People

Current Group

M. Cristina Castillo Alvarez Benker, Postdoc at LBL-Chemical Sciences Division, October 2022-present.
Laurent S. Devriendt, Postdoc at LBL-Chemical Sciences Division, September 2022-present.
Cayla A. Stifler, former grad student in Physics at UW-Madison, focusing on crystal orientations in tooth enamel. Defense Dec. 2022. Currently senior scientist at Middleton Spectral Vision.

Email: stifler@wisc.edu

Connor A. Schmidt, 3rd year grad student in Chemistry at UW-Madison, focusing on synthetic CaCO3 crystallization and coral skeleton formation, expected defense Dec 2024.

Email: caschmidt6@wisc.edu

Isabelle LeCloux, UW-Madison undergrad, majoring in Chemical Engineering, expected graduation Spring 2024.

Email: ilecloux@wisc.edu

Virginia Quach, UW-Madison undergrad, majoring in Biochemistry with a certificate in Environmental studies, expected graduation Spring 2023.

Email: vquach2@wisc.edu

Gabriela Barreiro Pujol, UW-Madison undergrad.
Jaden Sengkhammee, UW-Madison undergrad, majoring in Physics, expected graduation Spring 2023.
Evan J. Walch, UW-Madison undergrad sophomore, majoring in mechanical engineering, expected graduation Spring 2024.

Email: ejwalch@wisc.edu

CP Breit, UW-Madison undergrad, majoring in biology and zoology, expected graduation Spring 2024.
Connor N. Klaus, UW-Madison undergrad, majoring in Biology and Chemistry, expected graduation Fall 2022.
Isaac Koehler, UW-Madison undergrad, majoring in physics and mathematics, expected graduation Spring 2023.
Shloka Mohanty, UW-Madison undergrad, majoring in physics or chemistry, expected graduation Spring 2025.
Oliver Parmekar, UW-Madison undergrad, majoring in Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies, expected graduation Spring 2024.
Maddie Patton, UW-Madison Undergrad, majoring in biology, expected graduation Spring 2024.
Annie Purisch, UW-Madison undergrad majoring in physics, expected graduation Spring 2025.
Connor L. Foust, UW-Madison undergrad majoring in Physics, Astrophysics, and Math, expected graduation spring 2023.
Shreya Vattem, UW Madison Undergrad, majoring in Global health, expected graduation spring 2026.
Tarak Sristy, UW-Madison undergrad, majoring in Computer Science and Economics, expected graduation May 2026.
Jaiden Mezera, UW-Madison undergrad, majoring in Biochemistry and Neurobiology, expected graduation Spring 2026.
Andrii Hopanchuk, Physics and Math double-major + a ComSci certificate. Expected graduation: Spring 2024.
Samantha Anglemyer, UW-Madison undergrad, expected graduation Spring 2026.

Some Recent Collaborators

Andrew H. Knoll at Harvard
Kristin D. Bergmann at MIT
Markus J. Buehler at MIT
Tali Mass University of Haifa, Israel
Sylvie Tambutte at Centre Scientifique de Monaco
Elia Beniash at University of Pittsburgh

Cameron Currie at UW-Madison

Lia Addadi at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Steve Weiner at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Fred Wilt at UC-Berkeley
Susan N. Coppersmith at UW-Madison

Jillian F. Banfield at UC-Berkeley

John S. Evans at New York University
Robert W. Carpick at UPenn
Kenneth H. Nealson at University of Southern California
G. Michael Bancroft at University of Western Ontario
John W. Valley at UW-Madison
Judd M. Aiken and Debbie McKenzie, UW-Madison
Daniel Ariosa at the EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Giorgio Margaritondo at the EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Tiziana Parasassi at the Italian National Research Council, Rome, Italy
Francesca Bertani at San Raffaele Hospital, Rome, Italy
Roberto Pallini, Catholic University of Rome, Italy
Delio Mercanti and M. Teresa Ciotti at the Italian National Research Council, Rome, Italy

A few of the alumnae and alumni

Heidi A. Lulloff
Emily Luffey
Tia Sika
Celeo Matute Diaz
Max Xiong
Asiya Ahmed
Sydney Davison
Robert Murphy
Benjamin I. Fordyce
GG Lab Manager, UW-Madison graduate 2020
bfordyce@wisc.edu
Jiaqi Li
Post-doc at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Bledat Gjinolli
UW-Biology major
Benjamin Harding
UW graduate student in Biophysics
hardinbd@miamioh.edu
Jamie North
Carleton College
northj@carleton.edu
Jack H. Brau
UW undergraduate student, majoring in Physics
(615) 715-1267
ddebrauske@wisc.edu
Chang-Yu Sun
UW graduate student in Materials Science and Engineering
(608) 772-7910
csun59@wisc.edu
Drue Hood-McFadden
UW undergraduate student, majoring in Physics
(815) 742-2768
hoodmcfadden@wisc.edu
Jun “Jay” Zhang
UW Biohysics graduate student
(309) 323-7093
jzhang833@wisc.edu
Matthew J. Frazier
UW undergraduate physics student
(262) 203-3009
mjfrazier@wisc.edu
Annie Whisson
UW undergraduate Materials Science student
(708) 301-5005
whisson@wisc.edu
Anthony J. Giuffre
UW-Physics former post-doc, stationed in Berkeley, now in Ohio
Christopher E. Killian
Now at UC-Berkeley, MCB
(510) 642-2927
ckillian@berkeley.edu
Ross DeVol
Now in Industry in Omaha, Nebraska
Adam Z. Blonsky
Undergrad Physics major, now graduate student in Physics at CU-Boulder
Erin Monahan
Now at UW-Milwaukee, Vet School
Yutao Gong
Ph.D. in Physics, 2013, Now staff scientist at FDA
Ian C. Olson
M.S. in Materials Science, 2013. Now at Epic
Narayan P. Appathurai
Now staff scientist at the Canadian Light Source
Rebecca Metzler, PhD in Physics 2010, now Associate Professor of Physics at Colgate University
Vasily Trubetskoy
now graduate student at the University of Chicago
Audra L. Amasino
now graduate student at MIT