Principal Investigator

Reid C. Van Lehn

Position title: Hunt-Hougen 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 Hunt-Hougen 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

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

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

Panzheng Zhou

Position title: CBE Graduate Student

Email: pzhou26@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