Team
Principal Investigator
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Prof. Veronica Augustyn (CV) Scientific Editor, Journal of Materials Chemistry A Education: e-mail: vaugust(at)ncsu.edu |
Research Scholar
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Dr. Noah Holzapfel
Education: email: npholzap(at)ncsu.edu
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Postdoctoral Fellows
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Dr. Matthew Chagnot
Education: e-mail: mschagno(at)ncsu.edu |
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Dr. Saeed Saeed
Education: e-mail: smsaeed(at)ncsu.edu |
Graduate Student Researchers
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Alan Ferris
Education: B.S. Materials Science & Engineering, NC State, 2023 e-mail: alferris(at)ncsu.edu
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Lillian Lower
co-advised with Prof. Joe Sagues Education: M.S. Biological & Ag. Eng. (2023), B.S. Civil Eng. (2020), NC State University email: lmlower(at)ncsu.edu |
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Seongbak Moon
Education: M.S. Environ. & Polymer Eng. (2022), B.S. Polymer Sci. & Eng. (2019), Inha University (Korea) email: smoon5(at)ncsu.edu |
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Vincenzo Musico
Ph.D Candidate Education: B.S. Materials Science & Engineering, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2021 email: vmusico(at)ncsu.edu |
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Aldina Sultana
Education: B.S. Materials Science & Engineering, Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (Bangladesh), 2023 email: asultan2(at)ncsu.edu |
Undergraduate Student Researchers
Colton King
Education: B.S. Materials Science & Engineering, NC State (in progress) email: ceking6(at)ncsu.edu |
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Kelly Robertson
Education: B.S. Chemical Engineering & Textile Engineering, NC State (in progress) email: karober7(at)ncsu.edu |
Mason Shaffer
Education: B.S. Materials Science & Engineering, NC State (in progress) email: mpshaff2(at)ncsu.edu |
Group Alumni
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Ran Ding, postdoctoral fellow, 2021 – 2024
Dr. Alisa Paterson, part-time postdoctoral fellow, 2018 – 2019
Dr. Simon Fleischmann, postdoctoral fellow, 2019 – 2020
Dr. Jenelle Fortunato, postdoctoral fellow, 2021 – 2024
Dr. Ruocun (John) Wang, postdoctoral fellow, 2020
Graduate Students
Dr. Shelby (Boyd) Pillai, graduate student researcher, 2016 – 2020
Dissertation Title: Interlayer Chemistry and Energy Storage Mechanisms of Manganese-Rich Oxides in Aqueous Electrolytes
Dr. Matthew Chagnot, graduate student researcher, 2019 – 2024
Dissertation Title: Electrochemical Kinetics of Cation Insertion in Transition Metal Oxides
Dr. Ishita Kamboj, graduate student researcher, 2019 – 2024
Dissertation Title: Design of Lithium-ion Battery Cathode Materials and Architectures
William Lo, graduate student researcher, 2015 – 2016
M.S. Thesis Title: Characterization of Hydrated Tungsten Oxides for Electrochemical Energy Storage
Dr. James Mitchell, graduate student researcher, 2016 – 2021
Dissertation Title: Understanding the Role of Structural Water for High Power Electrochemical Energy Storage in Tungsten Oxide Hydrates
Dr. Saeed Saeed, graduate student researcher, 2019 – 2024
Dissertation Title: Mechanisms of Ion Insertion in Solid State Materials for Energy Storage and Hydrogen Atom Transfer
Dr. Michael Spencer, graduate student researcher, 2017 – 2023
Dissertation Title: Towards Understanding the Role of Confinement in the Electrochemical Reactivity of Guest Molecules and Expanded Transition Metal Oxides
Dr. Ruocun (John) Wang, graduate student researcher, 2015 – 2020
Dissertation Title: Improvement of Electrochemical Ion Insertion Kinetics in Tungsten Oxides with Structural Water and Trace Water in a Non-Aqueous Electrolyte
Undergraduate Students
Sofia Abello, undergraduate researcher, 2021 – 2023
Klarissa Baranyk, undergraduate researcher, 2017
Ashwin Bhargava, undergraduate researcher, 2016
JaiShaun Boyd, undergraduate researcher, 2023 – 2024
Anna Costine, undergraduate researcher, 2016 – 2017
Frank DiLustro, undergraduate researcher, 2018
Jessica Elvegaard, undergraduate researcher, 2022 – 2023
Kay Goldberg, undergraduate researcher, 2017
Rebecca Hunt, undergraduate researcher, 2021 – 2023
Lena Lopes, MAT-DAT REU student, 2024
Éowyn Lucas, undergraduate student researcher, 2015 – 2017
Dominic Marchese, undergraduate student researcher, 2020 – 2021
Andie Matten, undergraduate student researcher, 2017 – 2020
Kevin Matthews, undergraduate student researcher, 2017 – 2020
Mikayla Moody, undergraduate student researcher, 2015 – 2016
Emily Morris, undergraduate student researcher, 2023
Tran Nguyen, undergraduate student researcher, 2019
Matthew Powell, undergraduate student researcher, 2017
Emma Schatz, NSF MAT-DAT REU student, 2023
Ellie Scott, undergrad researcher, 2018 – 2019
Sophia Shi, undergrad researcher, 2020 – 2022
Hannah (Teeters) Denhartog, undergrad researcher, 2020 – 2022
Carter Wunch, NSF MAT-DAT REU student, 2022
Visitors
Prof. Anis Allagui, visiting faculty, 2018
Ming Lee, visiting undergraduate student researcher, 2017 – 2018
Dr. Yunxiao Wang, visiting researcher, 2017
Huimin Zhou, visiting graduate student, 2018 – 2019