PhD Projects Academic Year 2016-17
Abdulaziz (Aziz) Alherz
- Advisor(s): Charles Musgrave
- Project Title: Screening of potential renewable hydride donors for the catalytic reduction of CO2 to fuels
Thomas (Tom) Aunins
- Advisor(s): Anushree Chatterjee
- Project Title: Nucleic acid therapeutics for treating antibiotic resistance
Zachary (Zach) Bare
- Advisor(s): Charles Musgrave
- Project Title: Quantum simulations of bi-functional catalysts for ammonia synthesis
Adam Baz
- Advisor(s): Adam Holewinski
- Project Title: Kinetic and spectroscopic characterization of organic electro-oxidations on bifunctional catalysts
Shellby Benefield
- Advisor(s): Unassigned
- Project Title: In progress
Sarah Bull
- Advisor(s): Charles Musgrave, Alan Weimer
- Project Title: Atomic layer deposition of mullite thin films on TRISO nuclear fuel pellets to reduce oxidation
Benjamin (Ben) Carberry
- Advisor(s): Kristi Anseth
- Project Title: Design of hydrogel biomaterials with PEG norbornene bottlebrush polymers
Kristen Eller
- Advisor(s): Stephanie Bryant, Anushree Chatterjee
- Project Title: Mechanically stiff hydrogels for ssteochondral tissue engineering: designing 3D printed and biocompatible scaffolds
Jacob Fenster
- Advisor(s): Ryan Gill
- Project Title: Development of novel genome engineering technologies
Katrina Hanson
- Advisor(s): Prashant Nagpal
- Project Title: Optical sequencing
Samuel (Sam) Hoff
- Advisor(s): Hendrik Heinz
- Project Title: Apatite/protein interactions in bone
Alexander (Alex) Jenkins
- Advisor(s): Will Medlin, Charles Musgrave
- Project Title: Designing interfacial active sites for improved catalyst activity and selectivity
Travis Jensen
- Advisor(s): Michael Shirts
- Project Title: Understanding and controlling the plasticity of protein binding domains
Max Levy
- Advisor(s): Prashant Nagpal
- Project Title: Light activated nanotherapeutics to treat multi-drug-resistant bacteria
Gregory (Greg) Morrin
- Advisor(s): Dan Schwartz
- Project Title: Macromolecule dynamics on heterogeneous materials
Michael Nathanson
- Advisor(s): Hendrik Heinz
- Project Title: Material theory and simulation of corrosion
Rocio Navarro
- Advisor(s): Robert H. Davis
- Project Title: Emulsion flows with surfactants
Rebecca (Becky) O'Toole
- Advisor(s): Alan Weimer, Charles Musgrave
- Project Title: Optimized heat sink for high-energy LED
Varsha Rao
- Advisor(s): Kristi Anseth
- Project Title: Understanding mechanicalÌýcues that drive the differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells
Mathew (Mat) Rasmussen
- Advisor(s): Will Medlin
- Project Title: Structure sensitivity of deoxygenation reactions of metal catalysts
Shambojit Roy
- Advisor(s): Andrew Goodwin, Jennifer Cha
- Project Title: Theranostic nanoparticle-polymer composites for externally-triggered drug delivery
Ankur Sarkar
- Advisor(s): Jerome Fox
- Project Title: Molecular evolution
Michael Trombold
- Advisor(s): Stephanie Bryant
- Project Title: Mechanically stiff hydrogels for ssteochondral tissue engineering: understanding the local cues that drive stem cell differentiation
Haichao Wu
- Advisor(s): Dan Schwartz
- Project Title: Nanoparticle and macromolecule transport in porous materials