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Matteo Cargnello
Principal InvestigatorAssistant Professor of Chemical Engineering; Shiram Center, room 389
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Alexis Rojas
Administrative AssistantShriram Center, room 091
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Marco Gigantino
Post-Doctoral Scholar (w/ Arun Majumdar)Chemical Engineering; Shriram Center, Room 390; Catalysts for sustainable hydrogen production
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Kaushal Parmar
Post-Doctoral Scholar (w/ Arun Majumdar)Chemical Engineering; Shriram Center, Room 390; Catalysts for sustainable hydrogen production
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Aruna Narayanan
Post-Doctoral Scholar (w/ Dimosthenis Sokaras)SLAC; Photocatalysts for sustainable hydrogen production
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Ning Yu
Post-doctoral ScholarChemical Engineering; Shriram Center, Room 390; Catalysts for low-temperature reactions
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Wooje Cho
Post-Doctoral ScholarChemical Engineering; Shriram Center, Room 378; Synthesis and use of alloyed nanoparticles
![Tian Ren](https://web.stanford.edu/group/cargnellogroup/cgi-bin/cg/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/tian-500x500.png)
Tian Ren
Post-doctoral ScholarChemical Engineering; Shriram Center, Room 390; CO2 conversion
![Jake Heinlein](https://web.stanford.edu/group/cargnellogroup/cgi-bin/cg/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Jake-Heinlein-bw-500x500.jpeg)
Jake Heinlein
Post-Doctoral Scholar (w/ Simon Bare)Chemical Engineering and SLAC; Shriram Center, Room 388; Catalyst for CO2 conversion
![Jinwon Oh](https://web.stanford.edu/group/cargnellogroup/cgi-bin/cg/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Jinwon-cut-1-500x500.jpg)
Jinwon Oh
Ph.D. CandidateMaterials Science and Engineering; Shriram Center, Room 390; Hydrocarbon combustion catalysts
![Makenna L. Pennel](https://web.stanford.edu/group/cargnellogroup/cgi-bin/cg/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Makenna-cut-500x500.jpg)
Makenna L. Pennel
Ph.D. candidateChemistry; Shriram Center, Room 378; Catalytic upgrading of plastics and polymer decomposition
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Gennaro Liccardo
Ph.D. Candidate (W/ Stacey Bent)Chemical Engineering; Shriram Center, Room 390; Stable catalysts
![Shradha Sapru](https://web.stanford.edu/group/cargnellogroup/cgi-bin/cg/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Shradha-cut-500x500.jpg)
Shradha Sapru
Ph.D. Candidate (w/ Arun Majumdar)Chemistry; Shriram Center, Room 378; CO2 capture and conversion
![Pin-Hung Chung](https://web.stanford.edu/group/cargnellogroup/cgi-bin/cg/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Pin-Hung-cut.jpg)
Pin-Hung Chung
Ph.D. CandidateMaterials Science and Engineering; Shriram Center, Room 388; Aqueous-based synthesis of noble metal nanocrystals
![Henry Moise](https://web.stanford.edu/group/cargnellogroup/cgi-bin/cg/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Henry-Moise-cut-500x500.jpg)
Henry Moise
Ph.D. Candidate (w/ Arun Majumdar)Chemical Engineering; Shriram Center, Room 390; Sustainable hydrogen production
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Alex Mateo Fontani Herreros
Ph.D. StudentChemical Engineering; Shriram Center, Room 378; Materials and processes for CO2 capture
![Sydney Richardson](https://web.stanford.edu/group/cargnellogroup/cgi-bin/cg/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Sydney-richardson-500x500.jpeg)
Sydney Richardson
Ph.D. StudentMechanical Engineering; Shriram Center, Room 388; Active and stable catalysts for emission control applications
![Jeesoo Yoon](https://web.stanford.edu/group/cargnellogroup/cgi-bin/cg/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Jeesoo-Yoon-500x500.jpg)
Jeesoo Yoon
Visiting Ph.D. Student (KAIST, South Korea)Chemical Engineering; Shriram Center; multimetallic alloy catalysts
![Sai Varanasi](https://web.stanford.edu/group/cargnellogroup/cgi-bin/cg/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Sai-Varanasi-500x500.jpg)
Sai Varanasi
Ph.D. StudentChemical Engineering; Shriram Center, Room 378; multimetallic catalysts
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Alumni
Name |
Position when left the group |
Year(s) |
Position after |
Jorge Osio Norgaard | Post-doctoral Scholar | 2022-2024 | Start-up Co-Founder |
Steven Chavez | Post-doctoral Scholar | 2022-2024 | Assistant Professor, UCLA |
Rohan Parekh | Master Student, Stanford | 2023-2024 | Industry |
Andrew Sleugh | Master Student, Stanford | 2023-2024 | Industry |
Chengshuang Zhou | PhD Student | 2018-2024 | Post-doctoral Scholar |
Rachita Rana | Visiting PhD Student | 2023 | Post-doctoral Scholar, MIT |
Baraa Werghi | Post-doctoral Scholar | 2020-2023 | Staff Scientist, PNNL |
Eric McShane | Post-doctoral Scholar | 2021-2023 | Start-up Co-Founder |
Mickey Stone | Post-doctoral Scholar | 2021-2023 | Staff Scientist, NREL |
Evan Gardner | Post-doctoral Scholar | 2021-2023 | Start-up Co-Founder |
Sabrina Ballauri | Visiting PhD student | 2022 | PhD student, Turin Polytechnic University |
Dohyung Kim | Post-doctoral Scholar | 2018-2022 | Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania |
Jonathan Quinson | Visiting post-doctoral Scholar | 2021-2022 | Assistant Professor, University of Aarhus |
Yannai Kashtan | MS Student | 2021 | PhD student, Stanford University |
Chun-Wen Tsao | Visiting PhD Student | 2021 | PhD student, National Chiao Tung University |
An-Chih Angel Yang | PhD Student | 2016-2021 | Meta (Facebook) |
Andrew Riscoe | PhD Student & Post-doctoral Scholar | 2016-2021 | Sila Nanotechnologies (Oakland, USA) |
Aisulu Aitbekova | PhD Student | 2017-2021 | Kavli Post-doctoral Fellow, Caltech |
Yulian He | Post-doctoral Scholar | 2021-2021 | Assistant Professor, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China |
Weixin Huang | Post-doctoral Scholar | 2017-2020 | Assistant Professor, U. of North Dakota |
Chih-Jung Chen | Post-doctoral Scholar | 2019-2020 | Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University |
Emmett Goodman | PhD Student | 2016-2020 | Post-doc, Stanford |
Cody Wrasman | PhD Student | 2016-2020 | Staff Scientist, NREL |
Larissa Kunz | PhD Student | 2017-2020 | Start-up company |
Rosadriana Zelaya | Undergraduate Student | 2018-2020 | PhD Student, UC Santa Barbara |
Nadia Tahsini | Undergraduate Student | 2018-2020 | PhD Student, MIT |
Jay A. Schwalbe | PhD student | 2015-2019 | Co-founder, Nitricity |
Liheng Wu | Post-doctoral Scholar | 2015-2019 | Sabic (Houston, USA) |
Zhenwei Wu | Post-doctoral Scholar | 2018-2019 | Shell (Houston, USA) |
Hyosun Lee | Post-doctoral Scholar | 2018-2019 | Researcher, KITECH (South Korea) |
Kun-Che Kao | Post-doctoral Scholar | 2018-2019 | Professor, National Changhua University, Taiwan |
Ian McKay | PhD student | 2015-2019 | L3 Open Water Power |
Arun Johnson | High school student | 2019 | Undergraduate student at UC Berkeley |
Evan Carlson | Undergraduate student | 2019 | PhD student at Stanford |
Dionne Thomas | Undergraduate student | 2018-2019 | Undergraduate student at Stanford |
Francisco Lopez | Undergraduate student | 2018-2019 | Undergraduate student at Stanford |
Ethan Feng | High school student | 2019 | Undergraduate student at Columbia Univ. |
Alexander Holm | Post-doctoral Scholar | 2018-2019 | Assistant Professor, Linkoping University, Sweden |
Max Schumann | Visiting Ph.D. student | 2018 | PhD student at Denmark Technical U. |
Angela Ye | High school student | 2018 | Undergraduate student at Columbia Univ. |
Serey Nouth | High school student | 2018 | Undergraduate student |
Mateusz M. Wojtaszek | Undergraduate student | 2018 | PhD student at MIT |
Ian Naccarella | Undergraduate student | 2018 | Boston Consulting Group |
Pit Losch | Visiting Post-Doc | 2018 | Post-Doc at MPI (Germany) |
Joshua J. Willis | PhD student | 2015-2017 | ExxonMobil (Houston, USA) |
Victor V. Miller | Master student | 2016-2017 | Shell (Martinez, CA) |
Joseph Maalouf | Undergraduate student | 2015-2017 | PhD student at MIT |
Arik Beck | Visiting Master student | 2017 | PhD student at ETH |
Maria Vargas | High school student | 2017 | Undergraduate student |
Aditya Menon | High school student | 2016-2017 | Undergraduate student at UC Santa Barbara |
Helen Yao | High school student | 2015 | Undergraduate student at UC Berkeley |
Rachel Li | Master student | 2015 | Applied Materials (Santa Clara, CA) |
Kester Wade | Undergraduate student | 2015 | Undergraduate student at Stanford |