adityamenon2028@u.northwestern.edu
Aditya Menon graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 2021 with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering. At UCSB, he worked in the McFarland Group on molten salt-mediated methane pyrolysis for clean hydrogen production. He then joined the R&D team at Boston Metal to develop the Molten Oxide Electrolysis process, a high temperature electrochemical process to decarbonize steel production. At Northwestern, he is co-advised by the Sargent and Seitz groups and is studying anodic hydrocarbon oxidation reactions to decarbonize the production of commodity chemicals.
johnweiss2028@u.northwestern.edu
John graduated from the University of South Carolina with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 2021. He then completed a year of Post-Bachelors work at Los Alamos National Laboratory studying single-atom catalysts for electrochemical carbon dioxide valorization with Dr. Piotr Zelenay. Now in the Sargent Lab at Northwestern, John’s is looking to develop tandem catalyst layers for the direct reduction of carbon dioxide from capture solutions.
TaylorWiggins2027@u.northwestern.edu
Taylor graduated from Wake Forest University in 2022 with a B.S. in chemistry and a minor in mathematics. As an undergraduate working under Prof. Scott M. Geyer, they performed research on the photocatalytic efficiency and synthesis of Cs3Bi2Br9 perovskite nanocrystals for the purpose of the remediation of organic pollutants in aqueous environments. At Northwestern Taylor is jointly advised by Prof. Mercouri G. Kanatzidis and Prof. Edward H. Sargent, where their research focuses on perovskite materials and their applications in photovoltaic devices.
isaiahgilley2027@u.northwestern.edu
Isaiah graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 2022 with a B.S. in chemistry and a B.A. in mathematics. There, he studied under Prof. Bayram Saparov working on exploratory synthesis of a variety of new hybrid organic-inorganic metal halides for light emission and detection applications. At Northwestern, he is jointly working in the Kanatzidis and Sargent labs to design and implement new perovskite materials for photovoltaics applications with the aim of improving overall device performance and stability
chuyinghuang2027@u.northwestern.edu
Chuying graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.S. degree in Chemistry and a minor in Materials Science & Engineering in 2022. Under the supervision of Dr. Oliver Gessner at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), her undergraduate research focuses on using femtosecond time-resolved optical laser pump X-ray probe photoelectron spectroscopy to study electronic dynamics at the interface of Si and other materials, which aims at exploring the next-generation solar cell materials. At Northwestern University, Chuying is co-advised by Prof. Edward H. Sargent and Prof. Lin Chen to conduct research on the carrier dynamics of 2D and 3D perovskite, and perovskite quantum dots using ultrafast spectroscopy, with the aim of giving guidance to improve the performances of future optoelectronic devices.
