Group Leader

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

Members

Dr. Vince Spata

Postdoc, started March 2020
email: vspata27@gmail.com

  • Ph.D in Physical Chemistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA (2016)

Dr. Cate Anstöter

Postdoc, started Jan 2020
email: csanstoter@gmail.com

  • Ph.D in Physical Chemistry, Durham University, UK (2019)

Pratip Chakraborty

PhD student, started Aug 2015
email: pratip.chakraborty@temple.edu

  • Integrated BS-MS in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali, India (2015)

Mushir ul Hasan

PhD Student, started Aug 2017
email: mushir@temple.edu

  • Integrated BS-MS in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali, India (2017)

Salsabil Abou-Hatab

PhD Student, started Aug 2017
email: salsa.abouhatab@temple.edu

  • Bachelors in Chemistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA (2016)

Mohammed Sorour

PhD Student, started Aug 2018
email: Mohammed.Sorour@temple.edu

  • Bachelors in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Misr University of Science and Technology, Egypt (2011)
  • Masters in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA (2016)

Vaibhav Singh

PhD Student, started Aug 2019
email: tuj86429@temple.edu

  • Integrated BS-MS in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune, India (2019)

Drew Behrendt

Undergraduate Researcher
email: tug49383@temple.edu

  • Senior year at Temple University, Philadelphia, USA

Camilo Zuluaga

Undergraduate Researcher
email: tug63828@temple.edu

  • Senior year at Temple University, Philadelphia, USA

Collaborators

Tom Weinacht’s group at Stony Brook University

Enzo Carnevale’s group at Temple University (Dept. of Physics)

Former members

Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr. Patricia Vindel Zandbergen (currently at Rutgers University, Newark)

Dr. Tolga Karsili (Assistant Prof. at the University of Louisiana)

Dr. James Brown (currently at Dartmouth College)

Dr. Wook Lee (currently at Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon)

Dr. Marianna Assmann (currently at the University of Birmingham)

Dr. Kurt Kistler (currently on the faculty at Penn State Brandywine)

Dr. Pascal Krause (currently at Wayne State)

Dr. Dimitri Laikov (currently at Moscow State University, Russia)

Dr. ZongRong Xu

Dr. Akihiko Yoshikawa

Graduate students

Dr. Vincent Spata (PhD 2016)

Dr. Zhen Lu (PhD 2015)

Dr. Kurt Kistler (PhD 2010) (currently on the faculty at Penn State Brandywine)

Ranjeetha Suryavanshi (Masters 2009)

Congyi Zhou (Masters 2012)

Bachelor Students

Kandis Gilliard (currently faculty at UC Riverside)

Madiyha Muhammad

Benjamin Mejia

Elizabeth Mburu (graduated from School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania)

Chris Kozak

Parth Patel

JingXin Liang (currently a graduate student at Caltech)

Catherine Triandafillou (currently a graduate student at the University of Chicago)

Stephen Meloni

Quynh Nguyen (currently a graduate student at the University of Colorado Boulder)

Aya Matsumura (currently a graduate student at Kumamoto University, Japan)

Yuan Zeng

Chey Jones (currently a graduate student at Stanford University)

Michael Bennett

Linh Nguyen

Davielle Mattos