated 2016
Chemical and Biological Engineering
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Pierre Maissa

Graduated December 2005
Mechanical Engineering - Stanford University
Pierre graduated from Stanford University before Charles moved to CU. After graduating, Pierre held a position as a Space Physics Engineer at Airbus. He moved to Bain & Company after 2 years, before moving to Edenred where he is the Fleet and Mobility Strategy and Development Director.
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Christopher McCormick

Graduated February 2007
Chemical and Biological Engineering - Stanford University
Christopher graduated from Stanford University before Charles moved to CU. After graduation, he has worked as a Chemical Engineer at Fresenius Medical Care
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Michael Mysinger

Graduated 2000
Chemical and Biological Engineering - Stanford University
Michael graduated from Stanford University before Charles moved to CU. After graduating, he was a Scientist at Arqule for 2 years before returning to graduate school to complete his PhD at UCSF under the supervision of Brian Shoichet. Later, he would hold Scientist positions at ConfometRx, Inc and SeaChange Pharmaceuticals, Inc before becoming Principal Scientist at Atomwise.

Sean Ryland

Graduated 2012
Chemical and Biological Engineering

Bariz Sudhanshu

Graduated 2008
Chemical and Biological Engineering - Stanford University
Bariz graduated from Stanford University before Charles moved to CU. After graduating, he has held several positions as a Business Analyst, at companies like Kaiser Permanente, Wells Fargo, Blackstone Technology Group and Charles Schwab, where he currently works.
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Abby Tyler

Graduated April 2010
Chemical and Biological Engineering
After graduating, Abby took a position as a Research and Development Scientist at Quansys Biosciences. Recently, she was promoted to Vice President of Research and Development.

Chenyu Wang

Graduated 2007
Materials Science and Engineering - Stanford Univeristy

Former Undergraduate Students

Afnan Alghannam

Graduated May 2016
Chemical and Biological Engineering
After graduating, Afnan held a position at SaudiAramco as a Research Engineer. After 3 years, he decided to return to graduate school to pursue a PhD in Chemical Engineering at UC Berkeley.
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Samuel Bacon

Graduated May 2016
Chemical and Biological Engineering
After graduating, Sam took a position as a Systems Engineer at Terumo BCT. After 2 years, he took a short stint as a Financial Analyst at Nomix Life Sciences Inc. before starting his own company, Sugar Grove, where he is currently CEO.
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Alan Derk

Graduated May 2019
Chemical and Biological Engineering
After graduating, Alan went to UC Santa Barbara to pursue a PhD in Chemical Engineering under the supervision of Eric McFarland and Horia Metiu. Once he finished up, he held a variety of positions in data science, including as a Freelance Data Journalist at Priceonomics Inc and Data Scientist at Avea Solutions. He would later move to Google to work as a Software Engineer. He now works on the Quantum...

Emily Fisher

Graduated May 2016
Chemical and Biological Engineering
After graduating, Emily took a position at Raytheon as a System Engineer. After 2 years, she was promoted to Verification and Validation Lead.
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Thomas Fuerst

Graduated May 2014
Chemical and Biological Engineering
After graduating, Tommy went to the Colorado School of Mines to pursue a PhD in Chemical Engineering under the supervision of Colin Wolden and Douglas Way. He now works at Idaho National Laboratory as a Staff Scientist.
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Hussam Hasoon

Graduated May 2016
Chemical and Biological Engineering
After graduating, Hussam took a position at Greenberg Traurig, LLP as an IP Technical Specialist. Shortly after, he took his current position at ZAP Engineering & Construction Services Inc, where he is a Process Engineer and works in Business Development

Treven Hunter

Graduated May 2016
Chemical and Biological Engineering
After graduating, Treven held a variety of positions including Aleyeska Ski Club Race Coach, Osmar Ocean Specialties Deck Hand, Seeing Double Sled Dog Racing Dog Musher and Alaska Trees Crew Leader. In 2020, he returned to graduate school to pursue a Master's in Materials Engineering at San Jose State University.
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Matthew Jankousky

Graduated May 2019
Chemical and Biological Engineering
After graduating, Matthew spent a year at NREL as a Database Development Intern for a year, before starting graduate school at the Colorado School of Mines, where he is pursuing a degree in Materials Science and Engineering.
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Timothy Morris

Graduated May 2012
Chemical and Biological Engineering
After graduating, Tim took a position as a Technical Services Consultant at Epic
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Charles Musgrave III

Graduated May 2019
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Computational and experimental evaluation of peroxide oxidants for amine–peroxide redox polymerization

Jay Saunders

Graduated May 2018
Applied Mathematics
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Philip Siegel

Graduated May 2019
Chemical and Biological Engineering
After graduating, Phil took a job as a Process Design Engineer at Phillips 66. After 2 years, he moved to Insituform Technologies, where he works as a Field Engineer.
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Marc Thomson

Graduated May 2019
Chemical and Biological Engineering
After graduating, Marc held a position at ExxonMobil as a Blend Execution Engineer. After 1 year, he accepted an offer to return to Â鶹ӰԺ as an Energy Analyst at Ascend Analytics
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Jay Westcott

Graduated May 2013
Chemical and Biological Engineering
After graduating, Jay took a position as Process Design Engineer at ExxonMobil