Wiesner Group Alumni
Dr. Lilly Tsaur graduated in 2024 and is currently at Intel.
Dr. Konrad Hedderick graduated in 2024 and is currently at University de Geneve.
Dr.Jacob Erstling graduated in 2022 and is now working at Elucida Oncology.
Dr.Dana Chapman graduated in 2022 and is now doing her post-doc at Yale University.
Dr. Rachel Lee graduated in 2022 and is now working at Johnson and Johnson.
Dr. Paxton Thedford graduated in 2022 and is now working at Formlabs in Boston.
Kevin Fritz graduated in 2020.
Dr. Josh Hinckley graduated in 2020 and is now a post-doc at MIT. He eats a lobster roll every day.
Dr. Melik Turker graduated in 2019, man. - He bikes off into the sunset wearing paisley. It is difficult, he ate too much Indian food.
Dr. Sarah Hesse graduated in 2019 and is now a research associate at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
Tom Gardinier - tcg42@cornell.edu - 258 Duffield
Dr. Tom "Chromatography Guy" Gardinier graduated in 2019. He leaves behind his faithful HPLC and two columns.
Dr. Yuk Mun Li graduated in 2018.
Dr. Qi Zhang graduated in 2018.
Dr. Ethan Susca graduated in 2018 and now works at Intel.
Dr. Kasia Oleske graduated in 2018.
Dr. Peter Beaucage graduated in 2018 and is now a post-doc at NIST.
Dr. Ferdinand Kohle graduated in 2018.
Dr. Teresa Kao graduated in 2018 and is now working for Intel.
Dr.Kai Ma graduated in 2017.
Dr. Joerg Werner graduated in 2015 and is now a professor at Boston University.
Dr. Yibei Gu graduated in 2015 and is now working for Dow Chemical.
Dr. Michelle Chavis graduated in 2015.
Dr. Spencer Robbins graduated in 2014 and is now working for Terapore Technologies.
Dr. Yao Sun graduated in 2014.
Dr. Kwan W. Tan graduated in 2014.
Dr. Christina ("C") Cowman-Eggert graduated in 2014 and is now working for 3M in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Dr. Srikant Iyer graduated in 2013 and is now working as a post-doc at Georgia Tech.
Dr. Rachel Dorin graduated in 2013 and is now founder and CEO of TeraPore Technologies.
Dr. Hiroaki Sai graduated in 2012 and continued his work as a postdoc. He currently works at Northwestern University in the group of Prof. Sam Stupp.
Dr. Kahyun Hur is now at Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) in Seoul, South Korea.
Dr. Juho Song graduated in 2012 and is now working for GS Caltex, Korea.
Dr. Teeraporn Suteewong is now working for Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center as a postdoctoral associate.
Dr. Morgan Stefik is now a professor at the University of South Carolina.
Dr. Hitesh Arora is currently working for Intel.
Dr. Erik Herz is now working for Exxon Mobile.
Dr. Chris Orilall is currently working for the Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation, National Research Council, Vancouver, Canada.
Dr. Andrew Burns is currently working at GE Global Research in Schenectady, New York.
Dr. Marleen Kamperman is now a professor at Wageningen University in Netherlands.
Dr. Scott Warren is now a professor at the Univesity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Dr. Phong Du graduated in 2006 and is currently working for DuPont Chemical Company in Delaware.
Dr. Surbhi Mahajan graduated in 2005 and is currently working for DuPont Chemical Company in Delaware.
Dr. Hooisweng Ow graduated in 2005 and is currently working for Hybrid Silica Technologies in Ithaca, NY.
Dr. Anurag Jain graduated in 2005 and currently works for Intel.
Dr. Carlos Garcia graduated from the group in 2004 and currently works for Hewlett-Packard in California
Dr. Shusaku Shoji
Dr. Yusuke Hibi
Dr. Kate Barteau
Dr. Tangi Aubert
Dr. Tobias Hoheisel is now working in patent law in Germany.
Dr. Suntao Wang
Dr. Rui-Qi Song is now working for Goodyear.
Dr. Jinwoo Lee is now an Assistant Professor at POSTECH in Korea.
Dr. (Franz) René Kogler joined our group in 2006. His main research interest was the preparation of semiconducting coil-dendron systems for charge transport investigations.
Dr. Byong-Ki Cho returned to Korea in 2005 as a Professor at Dankook University in Seoul. He returned to our group for a sabbatical in 2011.
Dr. Lilit Yeghiazatian worked in the Wiesner group from 2002-2004 and is currently a professor at the University of Cincinnati.
Dr. Jochen Guttman
Dr. Peter F. Simon
Wanting Zhang graduated in 2024.
Giselle graduated in 2023 and is working at Lilac Solutions.
Sejal Seth graduated in 2023 and is working at Hexion.
Elynn Jensen graduated in 2023 and is working at Lumentum.
Katya Sablina graduated in 2022 and is now working at ionobell.
Alvin Chang graduated in 2022.
Wennie Lee graduated in 2021 and is now working at Formlabs in Boston, MA.
Hui Du graduated in 2021 and is pursuing a Phd in Chemical Engineering at University of Washington.
Aditya graduated in 2020 and is now working at Applied Materials.
Jiazhen Xu graduated in 2019.
Songying Li graduated in 2018.
Parth Vaidya graduated in 2017.
Zihao Zhang graduated in 2017.
Shaun Alvarado graduated in 2017.
Zihui (Cathy) Li
Ying Cong graduated in 2015.
Jennifer Drewes graduated in 2014.
Ji-yeob Kim graduated in 2014.
Xian Shi graduated in 2013 and is now a Ph.D student at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany.<
Tom Swisher graduated in 2012.
Paul Kim graduated in 2011.
Duhan Zhang graduated with her MEng in 2013.
Dahlia Musharrafieh graduated with her MEng in 2012.
Balthazar Lechene went back to France.
Patrick Boldrighini is now working in Massachusetts.
Delphine went back to France.
Yoong Kim worked in the group on fluorescent nanoparticles from 2005-2006 and is currently working for BASF in Singapore.
Chris Burk
Mareli Almeroth was a visiting student from Univ. Mainz in Mainz, Germany working with the group on the development of novel nanoparticles for biotechnology. She has returned to Germany to continue her education in Chemistry
James Tallman graduated in 2023 and is currently pursuing a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign.
Jonathan Wang graduated in 2021. Jonathan is currently working in the Boston area.
Fem Woodruf graduated in 2021. Fem is currently working in the biotechnology industry.
Naedum DomNwachukwu graduated in 2020. Naedum is currently pursuing an M.D/PhD at Northwestern University.
Grant Feuer graduated in 2020. Grant is currently a Research Assistant at Tisch Multiple Sclerosis Research Center of New York working on clonally expanded B cells towards determining multiple sclerosis causation.
Jessica Hersh graduated in 2019. Jessica is now pursuing her PhD at University of Miami.
Rebecca Mort Graduated in 2019. She is now studying at the University of Iowa. Good luck Rebecca!
Alexander (Sasha) Andrievsky graduated in 2017.
Katie Estoque worked in the group from 2015-2016.
Amar Shah worked in the group in 2016-2017.
Kathleen (Nikki) Moore graduated in 2016.
Alyssa Travitz graduated in 2016 and is now pursuing a PhD at the University of Michigan.
Carlie Mendoza graduated in 2016.
Troy Batugal worked in the group and graduated Cornell in 2015.
Sam Johnson worked in the group and graduates Cornell in 2016.
Aditya Agashe worked in the group.
Deborah Liu worked in the group and graduated Cornell in 2013.
Vishal Vijay worked in the group, graduated Cornell in Fall 2012, and is now at SEEO, Hayward CA.
Stacey Saba graduated in 2012 and is pursuing her PhD at University of Minnesota.
Daniel Shae graduated in 2012 and is pursuing his MEng at Cornell University.
Andrea Bowring graduated in 2011 and is pursuing her PhD at Stanford University.
Alden Coots
Samantha Stout is pursuing her PhD at UC San Diego.
Sahil Jaykumar Patel
Peter Bai graduated in 2010 and is pursuing his PhD at UC Berkeley.
Laura Connely
Christopher Sarra graduated in 2009 and is currently pursuing a Master's degree in ECE at Johns Hopkins University.
Phil Chuang
Matt Perkins was Scott's slave, toiling on nanoparticle catalysts for fuel cell membranes. He was raised by a clan of black bears in the Catskill Mountains before being kidnapped by two hippies and forced to live in suburban Guilford, CT. He frequently fails Materials Science & Engineering exams and speaks Mandarin Chinese when drinking. He is naive enough to think that he will bring clean energy to China following his success in bringing clean energy to Cornell while serving as President of Kyoto Now!, a student group working to reduce Cornell’s greenhouse gas emissions. Matt's criminal record includes rock climbing Cornell's buildings and "singing" as a Tenor with the Glee Club. He will continue to do research in the diSalvo group in Chemistry. Eventually, he will join GE Energy in Schenectady, NY.
Liane Slaughter still looks really happy, but has moved on to pursue her scientific career at Rice University in Texas, after her graduation from Cornell with a degree in Chemistry.
Billy Yau's initials still spell bly, which still sounds like billy.. so he's his own abbreviation. He graduated in 2007 with a degree in Materials Science and Engineering and has moved on to an industry position in Michigan.
Lauren Messina worked with Scott, and is now pursuing research in Food Sciences (mmmm.. food) among other things
Matt Banholzer graduated with a Chemistry Degree in 2006 and is currently pursuing a PhD at Northwestern University in the field of materials chemistry, working in Chad Mirkin's group on anistropic nanostrucutres and biomaterials.
Daniel Bonner graduated in 2006 with a degree in Materials Science & Engineering and is currently pursuing a PhD someplace in the Greater Boston Area.
Zach Cater-Cyker graduated in 2006 with a degree in Materials Science & Engineering and is currently working for Mobil Oil Corporation in Virginia.
Aaron Jackson graduated 2006 with a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering. He is currently attending graduate school at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where he is working with Paul Braun on self-healing materials.
Raluca Scarlat graduated in 2006 with a degree in Chemical Engineering and is currently working for Mobil Oil Corporation.
Tara Zedayko graduated in 2006 with a degree in Materials Science & Engineering, and is currently working for Johnson & Johnson in New Jersey.
Ben Dworken graduated in 2004 with a degree in Materials Science and Engineering
Conrad Lovell graduated in 2004 with a degree in Materials Science and Engineering
Eri Igarashi, a visiting scientist, worked in the group from 2016-2018.
Cintia Belen Contreras, a visiting postdoctoral Fulbright fellow from the Nanosystems Institute i National University of San Martin (INS - UNSAM), visited in 2017.
Fumiaki Matsuoka, a visiting scientist, worked in the group from 2015-2017.
Juan Alvarez, an exchange student from the National University of Colombia, visited in 2016.
Miguel de Dios, a pre-doctoral researcher from the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid and Ceramic and Glass Institute of the Spanish National Research Council (ICV-CSIC), visited in 2015.
Camila S. Brey Gil, a PhD student from Brazil, visited in 2014.
Takeshi Yuasa, from JSR Corporation in Yokkaichi, Japan, visited in 2013-2014.
Eduardo Mendes spent a sabbatical in 2014 and returned to the Department of Chemical Engineering of Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands).
Tobias Dörr visited as a Master's student from Westphalian Wilhelms University Muenster, Germany. His research at Cornell focused on the synthesis of block-copolymers and their applications as structure directing agents for photocatalytic active materials.
Florian Geyer studies Chemistry at the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz, Germany. He visited the group from September 2012 till February 2013. Florian worked on mesoporous metal oxide-carbon composites for high-rate battery electrodes.
Prof. Rodrigo Orefice spent his sabbatical in 2011/2012 and returned to the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil.
Prof. Taeghwan Hyeon spent his sabbatical from 2008-2009 and returned to Seoul National University, Korea.