Group Leader
Spiridoula Matsika
Professor, started Jan 2003
- B. Sc. in Chemistry, The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece 1994
- Ph.D. in Chemical Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA (2000) Advisor: Prof. Russel Pitzer
- Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University with Prof. David Yarkony
Members
Dr. Juan Carlos San Vicente Veliz
Post Doc, started Spring 2024
- PhD in Computational Chemistry, University of Basel, Switzerland (2023)
Dakshitha Abeygunewardane
PhD Student, started Aug 2021
- B.Sc. Honors in Chemistry from University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (2020)
Satya Venkata Raja Maneesh Pyla
PhD Student, started Aug 2022
- Dual BS-MS in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati, India (2022)
Hind Hamoud Alrushud
PhD Graduate, started March 2024
- Masters in Physical Chemistry, King Abdulaziz University (2018)
Yasuru Kanishka M Kuda Vidanelay
PhD Graduate, started Aug 2024
- B.Sc. Honors in Chemistry from University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka (2022)
Trevor Long
Undergraduate(Physics), started Aug 2024
- BBA in Finance from Temple University (2024)
Collaborators
Tom Weinacht's group at Stony Brook University
Vincenzo Carnevale's group at Temple University (Dept. of Physics)
Former Members
Postdoctoral Fellows
- Dr. Divya Tripathi (2023 -2024)(postdoc at TIFR, India)
- Dr. Cate Anstöter (2020-2021)(Christina Miller Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh)
- Dr. Patricia Vindel Zandbergen (2018-2019)(postdoc, New York University)
- Dr. Tolga Karsili (2016-2018)(Associate Prof. at the University of Louisiana)
- Dr. James Brown (2016-2017)(qBraid Co)
- Dr. Wook Lee (2014-2016)(Assistant Prof at Kangwon National University, S. Korea)
- Dr. Marianna Assmann (2013-2015)(UCL, UK)
- Dr. Kurt Kistler (2010-2011)(Prof at Penn State Brandywine)
- Dr. Pascal Krause (2009-2012)(Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, DE)
- Dr. Dimitri Laikov (2007)(Senior researcher at Moscow State University, Russia)
- Dr. ZongRong Xu (2004-2007)
- Dr. Akihiko Yoshikawa (2005)
Graduate Students
- Dr. Vaibhav Singh (PhD 2025)(AI Tutor - STEM Specialist at xAI)
- Dr. Mohammed Ibrahim Sorour (PhD 2023)(scientist at Syensqo)
- Dr. Salsabil Abou-Hatab (PhD 2022)(postdoc at Drexel University)
- Dr. Mushir ul Hasan (PhD 2022)(Postdoc at University of North Dakota)
- Dr. Pratip Chakraborty (PhD 2020)(Senior Research Associate at the U of East Anglia)
- Mark Fennimore (Masters 2018)(Quaker Houghton Chemicals)
- Dr. Vincent Spata (PhD 2016)
- Dr. Zhen Lu (PhD 2015)(co-founder and CEO, RunPod)
- Dr. Kurt Kistler (PhD 2010) (currently Prof. at Penn State Brandywine)
- Ranjeetha Suryavanshi (Masters 2009)(Asst. Prof. at JBIET, India)
- Congyi Zhou (Masters 2012)
Bachelor Students
- Jay Ragbirsingh (Spring 2024-Summer 2025)
- Alexander Espinoza (Summer 2025, NSF-REU)
- Sabrina Murodova (Spring 2023-Spring 2024)(currently at Temple Dental School)
- Jordan Howe (Spring 2022-Spring 2024)(currently PhD student at Temple School of Medicine)
- Carson Baker (Fall 2022-Summer 2024)(currently PhD student at USC)
- Jose F Mendez-Guerra
- Christian Mobo (Summer 2022-Spring 2023)(currently TA at Temple University)
- Nick Baker (Summer 2021-Spring 2022) (currently at Tufts Medical School)
- Griffin O'Neill (Summer 2021-Fall 2021)
- Khai Nguyen (Summer 2020 -Spring 2021)(PhD student at Vanderbilt Institute of Imaging Science )
- Nathan Mackouse (Summer 2020 -Spring 2021)(currently PhD student at Rowan University)
- Camilo Zuluaga (Summer 2019-Summer 2020)(graduate student at Boston University)
- Drew Behrendt (Summer 2019-Spring 2020)(graduate student at UPenn)
- Davielle Mattos (Summer 2019, NSF-REU)
- Abigail Serridge (Summer 2018)
- Linh Nguyen (Summer 2017- Spring 2018)
- Michael Bennett (Summer 2016 - Spring 2017)
- Chey Jones, PhD (Fall 2014 - Spring 2017)(currently at Merck)
- Margaret Anne King (Summer 2016)
- Salsabil Abou-Hatab, PhD (Spring 2015-Spring 2016)(postdoc at Drexel)
- Yuan Zeng (Spring 2015)
- Aya Matsumura (Spring 2015 -Summer 2015) (joined as a graduate student at Kumamoto University, Japan)
- Dillion Fox, PhD (Spring 2014) (currently at GSK)
- Thuylinh Cao (Fall 2013 - Spring 2014)
- Quynh Nguyen,PhD (2012-2014)(scientist at Stanford)
- Stephen Meloni, PhD (Summer 2012-Spring 2014)(PhD from UPenn)
- Catherine Triandafillou, PhD (2011-2013)(postdoc at UPenn)
- JingXin Liang, PhD (2009-2012)(from Caltech)
- Parth Patel (Spring 2010)
- Chris Kozak (2008-2010)(Dow Chemical)
- Nickolas Crawford (Summer 2009)
- Elizabeth Mburu, MD (2007-2008) (graduated from School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania)
- Benjamin Mejia (Summer 2007)
- Madiyha Muhammad (Summer 2007)
- Kandis Gilliard, PhD (2005-2006)(WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at U of Southern California)
- Ruth Elliott (2004-2005)
Highschool Students
- Christian Feil (Fall 2025)
- Marlayna Lichtenstein(2025)
- Claudia Kim (2024)
- Nashia Nahid (2024, 2025)
- Jenny Nguyen (2023)
- Megan Chan (2023)
- Mazin Ahmed (2018)
- Palak Shah (2017 - 2018)
- Carina Tse (2015-2017)