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

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)

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