Former Group Members

Gergely Solymosi

Visiting Graduate Student
July 2021 - December 2021

Dr. Rui Gao

Postdoctoral Researcher
October 2018 - October 2021

Dr. Martin Edwards

Research Assistant Professor
June 2014 - July 2020

Research: Developing scanned probe type instrumentation for precisely delivering well characterized electrocatalytic nanoparticles to interfaces and then assessing their activities. I also continue to have a keen interest in much of the mathematical modelling that goes on in the group.

Dr. Cameron Cheyne

Graduate Student
April 2016 - July 2020

Research: Structural and kinetic characterization of biomolecules utilizing nanopores.

B.S. California State University Channel Islands

Ph.D. University of Utah

Current Position (2024): Laboratory Manager at Utah Department of Agriculture and Food

Dr. Koushik Barman

Postdoctoral Researcher
April 2018 - July 2020

Research: Heterogeneous Electrocatalysis and Electrosynthesis.

Current Position (2024): Postdoctoral Researcher at CUNY- Queens College

Connor Weatherly

Undergraduuate Researcher
May 2017 - July 2020

Research: Coupled electron and phase-transfer reactions at the interface between immiscible phases.

B.S.    University of Utah

Current Position (2024): PhD graduate student at Northwestern University

Dr. Donny Robinson

Postdoctoral Researcher
July 2016 - February 2020

Research: Particle impact electrochemistry with correlated resistive pulse; Surface forces and Brownian dynamics; Electrocatalysis.

B.S.    Georgia State University

Ph.D.   University of Texas at Austin

Current Position (2024): Technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories

Dr. Yinghua Qiu

Postdoctoral Researcher
September 2018 - September 2019

Research: Micro/Nanofluidics; Particle detection with resistive-pulse sensing.

B.E.   Hefei University of Technology, China

PhD  Southeast University, China

Current Position (2024): Professor at Shandong University

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Dr. Alan Zhang

November 2014 - Feburary 2019

Research: Trapping and size analysis of individual nanoparticles, nanoparticle shape analysis.

B.S.   Xiamen University, China.

Ph.D. Univeristy of Utah

Current position (2024):R&D Scientist II at Quantum Design

Dr. Cherie Tan

Postdoctoral Researcher
January 2013 - January 2019

Research: Exploring alpha-hemolysin protein channel as a tool to distinguish damaged DNA sites and study the kinetic behavior of DNA repair enzymes.

B.S.   University of Waterloo, Canada, and Harbin Institute of Technology, China.

Ph.D. Univeristy of Utah

Current position (2024): Associate Professor at Tianjin University

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Nuwani Weerasinghe

Graduate Student
January 2018

Research: Nanopore research.

B.S.   University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Shane Douglas

Graduate Student
January 2017

Research: Electrochemical studies of nanobubbles by evolving gases at nanoelectrodes.

B.A.   Ferris State University

Dr. Hang Ren

Postdoctoral Researcher
June 2016

Research: Ion channel recording analysis of DNA damage.

B.S.    Sun Yat-Sen University, China.

Ph.D.   University of Michigan

Current Position (2024): Assistant Professor at University of Texas at Austin

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Dr. Nicholas Georgescu

Postdoctoral Researcher
April 2018

Research: Experimental and Theoretical Aspect of Nanoelectrochemistry and Materials.

B.S. + B.A.   Northern Kentucky University

Ph.D.   Case Western Reserve University

Dr. Sean German

Postdoctoral Researcher
April 2017

Research: Nucleation and dynamics of nanobubbles, Atomic Force Microscopy, and nanopore based characterization of nanoparticles.

B.A. Saint Olaf College

Ph.D. University of Utah

Current Position (2024): VP of Research and Development at Electronic Biosciences

Dr. Kim McKelvey

Associate Professor
July 2015 - September 2017

Current Position (2024): Senior Lecturer, Victoria University of Wellington

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Alvaro Moreno

Visiting Graduate Student, Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands

April 2017

Research: Physics of Fluids. Transporting Gas Away from a Catalyst Surface.

Dr. Yuwen Liu

Visiting Scholar
January 2016

Research: Nanoelectrochemistry and computational electrochemistry.

B.S.     Wuhan University, China

Ph.D.     Wuhan University, China

Roland Manning Jones III

Graduate Student
May 2016

B.S. University of North Carolina

Ph.D. Univeristy of Utah

Dr. Qianjin Chen

Postdoctoral Researcher
December 2013

Research: Electrochemical nucleation of nanobubbles and its physical properties, ion transport within nanogap cells, electrochemical control of polymerization.

Dr. Robert Johnson

Marie Curie International Research Fellow
January 2013 - March 2016

Research: Using alpha-hemolysin as a sensor to detect damage in double-stranded DNA and a tool to understand DNA biophysical behaviors (e.g. breathing, base-flipping) at the single molecule level.

Prof. Haibing Li

Visiting Professor
July 2015 - March 2016

Current Position: Central China Normal University.

Research:  Chiral nanopore transport of biomolecules.

Dr. Rukshan Perera

Graduate Student
April 2012 - March 2016

Research: Mass transport in conical shape glass nanopores. Using protein nanopores to detect biomarkers and monitor structural differences between nucleic acid duplexes.

M.S. Central Michigan University, MI

Institute of Chemistry Ceylon

Rajarata University of Sri Lanka

Current Position (2024): Staff Scientist, Assay development & Platform Integration at Nautilus Biotechnology

Dr. Thomas Edwards

Dr. Ryan White

Dr. Keith Stevenson

Dr. Bradly Bath

Dr. Kyle Grant

Dr. Jodie Conyers

Dr. Olivia Uitto

Dr. Chet Boxley

Dr. Bo Zhang

Dr. Yanhui Zhange

Dr. Eric Ervin

Dr. Anna Schibel

Dr. Deric Holden

Dr. Long Luo