Members
Texas State University Faculty
Texas State SEED Faculty & Liason
Dr. Karen Lewis
Biochemistry, MSEC PREM SEED
Dr. Nathan Satchell
Physics, MSEC SEED
Dr. Christopher Wight
PREM-MRSEC Faculty Liaison
University of Texas MRSEC Faculty
Dr. Joaquin Resasco
Doctoral PREM Researchers
Scott Barrett
PhD Materials Science, Engineering and Commercialization: Advancement of Renewable Energy via Organic Chemistry (Brittain Lab)
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
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
Zachary Naymik
PhD Materials Science, Engineering and Commercialization (Rhodes Lab)
M.S. PREM Researchers
Makena Burns
Micheal Goodman
M.S. Physics: Imaging 2D materials using advanced AFM techniques (Miyahara Lab)
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
Subodh Aryal
B.S. Mechanical Engineering: Fabrication and Optical Study of Moire Patterns in Twisted 2D Heterostructures (Miyahara Lab)
Elissa Avila
B.S. Physics (Theodoropoulou Lab)
Shreejal Bhattarai
B.S. (Miyahara Lab)
Melany Bouyer
Nicolas Bueno Ponce
B.S. Biochemistry: Dynamic agar hydrogels with hyaluronic acid (Betancourt Lab)
Tegan Dagley
B.S. Biochemistry: (Kerwin Lab)
Stephanie Espinosa
B.S. Physics (WisteyLab)
Lucas Ferguson
B.S. (Kerwin Lab)
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)
Dipti Koirala
B.S. Electrical Engineering: Fabrication and Optical Characterization of Moiré patterns in twisted 2-D h-BN.
(Miyahara Lab)
Mal Millholland
B.S. Chemistry: Laser Synthesis of Mixed Metal Spinel Materials for the Oxidation Reduction Reaction (Martin Lab)
Ian Morgan
B.S. Chemistry & Criminal Justice: Photoisomerization of Azobenzenes in Polysaccharides
(Brittain Lab)
Utsab Pandey
B.S. (Miyahara Lab)
Ashok Paudel
B.S. Electrical Engineering: DNA Dumbbells (Miyahara Lab)
Jacob Petrekovich
B.S. (Brittain Lab)
Deena Reinikka
B.S. (Brittain Lab)
Nathalia Sauceda
B.S. (Brittain Lab)
Amelia Scott
B.S. Microbiology: Dynamic Reconfigurable Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications
(Betancourt Lab)
Tyler Sheppard
B.S. (Theodoropoulou Lab)
McKenzie Siller
B.S. Biochemistry: Nanoparticles with miRNA in treatment of neuroblastoma (Betancourt Lab)
Dashiell Bradley Smith
B.S. Structural and Electrochemical Characterization of Y₂Ru₂O₇ Pyrochlores for Oxygen Evolution Catalysis
(Rhodes Lab)
Brandon Taylor
B.S: Preparation of miRNA-loaded nanoparticles for the treatment of neuroblastoma (Betancourt lab) (part of URISE program)
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
B.S. (Theodoropoulou Lab)
Sydney Mock
B.S. Physics (Satchell SEED Lab)
Clayton Wardwell
B.S. (Martin Lab)
Ben Williams
B.S. Brittain Lab
Nikki Ziaei
B.S. (Kerwin Lab)
PREM Affiliates
Jesus Adame-Solorio
Post-Doctoral Scholar (Rhodes Lab)
Moriom Afiza
PhD Materials Science, Engineering and Commercialization: (Betancourt Lab)
Khorshed 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
PhD Materials Science, Engineering and Commercialization: (Rhodes Lab)
Sakib Bhuiyan
PhD Materials Science, Engineering and Commercialization: Synthesis and Characterization of Photothermal Hydrogels (Betancourt Lab)
Shuvo Brahma
PhD Materials Science, Engineering and Commercialization: Vapor phase deposition of Electroactive polymers on nanofiber (Betancourt Lab)
Sam Cantrell
(Theodoropoulou Lab)
Nazwa Chowdhury
(Miyahara Lab)
Keya Das
PhD Materials Science, Engineering and Commercialization: Application of Hydrogel in stem cell differentiation or tissue engineering (Betancourt Lab)
Hailey Dudley
M.S. Biochemistry: Engineering Thermoresponsive Perylene Diimides for G-Quadruplex Targeting (Kerwin Lab)
Aidan Gustafson
B.S. Biochemistry: Characterization of EYA1 and EYA2 N-Terminal Hydrogels (Lewis SEED Lab)
Bijay Khanal
M.S. Physics: New Physics at the interface between thin film superconductors and topological magnets (Satchell SEED Lab)
Biddhut Lamichhane
PhD Materials Science, Engineering and Commercialization: (WisteyLab)
Md Mahamudul Hasan
John Miracle
PhD Materials Science, Engineering and Commercialization: (Theodoropoulou Lab)
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)
Priyanshi Patel
M.S. Physics (Miyahara Lab)
Stuart Plaugher
B.S. Electrical Engineering (Miyahara and Wistey Lab)
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
Rajendra Rai
M.S. Microscopy (Miyahara Lab)
Junaid Ur Rehman
PhD Materials Science, Engineering and Commercialization: Polymer nanocomposites for water purification (Betancourt Lab)
Eryn Russel
B.S. Chemistry: Laser synthesis of ilminites (Martin Lab)
Barnabas Valenti
B.S. Physics: DNA Quantum dots (Miyahara Lab)
Diksha Wagle
M.S. Chemistry: Effect of Aluminum-substitution and Anion Interactions in Nickel-Iron Hydroxide Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysts (Rhodes Lab)
PREM Alumni
PREM Alumni
Bekzat Abubakirov
B.S. (Brittain Lab)
Eniola Adegbola
Sunil Adhikari
Ayodeji Akinloye
Luis Albiter
Postdoctoral Researcher: Ruthenium-Zirconium Oxides for Highly Stable Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysts (Rhodes Lab)
Kobe De La Paz
Augustus Arbogast
Kathleen Bailey
Nikki Broussard
Natalie Brown
Abby Bosket
Ellee Bounds
George Bruen
B.S. Industrial Engineering: Designing and fabricating battery and electrolyzer cells (Rhodes Lab) Now: Finishing degree at Texas State University
Warren Burke
Camden Caffey
Emily Camera
Edith Collins
Carter Cunningham
Emma Die
Haley Dutton
Denally Escalona
Adrian Fernandez
Viola Fieglein
PhD IMBC: Utilization of ortho- and para- substituted azobenzene for concerted and controlled photoswitching (Brittain Lab) (Moved to Jacobs Lab)
Idania Galvan
Jacobo Garza
Ben Gibson
Austin Gillette
Kayley Green-Tooney
Suzanna Griffin
Jacob Guerrero
Mariah Gutierrez
Chloe Hansom
Grace Haya
Ikel Hernandez
Isabella Horcha
B.S. Chemistry: Laser Synthesis of Rutile Solid Solutions for Improved Electrocatalytic Activity (Martin Lab)
Yordanos Kinfe
B.S. Biochemistry: Dynamic Reconfigurable Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications (Betancourt Lab) Now: Finishing degree at Texas State University
Dean Koehne
Patrick Kollias
Hector Lazaro
Skyler Lindsey
B.S. Physics (Theodoropoulou Lab) Now: Starting PhD in physics at University of Delaware
Nicholas Lontkowski
Diego Luna
Marc Maldonado
Jaret Manley
M.S. Chemistry: Effect of Nickel Hydroxide Cathode Composition on Electrochemical Performance of Nickel-Zinc Batteries
(Rhodes Lab)
Alan Martinez
B.S. Chemistry: Laser synthesis and characterization of metal oxides on metal surfaces (Martin Lab) Now: Finishing degree at Texas State University
Mason Mault
Aleena Medrano
B.S. Animal Science: Preparing and characterizing azobenzene compounds (Brittain Lab)
Christy Meyer
Sarah Mitchell
Juanangel Montemayor
Ezequiel (Zeke) Montes
Len Mouer
B.S. (Brittain Lab)
Jennifer Navarro
Shashank Neupane
Tan Nguyen
Alison Nichols
Ifeanyi Nwanegbo
Iris Okoro
B.S. Electrical Engineering: Automating Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy (Miyahara Lab)
Josue Osorio
Mackenzie Otakpor
Madeleine Pastore
Ethan Patterson
B.S. Electrical Engineering (Wistey Lab) Now: Pursuing internship
Jessica Peterson
Gabriel Pohlman
Eunice Rodriguez
B.S. Clinical Laboratory Science: Incorporation of RGD peptide into PEG-MAL hydrogels for cell encapsulation (Betancourt Lab)
Lilian Roe
Greta Sanchez
Marvin Santiago
Layne Sauer
Alex Sharpton
B.S. (Martin Lab)
Riley Sheikh
B.S. Chemistry: (Martin Lab)
Cory Silguero
Caleb Solis
Venus Stanton
Madeline Tello*
Kushal Thapa
Edgar Torres
Adelyne Towne
B.S. Biochemistry: Synthesis of Conductive Polymer Bottle Brushes (Irvin Lab) (Moved to Dr. Karen Lewis Lab)
Michael Urena
Edna Vasquez
Isaiah Velazquez
Sarah Weisbrodt
Joanna Zepeda
Texas State PREM Staff