Riordan Group

March 2013

Front Row: Yingxin Huang, Ann Ploskonka

Second Row: Bryan Klebon, Jess Wallick,

Back Row: Peng Wang, Charlie Riordan, Bill Green

 

Current Group Members

Graduate Students

 

Yingxin Huang

Dalian Univ. of Technology

 

Bill Green

Rowan University

 

Jessica Wallick

Gettysburg College

 

Peng Wang

Wuhan University

 

Bryan Klebon

Salisbury University

 

Ann Ploskonka

Goucher College

 

Undergraduate Student

Matt White

University of Delaware, Class of 2013

 

 

Collaborators

 

Professor Codrina Popescu
Ursinus College
(Mössbauer Spectroscopy)

 

 

Group Alumni

Postdocs

Dr. R. V. Aruna (postdoc, 1994-1996) Research Scientist at Atul Ltd. Pharmaceuticals, India
Dr. M. S. Ram (postdoc, 1993-1995) Staff Scientist in Grain Marketing at KSU
Dr. Andrew Cottone (postdoc, 2001) Vice President, Chemistry, Adesis, Inc.
Dr. Alexandra Whalley (postdoc, 2001) Postdoc, Cambridge University

Dr. Yoshinobu Ishikawa (postdoc, 2002-03) Lecturer, Kumamoto University, Japan
Dr. Koyu Fujita (postdoc, 2002-05) Staff Scientist, University of Michigan Medical School
Dr. Rangan Krishnan (postdoc, 2002-05) Assistant Professor, Chemistry, BITS Pilani-Hyderabad Campus

Dr. Beaven Mandimutsira (postdoc 1997-2001; research associate 2003-06) Research Chemist, Lyondell Chemical Company

Dr. Nate Eckert (postdoc 2005-07) Staff Scientist, Shepherd Chemical Company

Dr. Jaehueng Cho (postdoc 2005-07) Assistant Professor, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology, Korea

Graduate Students

Pinghua Ge (M.S. 1996 (KSU), Ph.D. 2000 (UD)) Research Assistant Professor, Dept. Physics, University of Illinois
Carl Ohrenberg (Ph.D. 1998 (KSU)) Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Gainesville State College
Peter Schebler (Ph.D. 2001 (UD)) Senior Chemist with Midwest Research Institute
Ali Turkan (M.S. 1996 (KSU)) Ph.D. Biochemistry, KSU
Mike Coxey (M.A. 2001) DuPont CR&D
Jennifer Yamarik (M.A. 2002) ASDI Biosciences, DE
Janis Voo (Ph.D. 2002) Senior Production Chemist, MV Laboratories, Frenchtown, NJ
Sowmya Subramanian (M.S. 2004 (UD)) Ph.D. student, University of Georgia with Mike Johnson
Show-Jen Chiou (Ph.D. 2004) Associate Professor, National Chiayi University, Taiwan

Julie DuPont (Ph.D. 2006) Research Scientist, Primet Precision Materials

William Dougherty (Ph.D. 2007) Assistant Professor, Susquehanna University

Sharon Hatalla (M.A. 2007) R&D chemist, DuPont Deepwater

Michael Mock (Ph.D. 2007) Staff Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Matt Kieber-Emmons (Ph.D. 2008) Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah

Tina Tao (M.A. 2008) Instructor, St. Lawrence University

Molly O’Hagan (Ph.D. 2010), Staff Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Piyal Ariyananda (Ph.D. 2010), Lecturer, Institute of Chemistry Ceylon, Sri Lanka

Joliene Trujillo (M.S. 2010), Tolmar, Inc.

Undergraduates

Anna Browning – KSU 1996 graduate student, KSU
Heather Bunting – UD 2001; employed with Astra Zeneca
Mauro Calabrese – summer research student (UD 1999), University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2001, postdoc, UNC-Chapel Hill
Julia Drewes – summer research student (UD 2005), Biology, Stanford University, BS 2007
Tim Hubin – KSU 1994; Associate Professor, Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Julie Innocent - UD May 2000; SmithKline Beecham
Gary Lee –summer research student (KSU 1993), Nottingham Trent University exchange student

Jeff Lopez – UD May 2013; doctoral student, University of Michigan with Carol Fierke
Melissa Fennemore - UD 2002; Teacher, Middletown, DE High School
John Maccri - UD 2000; employed with Barry Callebaut Chocolate
Brian Maduskuie - UD 2003

Charlotte Mason - UD 2006; doctoral student with Harry Gray, CalTech
Claron Ridge - UD 2005; Ph.D., UC-Santa Barbara, postdoc, Technical University of Munich

Mohammed Saleem – KSU summer research student (KSU 1994), Oklahoma University
Jason Smee – KSU 1994; Assistant Professor, University of Texas-Tyler
Joe Schmidt – KSU 1997; Associate Professor, University of Toledo

Stephen Tereniak – UD, 2009; doctoral student with Connie Lu, University of Minnesota
Gary Williams – summer research student (KSU 1994) Nottingham Trent University exchange student