Visiting Professors
Susan Odom (dec.)
Years in group: 2018
Associate Professor, University of Kentucky
Information regarding the lecture series created to commemorate Professor Susan Odom’s life and legacy can be found here.
Visiting Scholars
Javit Drake
Years in group: 2022-2024
Currently an Associate Professor of the Practice at MIT
Matteo Gigli
Years in group: 2017-2018
Currently an Associate Professor at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Postdocs
Nicola Poli
Years in group: 2025-2026
Currently the co-founder of E-Storage Engineering
Jaesung Kim
Years in group: 2023-2025
Currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Dankook University
Hao Zhang
Years in group: 2024-2025
Currently a Senior Research Fellow at MIT
Madhu Majji
Years in group: 2021-2024
Currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Ohio University
Lingping Kong
Years in group: 2021-2023
Currently an Assistant Professor in Electrochemical Energy Storage Systems at SDSU
Yasser Ashraf Gandomi
Years in group: 2018-2020
Currently a Staff Battery Engineer at Form Energy
Amira Alazmi
Years in group: 2019-2020
Currently a Vice Dean of the College for Administrative Affairs, Development and Quality at University of Hafr Al Batin
Antoni Forner-Cuenca
Years in group: 2017-2018
Currently a Professor and Vice Dean at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology
Sujat Sen
Years in group: 2016-2018
Currently an Associate Professor of Chemistry at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Faculty page
Chaerin Kim
Years in group: 2015-2017
Currently a Research Scientist at International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research
Liang Su
Years in group: 2013-2017
Currently a Research Scientist at Form Energy, Inc.
Emily Carino
Years in group: 2013-2016
Currently an Electrochemical Materials and Interfacial Chemistry Researcher
Kyler Carroll
Years in group: 2013-2015
Currently a Senior Staff Cell Engineer, New Technologies at Tesla
Apurba Sakti
Years in group: 2014-2016
Currently a Principal Technical Leader at EPRI
Graduate Students
Alex Quinn
Years in group: 2020-2026
Currently an Associate at Exponent
Chris Mallia
Years in group: 2020-2025
Currently a Postdoc in the Thompson group in DMSE
Catalina Garza Lozano
Years in group: 2024-2025
Currently a Senior Manager, Energy & Sustainability at Verizon
Katelyn Ripley-Kenyon
Years in group: 2021-2025
Currently a Consultant at Sage Analysis Group
Cindy Wong
Years in group: 2022-2024
Currently a Graduate Student Researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder
Lauren Blanks
Years in group: 2023-2024
Currently an Aircraft Maintenance Officer
Lauren Clarke
Years in group: 2019-2024
Currently a Senior Modeling Engineer at Form Energy
Bertrand Neyhouse
Years in group: 2019-2023
Currently an Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry at the University of Toronto
Charles Wan
Years in group: 2018-2022
Currently a Manager at Bain & Company
Alexis (AJ) Fenton
Years in group: 2017-2022
Currently an Engineer at Intel Corporation
Aditya Limaye
Years in group: 2021-2022
Currently Head of Modeling at Tyba
Kara Rodby
Years in group: 2018-2022
Currently a Technical Principal at Volta Energy Technologies
Kevin Tenny
Years in group: 2018-2021
Currently a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Bloom Energy
Katharine Greco
Years in group: 2017-2021
Currently the VP, Commercialization at Still Bright
McLain Leonard
Years in group: 2016-2021
Currently a Senior Electrochemical Engineer at Ebb Carbon
Michael Orella
Years in group: 2015-2020
Currently a Manager at Exponent
Jeff Kowalski
Years in group: 2014-2019
Currently a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Stealth Startup
John Barton
Years in group: 2014-2019
Currently an Associate Research Scientist at Dow
Steven Brown
Years in group: 2014-2018
Currently a Cost Reduction Engineer at Linde
Tom Carney
Years in group: 2015-2018
Currently a freelance Owner, Consultant at Birch Labs
Jarrod Milshtein
Years in group: 2014-2017
Currently Chief of Staff at Redwood Materials
Miao Wang
Years in group: 2015-2017
Currently a Senior Research Specialist at Dow
Dafu Zhang
Years in group: 2013-2014
Currently a High Frequency Trading Quantitative Analyst in Singapore
Visiting Students
Gimena Marin Tajadura
Years in group: 2025
Nils Heim
Years in group: 2025
Florian Gollmann
Years in group: 2024-2025
Laura Pastor Muñoz
Years in group: 2024
Gerardo Pagano
Years in group: 2024
Merle Blum
Years in group: 2023
Nick Price
Years in group: 2022-2023
Anne Niederdraenk
Years in group: 2019
Matthias Kornherr
Years in group: 2018
Cedrik Wiberg
Years in group: 2017
Vincent Dieterich
Years in group: 2016
Thomas Burger
Years in group: 2014-2015
Lukas Langenegger
Years in group: 2014
Undergrads
Katie Crowley
Graduated from MIT (Class of 2025)
Lia Bu
Graduated from MIT (Class of 2025)
Sarah Hernandez
Graduated from MIT (Class of 2025)
Irene Dong
Currently an Undergraduate Student, MIT, Chemical Engineering (Class of 2027)
Michelle Wang
Currently an Undergraduate Student, MIT, Chemical Engineering (Class of 2026)
Ava Vargas
Graduated from MIT (Class of 2024)
Dien Nguyen
Sept. 2022-Feb. 2023
Elysia Yuan
Jun. 2022-Feb. 2023
Chloe Brown
Graduated from MIT (Class of 2022)
Will Woltmann
Graduated from MIT (Class of 2022)
Jonathan Lee
MIT MRL REU Participant (2021)
Akram Ismail
MIT MSRP (2021)
Alec Nguyen
MIT UROP (2020-2021)
Currently an Undergraduate Student, MIT, Chemical Engineering (Class of 2022)
Aba Kpeglo
MIT UROP (2019-2020)
Last known: Undergraduate Student, MIT, Chemical Engineering (Class of 2021)
Nicole Munne
MIT UROP (2019-2020)
Currently an Undergraduate Student, MIT, Chemical Engineering (Class of 2022)
Jude Bonesteel
MIT UROP (2019-2020)
Currently an Undergraduate Student, MIT, Chemical Engineering (Class of 2022)
Tomás Herrera
MIT UROP (2019-2020)
Currently an Undergraduate Student, MIT, Chemical Engineering (Class of 2022)
Destinee Hung
MIT UROP (2020)
Currently an Undergraduate Student, MIT, Chemical Engineering and Computer Science (Class of 2022)
Hong Nguyen
MIT UROP (2020)
Currently an Undergraduate Student, MIT, Chemical Engineering (Class of 2023)
Nicole Jacobsen
MIT UROP (2020)
Currently an Undergraduate Student, MIT, Chemical Engineering (Class of 2023)
Nick Aiello
MIT UROP (2019-2020)
Currently an Undergraduate Student, MIT, Chemical Engineering (Class of 2022)
Jesse Hinricher
MIT UROP (2017-2019)
Currently a PhD Student, MIT, Materials Science and Engineering
Madeline Bundy
MIT UROP (2018-2019)
Currently an Associate, ADL Ventures
Will Exson
MIT UROP (2019)
Currently an Undergraduate Student, MIT, Chemical Engineering (Class of 2022)
James Obute
MIT Summer Research Program Participant (2019)
Currently a PhD Student, University of Texas at Austin, Chemical Engineering
Nathan Ewell
MIT MRL REU Participant (2019)
Currently a PhD Student, MIT, Chemical Engineering
Katherine E. Stoll
MIT UROP (2018-2019)
Currently a PhD Student, MIT, Materials Science and Engineering
Grace Moore
Summer Research Intern (2018)
Graduate Student, Sciences Po, Policy Stream: Energy, Environment, and Sustainability
Julianna La Lane Machado
MRL/MRSEC Summer Researcher (2018)
Undergraduate Student, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaüez, Mechanical Engineering (Class of 2021)
Zhirong (Justin) Fan
MRL/MRSEC Summer Researcher (2018)
Currently an Automation Engineer, NeoMatrix, Inc.
Yung Wei (Jessie) Hsiao
MIT UROP (2015-2018)
Currently a PhD Student, University of Delaware, Chemical Engineering
Emily Penn
MIT UROP (2017-2018)
Currently a PhD Student, Stanford University, Chemical Engineering
Alexandra Oliveira
MPC/CMSE Summer Scholar (2017)
Currently a PhD Student, University of Delaware, Chemical Engineering
Andres Badel
MIT UROP (2014-2017)
Currently an Engineer at a stealth mode startup
Changsu Cao
Visiting Undergraduate Student (2016)
Currently a PhD Student, Tsinghua University, Computational and Theoretical Chemistry
Jeremiah Collins
MIT UROP (2015-2016)
Currently a J.D. Candidate, NYU School of Law
Barbara Lima
MIT UROP (2015-2016)
Currently a Quality Engineer, Schlumberger
Daniel Newman
MIT UROP (2015-2016)
Currently a Consultant, Galt & Company
Steven Chavez
MSRP Summer Student (2014)
Currently a PhD Student, University of Michigan
Stephen Gaffley
MIT UROP (2015-2016)
Last Known: Mechanical Engineer, Contour Crafting Corporation
Catherine Groschner
MPC-CMSE Summer Student (2014)
Currently a PhD Student, UC Berkeley, Materials Science and Engineering
Catherine Liou
MIT UROP (2013-2015)
Last Known: Graduate Student, MIT, M.S. Chemical Engineering Practice
Jaime Rodriguez
MSRP Summer Student (2015)
Currently a PhD Student, University of Washington, Chemical Engineering and Data Science
Raja Selvakumar
MIT UROP (2013-2014)
Currently a PhD Student, Georgia Institute of Technology, Chemical Engineering
Tamanna Urmi
MIT UROP (2015)
Currently a Data Science Consultant, a2i Programme
Lynn Yu
MIT UROP (2014-2015)
Last Known: Undergraduate Student, MIT, Mechanical Engineering
Jonathan Fakkema
MIT UROP (2016)
Currently a Reliability Test Engineer, Daimler Trucks North America
Alain Hyacinthe
MIT UROP (2016)
Currently a Senior Strategy & Innovation Analyst, Accenture
Kevin Tenny
MSRP Summer Student (2016)
Currently an MBA student, MIT Sloan
Victoria Yao
MRL/MRSEC Summer Researcher (2016)
Currently a Chemical Engineer, ExxonMobil
Kiera Gavin
MIT UROP (2017)
Currently a Development Coordinator, Cypress Creek Renewables
Alison Heuser
MIT UROP (2013)
Currently a Product Manager, Wayfair
Meghan Kenny
MIT UROP (2013)
Currently a Consultant, Bain & Company