Alumni

Graduate Student from 11/2019 to 8/2024

B.S. University of Rochester

Thesis Title: "Interfacial Structure in Thermotropic Liquid Crystals as Studied by Vibrational Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy"

Employment: Postdoc, Westlake University with Prof. Hongfei Wang

Graduate Student from 11/2018 to 5/2024 (Massari group 1/2020 to 5/2024)

B.S. Chapman University

Thesis Title: "Time Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopies as a Tool for Exploring Dynamics of Confined Systems"

Employment: Postdoc, Princeton University with Prof. Alice Kunin

Graduate Student from 6/2016 to 12/2021

B.S. Chemistry Boston U.

Thesis Title: "Time Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopies as a Tool for Exploring Dynamics of Confined Systems"

Employment: Naval Research Lab

Graduate Student from 11/2017 to 10/2021

B.S. Chemistry U. South Dakota

Thesis Title: "Applied and Extended Modeling of Optical Interference Effects Towards Sum Frequency Generation in Multilayer Thin Films"

Employment: Skywater Industries, Bloomington, MN

Postdoctoral Fellow from 3/2019 to 2/2020

2010 - 2014 B.S. Chemistry (summa cum laude) University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (Advisor: Professor Bart Dahl)

2014 - 2019 Ph. D. Chemistry, University of Southern California (Advisor: Professor Jahan Dawlaty)

Employment: 3M Corporation

Graduate Student from 11/2012 to 11/2020

St Cloud State University, B.S. Chemistry

Thesis Title: "Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy of Heterogeneous Systems: On the Path to Measuring Charge Transfer in Solution Processed Organic Electronic Thin Films"

Employment: Honeywell Corporation

Graduate Student from 11/2017 to 1/2020

Macalester College, B.A. Chemistry

Graduate Student from 06/2014 to 06/2019

Ohio Northern University, B.S. Chemistry

Thesis Title: "Vibrational Spectroscopy on the Silicon Hydride Mode: Probing Ultrafast Dynamics in Small Molecules to Macromolecular Polymer Systems"

Employment: Intel Corp.

Graduate Student from 06/2016 to 08/2018

B.S. Chemistry, Luther College

Employment: Pace Analytical

Graduate Student from 05/2011 to 03/2017

U. Texas - Austin, B.S. Chemistry

Thesis Title: "Vibrational Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy of Organic Semiconducting Thin Film Interfaces"

Employment:  Intel Corporation

Graduate Student from 01/2010 to 12/2016

Thesis Title: "Vibrational Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy (VSFG) Studies of Organic Electronic Molecules"

Employment: Assistant Professor at K.N.Toosi University of Technology

Graduate Student from 06/2010 to 08/2015

U. Wisconsin - La Crosse, B.S. Chemistry

Thesis Title: “Studying Si-H Mode Sensitivity to Internal and External Perturbations through Vibrational Spectroscopy"

Employment: Doane University, Assistant Professor

Graduate Student from 12/2008 to 02/2015

Wheaton College, B.S. Chemistry

Thesis Title: “Dynamics and Reactions: Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopy of Vaska’s Complex and its Adducts”

Employment: post doc: NIST (NRC postdoctoral fellow with Steve Stranick)

University of North Florida, Assistant Professor (began July 2018)

Graduate Student from 12/2007 to 04/2014

U. Minnesota - Duluth, B.S. Chemistry

Thesis Title: “Solving the two-interface problem in vibrational sum frequency generation spectroscopy applied to multilayer thin film systems”

Employment:  Intel Corporation

Postdoctoral Fellow from 06/2008 to 05/2013

U. Utah, Ph D. Chemistry

Employment:  North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics

Graduate Student from 11/2006 to 08/2011

U. Wisconsin - Eau Claire, B.S. Chemistry

Thesis Title: “Two-Dimensional Infrared Vibrational Echo Spectroscopy Measurements of the Structural Dynamics Occurring in Conducting Polymer Thin Films”

Employment: 3M Corporation

Graduate Student from 12/2006 to 12/2007

U. St. Thomas, Chemistry

Thesis Title: “Sum Frequency Generation: System Setup and First Stage Analysis of Interface Dynamics”

Employment: Minnesota Department of Health

Undergraduate Student from 03/2018 to 05/2020

U. Minnesota

Employment: 

Undergraduate Student from 03/2018 to 05/2020

U. Minnesota

Employment: Easy DX

Undergraduate Student from 02/2019 to 03/2020

U. Minnesota

Employment: grad student at UC Irvine

Undergraduate Student from 01/2017 to 08/2017

U. Minnesota

Employment: graduate student at Rice University

Undergraduate Student from 08/2015 to 08/2016

U. Minnesota

Undergraduate Student

U. Minnesota

Heisig summer student, 2013-2015

Employment: graduate student at MIT

Undergraduate Student

U. Minnesota

UROP student Spring 2013

Employment:  U. of MN.

Undergraduate Student

U. Minnesota

Heisig summer student, 2012-2013

Employment:  Saputo Dairy, USA

Undergraduate Student

U. Minnesota

UROP student Spring 2013

Employment:  U. Delaware, graduate student

Undergraduate Student

Xavier University of Lousiana

MRSEC REU student Summer 2012

Employment:  Lab Technician at Xavier University

Undergraduate Student

U. Minnesota

Spring 2011 - Summer 2012

Employment:   Guocera, Malaysia

Undergraduate Student

U. Minnesota

Summer 2010 - Spring 2011

Undergraduate Student

Texas A&M, Chemical Engineering

MRSEC REU student Summer 2011

Now: U. Texas, Austin, graduate school with C. Grant Wilson

Undergraduate Student

U. Minnesota

August 2010-Dec 2010

Undergraduate Student

U. Minnesota

B.S. Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, May 2011

Employment:  Schlumberger, field engineer

High School Student

ACS SEED student from Harding Senior High School, St. Paul, MN, Summer 2010

Undergraduate Student

U. Minnesota

B.S. Chemistry, May 2010

Employment:  Med School, UMN

Undergraduate Student

U. Minnesota

B.S. Chemistry, May 2009

Employment:  faculty, Ridgewater College

Undergraduate Student

U. Minnesota

B.S. Chemistry, May 2008

Employment:  postdoc, VU Amsterdam, John Kennis

Undergraduate Student

South Carolina State University

Lando Fellow, summer 2008

Employment:  instructor, Texas Tech University

Undergraduate Student

Arizona State University

MSROP & ACS PRF-SUMR fellow summer 2008

Employment:  University of Washington-Seattle, chemistry, Phil Reid and Larry Dalton

Undergraduate Student

Michigan Technical University

Lando Fellow, summer 2007

Employment:  faculty, Grand Valley State University

Undergraduate Student

U. Minnesota

IT Honors, spring 2007

Undergraduate Student

Luther College

Lando Fellow, summer 2006

Now: University of Arizona, chemistry