Former postdocs

Dr. Marcus Hanwell came to Pittsburgh from the University of Sheffield, UK.  Marcus obtained his Ph.D. in physics, studying the self-assembly of Langmuir-Blodgett films for gas sensors with Dr. Tim Richardson, which involves a combination of experiment and simulation.  At Pitt, he helped set up the group and developed the simulation framework for designer defects.  He now works for Kitware, a scientific visualization software developer and is working on VTK and CMake, in addition to contributing to Avogadro.

Former Graduate Students

Tamika Madison is a life-long Pittsburgh resident and attended Pitt as an undergraduate.  She joined the group in 2009 to work on Monte Carlo simulation of charge transport in the designer defect project.  Tamika graduated with her Ph.D. in May 2011. She is now a part-time lecturer in the chemistry department at Pitt.

 

Aaron Crandall comes from Alfred, NY and studied at Utica College before starting as a graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh.  In the group, Aaron worked on synthesis of semiconducting transition metal complexes.  He graduated from the Library Science program at Pitt in 2011.

 

Former Undergraduates

Bryan Siegfried (’11) worked on developing synthetic techniques on phthalocyanine derivatives.  He has a B.S. in Chemistry and a B.A. in Economics and comes from the prestigious small town of Hatboro, PA.  He is now working at Gelest, a leading supplier of silicones, silanes, and other silicon-containing compounds.

 

 

Leah Seebald (’10) worked on computational and theoretical projects until her graduation Spring 2011. She now works in Pittsburgh at RedPath Integrated Pathology, Inc.

 

 

Arthur Davis (’10) had been working in the group since the fall of 2008 on rational synthesis of semiconducting inorganic complexes, including substituted terpyridines and phthalocyanines.

 

 

Evan Richards (’11) joined the group in Spring 2010 and worked on synthesis of soluble metal phthalocyanines.  He started a job Sonneborn Industries after graduation, and there he works on instrumental analysis and analytical method innovation.

 

 

Casey Campbell (’10) came to Pitt from Altoona, PA.  She joined the group in the fall of 2008 and worked on computational and theoretical chemistry.  Casey is now in graduate school for chemistry at Georgia Tech in the group of Jean-Luc Brédas.

 

 

Alexandra McSorley (’10) joined the group in January 2009 and worked on computational and theoretical projects. Alexandra is now in graduate school for chemistry at Cornell University.