Principal Investigator

Jennifer L. Schaefer

Sheehan Family Collegiate Professor, University of Notre Dame, 2023 - present

Associate Professor, 2021 - 2023

Assistant Professor, 2015 - 2021

NRC Postdoctoral Research Associate, NIST, 2014 - 2015

Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Cornell University, 2014

M.Eng, B.Ch.E., Chemical Engineering, Widener University, 2008

B.S., Chemistry, Widener University, 2008


Postdoctoral Associate

Govinda Devkota

Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, Miami University (Ohio), 2023

M.S., Chemistry, Tribhuwan University, 2016


Graduate Students

Lingyu Yang

M.S., Polymer Science, Case Western Reserve University, 2019

B.S., Chemistry, Sichuan University, 2017

Jizhou (January) Jiang

B.Eng., Polymer Materials and Engineering, Sichuan University, 2020

Piyush Deshpande

B.Eng., Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 2021

Emmanuel Afreh

B.S., Materials Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, 2023

Nellie Bowen

B.A., Chemistry, Bard College, 2020

Fati Lukeman

B.S., Chemical Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, 2023

Raúl Chávez Ramírez

B.S., Nanotechnology Engineering, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, 2024


Undergraduate Students

Current as of March 2025

Bridget Freczko, ‘26

Nathan Theodore, ‘26

Carter Dauenhauer, ‘26

Madeline Epping, ‘26

Anna Knizner, ‘26

Daniel Burger, ‘27

Kristel Castellanos, ‘27


Former Group Members

PhD Graduates

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Dr. Jiacheng Liu, Ph.D. ‘23

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Dr. Peng He, Ph.D. ‘22

Exponent

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Dr. Bumjun Park, Ph.D. ‘22

Idaho National Laboratory

Dr. Hunter Ford, Ph.D. ‘21

Naval Research Laboratory

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Dr. Laura Merrill, Ph.D. ‘19

Sandia National Laboratories

Master’s Graduates

Jordan Smith, M.S. ‘24

General Electric

Other Graduate Students

Erkin Yildiz, from University of Brescia, Italy

Jared Novacich - Trion Coatings

David Sundermann, Ph.D. ‘21 from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Dr. Buket Boz, Ph.D. ‘21 from University of Brescia, Italy - Austrian Institute of Technology

Dr. Tanmay Dev, Ph.D. ‘21 from University of Brescia, Italy

Yubing Dou

Chuanchuan Cui, M.S. from Shandong University of Technology


Former Postdoctoral Associate

Dr. Sunil P. Upadhyay - Midwest Biomedical Research Foundation, Department of Veterans Affairs

Former ND Undergraduate Researchers

Zachary Dooner, '26

Katherine Zinkan, '25

Natalie Norman, '25

Sam Chen, '24 - PhD student at University of Pennsylvania

Peter Schimpf, '24 - PhD student at University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Natalia Carrasco-Munoz, '24

Nathaniel Moller, B.S. '23 - HB Fuller

David Webster, B.S. '23 - Boston Consulting Group

Edward Zornow, B.S. '23

Hannah Collins, B.S. '22 - Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

Josiah Viitala, B.S. '22

Andrew Scott Manning, B.S. '22 - Sandia National Laboratories

Emma Kerr, B.S. '22

Tara Senn, B.S. '22

Cara Kilmartin, B.S. '22

Emily Doyle, B.S. ‘21 - Ph.D. student in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago

Seancarlos Gonzalez, B.S. ‘21 - Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington

Sophia Rodriquez, B.S. '21

Peter Giannini, B.S. ‘21

Devon Ngo, B.S. ‘21

Loyal Murphy, B.S. '20 - Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Auburn University

Pedro Navarro, B.S. '20 - Bresco Investimentos

Jacob Thilman, B.S. '20 - Aon

Olivia Garcia-Velez, B.S. '20

Morgan Seidler, B.S. '19, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley '24

Colin Brankin, B.S. '19 - Proctor and Gamble

Clay Elmore, B.S. '19

Daniel Hardiman, B.S. '19

Connor Tomshack, B.S. '18 - Special Power Sources

Ryan Meder, B.S. '18


Visiting undergraduate researchers

Rachel Wallace, Xavier U. of LA, Tulane U., B.S. ’24

Sonia Egenberger, Ca. Poly. Pomona, B.S. ’26

Kutemwa Musafa, Xavier U. of LA, B.S. ’24

Adora Goodluck, Xavier U. of LA, B.S. ’25

Nila Beamon, Xavier U. of LA, B.S. ’26

Ayssia Crockem, Xavier U. of LA, B.S. ’23

Jiadiao Zhou, U.C. Davis, B.S. ’21

Ebrima Komma. U. Miss., B.S. ’20

Jizhou Jiang, Sichuan U., B.Eng. ’20

Shichen Wu, Zhejiang U., B.S. ’20

Blair Fuchs, IUPUI, B.S. ’21

Hannah Himes, Purdue U., B.S. ’20

Yuting Xia, Sichuan U., B.S. ’20

Alisha Agrawal, IIT Delhi, B.S./M.S. ’18

YaChen Qin, Tsinghua U., B.S. ’17

Photos

april 2024

December 2023

November 2022

December 2021

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dr. buket boz, Phd ‘21 from the university of brescia, italy

May 2020

May 2020

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April 2019

December 2018

December 2018

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August 2018