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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
2024-2025 Junior Faculty Research Award of FAU’s College of Engineering and Computer Science
2024 Researcher of the Year of FAU’s Schmidt College of Science
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
Alejandra Coronel-Zegarra , PhD candidate in Chemistry, Fall 2022 - ongoing
MS Data Science in Summer 2025, MS Chemistry in Spring 2025
Edward De la Uz, PhD student in Chemistry, Fall 2024 - ongoing
Gladel Saintilme, MS graduate in Biomedical Engineering, Spring 2024 - ongoing
Sanvi Shankar, BS student in Chemistry, Fall 2025 - ongoing
Christian Woehr, BS student in Chemistry, Fall 2025 - ongoing
Noreena Elshenawy, middle school student (A.D. Henderson School), Fall 2025 - ongoing
Alumni
Undergraduate and high school 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, Celina Detwiler Gray (BS student at Vassar College), Nicholas Ndreca
Graduate students: Andrienne Martin, Dr. Dawn Raja Somu (Postdoc at Pacific Northwest National Lab), Dr. Steven Soini, Sayeda Samina Ahmad
Postdoctoral fellows: Dr. Bobby Duersch (University Surface Scientist at Utah Nanofab)
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