Team
Current Members
Karthika Madathil Soman Pillai — Postdoctoral research associate
Project: Engineering self-assembly pathways in polymer blends for reducing nanopattern roughness and defectivity.
Beatrice Bellini (co-advised with Sanat Kumar) — Graduate research assistant, Columbia University, Chemical Engineering
Project: Transport and separations in nanoporous hybrid membranes
Semih Cetindag — Postdoctoral research associate
Project: Development of an ultrasonic spray tool for adaptive polymer membrane synthesis
Jasmine Willard — Undergraduate Intern, Alfred University
Project: Feedback-Controlled Block Copolymer Solvent Vapor Annealing
Past Members
Ashish Ajit Kulkarni — Postdoctoral research associate
Project: Optical metasurface patterning using block copolymers
Current Position: Process development engineer at Veeco
Kristof Toth (visiting intern from Osuji group) — Graduate research assistant, Yale University, Chemical Engineering
Project: Development of an electrospray deposition tool for combinatorial soft matter thin film research
Current Position: Process engineer at Lam Research
David Leskauskas — Summer undergraduate research intern, Virginia Tech
Project: Size control in block copolymer templated Pt nanoparticle synthesis
Current Position: Researcher at Nasa Planetary Environments Laboratory
Ashwanth Subramanian (with Dr. Chang-Yong Nam) — Graduate research assistant, Stony Brook University, Materials Science and Engineering
Project: ZnO nanostructure synthesis via infiltration of block copolymer templates
Current Position: Process engineer at Lam Research
Maya Duncan-White — Summer undergraduate research intern, Clarkson University, Chemistry
Project: Pt nanoparticle synthesis using block copolymer templates
Alfredo Rodriguez — Summer undergraduate research intern, City College of New York, Mechanical Engineering
Project: Thickness dependent self-assembly of cylinder-forming block copolymer/homopolymer ternary blends
Current Position: Graduate student at Cornell University