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NSF PREM Center for Intelligent Materials Assembly (PREM CIMA)

Texas State University Faculty

Dr. Tania Betancourt — Dr. Tania Betancourt
Director, NSF PREM Center for Intelligent Materials Assembly; Thrust 1 Investigator, Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Dr. William Brittain — Dr. William Brittain
Thrust 1 Director, NSF PREM Center for Intelligent Materials Assembly; Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

Dr. Sean Kerwin — Dr. Sean Kerwin
Seed Director, NSF PREM Center for Intelligent Material Assembly; Thrust 1 Investigator, Associate Dean for Research in COSE, University Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

Dr. Ben Martin — Dr. Ben Martin
Education Director, NSF PREM Center for Intelligent Materials Assembly; Thrust 2 Investigator, Associate Professor & Chair, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

Dr. Yoichi Miyahara — Dr. Yoichi Miyahara
Seed Co-Director, NSF PREM Center for Intelligent Materials Assembly; Thrust 1 & 2 Investigator, Associate Professor, Department of Physics

Dr. Christopher Rhodes — Dr. Christopher Rhodes
Thrust 2 Investigator, Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

Dr. Nikoleta Theodoropoulou — Dr. Nikoleta Theodoropoulou
Thrust 2 Director, NSF PREM Center for Intelligent Materials Assembly; Thrust 2 Investigator, Associate Professor, Department of Physics

Dr. Mark Wistey — Dr. Mark Wistey
Thrust 2 Co-Director, NSF PREM Center for Intelligent Materials Assembly; Thrust 2 Investigator, Associate Professor, Department of Physics

Texas State SEED Faculty & Liason

Dr. Karen Lewis — Dr. Karen Lewis
Biochemistry, MSEC PREM SEED

Dr. Nathan Satchell — Dr. Nathan Satchell
Physics, MSEC SEED

University of Texas MRSEC Faculty

Dr. Eric Anslyn — Dr. Eric Anslyn
IRG 1 Co-Leader
Faculty Investigator, IRG 1

Dr. Seth Bank — Dr. Seth Bank
Faculty Investigator, IRG 2

Dr. Keji Lai — Dr. Keji Lai
Faculty Investigator, IRG 2

Dr. Xiaoqin (Elaine) Li — Dr. Xiaoqin (Elaine) Li
IRG 2 Co-Leader
Faculty Investigator, IRG 2

Dr. Joaquin Resasco

Dr. Adrianne Rosales — Dr. Adrianne Rosales
Faculty Investigator, IRG 1

Dr. Chih-Kang Shih — Dr. Chih-Kang Shih
Faculty Investigator, IRG 2

Dr. Jeanne Stachowiak — Dr. Jeanne Stachowiak
Faculty Investigator, IRG 1

Dr. Jamie Warner — Dr. Jamie Warner
Faculty Investigator, IRG 2

Dr. Daniel Wasserman — Dr. Daniel Wasserman
Faculty Investigator, IRG 2

Dr. Ed Yu — Dr. Ed Yu
Center Director
Faculty Investigator, IRG 2

Doctoral PREM Researchers

Scott Barrett — Scott Barrett
PhD Materials Science, Engineering and Commercialization: Advancement of Renewable Energy via Organic Chemistry (Brittain Lab)

Seemanta Deb — Seemanta Deb
PhD Materials Science, Engineering and Commercialization: Eyes Absent (EYA) in DNA Damage Response and Cell Fate Determination through Liquid-liquid Phase Separation
(Lewis Seed Lab)

Malay Kumar Das — Malay Kumar Das
PhD Materials Science, Engineering and Commercialization: Study of Non-Canonical Nucleic Acid Structures and ligands: G- quadruplex and G- triplex (Kerwin Lab)

Rigo Mayorga-Luna — Rigo Mayorga-Luna
PhD Materials Science, Engineering, and Commercialization: Charge transfer through individual DNA molecules measured by mechanically detected electric charge sensing (Miyahara Lab)

Zachary Naymik — Zachary Naymik
PhD Materials Science, Engineering and Commercialization (Rhodes Lab)

M.S. PREM Researchers

Makena Burns — Makena Burns
M.S. Chemistry: Laser synthesis of iron cobalt spinel oxides for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysis (Martin Lab)

Micheal Goodman — Micheal Goodman
M.S. Physics: Imaging 2D materials using advanced AFM techniques (Miyahara Lab)

Rodriguez, Jackelyn — Jackelyn Rodriguez
M.S. Chemistry: Effect of Carbon Substrate and Anion Environment within Nickel Hydroxide Cathodes on Electrochemical Performance of Nickel-Zinc Batteries (Rhodes Lab)

Undergraduate PREM Researchers

Aiden Amorella-Taylor

B.S. (Brittain Lab)

Subodh Aryal — Subodh Aryal
B.S. Mechanical Engineering: Fabrication and Optical Study of Moire Patterns in Twisted 2D Heterostructures (Miyahara Lab)

Elissa Avila — Elissa Avila
B.S. Physics (Theodoropoulou Lab)

Sulakshi Balasooriya — Sulakshi Balasooriya
B.S. Biochemistry (Kerwin Lab)

Shreejal Bhattarai — Shreejal Bhattarai
B.S. (Miyahara Lab)

Melany Bouyer — Melany Bouyer
B.S. Microbiology: Polymer nanocomposites for water purification (Irvin Lab)

Randilynn Brownlee — Randilynn Brownlee
B.S. Chemistry (Betancourt Lab)

Nicolas Bueno Ponce — Nicolas Bueno Ponce
B.S. Biochemistry: Dynamic agar hydrogels with hyaluronic acid (Betancourt Lab)

Tegan Dagley — Tegan Dagley
B.S. Biochemistry: (Kerwin Lab)

Stephanie Espinosa — Stephanie Espinosa
B.S. Physics (WisteyLab)

Lucas Ferguson — Lucas Ferguson
B.S. (Kerwin Lab)

Dillon Gee — Dillon Gee
B.S. Biology: Leveraging Star-like PEG Macromolecule Valence to Improve the Tunability of Drug Delivery from Hydrogels (Betancourt Lab) (part of URISE program)

Mahesh Ghimire — Mahesh Ghimire
B.S. Mechanical Engineering: Vapor Phase Deposition of Electroactive Polymer in Nanofibers (Betancourt Lab)

Dipti Koirala — Dipti Koirala
B.S. Electrical Engineering: Fabrication and Optical Characterization of Moiré patterns in twisted 2-D h-BN.
(Miyahara Lab)

Mal Millholland — Mal Millholland
B.S. Chemistry: Laser Synthesis of Mixed Metal Spinel Materials for the Oxidation Reduction Reaction (Martin Lab)

Golnoosh Rahnama Moghaddam — Golnoosh Rahnama Moghaddam
B.S. Electrical Engineering (Theodoropoulou Lab)

Ian Morgan — Ian Morgan
B.S. Chemistry & Criminal Justice: Laser Synthesis of Cobalt Molybdate for the Oxidation Evolution Reaction (Martin Lab)

Braden Oddo

B.S. Electrical Engineering: (Theodoropoulou Lab)

Utsab Pandey — Utsab Pandey
B.S. Mechanical Engineering: Ag-Coated Optical Fiber for Mechanical Parametric Amplification and Noise Squeezing of Atomic Force Microscopy Cantilever (Miyahara Lab)

Ashok Paudel — Ashok Paudel
B.S. Electrical Engineering: DNA Dumbbells (Miyahara Lab)

Jacob Petrekovich — Jacob Petrekovich
B.S. (Brittain Lab)

Deena Reinikka — Deena Reinikka
B.S. Animal science: Bisazobenzene Aqueous Batteries (Brittain Lab)

Connor Rocha — Connor Rocha
B.S. Biochemistry: Ligand Synthesis for Cu-Cat. C-N couplings (Kerwin Lab)

Arriana Salazar — Arriana Salazar
B.S. Microbiology and Molecular Genetics (Betancourt Lab)

Nathalia Sauceda — Nathalia Sauceda
B.S. (Brittain Lab)

Amelia Scott — Amelia Scott
B.S. Microbiology: Dynamic Reconfigurable Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications
(Betancourt Lab)

Tyler Sheppard — Tyler Sheppard
B.S. Physics: Surface Morphology of CdTe(211) and PbTe/CdTe(211) Epitaxial Surfaces via Atomic force Microscopy (Theodoropoulou Lab)

McKenzie Siller — McKenzie Siller
B.S. Biochemistry: Nanoparticles with miRNA in treatment of neuroblastoma (Betancourt Lab)

Dashiell Bradley Smith — Dashiell Bradley Smith
B.S. Structural and Electrochemical Characterization of Y₂Ru₂O₇ Pyrochlores for Oxygen Evolution Catalysis
(Rhodes Lab)

Brandon Taylor — Brandon Taylor
B.S: Preparation of miRNA-loaded nanoparticles for the treatment of neuroblastoma (Betancourt lab) (part of URISE program)

Apar Timsina — Apar Timsina
B.S. Mechanical Engineering: Fabrication and Characterization of Fine-Tuned Silver-Coated Fiber for Interferometric Force Sensing in AFM (Miyahara Lab)

Juan Martinez — Juan Martinez
B.S. (Theodoropoulou Lab)

Sydney Mock — Sydney Mock
B.S. Physics (Satchell SEED Lab)

Clayton Wardwell — Clayton Wardwell
B.S. (Martin Lab)

Ben Williams

B.S. Brittain Lab

Nikki Ziaei — Nikki Ziaei
B.S. (Kerwin Lab)

PREM Affiliates

Jesus Adame-Solorio — Jesus Adame-Solorio
Post-Doctoral Scholar (Rhodes Lab)

Moriom Afiza — Moriom Afiza
PhD Materials Science, Engineering and Commercialization: (Betancourt Lab)

Khorshed Alam — Khorshed Alam
PhD Materials Science, Engineering and Commercialization: MBE growth GeCSn thin films for On chip silicon photonics laser (Wistey Lab)

Md Shamsul Alam — Md Shamsul Alam
PhD Materials Science, Engineering and Commercialization: N-Alkynyl Azoles as Versatile Synthons for Green Synthesis, Diradical Chemistry, and Functional Materials (Kerwin Lab)

Keegan Bailey — Keegan Bailey
PhD Materials Science, Engineering and Commercialization: (Rhodes Lab)

Sakib Bhuiyan — Sakib Bhuiyan
PhD Materials Science, Engineering and Commercialization: Synthesis and Characterization of Photothermal Hydrogels (Betancourt Lab)

Shuvo Brahma — Shuvo Brahma
PhD Materials Science, Engineering and Commercialization: Vapor phase deposition of Electroactive polymers on nanofiber (Betancourt Lab)

Sam Cantrell — Sam Cantrell
(Theodoropoulou Lab)

Nazwa Chowdhury — Nazwa Chowdhury
(Miyahara Lab)

Keya Das — Keya Das
PhD Materials Science, Engineering and Commercialization: Application of Hydrogel in stem cell differentiation or tissue engineering (Betancourt Lab)

Hailey Dudley — Hailey Dudley
M.S. Biochemistry: Engineering Thermoresponsive Perylene Diimides for G-Quadruplex Targeting (Kerwin Lab)

Bella Fancher — Bella Fancher
B.S. Biochemistry: (Kerwin Lab)

Aidan Gustafson — Aidan Gustafson
B.S. Biochemistry: Characterization of EYA1 and EYA2 N-Terminal Hydrogels (Lewis SEED Lab)

Bijay Khanal — Bijay Khanal
M.S. Physics: New Physics at the interface between thin film superconductors and topological magnets (Satchell SEED Lab)

Biddhut Lamichhane — Biddhut Lamichhane
PhD Materials Science, Engineering and Commercialization: (WisteyLab)

Md Mahamudul Hasan — Md Mahamudul Hasan
Postdoctoral Researcher: Characterization of Quantum Materials and quantum dot qubits by advanced scanning probe microscopy technique (Miyahara Lab)

John Miracle — John Miracle
PhD Materials Science, Engineering and Commercialization: (Theodoropoulou Lab)

Shivam Nigam

PhD Materials Science, Engineering and Commercialization: Gate define quantum dots on 2d materials (Miyahara Lab)

Honest Obuye — Honest Obuye
M.S. Chemistry: Effect of Reaction Conditions on Electrically Wired Manganese Oxide-Carbon Nanocomposite Cathodes for Alkaline Zinc Batteries (Rhodes Lab)

Mego Paquet

B.S. Chemistry: Laser synthesis of titanium nitrides (Martin Lab)

Durva Patel

M.S. (Brittain Lab)

Priyanshi Patel — Priyanshi Patel
M.S. Physics (Miyahara Lab)

Stuart Plaugher — Stuart Plaugher
B.S. Electrical Engineering (Miyahara and Wistey Lab)

William Pollack — William Pollack
M.S. Chemistry: Characterization of high entropy oxide catalysts by annealing nitrate metal salts onto titanium substrates via laser synthesis (Martin Lab)

Mohammed Reaz Rahman Munna — Mohammed Reaz Rahman Munna
PhD Materials Science, Engineering and Commercialization: MBE growth GeCSn thin films for On chip silicon photonics laser (Wistey Lab)

Rajendra Rai — Rajendra Rai
M.S. Microscopy (Miyahara Lab)

Junaid Ur Rehman — Junaid Ur Rehman
PhD Materials Science, Engineering and Commercialization: Polymer nanocomposites for water purification (Betancourt Lab)

Eryn Russel — Eryn Russel
B.S. Chemistry: Laser synthesis of ilminites (Martin Lab)

Barnabas Valenti

B.S. Physics: DNA Quantum dots (Miyahara Lab)

Diksha Wagle — Diksha Wagle
M.S. Chemistry: Effect of Reactants on Structure and Properties of Nickel–Aluminum Hydroxide Cathodes for Nickel–Zinc Batteries (Rhodes Lab)

Lana Welch — Lana Welch
B.S. (Martin Lab)

PREM Alumni

PREM Alumni

Bekzat Abubakirov — Bekzat Abubakirov
B.S. (Brittain Lab)

Eniola Adegbola — Eniola Adegbola
B.S. Biochemistry: Evaluation of PEDOT Nanoparticles in Neuroblastoma Differentiation (Betancourt Lab)

Sunil Adhikari — Sunil Adhikari
M.S. Physics: Investigating the Electric Field-Induced Isomerization (Miyahara Lab)

Ayodeji Akinloye — Ayodeji Akinloye
M.S. Chemistry: Dynamic Interpenetrating Hydrogels as Biomaterials (Betancourt Lab)

Luis Albiter — Luis Albiter
Postdoctoral Researcher: Ruthenium-Zirconium Oxides for Highly Stable Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysts (Rhodes Lab)

Kobe De La Paz — Kobe De La Paz
B.S. Microbiology: Optimization of PEDOT Nanoparticle Preparation (Betancourt Lab)

Augustus Arbogast — Augustus Arbogast
M.S. Materials Physics: Group IV Semiconductors (Wistey Lab)

Kathleen Bailey — Kathleen Bailey
B.S. Chemistry: Evaluation of Metal Substituents on Structure & Electrical Properties of Zirconium & Tin Oxide (Rhodes Lab)

Nikki Broussard — Nikki Broussard
B.S. Microbiology: The Synthesis and Utility of Novel N-Alkynyl Azoles (Kerwin Lab)

Natalie Brown — Natalie Brown
B.S. Biology: Synthesizing and Characterizing DNA-GNP complexes (Miyahara Lab)

Abby Bosket — Abby Bosket
B.S. Chemistry: Laser annealing of metal sulfides grown on metal surfaces (Martin Lab) Now: Searching for a job related to food science

Ellee Bounds — Ellee Bounds
B.S. Biology: Preparation of miRNA-loaded nanoparticles for the treatment of neuroblastoma (Betancourt Lab)

George Bruen — George Bruen
B.S. Industrial Engineering: Designing and fabricating battery and electrolyzer cells (Rhodes Lab)

Warren Burke — Warren Burke
B.S. Chemistry: Synthesis of Rutile Phase (Ta/Ti)O2 (Martin Lab) Now: QC/Engineering Technician at Tesla in Austin Gigafactory

Camden Caffey — Camden Caffey
B.S. Chemistry: High Energy Ball Milling to make Mixed Metal Oxide Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysts (Rhodes Lab)

Emily Camera — Emily Camera
B.S. Clinical Lab Sciences: The Synthesis and Utility of Novel N-Alkynyl Azoles (Kerwin Lab)

Edith Collins — Edith Collins
M.S. Chemistry: (Brittain Lab)

Carter Cunningham — Carter Cunningham
B.S. Chemistry: Synthesis of Conductive Polymer Bottle Brushes (Irvin Lab)

Tuhin Dey — Tuhin Dey
PhD Materials Science, Engineering, and Commercialization: Growth and Characterization of GeSnC Semiconductor Alloy for Si Photonics (Wistey Lab)

Emma Die — Emma Die
B.S. Physics: Dilute GeC alloys for Silicon phonics (Wistey Lab)

Haley Dutton — Haley Dutton
B.S. Physics (Theodoropoulou Lab)

Denally Escalona — Denally Escalona
(Betancourt Lab)

Adrian Fernandez — Adrian Fernandez
M.S. Biochemistry: Temperature-Dependent Self-Assembly Remodeling by a Polyether Perylene Diimide in Water (Kerwin Lab)

Viola Fieglein — Viola Fieglein
PhD IMBC: Utilization of ortho- and para- substituted azobenzene for concerted and controlled photoswitching (Brittain Lab) (Moved to Jacobs Lab)

Idania Galvan — Idania Galvan
B.S. Biology: Development of Strategies for Active Targeting of PLA-PEG Nanoparticles (Betancourt Lab)

Jacobo Garza — Jacobo Garza
B.S. Biochemistry: Physical and Chemical Characterization of Putative G-Triplex-Forming DNA Oligonucleotides (Kerwin Lab)

Ben Gibson — Ben Gibson
B.S. Chemistry: Nanostructured Cathode Material (Rhodes Lab) Now: Technical Staff at Group 1 (energy materials company)

Austin Gillette — Austin Gillette
B.S. Biochemistry: Exploring solid solution of Molybdenum-Tungsten-Sulfides using laser heating (Martin Lab)

Kayley Green-Tooney — Kayley Green-Tooney
B.S. Physics: (Miyahara Lab)

Suzanna Griffin — Suzanna Griffin
B.S. Biology: (Betancourt Lab)

Jacob Guerrero — Jacob Guerrero
B.S. Biochemistry: Reconfigurable Ion Pairs (Brittain Lab) Now: Starting PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of Nebraska

Mariah Gutierrez — Mariah Gutierrez
B.S. Biochemistry/Marketing: Development of Strategies for Active Targeting of PEDOT Nanoparticles (Betancourt Lab)

Chloe Hansom — Chloe Hansom
B.S. Chemistry: Nerve Regeneration: Grafting Conductive Polymers using Electrochemistry (Irvin Lab) Now: Looking for industry position and applying for PhD programs next year

Grace Haya — Grace Haya
B.S. Biochemistry: Conducting Polymer Aptasensors (Betancourt/Irvin Lab) Now: SSS TRiO Advisor at Lane Community College

Ikel Hernandez — Ikel Hernandez
B.S. Physics: Surface potential measurements of SrTiO3 films on Si using Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy (Theodoropoulou Lab)

Isabella Horcha — Isabella Horcha
B.S. Chemistry: Laser Synthesis of Rutile Solid Solutions for Improved Electrocatalytic Activity (Martin Lab)

Yordanos Kinfe — Yordanos Kinfe
B.S. Biochemistry: Dynamic Reconfigurable Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications (Betancourt Lab)

Dean Koehne — Dean Koehne
PhD Materials Science, Engineering, and Commercialization: Quantum effects in the electronic properties of epitaxial SrTiO₃ films on Si(001) (Theodoropoulou Lab)

Patrick Kollias — Patrick Kollias
M.S. Physics: Resistive Switching Behavior in SrTiO3/Si Thin Films (Theodoropoulou Lab)

Hector Lazaro — Hector Lazaro
B.S. Chemistry (Irvin Lab) Now: Looking for positions in chemistry/materials science field

Skyler Lindsey — Skyler Lindsey
B.S. Physics (Theodoropoulou Lab) Now: Starting PhD in physics at University of Delaware

Nicholas Lontkowski — Nicholas Lontkowski
M.S. Chemistry: Electroactive polymer nanocomposites for nerve regeneration (Irvin Lab)

Diego Luna — Diego Luna
B.S.Chemistry: Laser synthesis of high entropy oxides (Martin Lab) Now: Helping with family business

Marc Maldonado — Marc Maldonado
B.S. Chemistry: (Irvin Lab) Now: Looking for positions in chemistry/materials science field

Jaret Manley — Jaret Manley
M.S. Chemistry: Effect of Nickel Hydroxide Cathode Composition on Electrochemical Performance of Nickel-Zinc Batteries
(Rhodes Lab)

Alan Martinez — Alan Martinez
B.S. Chemistry: Laser synthesis and characterization of metal oxides on metal surfaces (Martin Lab)

Mason Mault — Mason Mault
B.S. Applied Mathematics: Mathematical analysis of electro-mechanical coupled system (Miyahara Lab)

Aleena Medrano — Aleena Medrano
B.S. Animal Science: Preparing and characterizing azobenzene compounds (Brittain Lab)

Christy Meyer — Christy Meyer
B.S. Chemistry: Reconfigurable Ion Pairs (Brittain Lab) Now: Laboratory Technician, BASF

Sarah Mitchell — Sarah Mitchell
M.S. Biochemistry: Modulation of Cancer Immunogenicity by PEDOT Nanoparticle-Mediated Photothermal Therapy (Betancourt Lab)

Juanangel Montemayor — Juanangel Montemayor
B.S. Physics: Quantum and electromagnetic properties of CdTel or ZnTel solar panels annealed with other metals

Ezequiel (Zeke) Montes — Ezequiel (Zeke) Montes
B.S. Chemistry: Synthesis of conductive polymer bottle brushes (Irvin Lab)

Len Mouer — Len Mouer
B.S. (Brittain Lab)

Jennifer Navarro — Jennifer Navarro
M.S. Biochemistry: The Synthesis and Utility of Novel N-Alkynyl Azoles (Kerwin Lab) Now: Medicinal chemist at MD Anderson Cancer Center

Shashank Neupane — Shashank Neupane
B.S. Physics: Low cost STM_AFM (Miyahara Lab)

Tan Nguyen — Tan Nguyen
B.S. Physics: Quantum Dot with Azobenzene (Miyahara Lab) Now: Self employed

Alison Nichols — Alison Nichols
M.S. Physics: Low-Temperature Electronic Properties of PbTe doped with Tl grown on CdTe (211)B by MBE (Theodoropoulou Lab)

Ifeanyi Nwanegbo — Ifeanyi Nwanegbo
M.S. Chemistry: Polymer nanoparticles for miRNA delivery (Martin Lab)

Iris Okoro — Iris Okoro
B.S. Electrical Engineering: Automating Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy (Miyahara Lab)

Josue Osorio — Josue Osorio
B.S. Biochemistry: Creating a PLGA-PEI-miRNA nanovector to reprogram neuroblastoma cancer cells in vitro (Betancourt Lab)

Mackenzie Otakpor — Mackenzie Otakpor
B.S. Biology: Conducting polymer aptasensors (Betancourt Lab) Now: Conducting research at Texas State, applying for medical school

Madeleine Pastore — Madeleine Pastore
B.S. Chemistry: Electroactive polymer nanocomposites (Irvin Lab) Now: Starting PhD in Chemistry at UT Austin in Fall 2024

Ethan Patterson — Ethan Patterson
B.S. Electrical Engineering (Wistey Lab) Now: Pursuing internship

Jessica Peterson — Jessica Peterson
M.S. Biochemistry: Polymer hydrogel nanocomposites as antibacterial would healing materials (Betancourt Lab)

Gabriel Pohlman — Gabriel Pohlman
B.S. Chemistry: Conducting Polymer Aptasensors (Betancourt Lab) Now: Pursuing PhD in Chemistry at University of Texas at Austin

Eunice Rodriguez — Eunice Rodriguez
B.S. Clinical Laboratory Science: Incorporation of RGD peptide into PEG-MAL hydrogels for cell encapsulation (Betancourt Lab)

Lilian Roe — Lilian Roe
B.S. Biology: Development of Strategies for Active Targeting of PEDOT Nanoparticles (Betancourt Lab)

Greta Sanchez — Greta Sanchez
B.S. Biochemistry: Preparation of miRNA-loaded nanoparticles for the treatment of neuroblastoma (Betancourt Lab) Now: Studying at UT Austin

Marvin Santiago — Marvin Santiago
M.S. Chemistry: Chemical Modification of Polymer Nanofibers (Irvin Lab) Now: Pursuing PhD in chemistry at UCSB

Layne Sauer — Layne Sauer
B.S. Physics: Optical Measurements of Highly Mismatched Alloys (Wistey Lab) Now: Looking for positions in chemistry/materials science field

Alex Sharpton — Alex Sharpton
B.S. (Martin Lab)

Riley Sheikh — Riley Sheikh
B.S. Chemistry: (Martin Lab)

Cory Silguero — Cory Silguero
B.S. Chemistry: Nanostructure Synthesis and Analysis via X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (Rhodes Lab)

Caleb Solis — Caleb Solis
B.S. Electrical Engineering/Physics: Synthesizing and Characterizing DNA-GNP complexes (Miyahara Lab)

Venus Stanton — Venus Stanton
B.S. Chemistry: Esterifcation of Ragweed-sourced Cellulose for Production of Cellulose Acetate Nanofibers (Irvin Lab)

Madeline Tello — Madeline Tello*
B.S. Chemistry: Laser Synthesis of Titanium dioxide (Martin Lab)

Kushal Thapa — Kushal Thapa
PhD Materials Science, Engineering, and Commercialization: Synthesis and characterization of photothermal hydrogels (Betancourt Lab)

Edgar Torres — Edgar Torres
B.A. Communication Studies & B.S. Chemistry: Laser Synthesis of Tungsten Sulfide (Martin Lab)

Adelyne Towne — Adelyne Towne
B.S. Biochemistry: Synthesis of Conductive Polymer Bottle Brushes (Irvin Lab) (Moved to Dr. Karen Lewis Lab)

Michael Urena — Michael Urena
M.S. Chemistry: Evaluation of Catalysts & Catalyst Layers on Proton-Exchange Membrane (PEM) Electrolyzer Performance and Durability (Rhodes Lab)

Edna Vasquez — Edna Vasquez
B.S. Electrical Engineering: Growth and simulation of new semiconductor materials (Wistey Lab)

Isaiah Velazquez — Isaiah Velazquez
B.S. Physics (Theodoropoulou Lab) Now: Conducting post-back summer experience at UT Austin. Applying for doctoral programs for next year

Sarah Weisbrodt — Sarah Weisbrodt
B.S. Biochemistry: Temperature-Dependent Self-Assembly Remodeling by a Polyether Perylene Diimide in Water (Kerwin Lab)

Joanna Zepeda — Joanna Zepeda
B.S. Biology: Synthesis of photothermally active hydrogels (Betancourt Lab)

PREM Staff

Mariah Gutierrez — Mariah Gutierrez
PREM CIMA Administrative Assistant II