Principal Investigator

Anne McNeil

Anne McNeil grew up in Buffalo, NY. She graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1999 with a BS in Chemistry. Her graduate work was with Dave Collum at Cornell University where she earned her PhD in 2005.  She did a post-doc with Tim Swager at MIT from 2005-2007. She joined the faculty at UM in summer 2007.

CV [PDF]

ajmcneil@umich.edu

Postdocs

Ed Palermo

BS in Mechanical Engineering, 2006; Cornell University
      REU Advisor: Miriam Rafailovich (SUNY Stony Brook)

PhD in Macromolecular Science and Engineering, 2011; University of Michigan
      Advisor: Kenichi Kuroda

Ed joined the lab in June 2011, and is working on the synthesis of new gradient conjugated copolymers and their characterization.

efp@umich.edu

Graduate Students

Jonas Locke

B.S. Chemistry, B.A. History, 2007; University at Buffalo
       Advisor: Diana S. Aga

Jonas came to Michigan in 2007, and is working on the synthesis of gradient conjugated copolymers.

jrlocke@umich.edu

Cheryl Moy

BA in Chemistry, 2007; Willamette University
      Advisor: Andrew Duncan

Cheryl came to Michigan in 2007, and is working on amplified gelations.

moyc@umich.edu

Jing Chen

BS in Chemistry, 2007; Peking University
      Advisor: Er-Qiang Chen

Jing came to Michigan in 2007, and is working on developing new stimuli-responsive gelations.

jingchen@umich.edu

Yash Adhia

B. Tech in Surface Coating Technology, 2008; University Institute of Chemical technology (UICT), Mumbai.
      Advisor: S. T. Mhaske

Yash came to Michigan in 2008, and is working on additive effects in gelation.

yjadhia@umich.edu

Se Ryeon Lee

BA in Chemistry, 2008; Johns Hopkins University
       Advisor: David P. Goldberg

Se Ryeon came to Michigan in 2009, and is working on developing new catalysts for Ni-catalyzed polymerizations.

seryeon@umich.edu

Kelsey King

B.S. in Chemistry, 2009; Allegheny College
      Advisor: Jacqueline Knaust

Kelsey came to Michigan in 2009, and is working on designing new metal-containing gelators.

kikelsey@umich.edu

Zachary Bryan

BS in Chemistry, 2008; University of Florida
      Advisor: Michael Scott

Zachary came to Michigan in 2010, and is working on Ni-catalyzed polymerizations.

zjbryan@umich.edu

Danielle Zurcher

BS in Chemistry, 2010; Wayne State University
      Advisor: Jeremy Kodanko

Danielle came to Michigan in 2010, and is working on amplified gelations.

zurcherd@umich.edu

Karen Sanders

BS in Chemistry, BA in History, 2008; Eastern Michigan University

MS in Chemistry, 2010; Eastern Michigan University
      Advisor: Cory Emal

Karen came to Michigan in 2010, and is working on arsenic-triggered gelations.

racemic@umich.edu

Pete Goldberg

BA in Chemistry, 2011; Macalaster College
      Advisor: Kathryn Splan

Pete came to Michigan in 2011, and is working on gradient copolymer syntheses.

pkgold@umich.edu

Mitchell Smith

BS in Chemistry, 2011; Arizona State University
      Advisor: Achim Herrmann

Mitchell came to Michigan in 2011, and is working on Pd-catalyzed chain-growth polymerizations.

mlsmit@umich.edu

Visiting Scientists

Harry van der Laan

Harry is an undergraduate student at HAN University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He is enrolled in the chemistry program with a major in organic synthesis and polymer chemistry and he has joined the McNeil lab as a part of this program for his Bachelor thesis.

vanderh@umich.edu

Undergraduate Students

Weiwei Wu

Anticipated Graduation – 2013
Major - Chemistry

Halley Rycenga

Anticipated Graduation – 2013
Major - Chemistry