Alumni

Postdoctoral Research Associates and Visiting Scientists

  • Dr. Changcheng Zhu (1998-2001)
  • Professor Jinheung Kim, Changwon National University, Korea (shared with Professor Larry Que, summers 1999, 2000, 2001)
  • Professor Nagalingam Balakrishnan, United Tribes Technical College, North Dakota (summer 2001)
  • Mari Carmen Carbajo, visiting graduate student from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, summer 2001 (with Profs. Eduardo Enciso Rodríguez and Marie Jose Torroluo)
  • Dr. Douglas J. Chesnut (2002)
  • Kyu Tae Lee, visiting graduate student from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (2003-2004) (with Prof. Seung Mo Oh)
  • Dr. Hongwei Yan (shared with Professor William H. Smyrl at CEMS) (1998-2002, 2003-2004, now at Western Digital Corp., Lake Forest, CA)
  • Jung Ho Son, visiting graduate student from Sungkyunkwan University, Korea (2004) (advisor Prof. Young-Uk Kwon)
  • Dr. Sangjin Han (2004-2006)
  • Professor Wade Neiwert, Bethel University, St. Paul, MN (summer 2005)
  • Professor Kurt Wiegel, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire (summer 2006) 
  • Professor Kenneth L. Brown, Hope College, Holland, MI (summer 2007)
  • Upsorn Boonyang, visiting graduate student from Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand (2007-2008)
  • Professor Yao Xu, State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan, China (2009)
  • Professor Aijie Han, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Texas Pan American, Edinburgh, TX (summer 2010)
  • Professor M. Rafiee, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Dept. of Chemistry, Gava Zang, Zanjan, Iran (summer 2010)
  • Professor Lida Khalafi, Islamic Azad University, Shahr-e-Qods Branch, Dept. of Chemistry, Iran (summer 2010)
  • Carlos Israel Aguirre Velez, visiting graduate student from the Advanced Technology and Applied Science Research Center of the National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico (2009)

Graduate Students

  • Blake J. Aronson (1994-1999, Ph.D., Senior Associate, Technical Education, ACS)
  • Christopher F. Blanford (1995-2000, Ph.D., lecturer, University of Manchester)
  • Brian T. Holland (1995-1999, Ph.D., scientist at Stepan Company)
  • Bret J. S. Johnson (1995-2001, Ph.D., associate professor, College of St. Scholastica)
  • Myong Hoon Lim (1995-1999, Ph.D., licensing manager Asia Market, GTC Technology)
  • Dean A. Kron (1996-1999, M.S., teacher at Rocori high school)
  • Brian J. Melde (1996-2002, Ph.D., research scientist at the US Naval Research Laboratory)
  • Rick C. Schroden (1997-2002, Ph.D., scientist at Dow Chemical)
  • Sergey Sokolov (1999-2003, Ph.D., researcher, University of Rostock)
  • Mohammed A. Al-Daous (1999-2003, Ph.D., scientist at SABIC)
  • Justin C. Lytle (2000-2005, Ph.D., assistant professor, Pacific Lutheran University)
  • Thanh-Thuy T. Truong (2000-2005, Ph.D., Corrvus)
  • Nicholas S. Ergang (2001-2006, Ph.D., scientist at Nalco)
  • Dan Yu (2001-2005, M.S., engineer at Seagate)
  • Zhiyong Wang (2003-2008, Ph.D., principal engineer at Amperex Technology Limited, Beijing, China)
  • Nicholas Denny (2003-2009, Ph.D., scientist at Nalco)
  • Fan Li (2004-2010, Ph.D., research investigator at DuPont Central R&D)
  • Matthew Dubay (2005-2011, Ph.D., joint with Prof. S. Severtson, quality manager at Midland Technologies, Inc.)
  • Won Cheol Yoo (2005-2010, Ph.D., assistant professor, Hanyang University, Korea)
  • Melissa Fierke (2006-2011, Ph. D., assistant professor, Hamline University)
  • Danhui Ye (2007-2009, M.S., scientist at ExxonMobil, China)
  • Anh Vu (2007-2013, Ph.D., scientist at Argonne National Laboratory)
  • David Josephson (2007-2013, Ph.D., senior process engineer at Seagate)
  • Nicholas Petkovich (2008-2014, Ph.D., scientist at 3M)
  • Yuqiang Qian (2008-2013, Ph.D., scientist at Henkel)
  • Stephen Rudisill (2009-2015, Ph.D., scientist at Hewlett-Packard)
  • Benjamin Wilson (2010-2016, Ph.D., scientist at 3M)
  • Yuan Fang (2011-2013, M.S., high school teacher at TAL Education Group)
  • Camille Malonzo (2012-2017, Ph.D., associate scientist at Phillips 66)
  • Jinbo Hu (2012-2017, Ph.D., lead senior chemist at Amgen)
  • Nam Tran (2013-2020, Ph.D., electrochemist at Earth Science Laboratories)
  • Siyao He (2013-2018, Ph.D., analytical process engineer, Henkel)
  • Wenyang Zhao (2015-2021, Ph.D., postdoc at Georgia Tech)
  • Zhao Wang (2015-2021, Ph.D., R&D engineer at Huawei)
  • Baoyue Fan (2017-2022, Ph.D.)
  • Minog Kim (2017-2022, Ph.D., scientist at Intel)

Undergraduate Students

  • Kimberly Nguyen (1994)
  • Anna Vu (1995)
  • Chris Stepaniak (1996)
  • Michael Dindermann (1995-1997)
  • David Johnson (1996-1997)
  • Andreea Simion (1996-1997)
  • Coline Amaury (1997) (industrial internship)
  • Robert Wipson (1997-1998)
  • Caroline Maleke (1998)
  • Thang Do (1998-99)
  • Sarah Geers (2000-2001)
  • Uppiliappan Krishnamachari (2000-2001)
  • Vishnu Reddy (2002)
  • Robert Lowy (summer 2002)
  • Emily Que (2002-2004)
  • Vivian Vu (2003-2004)
  • Jason Bass (2004)
  • Ryan Turgeon (summer 2004)
  • Phil Jarzombeck (2005-2006)
  • Beth Kiesel (2006-2007) 
  • Sarah Delo (2006-2007)
  • Katie Scholz (2007-2008)
  • Leonhard Sze (summer 2008)
  • Wei Han Chen (2008-2009)
  • Stephen Rudisill (summer 2009)
  • Aboudouzac Amadou (2009-2010)
  • Narmin Ghalichi (2010)
  • Daniel Boman (UROP, 2011)
  • John Philips (UROP, 2011)
  • Nicholas Hein (summer 2011)
  • Wenhao Liu (2011)

NSF-REU or Lando Students

  • Rick Schroden (summer 1995, summer 1996)
  • Chad Walkup (summer 1997)
  • Karlyn E. Skugrud (summer 1999)
  • Justin C. Lytle (summer 1999)
  • Peter V. Abraham (summer 2000)
  • Anna Gopher (summer 2001)
  • Leah Appelhans (2001-2002)
  • Ryan Turgeon (summer 2003)
  • Seraphine Wegner (summer 2004)
  • Nicholas Petkovich (summer 2007)
  • Molly Beernink (summer 2008)
  • Kyle Denk (summer 2008)
  • Eric Popczun (summer 2009)
  • Steve Zambrano (summer 2010)
  • Joseph DeWilde (summer 2010)
  • Xiaoyue Li (summer 2011)

High school students through the Mentor Connection program

  • Nicholas Stein (not related) (2002-2003)