CSN student Chris Castillo (Giraldo group) defended his dissertation entitled “Effect of in vivo nanoparticle transformations on photosynthetic protein corona formation and function: from fundamental research to science communication” at the University of California, Riverside on August 14. He will be moving to Boston for a postdoctoral position at Northeastern University. Congratulations, Dr. Castillo!
Beza Tuga (Haynes group) successfully defended her thesis, entitled “Leveraging Nanoparticle Transformations for Sustainable Agricultural Applications,” on August 8 at the University of Minnesota. She will be moving to Pennsylvania later this month to begin a position at Merck. Congratulations, Dr. Tuga!
Catherine Jalomo (Murphy group) successfully defended her thesis, entitled “Nanomaterials as Delivery Systems,” on May 6. She earned her degree from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Congratulations, Dr. Jalomo!
Emma McKeel (Klaper group) successfully defended her thesis, entitled “The Molecular, Physiological, and Morphological Impacts of Carbon Dot Surface Functionalization on Interactions with Plants and Microalgae,” on April 2. She earned her degree from the Department of Freshwater Sciences at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. Congratulations, Dr. McKeel!
Caroline Anastasia (Fairbrother group) successfully defended her thesis, entitled “The Leveraging analytical tools to evaluate the behavior of nanoscale anthropogenic materials in environmental matrices,” on February 28. She earned her degree from Johns Hopkins University. Congratulations, Dr. Anastasia!
Yinhan Wang (Hernandez group) successfully defended his thesis, entitled “Dissipative Particle Dynamics Models of Protein, Lipid, and Nanoparticle Interactions,” on December 10. Congratulations, Dr. Wang!
Congratulations to Dr. Shreyasi Sengupta (Rosenzweig group) successfully defended her thesis, entitled “Surface Modifications of InSe and MXene Two-Dimensional Materials and their Impact on the Chemical Stability and Interactions with Bacterial Models Relevant to the Environment,” in July. Congratulations, Dr. Sengupta!
Congratulations to Dr. Mahima Unnikrishnan (Murphy group), who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis, entitled “Implications of Nanoparticle-Protein Interactions on Protein Assembly and Conformation” on May 8th!
Congratulations to Dr. Connor Protter (Hamers group) for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis, entitled “Surface Interactions and Applications of Copper Sulfide” on May 3rd! He will be staying on with CSN as a postdoctoral researcher.
Congratulations to Dr. Alicia Tripp (Hamers group), who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis entitled “Surface Functionalization of 2D Nanomaterials” on April 26th! Alicia will be moving on to a role at the Cornell Center for Materials Research.
