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
Dr. Jiacheng Liu, Ph.D. ‘23
Dr. Peng He, Ph.D. ‘22
Exponent
Dr. Bumjun Park, Ph.D. ‘22
Idaho National Laboratory
Dr. Hunter Ford, Ph.D. ‘21
Naval Research Laboratory
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
dr. buket boz, Phd ‘21 from the university of brescia, italy
May 2020
April 2019
December 2018
August 2018