People
People
Principal Investigator: Vivian Merk, PhD
BS Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany), 2010
MS Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany), 2012
PhD Civil Engineering, ETH Zurich (Switzerland), 2016
Swiss NSF Postdoctoral Fellow Materials Science & Engineering, Northwestern University (IL), 2018
Selected awards
2019 Microscopy & Microanalysis Postdoctoral Scholar Award (Microscopy Society of America)
Early Postdoc Mobility Fellowship (Swiss National Science Foundation)
ETH Medal for outstanding doctoral thesis
Top 5 patent application in 2014 at ETH Zurich
Young Scientist Award for master’s thesis, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Steven Soini, PhD candidate in Chemistry, Fall 2020 - ongoing
BS Chemistry, Florida Atlantic University (FL), 2018
Alejandra Coronel-Zegarra , PhD student in Chemistry, Fall 2022 - ongoing
Sayeda Samina Ahmad, PhD student in Chemistry, Fall 2023 - ongoing
Edward De la Uz, PhD student in Chemistry, Fall 2024 - ongoing
Gladel Saintilme, MS student in Biomedical Engineering, Spring 2024 - ongoing
Celina Detwiler-Gray, BS student in Chemistry, Fall 2023 - ongoing
Nicholas Ndreca, BS student in Physics, Summer 2024 - ongoing
Alumni
Undergraduate students: Sofia Feliciano (PhD student at Texas A&M), Timothy Cracciolo, Dylan Casto, Daniel Gil Valenzuela, Marc-Kendy Michel, Julianna Lian, Charu Vijay (NSF REU), Oliver Wang (PhD student at University of Washington), Jo Laura (PhD student at PennState), Malena Fuentes (MS student at University of Miami), Victoria Rey, Gabriela Laboy-Rodriguez (NSF REU), Marcella Setragni, Diannelle Lacambra-Rivera, Sean Beseker, Jennifer Parkinson (PhD student at FAU), Satviki Singh (PhD Student at Boston University), Edward De La Uz (PhD student at FAU), Jonathan Hus, Ani Briggs
Graduate students: Andrienne Martin, Dr. Dawn Raja Somu (Postdoc at Pacific Northwest National Lab)
Postdoctoral fellows: Dr. Bobby Duersch (University Surface Scientist at Utah Nanofab)