Principal Investigator

Reid C. Van Lehn

Position title: Sobota Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Associate Professor of Chemistry

Email: vanlehn@wisc.edu

Phone: he/him/his

Address:
Room 3012, 1415 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI 53706

Reid is the Sobota Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and an Associate 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@wisc.edu

Phone: he/him/his

Srija Chakraborty

Position title: CBE Graduate Student

Email: schakrabor32@wisc.edu

Phone: she/her/hers

Avery Greene

Position title: Chemistry Graduate Student

Email: aegreene@wisc.edu

Phone: she/her/hers

Yuhui Huang

Position title: CBE Graduate Student

Email: yhuang674@wisc.edu

Phone: she/her/hers

Carlos Huang-Zhu

Position title: CBE Graduate Student

Email: huangzhu@wisc.edu

Phone: he/him/his

Ugochukwu Michael Ikegwu

Position title: CBE Graduate Student (co-advised with Prof. Victor Zavala)

Email: Ikegwu@wisc.edu

Phone: he/him/his

Lisa Je

Position title: CBE Graduate Student (co-advised with Prof. Victor Zavala)

Email: lje@wisc.edu

Phone: she/them

Changsu Kim

Position title: CBE Graduate Student

Email: ckim334@wisc.edu

Phone: he/him/his

Jung Min Lee

Position title: CBE Graduate Student

Email: jungmin.lee@wisc.edu

Phone: she/her/hers

Yicheng Li

Position title: CBE Graduate Student (co-advised with Prof. Victor Zavala)

Email: yli2744@wisc.edu

Phone: he/him/his

ByungUk Park

Position title: Biophysics Graduate Student

Email: bpark74@wisc.edu

Phone: he/him/his

Juriti Rajbangshi

Position title: Postdoctoral Researcher

Email: rajbangshi@wisc.edu

Phone: she/her/hers

Josh Richardson

Position title: CBE Graduate Student

Email: jdrichardso3@wisc.edu

Phone: he/him/his

Letian Wang

Position title: CBE Graduate Student

Email: lwang864@wisc.edu

Phone: he/him/his

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 a Research Associate at Imperial College London
  • Dr. Jianping Li (2021-2023) – now a Postdoctoral Appointee at Argonne National Laboratory

Graduate students

  • Alex K. Chew (PhD 2021) – now at Schrödinger, Inc.
  • Bradley C. Dallin (PhD 2021) – now at Roivant Sciences
  • Benginur Demir (PhD 2020) – now at Dow Chemical
  • 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 Senior Research Specialist at Dow Chemical
  • Jonathan K. Sheavly (PhD 2022) – now Senior Research Specialist at Dow Chemical
  • Panzheng Zhou (PhD 2025) – now Research Scientist at Meta