The Group
*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
Hanna Morales Hernandez
B.S. 2017, Wesleyan University (Chemistry and Physics)
Current project Synthesis and spectroscopy of gold nanoclusters
Nicoline Frederiks
B.S. 2018, University at Buffalo (Chemistry)
Current project New Particle Formation
Annapoorani Hariharan
M.S. 2017, Stella Maris College (Chemistry)
Current project New Particle Formation
Jake Bordenca
Chris Sapone
Undergraduate Students
Matt Rosati
Noah Schwartzapfel
Sania Ilyas
Annie Cheung
Sarah Hoffman (Kenyon College, REU 2023)
Former Members
Emily Racow (Ph.D., 2022)
Jack Ajello (2021-2022) - B.S. Chemistry, Stony Brook (2022)
Samantha Black (Summer 2022 REU) - Drury University
Jonathan Fagan (Postdoc, 2019-2021) - Currently Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania
John Kreinbihl (Ph.D., 2021) - Currently Senior Associate Data Scientist, Travelers
Danika Heaney (Summer 2021 REU) - Wellesley
Sydney Johnson (2019-2021) - B.S. Chemistry, Stony Brook (2021)
Yi Yang (Ph.D., 2020) - Currently Senior Systems Engineer at Nova Ltd.
Ricardo Lutchman (2019-2020) - B.S. Electrical Engineering, Stony Brook (2021)
Anthony Cirri (Postdoc, 2017-2020) - Currently Senior Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania
Christina Kmiotek (2016-2019) - M.S. Chemistry, Stony Brook (2019)
Kathy Nickson (2016-2018) - B.S. Chemistry, Stony Brook (2018) - Currently Ph.D. program, Chemistry, UW Madison
Sarah Waller (Postdoc, 2015-2018) - Currently R&D Scientist, Bruker Daltonics
Eleanor Castracane (2016-2017) - M.S. Chemistry, Stony Brook (2017) - Currently Ph.D. program, Chemistry, UC San Diego
Jamie Butalewicz (Summer 2017 REU) - University of Rhode Island - Currently Ph.D. program, Chemistry, UT Austin
Pengyan Liu (Undergraduate 2015-2016) - B.S. Chemistry, Stony Brook (2016)
Aakanksha Saxena (Summer 2016 Simons Scholar) - Desert Mountain High School, Scottsdale, AZ
Anthony Chiarenza (Summer 2015 REU) - Swarthmore College