Category: Graduation

Presenting our newest PhD graduate: Dr. Pin-Hung Chung

The Cargnello group is beyond thrilled and proud to present our newest PhD graduate: Dr. Pin-Hung Chung! Pin-Hung is a materials science and engineering Ph.D. candidate. His Ph.D. is centered on developing aqueous-based synthetic methods towards colloidal nanoparticle synthesis. Pin-Hung has advanced this field of research with his research contributions and his most exciting research… Read more Presenting our newest PhD graduate: Dr. Pin-Hung Chung

Presenting our newest PhD graduate: Dr. Gennaro Liccardo

The Cargnello group is beyond thrilled and proud to present our newest PhD graduate: Dr. Gennaro Liccardo! Genni is a chemical engineering Ph.D. candidate co-advised by the Cargnello and Bent groups. His Ph.D. research combines both colloidal synthesis and atomic layer deposition to precisely tailor interfaces and study their effects in thermal heterogeneous catalysis. We… Read more Presenting our newest PhD graduate: Dr. Gennaro Liccardo

Farewell, Dr. Oh & Dr. Pennel!

Recently, we said our goodbyes to our two newly minted Cargnello group Ph.D. graduates, Dr. Jinwon Oh and Dr. Makenna Pennel! Our group wishes them all the best for their next steps and we will share them once they are official!  

Presenting our newest PhD graduate: Dr. Makenna Pennel

The Cargnello group is beyond thrilled and proud to present our newest PhD graduate: Dr. Makenna Pennel! Makenna, a Stanford Chemistry PhD graduate, worked on plastics upcycling and recycling, an emerging yet (extremely) challenging research field. In her dissertation, she developed well-defined colloidal catalysts to probe fundamental plastics degradation processes while discovering new processes to… Read more Presenting our newest PhD graduate: Dr. Makenna Pennel