Current Group
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Cayla A. Stifler, 6th year grad student in Physics at UW-Madison, focusing on crystal orientations in tooth enamel, expected defense Dec. 2022.
Email: stifler@wisc.edu |
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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 |
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Emily Luffey, 1st year grad student in Biophysics at UW-Madison.
Email: luffey@wisc.edu |
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Isabelle LeCloux, UW-Madison undergrad, majoring in Chemical Engineering, expected graduation Spring 2024.
Email: ilecloux@wisc.edu |
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Virginia Quach, UW-Madison undergrad, majoring in Biochemistry with a certificate in Environmental studies, expected graduation Spring 2023.
Email: vquach2@wisc.edu |
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Gabriela Barreiro Pujol, UW-Madison undergrad.
Email: gbarreiropuj@wisc.edu
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Jaden Sengkhammee, UW-Madison undergrad, majoring in Physics, expected graduation Spring 2023.
Email: sengkhammee@wisc.edu
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Evan J. Walch, UW-Madison undergrad sophomore, majoring in mechanical engineering, expected graduation Spring 2024.
Email: ejwalch@wisc.edu |
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CP Breit, UW-Madison undergrad, majoring in biology and zoology, expected graduation Spring 2024.
Email: cbreit@wisc.edu
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Connor N. Klaus, UW-Madison undergrad, majoring in Biology and Chemistry, expected graduation Fall 2022.
Email: cklaus2@wisc.edu
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Isaac Koehler, UW-Madison undergrad, majoring in physics and mathematics, expected graduation Spring 2023.
Email: ikoehler@wisc.edu
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Tia Sika, UW-Madison undergrad, majoring in Biochemistry.
Email: sika2@wisc.edu
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Shloka Mohanty, UW-Madison undergrad, majoring in physics or chemistry, expected graduation Spring 2025.
Email: smohanty4@wisc.edu
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Oliver Parmekar, UW-Madison undergrad, majoring in Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies, expected graduation Spring 2024.
Email: parmekar@wisc.edu
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Maddie Patton, UW-Madison Undergrad, majoring in biology, expected graduation Spring 2024.
Email: mpatton4@wisc.edu.
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Annie Purisch, UW-Madison undergrad majoring in physics, expected graduation Spring 2025.
Email: apurisch@wisc.edu
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Connor L. Foust, UW-Madison undergrad majoring in Physics, Astrophysics, and Math, expected graduation spring 2023.
Email: clfoust@wisc.edu
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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 Alumni
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Celeo Matute Diaz |
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Max Xiong |
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Asiya Ahmed |
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Sydney Davison |
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Robert Murphy |
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Benjamin I. Fordyce GG Lab Manager, UW-Madison graduate 2020 bfordyce@wisc.edu |
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Jiaqi Li Post-doc at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
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Bledat Gjinolli UW-Biology major |
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Benjamin Harding UW graduate student in Biophysics hardinbd@miamioh.edu |
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Jamie North Carleton College northj@carleton.edu |
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Jack H. Brau UW undergraduate student, majoring in Physics (615) 715-1267 ddebrauske@wisc.edu |
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Chang-Yu Sun UW graduate student in Materials Science and Engineering (608) 772-7910 csun59@wisc.edu |
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Drue Hood-McFadden UW undergraduate student, majoring in Physics (815) 742-2768 hoodmcfadden@wisc.edu |
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Jun “Jay” Zhang UW Biohysics graduate student (309) 323-7093 jzhang833@wisc.edu |
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Matthew J. Frazier UW undergraduate physics student (262) 203-3009 mjfrazier@wisc.edu |
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Annie Whisson UW undergraduate Materials Science student (708) 301-5005 whisson@wisc.edu |
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Anthony J. Giuffre UW-Physics former post-doc, stationed in Berkeley, now in Ohio |
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Christopher E. Killian Now at UC-Berkeley, MCB (510) 642-2927 ckillian@berkeley.edu |
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Ross DeVol Now in Industry in Omaha, Nebraska |
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Adam Z. Blonsky Undergrad Physics major, now graduate student in Physics at CU-Boulder |
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Erin Monahan Now at UW-Milwaukee, Vet School |
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Yutao Gong Ph.D. in Physics, 2013, Now staff scientist at FDA |
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Ian C. Olson M.S. in Materials Science, 2013. Now at Epic |
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Narayan P. Appathurai Now staff scientist at the Canadian Light Source |
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Rebecca Metzler, PhD in Physics 2010, now Associate Professor of Physics at Colgate University |
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Vasily Trubetskoy now graduate student at the University of Chicago |
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Audra L. Amasino now graduate student at MIT |