Graduate Students

Current and Recently Graduated!


Summer 2021 -- In person photograph of members of the Penn Research Group assembled at the Goldy Gopher Statue located outside of the East Bank Union at the University of Minnesota.
Kamilah Amen

Kamilah Amen

Graduate Student
Materials for Treating Sulfide Contaminated Water

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Spencer Bingham

Spencer Bingham

Graduate Student (CEMS)
Materials for Treating Sulfide Contaminated Water

Carthage College

Alex Castillo

Graduate Student
Materials for Treating Sulfide Contaminated Water

University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Argo Farlin

Graduate Sudent
Materials Chemistry, Nanoparticle Reactivity

University of Wisconsin Madison, BS

Alek Rábago

Carleton College, BS


Ari Campanaro

Dr. Ariana "Ari" Campanaro

Defended May 2024
Microplastics

Gustavus Adolphus College

Dr. Ellen Monzo

Defended Dec 2023
Materials for Sustainable Energy

College of Saint Benedict/Saint Johns

University of Minnesota-Duluth

Dr. Steven Prinslow

Defended Sept 2023
Metal Organic Frameworks for Heterogeneous Catalysis

Austin College, BA

Maetzin Cruz Reyes

Dr. Maetzin
Cruz Reyes

Defended May 2023
Nanocrystal Growth and Transformations

Riverland Community College, AA

St. Mary's University, BA,  Biochemistry

Louis Corcoran

Dr. Louis Corcoran

Defended January 2023
Oil in Water Dispersions

Co-advised with Professor Alon McCormick

Northland College, BS


Dr. Celina Harris

Defended  December 2022
Iron Oxide Reactivity

Gettysburg College, BS


Dr. Adel Soroush

Defended Feb. 2022
Reactivity of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles on Sand Grains

Co-advised by Professor Bill Arnold (CEGE)

Rebecca Combs

Rebecca Combs

Graduate Student
Metal Organic Frameworks and Green Perovskites for Energy Applications

Victor Valley College, AS

University of California, Irvine, BS

This photograph was taken after Jeanette Tensfeldt-Voelz' doctorate defense with leis that her father brought to help celebrate her accomplishment. (Summer 2019)

This photograph was taken after Jeanette Tensfeldt-Voelz' doctorate defense with leis that her father brought to help celebrate her accomplishment. (Summer 2019)