Wiesner Group Alumni
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Dr. Teeraporn Suteewong is now working in Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center as a postdoctoral associate. | |
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Dr. Morgan Stefik is now working in Gratzel lab as a postdoctoral associate. | |
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Dr. Hitesh Arora is currently working in Intel Corporation. | |
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Dr. Erik Herz is working in Exxon Mobile. | |
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Dr. Chris Orilall is currently working as a Research Associate in Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation, National Research Council, Vancouver, CANADA. | |
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Dr. Andrew Burns is currently working at GE Global Research in Schenectady, New York. During his short stint as a post-doc in the lab developing he found a window of opportunity to get married to Erin Hii-Burns (who should graduate soon). | |
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Dr. Marleen Kamperman is now an Assistant Professor at Wageningen University in Netherlands. | |
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Dr. Scott Warren is now pursuing a post-doc in the Grätzel Lab in Laussane, Switzerland, working on photovoltaic materials. | |
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Dr. Phong Du graduated in 2006 and is currently working at DuPont Chemical Company in Delaware. | |
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Dr. Surbhi Mahajan graduated in 2005 and is currently working at DuPont Chemical Company in Delaware | |
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Dr. Hooisweng Ow graduated in 2005 and is currently working for Hybrid Silica Technologies in Ithaca, NY. | |
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Dr. Anurag Jain graduated in 2005 and currently works for Intel Corporation | |
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Dr. Carlos Garcia graduated from the group in 2004 and currently works for Hewlett-Packard in California | |
| Post-Doctoral Alumni | ||
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Suntao Wang | |
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Rui-Qi was born in China. She used to work on the design and synthesis of novel biocomposite material systems in both Wiesner and Estroff groups at Cornell. She is working in Goodyear. | |
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Dr. Jinwoo Lee was born in Seoul, Korea, in 1974. He received his B. S. (1998), M. S. (2000), and Ph. D. (2003) from the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department of Seoul National University. He is now an Assistant Professor at POSTECH in Korea. | |
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(Franz) René Kogler studied chemistry at the University of Vienna, Austria (MSc., 2002) and the Vienna University of Technology (Ph.D., 2006). During his diploma, he developed sensor-coatings for the monitoring of motor oil degradation with quartz crystal microbalances. In his Ph.D., he was working on surface modified transition metal oxo clusters and their use as monomers for the preparation of hybrid polymers. He joined our group in 2006 and jumped into organic and polymer chemistry. His main research interest was the preparation of semiconducting coil-dendron systems for charge transport investigations. | |
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Dr. Byong-Ki Cho returned to Korea in 2005 to pursue an academic career as a Professor at Dankook University in Seoul, S. Korea. He came back to Wienser group and spent his sabbatcal in 2011. | |
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Dr. Lilit Yeghiazatian worked in the Wiesner group from 2002-2004 and is currently a postdoctoral fellow in Biostatistics at UCLA. The focus of her work is the spread of infections in complex social networks. Her work concentrates on several aspects of the problem, in particular (1) how to bridge the gap between processes taking place on different scales such as within a human host and on a larger scale of human populations; and (2) how to disrupt infection transmission in such networks. "This project seems quite unrelated to polymer science, but believe it or not I use my knowledge of phase transitions in polymer networks to solve the first problem. To tackle the second, I am applying engineering failure analysis. Please contact me if you are interested in any of these issues, and of course come and visit California!!!" lyeghiaz@ucla.edu |
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Jochen Guttman | |
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Peter F. Simon | |
| Master of Science Alumni | ||
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Paul Kim was born in Seoul, Korea. He joined the group in 2009 and graduated in 2011. | |
| Master of Engineering Alumni | ||
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Balthazar Lechene went back to France. | |
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Patrick Boldrighini is now working in Massachusetts. | |
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Delphine went back to France. | |
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Yoong Kim worked in the group on fluorescent nanoparticles from 2005-2006 and is currently working for BASF in Singapore. | |
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Chris Burk | |
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Mareli Almeroth was a visiting student from Univ. Mainz in Mainz, Germany working with the group on the development of novel nanoparticles for biotechnology. She has returned to Germany to continue her education in Chemistry | |
| Undergrad Alumni | ||
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Andrea Bowring graduated in 2011 and is pursuing her PhD at Stanford University. | |
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Alden Coots | |
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Samantha Stout is pursuing her PhD at UC San Diego. | |
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Sahil Jaykumar Patel | |
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Peter Bai graduated in 2010 and is pursuing his PhD at UC Berkeley. | |
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Laura Connely | |
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Christopher Sarra graduated in 2009 and is currently pursuing a Master's degree in ECE at Johns Hopkins University. | |
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Phil Chuang | |
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Matt Perkins was Scott's slave, toiling on nanoparticle catalysts for fuel cell membranes. He was raised by a clan of black bears in the Catskill Mountains before being kidnapped by two hippies and forced to live in suburban Guilford, CT. He frequently fails Materials Science & Engineering exams and speaks Mandarin Chinese when drinking. He is naive enough to think that he will bring clean energy to China following his success in bringing clean energy to Cornell while serving as President of Kyoto Now!, a student group working to reduce Cornell’s greenhouse gas emissions. Matt's criminal record includes rock climbing Cornell's buildings and "singing" as a Tenor with the Glee Club. He will continue to do research in the diSalvo group in Chemistry. Eventually, he will join GE Energy in Schenectady, NY. | |
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Liane Slaughter still looks really happy, but has moved on to pursue her scientific career at Rice University in Texas, after her graduation from Cornell with a degree in Chemistry. | |
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Billy Yau's initials still spell bly, which still sounds like billy.. so he's his own abbreviation. He graduated in 2007 with a degree in Materials Science and Engineering and has moved on to an industry position in Michigan. | |
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Lauren Messina worked with Scott, and is now pursuing research in Food Sciences (mmmm.. food) among other things | |
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Matt Banholzer graduated with a Chemistry Degree in 2006 and is currently pursuing a PhD at Northwestern University in the field of materials chemistry, working in Chad Mirkin's group on anistropic nanostrucutres and biomaterials. | |
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Daniel Bonner graduated in 2006 with a degree in Materials Science & Engineering and is currently pursuing a PhD someplace in the Greater Boston Area. | |
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Zach Cater-Cyker graduated in 2006 with a degree in Materials Science & Engineering and is currently working for Mobil Oil Corporation in Virginia. | |
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Aaron Jackson graduated 2006 with a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering. He is currently attending graduate school at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where he is working with Paul Braun on self-healing materials. | |
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Raluca Scarlat graduated in 2006 with a degree in Chemical Engineering and is currently working for Mobil Oil Corporation. | |
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Tara Zedayko graduated in 2006 with a degree in Materials Science & Engineering, and is currently working for Johnson & Johnson in New Jersey. | |
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Ben Dworken graduated in 2004 with a degree in Materials Science and Engineering | |
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Conrad Lovell graduated in 2004 with a degree in Materials Science and Engineering | |
| Former Visiting Scholors | ||
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Prof. Taeghwan Hyeon spent his sabbatical from 2008-2009 and went back to Seoul National University, Korea. |
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