Fifth-Year Graduate Students (as of Spring 2025-26)
Rajat Daga
Email: [email protected]
Office: Amundson Hall 112
Education: Bachelor of Technology, Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (2021)
Research Area: Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations of gas-solid heterogeneous catalytic reactions and electrochemical reactions
Hobbies: Playing badminton, cricket and hiking
Akanksha
(Coadvised by Prof. Jason Goodpastor)
Email: [email protected]
Office: Amundson Hall 112
Education: Bachelors, Hansraj College, Delhi University
Masters, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Research Area: Accelerating the convergence of DFT embedding and studying its application to electron transfer reactions
Hobbies: Cooking, running, reading, watching mysteries and thrillers
Fourth-Year Graduate Students (as of Fall 2024-25)
Nhu Quach
Email: [email protected]
Office: Amundson Hall 112
Education: B.A., Chemistry and Data Science, Lake Forest College
Research Area: Homogenous and Heterogeneous Electrocatalysis modeling
Hobbies: Needles Arts, Cooking, Watching Horrors/ Comedies/ Animes
Ciara Tyler
Email: [email protected]
Office: Amundson Hall 112
Education: Kennesaw State University - B.S Chemistry
Research Area: I explore Pt-catalyzed hydrogenation reactions in the presence of aqueous media
Hobbies: I enjoy running and watching sports
Ulrick Gaillard
Email: [email protected]
Office: Amundson Hall 112
Education: Bachelors, University of Richmond
Research Area: Programmable energy catalysis for Ammonia Synthesis
Hobbies: Hanging out with my cat, videogames, zombie movies
Shengzhuo Wang
Email: [email protected]
Office: Amundson Hall 112
Education: Grinnell College, B.A. Chemistry and Music.
Research Area: Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Electrocatalysis
Hobbies: Watch/read Science fictions, play Civilization 6
Third-Year Graduate Students (as of Fall 2024-25)
Emmanuel Adeniyi Jr.
Email: [email protected]
Office: Amundson Hall 112
Education: Bachelors in Industrial Chemistry, University of Ilorin in Nigeria
Masters in Chemistry, Ball State University, United States
Research Area: Computational modeling of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, as well as nanoporous materials such as MOFs
Hobbies: Playing soccer and table tennis
Uyen Nguyen
(Co-advised by Kelsey Stoerzinger)
Email: [email protected]
Office: Amundson Hall 112
Education: B.S. in Chemistry (minor in Physics), Hollins University
Research Area: I am interested in applying electrochemical transformation of molecules and computational methods to achieve both clean energy generation and carbon reduction, with a specific focus on water
Hobbies: Doing pottery, photography, and calligraphy
Second-Year Graduate Students (as of Fall 2024-25)
Amber Simon
(Co-advised by Kelsey Stoerzinger)
Email: [email protected]
Office: Amundson Hall 112
Education: B.A., Chemistry and Physics, Gustavus Adolphus College
Research Area: Heterogeneous electrocatalysis using N-heterocyclic carbenes
Hobbies: Choir (and singing in general), cooking, going for walks, arts and crafts, and doing crosswords
Skyler Kauffman
(Co-advised by Kelsey Stoerzinger)
Email: [email protected]
Office: Amundson Hall 112
Education: BS, Chemical engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2024 (minor in chemistry)
Research Area: n-heterocyclic carbenes for electrocatalysis
Hobbies: Film photography, music, guitar
Dallin Fairbourn
Email: [email protected]
Office: Amundson Hall 112
Education: B.S. in Biological Engineering from Utah State University
Research Area: Homogenous and Heterogeneous Electrocatalysis modeling
Hobbies: I play the bass guitar, and I enjoy reading books. I also enjoy hiking and being outdoors
First-Year Graduate Students (as of Fall 2024-25)
Hiroki Coyle
(Co-advised by Prof. Philippe Buhlmann)