Ulrich Wiesner studied Chemistry in Mainz, Germany, and Irvine, California. He gained his Ph.D. in 1991 with work at the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P), Mainz, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the E.S.P.C.I. in Paris, France until 1993. He joined the Cornell MS&E faculty in 1999 following his Habilitation and became a Full Professor in 2005. He works at the interface between polymer science and solid state chemistry/physics with the goal of generating novel hierarchical and multifunctional hybrid materials. He is the co-founder of Hybrid Silica Technologies, Inc . and the recipient of multiple awards including the Carl Duisberg Memorial Award of the German Chemical Society.
Contact Information:
Prof. Ulrich Wiesner
330 Bard Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Phone: (607) 255-3487
Fax: (607) 255-2365
Student Offices:
304 Thurston Hall
(607) 255-5547
330 Thurston Hall
(607) 255-8742
258 Duffield Hall
(607) 254-8669
Kate Barteau - kpb55@cornell.edu - 304 Thurston
Kate Barteau is from Delaware and earned her BS in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University and her PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of California Santa Barbara.
Fumiaki Matsuoka - fm388@cornell.edu - 304 Thurston
Fumiaki Matsuoka is from Osaka, Japan. He earned a MS in Chemical Engineering from the Osaka University. He joined the group in 2015 as a visiting scientist and is currently working on transient laser heating induced hierarchical porous materials from block copolymer-directed self-assembly.
Zihui (Cathy) Li - zl76@cornell.edu - 304 Thurston
Zihui (Cathy) Li grew up in Huaian, China and attended Peking University where she finished her B.S. degree in Chemistry. She is currently working on block copolymer metal nanoparticle self-assembly.
Kai Ma - km462@cornell.edu - 258 Duffield
Kai Ma comes from Shenzhen, China. He earned his B.S. degree in physics from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and then joined the group in 2009. He is currently working on applications of functional core-shell silica particles..
Teresa Kao - tyk5@cornell.edu - 258 Duffield
Teresa Kao is from Stony Brook, New York. She joined the Wiesner group in 2012 after earning her B.S. in Applied Physics from Columbia University. She is currently working on functional core-shell silica nanoparticles.
Ferdinand Kohle - ffk6@cornell.edu - 258 Duffield
Ferdinand Kohle is from Tuebingen, Germany. He earned a Chemistry B.Sc. and a Chemistry M.Sc. from Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg, Germany. He is currently a Ph.D student in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. His research focuses on the photophysics and applications of functional core-shell silica nanoparticles as well as optical properties of Block Copolymer thin films.
Melik Turker - mzt5@cornell.edu - 258 Duffield
Melik Z. Turker was born and raised in Trabzon, Turkey and earned his B.S. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at Istanbul Technical University (ITU). He joined the group in 2013 and is working on core-shell silica nanoparticles.
Yuk Mun Li - yl855@cornell.edu - 330 Thurston
Yuk Mun Li is from New York City, New York. She received her BS in Chemical Engineering from Syracuse University in 2012. Yuk Mun is a graduate student in CBE and joined the group in Fall 2013. She is currently working on applications for triblock copolymer membranes.
Qi Zhang - qz224@cornell.edu - 330 Thurston
Qi Zhang is from Xi'an China and received her BS in Materials Science and Engineering at Tsinghua University. Qi joined the group in 2013 fall and is working on block copolymer based membranes targeting at water purification.
Ethan Susca - ems427@cornell.edu - 302 Thurston
Ethan Susca grew up in Stockton, California and earned a BS in General Engineering from Harvey Mudd College. He joined the Wiesner and Estroff groups in 2013 as a graduate student in Materials Science and Engineering. He is currently working on directing calcium phosphate into mesoscale architectures through block copolymer templating.
Kasia Oleske - kwo7@cornell.edu - 304 Thurston
Kasia Oleske is from Lancaster, PA, and attended the University of Pennsylvania where she earned her B.S.E. in Materials Science and Engineering. She is currently working jointly with the Wiesner and Estroff groups on BCP directed calcium phosphate hybrids.
Peter Beaucage - pab275@cornell.edu - 304 Thurston
Peter Beaucage is from Cincinnati, Ohio and earned a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati. He joined the group in 2013 and is currently working on block copolymer-directed transition metal oxides, nitrides, and other inorganic materials for both high-performance energy devices and novel electronic, magnetic, and optical properties. He is a joint student with the Gruner group in Physics.
Sarah Hesse - sah354@cornell.edu - 304 Thurston
Sarah Hesse is originally from near Cologne, Germany, but grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area in California. She received her B.S. in Chemistry and B.A. in German from the University of California, Berkeley. Sarah joined the Wiesner group in Fall 2013 as a graduate student in Chemistry and is currently working on mesoporous carbons from block terpolymer self-assembly as electrode materials for energy and other applications.
Tom Gardinier - tcg42@cornell.edu - 258 Duffield
Tom Gardinier is from Goshen, New York. He earned his B.S in Chemistry at Fordham University in 2014 after which he joined the Material Science and Engineering department and the Wiesner group. He is currently working on functionalized core-shell silica nanoparticles.
Parth Vaidya - pnv6@cornell.edu - 304 Thurston
Parth Vaidya is from Mumbai, India and received his B.Tech. in Oils, Oleochemicals and Surfactants Technology from Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai. He joined the Wiesner group in Fall 2015 as an M.S. student in Materials Science and Engineering. He is currently working on the applications of stimuli responsive block copolymer membranes.
Swathi Rao - srr224@cornell.edu - 304 Thurston
Swathi Rao earned her bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore, India. As an MS student in Chemical and Biological Engineering, she is working on applications of nanostructured transition metal oxides and nitrides in energy conversion and storage devices.
An-Yuan Hsu - ah942@cornell.edu - 330 Thurston
An-Yuan Hsu from Taiwan and earned his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from National Taiwan University. As a MS student in Chemical and Biological Engineering, he joined the group in 2015 and is now working on block copolymer silicon gyroid structure.
Zihao Zhang - zz373@cornell.edu - 304 Thurston
Zihao Zhang is from Daqing, China and received his BS degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Tianjin University. Zihao joined the group in fall 2015 as an M.S student and is currently working on the self-assembled monolayers as nucleating surfaces to study early formation pathways of crystallographic polymorphs.
Shaun Alvarado - sja94@cornell.edu - 258 Duffield
Shaun Alvarado is from the Tampa Bay area, Florida. He earned his A.A. in Engineering at Hillsborough Community College in 2011. Then his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Florida Spring 2015. He is a graduate student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and joined the Wiesner group in Fall 2015. His current project pertains to optimizing targeting efficiency and the biodistribution of silica nano particles (C-Dots) and designing a microfluidic device to fabricate said particles.
Kevin Fritz - kef82@cornell.edu - Thurston
Kevin Fritz is from Hillsborough, NJ, and attended the University of Pennsylvania where he earned his B.S.E. in Materials Science and Engineering in May 2014. Kevin works jointly with the Suntivich and Wiesner groups developing gyroidal mixed anion catalysts and catalyst supports for fuel cells as well as water electrolyzers.
Carlie Mendoza
Carlie Mendoza is from Long Island, New York. In 2010, she spent the summer researching the role of membrane type 1 matrix metalloproteinase in ovarian cancer cells at Stony Brook University. As a freshman Rawlings III Cornell Presidential Research Scholar, she joined the Wiesner group in 2012 and is currently working on applications of functional core-shell silica particles.
Nikki Moore
Kathleen (Nikki) Moore is a junior studying Materials Science & Engineering. She is from Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey and joined the Wiesner group in the summer of 2014. Having received an ELI research grant, Nikki is currently working on functional block copolymer membranes using functional inorganic nanoparticles for separation and energy applications.
Alyssa Travitz
Alyssa Travitz is a junior studying Materials Science and Engineering. She joined the Wiesner group in Fall 2013 and is currently working on block copolymer-derived ceramics.
Divya Srinivasan
Divya Srinivasan is from Bangalore, India. She is a sophomore studying Materials Science and Engineering, and joined the Wiesner group in the summer of 2015. Divya is currently working on applications of triblock copolymer membranes.
Sasha Andrievsky
Alexander (Sasha) Andrievsky hails from Webster, New York. He is a junior studying Chemistry. He joined the group during the summer of 2015, and is working on the synthesis of gold nanoparticles.
Katherine Estoque
Katherine Estoque is from Boulder, Colorado. She is a freshman studying chemistry, and joined the group in fall 2015. She is working on block copolymer-derived non-equilibrium structures for separation and energy applications.