Advancing materials characterization for energy, technology, health and environment

Our group's research is focused on understanding structure-processing-stability-property relationships in materials of technological importance. Specific research areas include energy, sustainability, catalysis, health and environmental materials.

Current members

• Olexiy Balitskii

• Martina Santarelli

• Isabelle Fleischmann (visiting scholar from Rice University, Houston, TX, USA)

• Nurgul Sarsembek (visiting scholar from D. Cortecchia group, University of Bologna, Italy)

Past members

• Dr. Henry Kantrow (visiting scholar from Steingelin and Silva-Acuña groups, GeorgiaTech)

• Mr. Braulio Reyes-Suárez (transitioned to University of Venice Ca' Foscari, Italy)

• Dr. Neethu Thomas (transitioned to Aalto Univeristy, Finland)

• Ms. Saphia Moussaoui (transitioned to Khali Air, Lille, France)

• Ms. Dina Bergadi (transitioned to University of Lille, France)

• Dr. Parth Raval (transitioned to Durham University, GSK, AstraZeneca, UK)

• Ms. Margot Dhennin (transitioned to Douvrin, Hauts-de-France, France)

• Ms. Claire welton (transitioned to University of Lille, France)

• Ms. Lama Hamdouna (transitioned to CNRS, France)

Co-mentored past members with UCSB, CA, USA

• Dr. Sangcheol Yoon (transitioned to LG Electronics, SK)

• Dr. Zhifang Du ( transitioned to Dow Chemicals, USA)

• Dr. Ben Luginbuhl (transitioned to Enthought, Austin, TX, USA)

• Dr. Akchheta Karki (transistioned to Holst Centre, Netherlands) 

• Dr. Martin Seifrid (faculty member at NC State University, NC, USA)

Collaborations

Professor Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Professor Mercouri Kanatzidis, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

Professor Aditya Mohite, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA

Professor David Mitzi, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

Professor Natalie Stingelin, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, USA

Professor Ade Harald, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

Professor Ioannis Spanopoulos, University of South Florida,  Tampa, FL, USA

Professor Neil Greenham, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Professor Yana Vaynzof, TU Dressden, Germany

Professor Emilio Palomares, ICIQ, Tarragona, Spain

Professor Daniele Cortecchia, University of Bologna, Italy

Professor Annamaria Petrozza, IIT Milan, Italy

Dr Anurag Krishna, IMEC-EnergyVille, Belgium

Dr Tomasz Pwlak, Polish Academy of Sciences, Łódź, Poland

Professor Kanishka Biswas, JNCASR, Karnataka, India

Professor Debangshu Chaudhuri, IISER Kolkata, India

Professor Sebastian Peter, JNCASR, Karnataka, India

Professor Jacky Even, ENSCR/INSA Rennes, France

Dr. Herve Vezin, CNRS, France

Dr. Claudine Katan, CNRS, France

Previous Collaborations

Professor Anders Hagfeldt, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden

Professor Brad Chmelka, UC Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Dr. Fred Sauvage, CNRS/LRCS, Amiens, France

Professor Gui Bazan, UC Santa Barbara, USA

Professor Jean-Luc Brédas, University of Arizona, USA

Professor John Reynolds, Georgia Tech, USA

Professor Michael Chabinyc, UC Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Professor Seth Marder, University of Colorado Boulder, CO, USA

Professor Steven Brown, University of Warwick, UK