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Dr. Adheesha Danthanarayana, Graduate student, 2016-2022

Thesis: Luminescent Materials as Diagnostic Reporters in Lateral Flow Assays

Now: Research Scientists at Clip Health

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Dr. Ya Zhuo, Graduate student, 2016-2021

Thesis: Developing Rare-Earth Substituted Inorganic Phosphors through Machine Learning

Now: Post Doctoral Associate at UC-Santa Barbara

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Dr. Sogol Lotfi, Graduate student, 2015-2020

Thesis: Discovering Intermetallics through Synthesis, Computation, and Data-Driven Analysis

Now: Computational Materials Scientist at Nissan Motor Corporation 

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Dr. Jiyou Zhong, Visiting researcher, 2018-2019

Now: Assistant Professor of Physics at Guangdong University of Science and Technology (China)

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Dr. Aria Mansouri Tehrani, Graduate student, 2014-2019

Thesis: Development of Sustainable Superhard Materials

Now: Post Doctoral Associate at ETH-Zurich

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Dr. Erin Finley, Graduate student, 2014-2019

Thesis: Structure-Composition Relationships and Their Influence on Long Luminescent Lifetimes in Persistent Luminescent Phosphors
Now: R&D Research Chemist at Thermo Fisher Scientific

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Dr. Anna C. Duke, Graduate student, 2014-2018

Thesis: Identifying Crystal Structure Characteristics to Facilitate the Development of Rare-Earth Substituted Inorganic Phosphors 
Now: Post Doctoral Associate at Sandia National Laboratories

 

Dr. Martin Hermus, Post-doctoral fellow, 2014-2016

Now: Phosphor Scientist at OSRAM-Munich

 

Dr. Anton Oliynyk, Post-doctoral fellow, 2016-2017

Now: Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Manhattan College

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Lily Huang, Undergraduate researcher, 2019-2021

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Aileen Martinez-Escobar, Undergraduate researcher, 2019-2021

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Shihai You, Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) graduate exchange visiting researcher, 2019-2020

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Dania Almosuli, Undergraduate researcher, 2019-2020

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Pablo Delgado, Undergraduate researcher, 2019-2020

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Mariam Khan, Undergraduate researcher, 2019-2020

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Alina Flores, Undergraduate researcher, 2018-2020

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Blake Day, Graduate researcher, 2018-2020

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Edward Armijo, Undergraduate researcher, 2018-2019

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Sean Orioli, Undergraduate researcher, 2018-2019

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Anna Kareva, Undergraduate researcher, 2018-2019

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Lorena Jimenez Viveros, Undergraduate researcher, 2017-2018

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Timothy Tran, Undergraduate researcher, 2016-2018

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Amber Lim, Undergraduate researcher, 2016-2018

 

Gayatri Viswanathan, Undergraduate researcher, 2016-2018

 

Sean Bailey, Undergraduate researcher, 2016-2018

 

Phu-Cuong Phan, Undergraduate researcher, 2014-2017

 

Sean Eli, Undergraduate researcher, 2015-2016

 

Angelica Cobb, Undergraduate researcher, 2015-2017