Spiridoula Matsika

Professor, started Jan 2003
email: smatsika@temple.edu

• 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

Dr. Juan Carlos San Vicente Veliz

Post Doc, started Spring 2024
email: j.sanvicente@temple.edu

• PhD in Computational Chemistry, University of Basel, Switzerland (2023)

Dakshitha Abeygunewardane

PhD Student, started Aug 2021
email: dma@temple.edu

• B.Sc. Honors in Chemistry from University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (2020)

Satya Venkata Raja Maneesh Pyla

PhD Student, started Aug 2022
email: maneesh.pyla@temple.edu

• 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
email: hind.alrushud@temple.edu

• Masters in Physical Chemistry, King Abdulaziz University (2018)

Yasuru Kanishka M Kuda Vidanelay

PhD Graduate, started Aug 2024
email: kanishka.95@temple.edu

• B.Sc. Honors in Chemistry from University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka (2022)

Trevor Long

Undergraduate(Physics), started Aug 2024
email: trevor.s.long@temple.edu

• BBA in Finance from Temple University (2024)

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)