Alumni

Shrihari Sankarasubramanian

February 2017 – November 2018: Postdoctoral Research Associate
November 2018 – March 2020: Research Scientist
March 2020 – August 2021: Senior Staff Research Scientist

Shri is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering.

Pralay Gayen

August 2018 – October 2021
Pralay is currently employed at Intel.

Javier Parrondo

Summer 2007, January 2011 – March 2018
Javier is currently a Research Scientist at Nissan Technical Center.

Chih-Ping Lo

Nov. 2010 – August 2012
Chih-Ping is presently a research scientist at Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagonstic Laboratory.

Yunzhu Zhang

Ph.D. awarded Fall 2021
Dissertation title: “Anion exchange membranes in electrochemical energy systems”
Yunzhu is a fuel cell materials test engineer at General Motors.

Cheng He

Ph.D.  awarded Fall 2019
Dissertation title: “Corrosion-resistant Electrocatalyst Supports for PEFCs”
Cheng is a postdoctoral fellow at NREL.

Zhongyang Wang

Ph.D. awarded Fall 2019
Dissertation title: “Anion Exchange Membranes for Alkaline Fuel Cells, Alkaline Electrolyzers and Redox Flow Batteries”
Zhongyang is a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Paul Nealey, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago.

Lihui Wang

Ph.D. awarded Spring 2017
Dissertation title : “Anion Exchange Membranes for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage”
Lihui is a scientist with Twelve – a start-up focused on electrochemical technologies.

Guanxiong Wang

Ph.D. awarded Fall 2016
Dissertation title: “Corrosion-resistant Electrocatalysts and Supports for Electrochemical Energy Conversion”
Postdoctoral research fellow at NREL.

Min-Suk Jung

Ph.D. awarded Spring 2016
Dissertation title: “Investigation of Performance and Durability of Polymer Electrolytes for Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion Technologies”
Min-Suk is a research scientist with Lotte Chemicals in South Korea.

Sukhwan Yun

Ph.D. awarded in Fall 2014
Dissertation title: “Composite Membranes for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells and Redox Flow Batteries”
Sukhwan is a research engineer with Hyundai Motors in South Korea.

Amod Kumar

Ph.D. awarded in Summer 2014
Dissertation title: “Multifunctional Electrocatalyst Supports and Electrocatalysts for Electrochemical Energy Conversion”
Amod is a research scientist with General Motors.

Vekateshkumar Prabhakaran

Ph.D. awarded in Spring 2014
Winner of the 2016 PNNL/EMSL M. T. Thomas Award for Outstanding Postdoctoral Achievement.
Dissertation title: “In-Situ Diagnostics for Degradation Monitoring in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells”
Venky is a senior staff scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Physical Sciences Division and an adjunct professor at  Washington State Univ.

Christopher Arges 

Ph.D. awarded in Fall 2013
Winner of the ECS IE&EE Division Student Achievement Award, 2012. Dissertation title: “Structure-Property Relationships in Anion Exchange Membranes for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage”. Chris is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University.

Satheesh Sambandam 

Ph.D. awarded in May 2010
Winner of the ECS IE&EE Division Student Achievement Award, 2010
Dissertation title: “Kinetic and transport phenomena in polymer electrolyte fuel cells”.
Satheesh is presently placed with Nalco/Ecolab, Sugarland TX.

Panagiotis Trogadas 

Ph.D. awarded in December 2009
Dissertation title: “PEM degradation and degradation mitigation in polymer electrolyte fuel cells”.
Panos is a presently a Research Professor at University College, London, with Prof. M-O Coppens.

Yunzhu Zhang

M.S., awarded in Spring 2016
Thesis title: “In-situ Fluorescence Spectroscopy as a Tool to Detect Reactive Oxygen Species in Alkaline Polymer Electrolytes”
Yunzhu is a fuel cell materials test engineer at General Motors.

Mo Li

M.S., awarded in Spring 2016
Thesis title: “In-situ Fluorescence Spectroscopy as a Tool to Detect Oxygen Ingress in Li-ion Cell Electrolytes”
Mo is pursuing a teaching internship in China.

Anchal Jain

M.S., awarded in Spring 2016
Thesis title: “Pyrochlore and Perovskite Materials for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction”
Anchal is currently placed with Peacock Foods., Chicago.

Chih-Ping Lo

M.S., awarded in June. 2010
Thesis title: “Studies on Electrocatalyst and Support Degradation.”
Chih-Ping is presently a research scientist at Texas A&M University.

Seung-Whan Lee

M.S. awarded in August 2008
Thesis title: “Ex-situ Techniques to Quantify PEM Degradation.”
Seung received his Ph.D. from CWRU in Chem. Eng. with Prof. Mohan Sankaran and is currently at the National Fusion Research Institute in South Korea.