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Minteer Group Updates

January 2023 – Welcome to Wassim El Housseini and Monica Brachi, who are new post-docs in the group!

December 2022 – Welcome to Luke Kays and Kevin McFadden, who are new graduate students in the group!

June 2022 – Welcome to Anna Fukushima and Danielle Lehto who are REU students for the summer, Nafisa Ibrahim who is a visiting scholar for the summer, and Katia Nguyen Petrosky who is a research intern for the summer.

February 2022 – Welcome to Motiur Rahaman, who is a new post-doc in the group!

January 2022 – Welcome to Emily Carroll and Zach Nguyen, who are new graduate students in the Minteer Group!!!

December 2021 – Congratulations to Fangyuan (Daisy) Dong as she heads off for her industry position in Wisconsin, MA!!! We will miss you!

December 2021 – Congratulations to Christian Malapit as he heads off for his academic position at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL!!!

October 2021 – Welcome to Rohit Jadhav, who is a new postdoctoral researcher in the lab!

September 2021 – Congratulations to Samali Weliwatte for winning a Chemical Science Outstanding Poster Prize at the Chemical Science Symposium 2021 for her poster entitled “Exploring the Role of an Unbranched Conductive-Redox Polymer with Chloroplasts during Photo-bioelectrocatalysis”

September 2021 – Congratulations to Dr. Erin Gaffney on successful defense of her dissertation!!! Great job, Erin!!!!

August 2021 – Congrats to Matt Prater as he heads off for his academic position at Southern Utah University!

July 2021 – Welcome to Dylan Boucher, who is a new post-doc in the group, and to Theo Baende, who a new BS/MS student in the group!

June 2021 – Congrats to Dr. Fangyuan (Daisy) Dong on successful defense of her dissertation!!! Great job, Daisy!!!!

June 2021 – Congrats to Dr. Matt Kummer on successful defense of his dissertation!!! Great job, Matt!!!!

April 2021 – Congratulations to Samali Weliwatte for winning the young investigator award for the best poster at the 38th eastern regional photosynthesis conference (ERPC).

January 2021 – Congratulations to Olja Simoska for being awarded the 2020 Ereztech Bridge Forward Award!!

January 2021 – Congratulation to Christian A. Malapit for being awarded the NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence!!

January 2021 – Congratulations to Prof. Shelley D. Minteer for launching nine fully open access ACS Au Journals as the Editor in Chief.

January 2021 – Welcome to Ashwini Dantanarayana, Miharu Koh, Tim McFadden, Adam Milam, Skylar Blank, and Veronica O’Connor, who are new graduate students in the Minteer Group!!! Also, a here is late welcome to Rokas Gerulskis, who is now a second-year graduate student in the lab!

November 2020 – Congrats to Kasha Lim on successful defense of her dissertation!!! Great job! Kasha will be starting a post-doc in Jeffrey Dick’s lab at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill!

November 2020 – Congratulations to Samali Weliwatte for winning the best ePoster at the International Online Conference on Bio-hybrid Approaches to Solar Energy Conversion (Topic “Biohybrid Systems” and award is supported by ACS Energy Letters)!!! Great job!

August 2020 – Congratulations to Matteo Grattieri as he heads off for his academic position at University of Bari in Italy!!! We will miss you!

July 2020 – Welcome to Matt Prater, who is a new post-doc in the group!

June 2020 – Congratulations to post-doc Olja Simoska for being selected as the recipient of the Irving S. Sigal Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2020-2022 from the American Chemical Society!!!

June 2020 – Congratulations to Mengwei Yuan on successfully defending her dissertation!!! Great job!

March 2020 – Welcome to Samali Weliwatte and Rokas Gerulskis, who have joined the group as new graduate students!

February 2020 – Jefferson is going back to Brazil. We are going to miss you!!!

February 2020 – Welcome to Jaime R. Cabrera-Pardo, who is a new post-doc in the group!

February 2020 – Welcome to Jeffrey Copeland, who is the new lab manager in the group.

January 2020 – Welcome to Olja Simoska, who is a new post-doc in the group!

November 2019 – Welcome to Kevin Beaver, who is a new graduate student in the group!

November 2019 – Welcome to Christian Malapit, who is a new post-doc in the group!

August 2019 – Welcome to Yoo Seok Lee, who is a new post-doc in the group!

August 2019 – Congrats to David Hickey as he heads off for his academic position at Michigan State University.

August 2019 – Congrats to Rong Cai on successful defense of her dissertation and preparing to head off to a post-doc in Peidong Yang’s lab at the University of California – Berkley!!!

January 2019 – Welcome to Min Li, who is a new post-doc in the group.

August 2018 – Congrats to Sofiene Abdellaoui for his new academic position in France.

Summer 2018 – Welcome to Kevin Klunder, who is a new post-doc in the lab.

January 2018 – Welcome to Erin Gaffney, Zayn Rhodes, Jack Lee, Kasha Lim, and Daisy Dong who joined the group as new graduate students. 

January 2018 – Congratulations for Florika Macazo as she heads off to Cincinnati for a new job!!!

December 2017 – Congratulations to Bassam Alkotaini as he heads off to a new job at BioFire Diagnostics here in the valley!!!

March 2017 – Congratulations to Tao Wang on defending his dissertation and preparing to head off to a post-doc in Viola Birss' lab at the University of Calgary!!

November 2016 – Congratulations to Dayi Chen on defending her thesis and starting a post-doc at Notre Dame!!!

August 2016 – Congratulations to Yaovi Holade as he leaves for France to start his own assistant professor position!!!

April 2016 – Matteo Grattieri and Kamrul Hasan join the lab as post-docs.

March 2016 – Congratulations to Lindsey Pelster on defending her thesis and starting a new job in California!!!

January 2016 – Congratulations to Russ Reid on defending his thesis and starting a post-doc at the Naval Research Lab!!!

January 2016 – Erika, Rong, and Wade joined the lab as graduate students.

Contact Information

Shelley Minteer
315 S 1400 E Rm. B611
TBBC (Thatcher Bld)
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
minteer@chem.utah.edu
Office: (801) 587-8325

Last Updated: 4/11/23