Graduate Students

Name Dates Present Position

David Gray

1994-1999 (Chem)
(Ph.D., May 1999)

Chem. faculty, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA

Ryan Smith

1994-1999 (Chem)
(Ph.D., May 1999)

Duane Morris LLP, San Diego, CA

Ben Hoag

1994-2000 (Chem)
(Ph.D., May 2000)

Glyptal, Chelsea, MA

Brian Baxter

1994-2000 (Chem)
(Ph.D., Dec. 2000)

 

Jeff Gruneich

1996-1997 (Chem)
(M.S., Dec. 1997)

 

Esther Kim

1996-1998 (Chem)
(M.S., Dec. 1998)

The Norton Law Firm, Oakland, CA

Elizabeth Juang

1996-2000 (Chem)
(Ph.D., Dec. 2000)

McKinsey & Co., NJ

Brad Pindzola

1997-2001 (Chem)
(Ph.D., Dec. 2001)

TIAX, Cambridge, MA

Yanjie Xu

2001-2006 (ChBE)
(Ph.D., Dec. 2006)

Inovia Materials LLC, Boulder, CO

Meijuan Zhou

2001-2006 (ChBE)
(Ph.D., Dec. 2006)

SABIC-IP, Selkirk, NY

Cory Pecinovsky

2002-2007 (Chem)
(Ph.D., Dec. 2007)

Lightwave Logic, Denver, CO

Xiaoyun Lu

2002-2007 (ChBE)
(Ph.D., Dec. 2007)

 

Nick Cain

2002-2004 (ChBE)
(M.S., May 2004)

 

Jason Bara

2002-2007 (ChBE)
(Ph.D., May 2007)

(Co-advised with R. D. Noble) 
Professor., Univ. of Alabama

Kortney Klinkel

2003-2007 (Chem)
(Ph.D., May 2007)

(Co-advised with J. Hagadorn) 
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Parag Nemade

2004-2007 (ChBE)
(Ph.D., Dec. 2009)

(Co-advised with R. H. Davis)
Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA

Jacquie Richardson

2005-2006 (Chem)

UG Org. Chem Labs Coordinator, CU Boulder

Evan Hatakeyama

2006-2010 (ChBE)
(Ph.D., Dec. 2010)

(Co-advised with R. D. Noble) 
Chevron, Richmond, CA

Bret Voss

2007-2011 (ChBE)
(Ph.D., Dec. 2011)

(Co-advised with R. D. Noble)
Boeing, Seattle, WA

Trevor Carlisle

2007-2011 (ChBE)
(Ph.D., Dec. 2011)​

(Co-advised with R. D. Noble) 
Membr. Tech. & Res., San Bruno, CA

Rob Kerr

2006-2012 (Chem)
Ph.D., May 2012

Consultant, self-employed

Andrew Allen

2011-2012 (Chem)
(M.S., Dec. 2012)

Trinity Cath. High School, St. Louis, MO

Alexandra Chakeres

2012 (ChBE)
(M.S., Dec. 2012)

(Co-advised with R. D. Noble) 
Blinker, Inc., Denver, CO

Brian Wiesenauer

2008-2013 (Chem)
(Ph.D., Dec. 2013)

Arcadis, Clifton Park, NY

Maggie Schenkel

2008-2014 (Chem)
(Ph.D., May 2014)

Intel, Hillsboro, OR

Erin Wiesenauer

2009-2013 (Chem)
(Ph.D., Dec. 2013)

Self-employed

Blaine Carter

2010-2014 (ChBE)
(Ph.D., May 2014)

(Co-advised with R. D. Noble) 
Align Technologies, San Jose, CA

Lily Robertson

2011-2016 (Chem)
(Ph.D., May 2016)

Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL

Will McDanel

2011-2015 (ChBE)
(Ph.D., May 2015)

(Co-advised with R. D. Noble)
Pall Corp., Pensacola, FL

Josh Sloan

2013-2014 (Chem)

 

Zhangxing Zhi

2013-2018 (ChBE)
(Ph.D., Dec. 2018)

Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL

Dylan Mori

2014-2018 (Chem)
(Ph.D., Dec. 2018)

Chameleon Communications International

Sarah Dischinger

2014-2018 (ChBE)
(Ph.D., Dec. 2018)

(Co-advised with R. D. Noble)
Holo, Inc., Newark, CAA

Zoban Singh

2014-2017  (ChBE)
(Ph.D., Dec. 2017)

(Co-advised with R. D. Noble)
Intel, Hillsboro, OR

Greg Dwulet

2016-2020 (Chem)
(Ph.D., May 2020)

Calyx Law, San Francisco, CA

John Malecha

2016-2022 (Chem)
(Ph.D., Dec. 2022)

Capacitor Sciences, Menlo Park, CA

Mike McGrath

2016-2020 (ChBE)
(Ph.D., May 2020)

(Co-advised with R. D. Noble, 2016–2018;
solely advised by R. D. Noble, 2018–2020) 
 

Collin Dunn

2016-2021 (ChBE)
(Ph.D., May 2021)

(Co-advised with R. D. Noble)
ElectraMet, Lexington, KY 

Ben Coscia

2016-2020 (ChBE)
(Ph.D., May 2020)

(Co-advised with M. R. Shirts and R. D. Noble)
Schrödinger, Portland, OR

Fadilah Ibrahim

2018-2019 (Chem)
(M.S., May 2019)

 

Patrick Li

2018-2022 (Chem)
(Ph.D., Dec. 2022)

Intel, Hillsboro, OR

Michelle Hill

2018-2019 (Chem)
(M.S., May 2019)

 

Lauren Bodkin

2019-2023 (Chem)
(Ph.D., Dec. 2023)

ChampionX, Houston, TX

Keira Culley

2021–present (Chem)

 

 

 

Postdoctoral Fellows

Name Dates  Affiliation

Walter Fischer

1995-1996

Chemson (Austria)

Martin Cooper

1996-1997

 

Hai Deng

1997-1998

Intel, Palo Alto, CA

Mary Reppy

1997-1999

Abacalab, Inc., Wilmington, DE

Julia Deng

1998-1999

Waters Corporation, Taunton, MA

Seth Miller

1998-2000

Heron Scientific, Longmont, CO

Wen-Jing Zhou

1999-2001

DuPont Powder Coatings, Houston, TX

Weiqiang Gu

2000-2002

Waters Corporation, Taunton, MA

Tim Kidd

2001-2003

DSM Research (The Netherlands)

Jizhu Jin

2002-2005

Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, OH

J. Shailaja

2002-2005

Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA

Wonewoo Seo

2004-2006

Res. Assoc., Emory University

Xiaohui Zeng

2004-2006

Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, OH

Chris Gabriel

2006-2009

Micron, Longmont , CO

Jason Bara

2007-2009

Professor, Univ. of Alabama

Yeny Hudiono

2008-2010

Pall Corp., Cortland, NY

Andy LaFrate

2008-2011

STAR School, Flagstaff, AZ

A. Lee Miller II

2009-2012

Res. Fellow, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Adj. Teaching Fac., RCTC, Rochester, MN

Evan Hatakeyama

2010

Chevron, Richmond, CA

Garret Nicodemus

2011-2012

Xabis Inc., Denver, CO

Jose Herrera-Alonso

2011

Intel, Chandler, AZ

Phuc Tien Nguyen

2011-2012

Total Energies, Houston, TX

Nate Urban

2011-2013

LLE Staff Scientist, Univ. of Rochester

Bret Voss

2011-2012

Boeing, Seattle, WA

Trevor Carlisle

2011-2012

Membr. Tech. & Res., San Bruno, CA

Matt Cowan

2012-2016

Sr. Lecturer, Univ. of Canterbury (New Zealand)

Pedro Carvalho

2012

Researcher, University of Aveiro (Portugal)

Rhia Martin

2012-2016

TDA Research, Golden, CO

Trevor Carlisle

2013-2014

Lecturer, Oregon State Univ.

Yuki Kohno

2013-2015

AIST (Japan)

Miyuki Masuda

2014-2015

NEDO (Japan)

Alex Lopez

2015-2016

Assoc. Prof., Univ. of Mississippi

Esperanza Adrover

2017

Postdoc, UNS - CONICET

Chamaal Karunaweera

2020-2022

Matheson Trigas, Longmont, CO

 

 

Undergraduate Students

Name Dates Present Position

Jason Tebbutt

1996-1997

 

Robert Chen

1996-1997

 

Jerry Yu

1997-1998

Zeneca

Orion Jankowski

1998-1999

 

Ben Gross

1997-1999

 

Juston Smithers

1998-1999

Cleaire, CA

Scott Hammond

1999-2001

 

David Markevitch

2000-2001

Essential Therapeutics, CA

Ray Park

2002

 

Garret Nicodemus

Summer 2004 (ChBE)

Xabis Inc., Denver, CO

John Cipolla

2004-2005 (ChBE)

 

Lauren Kiemele

2004-2006 (Chem)
(joint with J. R. Hagadorn)

 

Alice Kaminski

2005-2006 (ChBE)
(joint with R. D. Noble)

BP

Eric Karp

2005-2007 (ChBE)
(joint with D. K. Schwartz)

 

Sonja Lessmann

2006-2007 (Chem)

 

Jenny Lohr

2007-2008 (ChBE)

 

Erin Fortin

Summer 2008 (Chem)

Intel, Hillsboro, OR

Kaitlin Baker

2009 (ChBE)

 

Julian Edwards

2009-2011 (Chem)

Synthio Chemicals, Boulder, CO

Will McDanel

2010 (ChBE)
(joint with R.D. Noble)

Pall Corp., Pensacola, FL

Sean Crawford

2012 (Chem)
(joint with R. D. Noble)

 

Erik Wislinsky

2012-2013 (Chem)
(joint with R. D. Noble)

 

Don Nguyen

2012-2013 (ChBE)
(joint with R. D. Noble)

 

Anna Swanson

2012-2013 (ChBE)
(joint with R.D. Noble)

 

Kyle Staub

2012-2013 (ChBE)
(joint with R. D. Noble)

 

Catherine Alvarez

2012-2013 (ChBE)
(joint with R. D. Noble)

 

Erin McDonnell

2013-2016 (ChBE)
(joint with R.D. Noble)

 

Shu Lee

2013-2014 (ChBE)
(joint with R. D. Noble)

 

Jason Barton

2013-2014 (ChBE)
(joint with R. D. Noble)

 

Kimberly Bourland

2015-2017 (ChBE)
(joint with R. D. Noble)

 

Andrew Basalla

2017-2019 (Chem and ChBE)
(joint with R. D. Noble)

 

Samantha Hardy

2018-2019 (ChBE)
(joint with R. D. Noble)

 

Alyson Skeens

2018 (ChBE)
(joint with R. D. Noble)

 

Kara Moore

2019-2021 (EVEN)
(joint with R. D. Noble)

 

Marisabel Reinhardt

2019-2021 (Chem)

 

Titus Ellison

2020 (EVEN)
(joint with R. D. Noble)

 

Trey Gerlach

2020 (Chem)

 

Samantha Dyer

2020-2022 (Chem)

Biochem. grad student, U. of WA

Grace Patrick

2021 (Chem)

 

Zack Krajnak

2021–2023 (Chem)

Chem. grad student, UNC Chapel Hill

Jeffrey Hage

2022 (Chem)

 

Roan Gerrald

2023 (ChBE)

 

Nav Chidambaram

2023 (Biochem)

 

Drew Fehr

2023–present (Chem)