Principal Investigator
Reid C. Van Lehn
Position title: Sobota Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Professor of Chemistry
Email:
vanlehn
Phone: he/him/his
Address:
Room 3012, 1415 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI 53706
Reid is the Sobota Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and a Professor (by courtesy) in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT under the supervision of Prof. Alfredo Alexander-Katz, then performed postdoctoral research with Prof. Tom F. Miller III at Caltech before joining UW-Madison in May 2016. [CV]
Group Members
Ali Altamimi
Position title: Chemistry Graduate Student
Email:
aaltamimi2
Phone: he/him/his
Srija Chakraborty
Position title: CBE Graduate Student
Email:
schakrabor32
Phone: she/her/hers
Avery Greene
Position title: Chemistry Graduate Student
Email:
aegreene
Phone: she/her/hers
Ugochukwu Michael Ikegwu
Position title: CBE Graduate Student (co-advised with Prof. Victor Zavala)
Email:
Ikegwu
Phone: he/him/his
Yicheng Li
Position title: CBE Graduate Student (co-advised with Prof. Victor Zavala)
Email:
yli2744
Phone: he/him/his
Jordan Loeffler
Position title: CBE Graduate Student (co-advised with Prof. Rose Cersonsky)
Email:
jcloeffler2
Phone: she/her/hers
Juriti Rajbangshi
Position title: Postdoctoral Researcher
Email:
rajbangshi
Phone: she/her/hers
Former members
Postdocs
- Dr. Zhizhang Shen (2018-2020) – now an Assistant Professor in the School of Environmental and Civil Engineering, Jiangnan University. Email: zshen@jiangnan.edu.cn
- Dr. Zeynep Sumer (2021-2022) – now at IBM Research
- Dr. Jianping Li (2021-2023) – now an Assistant Professor at the University of Tulsa
Graduate students
- Alex K. Chew (PhD 2021) – now at Schrödinger, Inc.
- Bradley C. Dallin (PhD 2021) – now at AstraZeneca
- Benginur Demir (PhD 2020) – now at Dow Chemical
- Carlos Huang-Zhu (PhD 2026) – now at AbbVie
- Lisa Je (PhD 2025) – now at the UW-Madison Data Science Institute
- Atharva S. Kelkar (MS 2021) – now at Freie Universitat Berlin
- Samarthaben J. Patel (PhD 2021) – now at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
- Shiyi (Amy) Qin (PhD 2024) – now at Dow Chemical
- Joshua Richardson (PhD 2026) – now at Varda Space Industries
- Jonathan K. Sheavly (PhD 2022) – now at Dow Chemical
- Panzheng Zhou (PhD 2025) – now at Meta