Alumni List

Post-docs, Visiting Scholars, Visiting Faculty

Mr. Manos Nikoloudakis, Univeristy of Crete, Greece, 2021

Dr. M. Sankar, IIT-Rourke, 2018

Dr. T. Chatterjee, IIT-Bhubaneshwar, 2018

Dr. S. Chatterjee, CSIR-Bhubaneshwar, 2018

Dr. S. Yellappa, Govt. College, Bangalore, 2018

Dr. V. Swamy, Monash University, Australia, 2017

Dr. Luis Miguel Arealla, UCLM, Madrid, Spain, 2016 

Dr. Myriam Barrejon, Madrid, Spain, 2015

Ms. Amanda Watson, UTEP, Panama, 2014

Dr. W. Kutner, PAS, Warsaw, Poland, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016

Ms. Marta Sosnowska, PAS, Warsaw, Poland, 2014

Dr. Tan-Phat Huynh, PAS, Warsaw, Poland, 2014

Dr. B. S. Sherigara, 2003

Dr. B. Keshavan, 1998

Graduate Students and Thesis/Dissertation Titles

Deviprasad G. R., Ph. D. (2000) ‘Studies on Porphyrin Based Donor-Acceptor Systems and Chemosensors’ 

Phillip M. Smith, Ph. D. (2006) “Studies on Electron and Energy Transfer in Porphyrin-Fullerene Based Systems.’

Suresh Gadde, Ph. D. (2006) ‘Supramolecular Porphyrin-Fullerene Conjugates: Design, Synthesis, Electrochemical and Photochemical Studies.’

Raghu Chitta, Ph. D. (2007) ‘Studies on Self-assembled Porphyrin-Fullerene and Porphyrin-Carbon Nanotube Donor-Acceptor Systems.’\

Amy Lea Schumacher, Ph. D. (2007) ‘Electrochemical, Anion Binding and Electron Transfer Studies in Oxoporphyrinogens.’

Eranda-Maligaspe, Ph. D. (2009) “Carbon Nanostructures Based Donor-Acceptor Conjugates for Light Induced Energy and Electron Transfer.”

W. M. Channa Aravinda Wijesinghe, Ph. D. (2012) “Photosynthetic Antenna-Reaction Center Mimicry”

Yi-Ying Hsieh, M. S. (1998) ‘Studies on Water Soluble Cobalt Porphyrin: Electrocatalytic and Sensor Applications.’

Jai-pil Choi, M. S. (1999) ‘Studies on the Electrocatalytic Behavior of Fullerenes.’

Anu Amin, M. S. (2011) “Design and Studies of Aadipyrromethane Appended Donor-Acceptor Conjugates.”

Navaneetha K. Subbaiyan, Ph. D. (2012) ‘Supramolecular Solar Cells’

Sushanta K. Das, Ph. D. (2013) ‘Carbon nanostructures based donor-acceptor systems for solar energy harvesting’

Aaron S. Hart, M.S. (2013) ‘Substitution effects of phenothiazine and porphyrin dyes in dye sensitized solar cells’

Baiyun Song, M. S. (2013) ‘Studies on high potential porphyrin-fullerene supramolecular dyads’

Chunyu Lin M. S. (2013), ‘Studies on porphyrin and phthalocyanine modified on SnO2 photoelectrochemical cells

Tan-Phat Huynh, Ph. D. (2014, jointly with Prof. W. Kutner of PNAS, Warsaw) ‘Bis(2,2’-bithienyl)methane-derived functional monomers: from molecular recognition to sensing applications’

Marta Sosnowska Ph. D. (2015, jointly with Prof. W. Kutner of PNAS, Warsaw, Poland), Synthesis of new 2,2’-bisbithienylmethane and fullerene derivatives, and their application as functional monomers for preparation of recognition polymer films of chemosensors for selective determination of biologically significant compounds’

Chandra B. KC, Ph. D. (2015), Design, Synthesis and study of supramolecular donor acceptor systems to harvest the light energy by mimicking natural photosynthesis process.

Kurt Bodenstedt M.S., (2016) ‘Covalently linked Sensitizer-fullerene conjugates for energy conversion’.

Venugopal Bandi, Ph. D. (2016) ‘Synthesis and Photochemical Studies of Wide-Band Capturing Sensitizers Capable of Light Energy Harvesting’.

Gary Lim, Ph. D., (2017) ‘Eluciation of photoinduced energy and electron transfer mechanisms in multi-modular artificial photosynthetic systems’.

Habtom Gobeze, Ph. D., 2018 ‘Ultrafast Photoinduced Energy and Electron Transfer Studies In Closely Bound Molecular and NanoCarbon Donor-Acceptor Systems’

Christopher Obondi, Ph. D., 2018 ‘High-Energy, Long-Lived Charge Separated States via Molecular Engineering of Donor-Acceptor Systems’.

Melissa A. Collini, M.S., 2018, ‘Synthesis and Studies of azaBODIPY derived Donor-Acceptor Systems for Light Induced Charge Separation’.

Robert Cantu, M. S., 2019, ‘Synthesis and characterization of triphenylene-BODIPY paddle wheel conjugates for light induced charge separation.

Ajyal Alsaleh, M. S. 2019, Spectral, Electrochemical and Solar Cell studies of Peripherally Modified Zinc Porphyrins’. 

Whitney Webre, Ph. D., 2019 Spectral, Electrochemical, Electron Transfer, and Photoelectrochemical Studies of Tetrapyrrole Derived Supramolecular Systems. 

Shuai Shao, Ph. D., 2019 Synthesis and Studies of Wide-Band Capturing BODIPY-Fullerene Based Donor-Acceptor Systems. 

Michael B. Thomas Ph. D., 2020 Donor-Acceptor Systems: Photochemistry and Energy Harvesting Applications.

Sai Seetharaman, Ph. D., 2021 Donor-Acceptor Artificial Photosynthetic Systems: Ultrafast Energy and Electron Transfer.

Alejandro D. Benitz, Ph. D., 2021 Porphyrin and BODIPY Derived Donor-Acceptor Multi-Modular Systems: Synthesis, and Excited State Energy and Electron Transfer Studies.

Youngwoo Jang, Ph. D., 2022 Ultrafast Charge Transfer and Electron Transfer in Donor and Acceptor Constructs.

Dilliraj Subedi, Ph. D. 2023 Synthesis and Studies of Platinum and Palladium-Based Porphyrin-Fullerene Conjugates to Study the Long-Lived Charge-Separated States.

Anuradha Liyanage, Ph. D., 2023 – Spectral, Electrochemical and Photochemical Characterization of Donor-Acceptor Supramolecular Systems.

Ashwin Ganesan, Ph. D., 2023 – Synthesis and Study of Thin Films for Energy Harvesting and Catalysis Applications.

Ajyal Alsaleh, Ph. D., 2023 – A Comprehensive Investigation of Photoinduced Electron Transfer and Charge Transfer Mechanisms in Push-Pull Donor-Acceptor Systems: Implications for Energy Harvesting Applications. 

Undergraduate Students and Undergraduate Projects

Ryan Reid – 

Devin Boski  – Spectroscopic characterization of Isoindigo based multimodular donor-acceptor system, 2020-2021

Carol Martinez – 

Sophie Do – 

Tim Esquivel – 

Kristin Jenkins – Spectroscopic characterization of push-pull porphyrins, 2018-2019

Jacob Schaffner – Push-pull porphyrin derived solar cells, 2017-2019

Mei Li Kincaid – High potential porphyrin derived dimers, 2017-2018

Christianne Funk – Synthesis and characterization of bisstyrylBODIPY derivatives, 2018

Timothy Esquivel  - Characterization of highly electron deficient systems, 2018-

Zera Montemayor – AzaBODIPY – Synthesis and Characterization, Spring 2017-2018.

Eric Babin – Subphthalocyanine – Synthesis and Characterization, Spring 2017-18

Travis Hull – Bisthiophene and terthiophene functionalized porphyrins, Spring 2017.

Youngwoo Jang – Spectroscopic studies on supramolecular donor-acceptor assemblies, Fall 2016-18.

Brandon Nusser – Synthesis of porphyrin derivatives, (REU student), 2017.

Anna Middleton – Fluorescence tissue imaging using azaBODIPY dyes,  Spring 2016 –18

Ina Dadeboe (McNair Scholar) – Studies on Functionalized BODIPYs, Spring 2016.

Chris Phillips – Synthesis and characterization of oligothiophene functionalized porphyrins, Spring 2016-17.

Pricilla Martinez - Synthesis and characterization of high potential porphyrin-fullerene systems, Spring 2016-17.

David McKinzey – Studies on triplet porphyrin-fullerene systems’ NSF-REU student, Summer 2016.

Tia’Asia James – ‘Studies on Porphyrin – Quinhydrone complexes’ NSF-REU student, Summer 2015.

Joseph Dean – ‘Bisstyryl functionalized BODIPY as energy harvesting material’ Spring 15-Fall 15.

Robert Cantu – ‘Characterization of tetrathiafulvalene-porphyrin adducts’ Summer 2014-2015

Gwendolyn Blanco – ‘Synthesis and studies of phenothiazine-fullerene conjugates for charge stabilization’ Summer  2014-2015

Brittani Jones – ‘Synthesis and characterization of Pt and Pd porphyrins as triplet sensitizers’ Summer 2014-2015

Tram Ta – ‘Luminescence studies of DNA-Nanotube hybrids’ Summer 2014-2015

Mark Vdovychenko – ‘Studies on protonated and deprotonated porphyrin-fullerene dyads’ Summer 2014-2015

Tania Estrada ‘Synthesis and characterization of bisbithiophene functionalized zinc phthalocyanines’ Spring 2014-summer 2014

Joshua Shipman ‘Optimizing the performance of SnO2/porphyrin/phthalocyanine solar cells’ Summer 2013 (NSF-REU student).

Brian Heine ‘BF2-chelated azadipyrromethane conjugate synthesis and studies’ 2012

Spencer ‘Phenothiazine dyes for dye sensitizer solar cells’ 2012.

Lindsey Sequeira ‘Effect of position of carboxy group on porphyrins on solar cell performance, Summer 2012 (NSF-REU student)

Sheby Thomas – ‘Closely spaced polythiophene-bodipy-fullerene triad for electron transfer’ Spring 2012.

Pollock, J. “Studies on the Charge Transfer Reaction of Porphycene, a Porphyrin Structural Isomer,” 

Rehman, M. “Non-Covalently Linked Porphyrin-Fullerene Conjugates: Synthesis and Physico-Chemical Studies”.

Kim Vuong, “Tail-on” and “Tail-off” Bind Mechanisms in Cobalt(II) Porphyrins bearing a covalently bound Pyridine Ligand” 1996-97.

Hean Wickman, “Quartz Crystal Microbalance Studies on Dioxygen binding to Cobalt(II) Porphyrins in Cyclodextrin-Porphyrin Modified Electrodes.” 1997.

Kenneth Shriver “GC-MS and GC Investigations on Fullerenes-Dihaloalkanes Electrode Reaction Products.” 1997-98.

Lilian Le-Huynh “Investigations on the Electrode Reactions of Nitric Oxide in the presence of Fullerenes.” 1998.

John Bradford “Quartz Crystal Microbalance Studies of Fullerenes.” 1998.

Andrew Ferguson “Direct Electrocatalytic Reduction of Dioxygen to Water: Role of Electrode Material.” 1999.

Stephanie King  “Multiple Coordination Induced Fluorescence Enhancement” 2000.

Vu Hoang  “Uracil Functionalized Fullerenes: Synthesis and Characterization” 2000-2001.

Klykov Arkady “Electrochemistry and Spectroelectrochemistry of Highly Functionalized Porphyrins.” 2000-2002.

Truvng Dinh “Fullerene Doped Polyaniline: Synthesis and Electrochemical Characterization. 2000-2002.

Frank Provenzano  “Computational studies on b-Brominated tetraphenylporphyrins.” (with Dr. M. E. Zandler) 2001-

Amy Schumacher  “Electrochemical and ECQN characterization of carbon noncluster modified electrodes.” 2002-

Yen Nhu Nguyen  “Studies on Supramolecular Porphyrin-Fullerene Systems.” 2002-

Tina Tran  “Synthesis and characterization of fulleropyrrolidine dimers.” 2003.

Erin S. O’Dell “Recognition and Catalytic Reduction of Cytochrome c by Fullerene-Pd Modified Electrodes” Summer 2003.

Amber M. Wanklyn “Porphyrin-Crown Ether Conjugate: A new Redox Switch” Fall 2003-04.

Hari Suniwar “Synthesis and Characterization of Substituted Dipyrroles” Summer 2003-04.

David Johnson “Construction of a Nicotine Sensor Based on Functionalized Porphyrins.” 2004.

James Blakemore “Cation Sensors Based on Boron Dipyrrin appended Crown Ether” Spring 2005-07

Valeria Karpovich “Synthesis and studies on energy transfer of porphyrin-perylene complexes.” Fall 2005-06

Siew Cheng Pang  “Studies on Zinc Chlorin – fullerene and Zinc bacteriochlorin-fullerene dyads.” Fall 2005

Shivaraj Yellappa “Metalloporphyrin-DNA conjugates: Electrochemical Activation.” Fall 2005

Kim Tran “Modified electrodes based on Avidin-Biotin Recognition.” Spring 2006.

Eric Mdegwa “Synthesis of water soluble fulleropyrrolidines.” Spring 2006.

Thu Ngyen ‘Glucose Biosensor Fabrication Based on Conducting Polymer Having a Redox Entity.”  Summer and Fall 2007.

Reine S. Nola‘Synthesis of novel water soluble porphyrins’ Fall 2008.

Serge G. Srour ‘Molecular imprinted polymers for Nicotine Detection’ Fall 2008-.

Dona H. Liyanage ‘Oxygen electrocatalysis based on porphyrin polymers’ Fall 2008-.

Eric O. Oweggi ‘Organic photocells for light energy harvesting’ Spring 2009.

Rachel Jacobs “Synthesis of Porphyrin-Naphthalocyanine Dyads” Summer, Fall 2009-.

Mohd. Firdauze Mohtar “Studies on Water soluble porphyrins-DNA binding” Spring and Fall 2009-.

Jessica Hudson “Synthesis and studies of crown ether porphyrin-boron dipyrrin conjugate” Summer and Fall 2009.

Trueman Atughonu “Separation of SWNT using Density Gradient Technique” Summer and Fall 2009.

J. R. Gillies “Functionalization of bipyridine for metal complexes” Summer 2009.

Adeline Z. Roxanne “Isothermal Calorimetry studies of Anion Binding to Oxoporphyrinogen” Summer 2010-11.

Daniel Mettman ‘Singlet Oxygen Production of SnO2-porphyrin Nanohybrids’ Spring 2011

Ramon Nola ‘Synthesis and characterization of core modified porphyrin-fullerene dyads’ Spring 2010-11.