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OUR TEAM

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Marcos Pires

Principal Investigator

Professor of Chemistry

Director of Graduate Studies

Co-Director of CARvAP

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Mahendra Chordia

Senior Research Scientist

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George Ongwae

Senior Research Scientist

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Mana Mukherjee

Postdoctoral Fellow

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Karl Ocius

Ph.D. Candidate

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Sobika Bhandari 

Ph.D. Candidate

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Liora Wittle

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Sarah Newkirk

Ph.D. Candidate

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Ananya Naick

Ph.D. Candidate

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Vic Kering

Ph.D. Candidate

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Dylan Coffin

Ph.D. Candidate

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Joel Moses

Ph.D. Candidate

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Kennedy Goodwin

Ph.D. Candidate

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Andrew Spira

Ph.D. Candidate

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Cahmlo Olive

Ph.D. Candidate

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Emily Zickefoose

Ph.D. Candidate

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Kaustav Mondal

Ph.D. Candidate

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Colsen Eubank

Ph.D. Candidate

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Abigail Agner

Ph.D. Candidate

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Sydney Williams

Ph.D. Candidate

Alumni

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Postdoctoral Fellows/Research Scientists

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Yuchen He (2023-2025)

Mohammad Sharifian (2023-2025)

Joon Kwak (2017-2018)

Sourav Sarkar (2015-2017)

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Doctoral Students

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Rachita Dash (Ph.D. 2026)

Joey Kelly (Ph.D. 2025)

Zichen Liu (Ph.D. 2024)

Brianna Dalesandro (Ph.D. 2022)

Alexis Apostolos (Ph.D. 2022)

Noel Ferraro (Ph.D. 2022)

George Ongwae (Ph.D. 2021)

Sean Pidgeon (Ph.D. 2019)

Mary Sabulski (Ph.D. 2018)

Jon Fura (Ph.D. 2017)

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Master's Students

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Kadie Holsinger (MS 2023)

Sara Karami (MS 2023)

Hao Tang (MS 2021)

Daniel Foster (MS 2015)

Alex Snook (MS 2013)

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