Former Group Members

Susie X. Chen (Undergraduate research student, Dec. 2006 - Apr. 2007)


 
Dr. V. Koombil Kummaya Praneeth (Graduate student, Aug. 2003 - Feb. 2008)
Thesis: "Model Complexes of Heme Protein NO Adducts: Syntheses, Spectroscopy, Electronic Structures, and Reactivity"
Current Occupation: Associate Professor at Pratap University, Jaipur, India


 
Dr. Florian Paulat (Graduate student, Aug. 2004 - April 2008)
Thesis: "Synthesis, MCD- and Raman-Spectroscopic, and Quantum Chemical Investigation of Ferric Heme Model Complexes and their Reaction with NO"
Current Occupation: Senior Researcher at Evonik Degussa GmbH, Germany

 
Yuki Murata (Undergraduate research student, Jan. 2007 - Apr. 2008)
Current Occupation: Partner Oparations Manager at Google in Tokyo, Japan

 
Dr. Huayang Lee (Postdoctoral Fellow, June 2007 - July 2008)
Current Occupation: Research Scientist at Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA


 

Group BBQ, June 2007


 
Alex Navarro (SROP summer undergraduate research student from UT San Antonio, June 2008 - August 2008)

 
Corey Lager (Undergraduate research student, Sept. 2007 - Dec. 2008)
Honors Thesis: "Synthesis of Ruthenium-Nitrosyl Complexes with PNP Pincer Ligands for Application in Photodynamic Therapy"

 

Group BBQ, July 2008


 
Sherri Martin (Undergraduate research student, Sept. 2008 - April 2009)
Current Occupation: Physician Assistant and Sub-I at Bexley Dermatology in Columbus, OH


 
Corinne Sulok (Masters student, July 2007 - December 2009)
Current Occupation: Quality Control Chemist at Voyant Beauty in Elkhart, IN


 

Memorial Day BBQ, May 2009


 
Qi N. Zhang (HHMI summer undergraduate research student from Kalamazoo College, June 2010 - August 2010)

 
Breana Siljander (Undergraduate research student, May 2009 - June 2010)

 
Thomas Seong-Soo Chae (Undergraduate research student, Jan. 2010 - April 2011)
Current Occupation: Manufactoring Engineer at Ford Motor Company in Canton, MI


 
Melissa B. Hoffman (Undergraduate research student, May 2009 - April 2011)
Honors Thesis: "Model Complexes for Flavorubredoxin Nitric Oxide Reductase"
Current Occupation: Dermatology Resident at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist in Winston-Salem, NC


 
Josh Skodack (Masters student, July 2009 - April 2011)
Current Occupation: High School Math/Science Teacher in Ypsilanti, MI


 

Group BBQ, Aug. 2010


 
Dr. Grace Galinato (Postdoctoral Fellow, Oct. 2007 - June 2011)
Current Occupation: Associate Professor of Chemistry at Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FL


 
Claire Goodrich (Summer undergraduate research student from the University of Minnesota at Morris, May 2011 - July 2011)

 
Dr. Anna Merkle (Graduate student, May 2007 - Dec. 2011)
Thesis: "Investigation of the Electronic Structure and Photolability of Copper-, Manganese-, and Ruthenium-Nitrosyl Complexes"
Current Occupation: Associate Scientific Information Analyst at CAS in Columbus, OH

 
Nicholas Roe (Masters student, Mai 2011 - April 2012)
Current Occupation: Freelance Math and Science Tutor in Salisbury, NC

 

Group BBQ, July 2011


 
Dr. Lili Arabuli (Visiting research scholar, September 2010 - December 2010; Fulbright Scholar, November 2011 - August 2012)
Current Occupation: Associate Professor at the University of Georgia in Tbilisi, Georgia


 
Matt Forster (Undergraduate research student, Sept. 2010 - August 2012)
Current Occupation: Senior Research Scientist at Regis Technologies in Chicago, IL


 
Dr. Tim Berto (Graduate student, May 2008 - Dec. 2012)
Thesis: "Synthetic, Spectroscopic, and Theoretical Investigations into the Interactions and Detoxification of Nitric Oxide in Biology"
Current Occupation: Secondary Science Student Teacher in Madison, WI

 
Sheng Zheng (Undergraduate research student, Jan. 2011 - Dec. 2012)
Current Occupation: Flow Assurance Engineer at ExxonMobil in Houston, TX


 
Katie (Craigo) Whitaker (Masters student, May 2012 - Dec. 2012)
Current Occupation: Chemistry Instructor at Louisiana Delta Community College, Monroe, LA

 
Dr. Lauren Goodrich (Graduate student, May 2008 - Dec. 2012)
Thesis: "Model Complexes of Cytochrome P450 Nitric Oxide Reductase"
Current Occupation: Vice President, Therapeutic Discovery at Nimble Therapeutics in Madison, WI

 

Group BBQ, June 2012


 
Dr. Deidra Gerlach (Graduate student, May 2008 - June 2013; joint student with the Coucouvanis group)
Thesis: "Synthesis and Characterization of Functionalized [4Fe-4S] Cubane Clusters and Linkage to Metalloporphyrins as Catalytic Sites"
Current Occupation: Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire

 
Sarah Neville (REU summer undergraduate research student from the College of the Holy Cross, June 2013 - Aug. 2013)

 
Nate Wirgau (Undergraduate research student, May 2013 - Dec. 2013)

 
Jamal Mohamud (Undergraduate research student, Dec. 2013 - May 2014)

 

Group BBQ, June 2013


 
Nicole Kindermann (Visiting Research Scholar in the Lehnert group, from Prof. Franc Meyer's laboratory at the University of Göttingen, May 2014 - Aug. 2014)
Current Occupation: Postdoc at ICIQ in Tarragona, Spain


 
Christian Ramsland (REU summer undergraduate research student from Baylor University, May 2014 - Aug. 2014)

 

Group BBQ, June 2014


 
Casey van Stappen (Graduate student, May 2014 - May 2015; joint student with the Pecoraro group)
Current Occupation: Postdoc with Prof. Yi Lu, University of Texas at Austin

 
Anne Schober (Visiting Research Scholar in the Lehnert group, from Prof. Franc Meyer's laboratory at the University of Göttingen, April 2015 - May 2015)

 
Joseph Gurrentz (Undergraduate research student, Jan. 2013 - July 2015)
Current Occupation: Environmental, Energy, & Labor Policy Analyst at the New Jersey Senate Democratic Office in Trenton, NJ


 
Karina Gomez (KINSC summer undergraduate research student from Haverford College, May - July 2015)
Current Occupation: Community Engagement Manager at the Center for Environmental Health in Los Angeles County, CA


 
Dr. Shawn Eady (Graduate student, May 2011 - Jan. 2016)
Thesis: "Design of Catalyst Interfaces for Heterogeneous Dihydrogen Production Manifolds and Incorporation into Photocathode Systems"
Current Occupation: Scientist at Sironix Renewables in Seattle, WA

 
Dr. Amy Speelman (Graduate student, May 2011 - April 2016)
Thesis: "Investigation of the Electronic Structure and Reactivity of Non-Heme Iron Nitrosyl and Nitroxyl Complexes"
Current Occupation: Staff scientist, Radiochemical Processing Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)

 
Claire Kozemchak (Undergraduate research student, May 2014 - April 2016)
Current Occupation: EHR Support Analyst at Outside In in Portland, OR


 
Desmond Madu (Undergraduate research student, Oct. 2014 - April 2016)
Current Occupation: Graduate student at the University of Nevada in Reno in the Barile group


 
Marjan Hosseinzadeh (Visiting Research Scholar in the Lehnert group, Oct. 2015 - May 2016)
Current Occupation: Postdoc with Prof. Paul Kögerler, Institut fuer Anorganische Chemie, RWTH Aachen, Germany


 

Group BBQ, August 2015


 
Richard Wan (Undergraduate research student, May 2015 - Aug. 2016)

 
Dr. Ashley McQuarters (Graduate student, May 2012 - Dec. 2016)
Thesis: "Model Complexes for Reactive Intermediates in Cytochrome P450 Nitric Oxide Reductase (P450nor)"
Current Occupation: Research Chemist at General Motors in Pontiac, MI

 
Jacques Kumutima (Masters student, May 2015 - Dec. 2016)

 
Max Bilodeau (Masters student, May 2016 - Dec. 2016)

 
David Vargas (Undergraduate research student, Jan. 2016 - May 2017)
Current Occupation: Senior Scientist at Merck


 

Group BBQ, July 2016


 
Dr. Subhra Samanta (Postdoctoral Fellow, Nov. 2015 - Oct. 2017)
Current Occupation: DST Inspire Faculty, CSIR- Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur, India


 
Paul Yousif (Undergraduate research student, Sept. 2016 - April 2018)

 
Dr. Matt Wolf (Graduate student, May 2013 - April 2018)
Thesis: "Heme Protein Engineering and Mechanistic Investigations"
Current Occupation: Postdoc with Prof. Peter Tremaine, Department of Chemistry, University of Guelph

 

Group picture, Aug. 2017


 
Paty Armenta (REU summer undergraduate research student from Los Angeles Harbor College, May 2018 - Aug. 2018)
Current Occupation: Graduate student at the University of Wisconsin - Madison


 

Group picture, Aug. 2018


 
Dr. Andrew Hunt (Graduate student, May 2014 - May 2019)
Thesis: "Synthesis and Spectroscopic Characterization of Ferric Heme-Thiolate Complexes and Their Reactivity with NO as Models for Cytochrome P450 Nitric Oxide Reductase"
Current Occupation: Senior Scientist at NOTA Laboratories in Ann Arbor, MI

 
Diamond Thomas (Undergraduate research student, Oct. 2014 - April 2019)
Current Occupation: Clinical Research Coordinator at Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor, MI


 

Group picture, June 2019


 
Elliot Silk (Summer undergraduate research student from the University of Rochester, May 2019 - Aug. 2019)
Current Occupation: Graduate student at New York University in the Diao group


 
Yu Zong (Visiting undergraduate research student from Fudan University, China, June 2019 - Sept. 2019)

 
Allie Batka (Undergraduate research student and Masters student, Sept. 2016 - April 2020)
Current Occupation: Graduate student at UC Berkeley in the Marletta group


 
Stephanie Camarena (Undergraduate research student, Sept. 2017 - April 2020)

 
Dr. Molly MacInnes (Graduate student, May 2016 - May 2020)
Thesis: "Materials for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage"
Current Occupation: Assistant Professor at Grinnell College

 
Dr. Corey White (Graduate student, May 2016 - August 2020)
Thesis: "Modelling Flavodiiron Nitric Oxide Reductases: Geometric and Electronic Structure of Key Intermediates and Mechanistic Insights"
Current Occupation: Senior Scientist at NOTA Laboratories in Ann Arbor, MI

 

Group picture, May 2021


 
Dr. Hai Dong (Graduate student, May 2017 - August 2021)
Thesis: "Synthesis and Reactivity of Non-Heme Iron-Nitrosyl Complexes that Model the Active Sites of NO Reductases"
Current Occupation: TD Module & Integration Yield Engineer at Intel in Santa Clara, CA

 
Dr. Brad Musselman (Graduate student, May 2017 - August 2022)
Thesis: "Cobalt Porphyrinoid Complexes in Catalysis: Mechanistic Insights into Carbene Transfer and Biocatalysis Applications"
Current Occupation: Postdoc with Prof. Leslie Murray, University of Florida

 
Garrett Reed (Masters student, May 2020 - August 2022)

 
Manon Nassar (Masters student, May 2022 - August 2022)

 
Dr. Victor Sosa Alfaro (Graduate student, May 2018 - Dec. 2022)
Thesis: "Modification of Heme Proteins for Reactivity and Mechanistic Studies"
Current Occupation: Research Associate for X-ray Spectroscopy at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), Stanford, CA

 
Abby Bracken (Undergraduate research student, Sept. 2020 - April 2023)
Current Occupation: Graduate student at the University of Chicago


 
Dr. Jill Harland (Graduate student, May 2018 - May 2023)
Thesis: "Mechanistic Investigation of N-N Bond Forming Reactions in Nature"
Current Occupation: Postdoc at the DoD

 
Hannah Palomino (Undergraduate research student and Masters student, Sept. 2019 - May 2023)
Current Occupation: Graduate student at Northwestern University


 

Group picture, July 2022


 
Felipe de Santis Gonçalves (Visiting graduate student from the Chemistry Institute of São Carlos, University of São Paulo, Brazil, Feb. 2023 - July 2023)
Current Occupation: Graduate student at the University of São Paulo


 
Lily Press (Summer undergraduate research student from Muhlenberg College, May 2023 - Aug. 2023)
Current Occupation: Graduate student at the University of Michigan


 
Dr. Virginia Larson (Graduate student, May 2019 - Dec. 2023)
Thesis: "Earth Abundant Transition Metal Molecular Complexes for Water Splitting"
Current Occupation: Postdoc at NREL

 

Group picture, July 2023


 
Esmee DenOtter (Undergraduate research student, Sept. 2021 - April 2024)

 
Dr. Elizabeth Manickas (Graduate student, May 2019 - June 2024)
Thesis: "Model Complexes for Reactive Intermediates in NOx Interconversions in Nature and Applications in Medicine"
Current Occupation: Postdoc with Prof.s Mark Meyerhoff and Nicolai Lehnert, University of Michigan

 
Christopher Kim (Undergraduate research student, Jan. 2024 - Aug. 2024)
Current Occupation: Undergraduate student at Yale University


 
Sophia Lemieux (Summer undergraduate research student from Brandeis University, May 2024 - Aug. 2024)
Current Occupation: Undergraduate student at Brandeis University


 
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