Principal Investigator
Reid C. Van Lehn
Position title: Sobota Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Email:
vanlehn
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
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
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Lisa Je
Position title: CBE Graduate Student (co-advised with Prof. Victor Zavala)
Email:
lje
Phone: she/them
Yicheng Li
Position title: CBE Graduate Student (co-advised with Prof. Victor Zavala)
Email:
yli2744
Phone: he/him/his
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 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