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Ravi Subramanian received the 2004 William D. Manly Award for excellence in materials research for his thesis work conducted at Radiation Laboratory. This award is presented by the College of Engineering. Ravi has joined the Chem. Eng. Faculty at Univ. Nevada (Reno Campus). (Thesis Title; Photoelectrochemical and photocatalytic aspects of semiconductor-metal Nanocomposites.)
Roxana Nicolaescu who defended her Ph. D. thesis 2004 summer has joined as a Scientist at Serim Research Corporation, Elkhart. (Thesis Title Radical induced Oxidative transformations of N-Heterocyclic Compounds)
Istvan Robel who defended his thesis in October 2006 has joined as a postdosctoral research associate at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Brian Seger defended his thesis in June 2009

Congratulations to Patrick Brown -Recipient of 2008 Norbert Wiech award. Pat's award

Reesearch Group (Present)

Undergraduate Students

Douglas Pernik (CBE, UND) -Slatt Fellow
Ryan P. Dwyer (Chemistry, UND)
Sarah Schubert (Chemistry, UND)
Peter Lobaccaro (CBE, UND)
Tim Schumer (CBE, UND)
Susan Garabedian (CBE, UND)

Graduate Students

David Baker (Chem. Eng.)

Matt Becker (Physics - coadv. Bruce Bunker)
Clifton Harris (Chemistry)
Sachi Krishnamurthy (Chemistry)
Ian Lightcap (Chemistry)
Ben Meekins (Chem. Eng.)
Sean Murphy (Chemistry - coadv. Libai Huang)
James Radich (Chem. Eng.)
Kevin Tvrdy (Chemistry)
Jeff Christians (Chem. Eng.)

Postdoctoral Researchers/visiting Scientists

Yoonho Jun
Hyunbong Choi

Visiting Scientists

K. Vinodgopal (U. North Carolina)
Julie Peller (Indiana University, Northwest)
Roxana Nicolaescu
Summer 2008

Research Collaborators (U. of Notre Dame)

Prof. Paul McGinn, Chemical & Biomolecular Eng. (Fuel Cells, Hydrogen Economy)

Prof. Ken Kuno, Chemistry & Biochemistry (II-VI Quantum dots & wires)

Prof. Bruce Bunker, Physics, (X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy)

Research Collaborators (External)

Prof Imahori, Kyoto Univ. (Porphyrin based molecular clusters)

Drs. K. George Thomas , RRL, Trivandrum (Chromophore functionalized nanoparticles)

Dr. K. Vinodgopal, Indiana U., N. W. (Fuel Cells and Sonolysis)

Prof. Kevin O'Shea, Florida International University (Environmental Remediation)
Prof. Franz Grieser and Prof. Ashokkumar, University of Melbourne

Research Coworkers (Past )

Rafil Basheer, Nimmi Chandrasekharan, Suresh Das, Nada Dimitrijevic, Bill Ford, K. George Thomas, K. R.
Gopidas, Hong Lee, Zeena S.Pillai, A. Samanta, Raul Suarez; Girish Kumar, T. Hirakawa, M. Hirakawa, T. Hasobe; Theodoros Triantis (Greece); P. K. Sudeep, G. Girish Kumar, Anusorn Kongkanand, Sandy Moisan,
Jin Ho Bang (2008-10), Alexsandra Wojcik (2008-10), Vidya Chakrapani (2009-10)

D. Liu, Julie Peller,Ulick Stafford, Dan Schmelling, Vaidyanathan (Ravi) Subramanian, Ben Merit (Chemistry);Istvan Robel (Physics) (Graduate Students, U. Notre Dame), Brian Seger (2009), Yanghai Yu (2010)

Ali Khazraji, Idriss Bedja, Chouhaid Nasr , Said Barazzouk (Graduate Students, U. Quebec 2006);

Taku Hasobe (Graduate Student Osaka University 2005);
H. Kikuchi (Osaka Prefecture Univ.), Hiroaki Fujiwara, (U. of Osaka), Adam Zacheis (Northwestern); Taku Hasobe (Osaka Univ), Kenji Saito (Osaka Univ.); Ken-ichi Matsuoka (Kyushu Univ. JSPS April-Nov 2010), Azusa Takai (Waseda Univ.-JSPS March-Nov 2010)

Undergraduate Students: Sohaib Hashmi(Fal07-Spring08), Peter Lobaccaro (U. of Notre Dame Fall 2008) Ailette Aguila, Robin Dahlgren, R. Kennedy, Robert Sever, Genevieve Sauve, Matt Rettker (Summer-Fall 2004) Alice Geglio (Cornell Univ ), Ben Edquist (Indiana Univ. Northwest),
Kaylie Young (REU student from Brown Univ.summer 2005); Mariko Anderson (Indiana U. NWsummer 2005);Randy Orr (Indiana U. NW, summer 2005) Julia Edel (Summer REU)

Byron De La Barre, Melisa Clements (Summer 2002), Amy Dawson (Spring, Summer 2000), Rebecca Huehn (Spring 2001); M. C. De Lind, Mark Flumiani, Matt Gevaert, Brian Keller David Kreller, Brian Patrick, B. Sanghavi, Paul Sant, Naomi Stock, Lori Ziolkowsky (U. Waterloo (Canada) Co-Op students) Mehul Haria (Mc Master U. Spring & Summer 2003) Kristine Drew (CoOp Student from Univ. of Waterloofall 2004, summer 2005); Ryan Muszynski (Sprin-Summer 2007) Grahm Williams (Spring 2008)
Meghan Jebb (U. of Notre Dame), Lucy Summerville (U. of Notre Dame) Patrick Brown (U. of Notre Dame, 2007-2009)
Visiying Scientis: Kensuke Takechi (Toyota Centeral R&D, Nagoya) Taicheng An (Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, China, Felix Vietmeyer (Univ. Bielefeld, Germany-Spring Simmer 2006, summer 2008) Yun Hau Ng (Summer 2008) Marius Koch ( Univ. Bielefeld, Germany-Spring Simmer 2008)