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

Srija Chakraborty

Position title: Graduate Student

Email: schakrabor32@wisc.edu

Phone: she/her/hers

Carlos Huang-Zhu

Position title: Graduate Student

Email: huangzhu@wisc.edu

Phone: he/him/his

Ugochukwu Michael Ikegwu

Position title: Graduate Student

Email: Ikegwu@wisc.edu

Phone: he/him/his

Lisa Je

Position title: Graduate Student

Email: lje@wisc.edu

Phone: she/them

Jianping Li

Position title: Postdoctoral Researcher

Email: jli2367@wisc.edu

Phone: he/him/his

ByungUk Park

Position title: Graduate Student

Email: bpark74@wisc.edu

Phone: he/him/his

Alvaro Posada-Borbón

Position title: Postdoctoral Researcher

Email: posadaborbon@wisc.edu

Phone: he/him/his

Shiyi (Amy) Qin

Position title: Graduate Student

Email: sqin34@wisc.edu

Phone: she/her/hers

Juriti Rajbangshi

Position title: Postdoctoral Researcher

Email: rajbangshi@wisc.edu

Phone: she/her/hers

Josh Richardson

Position title: Graduate Student

Email: jdrichardso3@wisc.edu

Phone: he/him/his

Panzheng Zhou

Position title: 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

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
  • Jonathan K. Sheavly (PhD 2022) – now Senior Research Specialist at Dow Chemical

Undergraduate students

  • Herry Jin – graduate student at MIT
  • Ricardo Mathison – graduate student at New York University
  • Zhiwen Zhang
  • Alexis Oswalt (REU student)  – graduate student at Cornell University
  • Jack Euclide – now at Evoqua Water Technologies
  • Geyao Gu (REU student) – graduate student at University of Chicago
  • Bret Wolter – now at AGC Biologics
  • Seth Winger – now at Axtria
  • Sakura Kawano – graduate student at UC Davis