*Disclaimer: Biologists R allowed. If you want to do a cool experiment with us we are totally up for it.
Principal Investigator
Christopher J. Johnson
Postdoc 2011-2014, Yale University with Prof. Mark Johnson (2 yrs NSF American Competitiveness in Chemistry Fellow)
Ph.D. 2011, University of California, San Diego with Prof. Robert Continetti
B.S. 2005, Butler University (Physics and Astronomy)
Current project Slowly forgetting how to run instruments
Outside interests Skiing, racquet sports, college basketball (Louisville Cardinals, Butler Bulldogs)
email chris.Johnson@StonyBrook.edu
Graduate Students
Annapoorani Hariharan
M.S. 2017, Stella Maris College (Chemistry)
Current project New Particle Formation
Jake Bordenca
B.S. 2022, Hofstra University (Chemistry)
Current project Electron pair distribution function instrument development
Wangshu Wen
B.E. 2019, Dalian University of Technology (Chemical Engineering)
Current project Gold nanoclusters
KC Shultz
B.S. 2022, Emory & Henry College (Chemistry and Biology)
Current project Nanoparticle infrared spectrometer
Nabiha Syed
B.S. 2022, Wesleyan University (Chemistry)
Current project Gold nanocluster catalysis
John Ricciardi
B.S. 2024, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Chemistry)
Current project Ion trap electron scattering
Undergraduate Students
Stephen Amato
Former Members
Sania Ilyas - (B.S., expected 2025)
Annie Cheung (B.S., expected 2025)
Nicoline Frederiks (Ph.D., 2024)
Chris Sapone (M.S., 2024) -
Hanna Morales Hernández (Ph.D, 2023) - Assistant Director of Student Affairs, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Sarah Hoffman (REU 2023, Kenyon)
Noah Schwartzapfel (B.S., expected 2025)
Matt Rosati (B.S., expected 2025)
Emily Racow (Ph.D., 2022) - Process Engineer, Applied Materials
Jack Ajello (B.S., 2022) - Ph.D. student, Stony Brook
Samantha Black (Summer 2022 REU) - Drury University
Jonathan Fagan (Postdoc, 2019-2021) - Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania
John Kreinbihl (Ph.D., 2021) - Senior Associate Data Scientist, Travelers
Danika Heaney (Summer 2021 REU, Wellesley) - Ph.D. student, UC Berkeley
Sydney Johnson (B.S., 2021) - Clerical Manager, Restorative Management, Inc.
Yi Yang (Ph.D., 2020) - Senior Systems Engineer at Nova Ltd.
Ricardo Lutchman (2020) - B.S. Electrical Engineering, Stony Brook (2021)
Anthony Cirri (Postdoc, 2017-2020) - Senior Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania
Christina Kmiotek (M.S. 2019) - Quality Engineer, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Kathy Nickson (B.S., 2018) - Ph.D. student, UW Madison
Sarah Waller (Postdoc, 2015-2018) - R&D Scientist, Bruker Daltonics
Eleanor Castracane (M.S., 2017) - Ph.D. student, UC San Diego
Jamie Butalewicz (Summer 2017 REU, Rhode Island) - Ph.D. student, Chemistry, UT Austin
Pengyan Liu (B.S., 2016)
Aakanksha Saxena (Summer 2016 Simons Scholar) - Stanford University
Anthony Chiarenza (Summer 2015 REU, Swarthmore)