the group
Group (Winter '12) - (L to R) Top Row: Junsi Gu, Eli Fahrenkrug, Zhijie Wang, Stephen Maldonado, Sean Collins, Sabrina Peczonczyk, Wen Wen. Middle Row: Anisha Shakya. Bottom Row: Jason Koch, Michelle Chitambar, Jesse Maddock, Elizabeth Keenan.
Past Groups:
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Group (Fall '11) - (L to R) Top Row: Junsi Gu, Zhijie Wang, Stephen Maldonado, Sabrina Peczonczyk, Jesse Maddock, Michelle Price. Bottom Row: Elizabeth Keenan, Jeremy Feldblyum, Meagan Cauble, Elizabeth Brown, Sean Collins.
Past Groups:
Fall 2011
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Group (Winter '11) - (L to R) Top Row: Elizabeth Keenan, Jeremy Feldblyum, Stephen Maldonado, Sabrina Peczonczyk, Molly Soper, Jesse Maddock. Bottom Row: Justin Foley, Jeanne Hankett, Junsi Gu, Azhar Carim, Wen Wen, Michelle Price, Sean Collins.
Past Groups:
Winter 2011
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Group (Fall '10) - (L to R) Top Row: Justin Foley, Jesse Maddock, Sean Collins, Nich Griffith, Sabrina Peczonczyk, Junsi Gu, Matthew Tsang. Bottom Row: Michelle Price, Azhar Carim, Stephen Maldonado, Jeremy Feldblyum, Laura Pfund, Wen Wen, Elizabeth Keenan.
Past Groups:
Fall 2010
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Group (Winter '10) - From left: Jhindan Mukherjee, Justin Foley, Jeremy Feldblyum, Azhar Carim, Kevin Hagedorn, Stephen Maldonado, Colin Forgacs, Michelle Price, Wen Wen, Soojeong Kim, and Junsi Gu.
Past Groups:
Winter 2010
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Group (Fall '09) - From left: Jeremy Feldblyum, Jhindan Mukherjee, Kevin Hagedorn, Stephen Maldonado, Sabrina Peczonczyk, Wen Wen, Laura Thoma, Azhar Carim, Michelle Price and Rui Huang. Not pictured: Colin Forgacs and Eric Kushion.
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Fall 2009
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Group (Winter '09) - From left: Michelle Price, David Porter, Jhindan Mukherjee, Azhar Carim, Stephen Maldonado, Kevin Hagedorn, Colin Forgacs and Eric Kushion
Past Groups:
Winter 2009
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Group (Fall '08) - From left: Penny Peng, Jhindan Mukherjee, Azhar Carim and Stephen Maldonado
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Fall 2008
professor stephen maldonado
smald at umich.edu
B.S. Chemistry, University of Iowa, 2001 Ph.D. Chemistry, UT Austin, 2006 Postdoctoral Fellow, Caltech, 2006-2008
American Chemical Society, Member Electrochemical Society, Member The Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry, Member
My parents immigrated to the United States of America and settled in Knoxville, Iowa. I grew up there, away from the bright lights and big city atmosphere of Des Moines, Iowa. I went to the University of Iowa for my undergraduate degree and discovered the world of electrochemistry. I was hooked immediately. After graduating, I moved to Austin, Texas and studied carbon electrode materials. As a postdoc in Pasadena, I learned about semiconductors and the chemistry of interfaces. Now as an independent researcher in Ann Arbor, I am directing a group of scientists interested in the chemistry and physics involved in chemical sensing and renewable energy technologies.
Curriculum Vitae [pdf]
doctor zhijie wang
B.S. Zhejiang University
Ph.D. Institute of Semiconductors, CAS
Zhijie is interested in solar cells, nano-materials, nano-devices, and organic and organic/inorganic hybrid devices.
Curriculum Vitae [pdf]
michelle j. Chitambar
Graduate Student Researcher, Applied Physics Program, Ann Arbor, MI
mjjprice at umich.edu
B.A. in Physics, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN, 2008
B.A. in Political Science, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN, 2008
Office of Science Graduate Fellow, U. S. Department of Energy
Graham Doctoral Fellow, Univ. Michigan Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute
Curriculum Vitae [pdf]
Michelle grew up in a rural Minnesota community where the necessity for creating one's own opportunities and the values of both humanitarianism and environmental stewardship were instilled from an early age. As an undergraduate political science major at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN, she became acutely interested in the societal and political implications of sustainable global development. As her studies progressed, she recognized the value of having a scientific understanding of the principles underlying important sociopolitical debates and added a second major in physics. She matriculated to the University of Michigan Applied Physics Program in 2008 to study the basic science necessary to make next-generation solar cells a reality and plans to graduate in Fall 2012. Her long-term career goals are to facilitate the adoption of technologies for sustainable development by 1) increasing policymakers' access to the scientific information relevant to decision-making and 2) creating sustainable solutions as a team member in promising "greentech" companies.
sabrina peczonczyk
B.S. Chemistry, University of Buffalo, 2009
Sabrina is interested in the surface passivation of III-V semiconductors and how these techniques affect their eletrochemical and photoelectrochemical properties.
junsi gu
B.S., Fudan University, China
Junsi is working on examining semiconductor passivation techniques via in-situ Raman spectroscopy.
wen wen
B.S., Peking University, China, 2008
M.S., Arizona State University
Wen is interested in the synthesis of novel nanomaterials and their use in solar energy applications.
Betsy Brown
B.S., University of Wisconsin La Crosse, 2011
Betsy is working on developing new reactions for chemically modifying semiconductor electrode interfaces.
jesse maddock
Jesse is pursuing a B.S.E. Chemical Engineering with a concentration in Electrical Engineering (Dec. 2012). His research interests include optoelectronics, intrinsically conducting polymers (ICPs), and characterization of semiconductors.
elizabeth keenan
Elizabeth is pursuing a B.S. Chemistry degrees and is involved in Alpha Chi Sigma and Salto Dance Company. Her research includes growing microporous coordination polymers on functionalized surfaces.
sean collins
Sean is currently pursuing a B.S. Chemistry and a B.Mus. Piano Performance (2012). His research interests include Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Focused Ion Beam (FIB), and Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) imaging and characterization of nano- and nano-structured materials.
Curriculum Vitae [pdf]
Lucas Mitchell
Lucas is currently pursuing a B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering. Lucas is working on modelling nanowire solar cells.
Curriculum Vitae [pdf]
kevin hagedorn
B.S. Chemistry, Univ. of Michigan, 2005
B.S. Biochemistry, Univ. of Michigan, 2005
Ph.D. Chemistry, Univ. of Michigan, 2010
American Chemical Society, Member
Alpha Chi Sigma, Member
Curriculum Vitae [pdf]
Merck Index Award, 2005
James B. Angell Scholar, 2003
Kevin is currently a researcher at IMRA America, Inc.
doctor jhindan mukherjee
Ph.D., Chemistry, Univ. of Toledo, 2008
While with the Maldonado group, Jhindan worked on chemical strategies for surface passivation of III-V semiconductors for application in energy conservation devices. She employed XPS, IR and electrochemical techniques to investigate surface composition, resistance to ambient oxidation and band gap energetics of modified semiconductor surfaces. Jhindan's doctoral research was focused on developing electrochemical biosensors for selective and sensitive detection of cholinergic neurotransmitters and biologically important thiols. She developed enzyme modified electrodes and optimized their performance characeteristics to achieve selectivity, long operational stability and low detection limits.
University of Toledo Fellowship, 2005-2008
Certificate of Merit for Outstanding 1st Year Graduate Student
Robert E. Maytag Fellowship, 2003-2004
azhar carim
acarim at umich.edu
Azhar received a B.S. Chem. degree in May, 2011. During his tenure at UM, he studied electrochemical atomic layer epitaxy (ECALE), surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) and electrosynthesis/electrocatalysis. He is currently a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology.
Roger B. Vanko Memorial Award, 2011
James E. Harris Scholarship, 2010
James B. Angell Scholar, 2009
American Chemical Society Analytical Chemistry Award, 2009
Seyhan N. Ege Fellowship, 2009
lingbo zhang
Lingbo is currently pursuing a B.S. in Chemistry Department at Tsinghua University, China. She spent her 2011 summer in Michigan as a US/China REU Exchange Program student, focusing on semiconductor nanoparticle synthesis and characterization.
colin forgacs
B.S. Physics, University of Michigan, 2009
Colin obtained a M.S. in Applied Physics from the University of Oregon. He is currently a diffusion process engineering intern at Fairchild Semicondcutor in Portland, ME.
