Group

Current Members

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Professor Leah Dodson

Principal Investigator

 

Thomas Howard

Thomas Howard

6th Year PhD Candidate, Chemistry

Cold molecular beams, neutral molecule synthesis, instrument design, fluid dynamics simulations

 

Dasha Kisuryna

4th Year PhD Candidate, Chemical Physics

Ion neutral reaction kinetics, glow discharge, mass spectrometry, ion trapping

 

 

Nathan McLane

3rd Year PhD Student, Chemical Physics

Matrix isolation spectroscopy, quantum chemistry calculations, novel methods for nuclear spin conversion 

 

 

Sanjana Maheshwari

2nd Year PhD Student, Chemistry

Synthesis, Cold molecule spectroscopy

 

LeAnh Duckett

Undergraduate Student, Chemistry

Matrix Isolation Spectroscopy 

 

Santiago Lorenzi

Undergraduate Student, Mechanical Engineering

 

Grace Yeh

Undergraduate Student, Chemistry

 

Past Members

Graduate Students

Dr. Emily Hockey (PhD), PhD Student (Fall 2019-Spring 2024) Currently working as an NRC Postdoctoral researcher at the Air Force Research Lab

Jessica Palko (M.Sc.), Masters Student (Fall 2019-Spring 2022) Currently teaching at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School

Postdoctoral Researchers

Dr. Julianna Palotás, Postdoctoral Scientist (Spring 2022-Spring 2023) Currently a postdoctoral scientist at the University of Edinburgh

Undergraduate Researchers

Zainab Ali, NASA Summer Undergraduate Researcher (Summer 2024)

Matt Dietrich, Undergraduate Researcher (Summer 2023-Spring 2024)

Shannon Ganley (BS), Undergraduate Researcher (Summer 2022-Spring 2024) Currently at University of Colorado, Boulder working towards a PhD in Physical Chemistry

Melisa Kocak (BS), Undergraduate Researcher (Spring 2023-Summer 2023)

Korina Vlahos (BS), Undergraduate Researcher (Summer 2021-Spring 2023) Currently at University of California, Berkeley working towards a PhD in Chemistry

Trent Khanjar, Undergraduate Researcher (Spring 2022-Fall 2022)

Blake Pierpoint (BS), Postbaccalaureate Researcher (Fall 2021-Fall 2022) Currently working at JHU APL

Kevin Beck, Undergraduate Researcher (Fall 2021-Spring 2022)

Hayden Whitley, Undergraduate Rotation Student (Fall 2021)