Wiesner Group - People

	Ulrich Wiesner studied Chemistry in Mainz, Germany, and Irvine, California. He gained his Ph.D. in 1991 with work at the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P), Mainz, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the E.S.P.C.I. in Paris, France until 1993. He joined the Cornell MS&E faculty in 1999 following his Habilitation and became a Full Professor in 2005. He works at the interface between polymer science and solid state chemistry/physics with the goal of generating novel hierarchical and multifunctional hybrid materials. He is the co-founder of Hybrid Silica Technologies, Inc . and the recipient of multiple awards including the Carl Duisberg Memorial Award of the German Chemical Society.

	Current Postdocs
	Hitesh Arora grew up in Delhi, India. He studied Chemical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Hitesh joined the group in 2004 and obtained PhD. degree in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University in 2009. He continues his works with hybrid gels to make devices for directed motion and cargo transport. He also works with block copolymer hybrid thin films.
	Rui-Qi is from Inner Mongolia. She received her Ph.D. from the CAS in Physical Chemistry in 2002 and subsequently worked as a research fellow at the SYSU from 2002 to 2006. Rui-Qi then held a Max-Planck Research Fellowship at the MPIKG, where she studied block copolymer-controlled nonclassical crystallization with Helmut Cölfen and Markus Antonietti from 2007 to 2009. Her current study is centered on block copolymer controlled nanoparticle self-assembly to nanostrucutred calcium phosphate composite materials for dental repair.
	Suntao Wang

	Current Graduate Students
	Morgan Stefik grew up in various parts of Northern California including Portola Valley and Palo Alto. He earned a BE in Materials Engineering from Cal Poly SLO where he researched polymeric materials and organic solar cells. Morgan joined the Wiesner and DiSalvo groups in 2005. He is in the department of Materials Science and Engineering and works with the Cornell Fuel Cell Institute. His current work focuses on polymers for the structure direction of fuel cell electrodes.
	Teeraporn Suteewong is originally from Thailand. She earned her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in chemistry from Mahidol University. She joined the group in fall 2005. She is now developing functional silica nanoparticles for targeting and imaging, with applications in cancer biology.
	Michelle Chavis earned her BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from Howard University. She is currently working jointly in both the Wiesner and Ober groups on applications of thin films of block copolymer templated materials.
	Hiroaki Sai is from Yokohama, Japan. He joined the group in 2007 after earning his B.S.E. degree in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University. He is currently interested in using structure-directing block copolymers for making nanoparticle-derived hybrid materials.
	Zihui Li (we call her Cathy) grew up in Huaian, China and attended Peking University where she finished her B.S. degree in Chemistry. As a Chemistry Graduate Student at Cornell she joined the Wiesner group in 2007 and is currently working on block copolymer thin films for sensing and security applications.
	Srikant K Iyer grew up in New Delhi, India. He did his B.Sc. In Chemistry at Delhi University and then M.Sc. In Chemistry at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He then completed an M.S. In Chemistry at University of North Carolina, Charlotte. There, he was the recipient of The Thomas Walsh Fellowship for his work in III-Nitride Quantum Dots. Currently a graduate student in the Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology he joined the group in 2008 and is working on applications of silica nanoparticles.
	Kahyun Hur was born in Korea and earned his BS and MS in Chemistry at Seoul National University. As a graduate student in Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell he joined the group in Fall 2008. He is currently working on block copolymer self assembly for making hybrid materials.
	Rachel Dorin was born in Mountain View, California, and started her undergraduate career at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and completed a BS in Chemistry and in Biology at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. As an undergraduate she worked at Sandia National Labs on nanostructured platinum for fuel cell catalysis. She is currently a graduate student in Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University where she received a McMullen fellowship. Rachel joined the Wiesner research group in the Fall of 2008 and her current research focuses on block copolymer membranes for water purification and desalination.
	Juho Song is from South Korea and he earned his BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from Pohang University of Science and Technology. Currently as a graduate student in the Chemical Engineering Department, he is working on the mesoporous metal oxide materials for fuel cell applications in the Wiesner group.
	Kwan-Wee Tan is from Singapore where he received his BEng in Materials Engineering from Nanyang Technological University. He was also in the Singapore-MIT Alliance program and completed his MEng and SM from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and National University of Singapore, respectively. He recently joins the groups of Wiesner and DiSalvo in Fall 2009 to work on nanomaterials for photovoltaic applications.
	Paul Kim is from Seoul, Korea. He joined the group in 2009 after earning his B.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from POSTECH. He is currently interested in block copolymer self assembly for making hybrid materials.
	Yao Sun was born and raised in Beijing and earned a BS in Materials Science and Engineering at Tsinghua University. Yao is currently a graduate student in MSE and joined the group in Fall 2009. She is now working on functional silica nanoparticles.
	Jennifer Drewes is from San Juan Capistrano, California and earned a BS in Chemistry from the University of California Santa Barbara. She joined the group in 2009 and is working on functional core-shell silica nanoparticles.
	Christina Cowman
	Kai Ma comes from Shenzhen, China. He earned his B.S. degree in physics from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and then joined the group in 2009. He is currently working on applications of functional core-shell silica particles.
	Patrick Boldrighini grew up in Massachusetts and earned a BS in Materials Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Patrick joined the group in 2009 as a Masters student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He is working on the use of triblock copolymers as structure directing agents for hybrid materials.
	Balthazar Lechene comes from Paris France where he graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique. Balthazar joined the group in 2009 for his Master's research project. He is working on making mesoporous metal oxide films using triblock copolymers.

	Current Undergraduate Researchers
	Peter Bai
	Sahil Jaykumar Patel

	Visiting Scholars
	Joerg Werner