Current Group Members
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Ersen Gokturk
visiting professor
Ph.D. University of Florida, 2014
Re-joined Fall 2024
TUBITAK Fellow
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McKayla Knoebel
graduate student
mckaylaknoebel@ufl.edu
B.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2023
Joined Fall 2023
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My research focuses on the depolymerization of polyesters, such as PLA and PET, and using the products to synthesize poly(ester amide)s.
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Cody Layne
graduate student
cody.layne@chem.ufl.edu
B.S., Mississippi State University, 2019
Joined Spring 2021
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I am researching the synthesis of bio-based polyesters from heterocyclic monomers derived from sugar.
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Aracelee M. Reverón Pérez
graduate student
aracelee.reveron@ufl.edu
B.A., University of Puerto Rico at Cayey, December 2019
Joined Fall 2020
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My research focuses in two areas involving organo-silicon polymers: synthesis of polyalkylorthosilicates and chemical recycling of polydimethylsiloxanes (PDMSs). Properties such as glass transition temperature and thermal stability of the polymers are investigated.
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Justin Smith
graduate student
justinsmith@ufl.edu
B.S., Fisk University, 2017
Joined Fall 2017
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My research is based on creating high glass transition temperature polyesters from biorenewable feedstocks.
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Yohei Yoshinaka
graduate student
yyoshinaka@chem.ufl.edu
B.S., Tohoku Univesity, 2016
M.S., Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 2018
Joined Fall 2018
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I am studying new polymerization strategies for the conversion of biobased monomers––especially those available from Brassica carinata––to novel thermplastics with high melting temperatures and/or glass transition temperatures.
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Former Graduate Students
Brittany T. Beckstead
Joined Summer 2002
M.S. Chemical Education 2004
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Khalid Al-Bahily
Joined Spring 2002
M.S. 2004
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Levi J. Irwin
Joined Fall 2001
Ph.D. 2005
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B. Jesse E. Reich
Joined Fall 2001
Ph.D. 2005
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Joseph M. Grill
Joined Fall 2001
Ph.D. 2006
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Benjamin R. Duffus
Joined Fall 2005
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Andrea D. Ilg
Joined Fall 2003
M.S. 2007
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Paul D. Zeits
Joined Summer 2005
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Craig J. Price
Joined Summer 2002
Ph.D. 2007
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Nathan P. Rife
Joined Fall 2004
M.S. 2007
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Eric D. Schwerdtfeger
Joined Fall 2003
Ph.D. 2007
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Robert B. Mitchell
Joined Fall 2007
began Medical School 2008
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James W. Ogle
Joined Summer 2006
Ph.D. 2008
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Laurent Mialon
Joined Fall 2007
M.S. 2010
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Christian Gorsche
Joined Spring 2009
M.S. 2010
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Rob Vanderhenst
Joined Spring 2009
M.S. 2011
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Gholam-Reza Nejabat
Joined Winter 2012
visiting graduate student
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Tanner Lee
Joined Summer 2012
visiting graduate student
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Sabina Kinder
Joined Fall 2012
visiting graduate student
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Elizabeth "Betsy" Suda
Joined Spring 2011
M.S. 2013
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Hsiao-Li Chen
Joined Winter 2013
visiting graduate student
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Ryan T. Martin
Joined Spring 2008
Ph.D. 2014
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Alexander G. Pemba
Joined Fall 2008
Ph.D. 2014
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Ersen Gokturk
Joined Fall 2009
Ph.D. 2014
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Matthew Burnstein
Joined Fall 2007
M.S. 2014
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Emma Bradic
Joined Fall 2011
M.S. 2014
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Christelle Imbert
Joined Summer 2014
visiting graduate student
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Patricia Scheurle
Joined Fall 2015
visiting graduate student
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John Garcia
Joined Fall 2009
M.S. 2012, Ph.D. 2015
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Hsiu-Wei Ou
Joined Spring 2016
visiting graduate student
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Khalid Alqahtani
Joined Fall 2014
M.S. 2016
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Nicole Gibbons
Joined Fall 2011
Ph.D. 2016
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Pengxu Qi
Joined Fall 2011
Ph.D. 2016
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Ha Nguyen
Joined Fall 2011
Ph.D. 2016
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Hipassia Moura
Joined Summer 2015
visiting graduate student
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Amr Feteha
Joined Spring 2010
Ph.D. 2017
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Mayra Rotagno
Joined Fall 2012
Ph.D. 2017
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Hisaaki Takeshima
Joined Winter 2018
visiting graduate student
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Olivier Nsengiyumva
Joined Spring 2014
Ph.D. 2018
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Gabriel Short
Joined Fall 2013
Ph.D. 2019
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Steven Shen
Joined Fall 2014
Ph.D. 2019
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Shih-Hsien Hsu
Joined Spring 2019
visiting graduate student
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Matthew Parsons
Joined Fall 2019
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Jonas Simon
Joined Spring 2020
& Sp. 2022
visiting graduate student
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Florian Diot-Néant
Joined Spring 2016
Ph.D. 2020
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Parker Boeck
Joined Fall 2020
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Harper Cassady
Joined Fall 2019
M.S. Summer 2021
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Stephen Sangster
Joined Fall 2019
M.S. Spring 2022
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Yu-Kai Su
Joined Fall 2018
Ph.D. 2023
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Jordan Torgunrud
Joined Fall 2018
Ph.D. 2023
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Former Postdocs
David A. Aubry
Spring 2004 - Summer 2005
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Jubo Zhang
Fall 2005 - Summer 2007
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Hsuan-Ying Chen
Summer 2008 - Summer 2009
Kaohsiung Medical University
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Jianfang Chai
Fall 2008 - Spring 2010
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Gholam H. Zohuri
Spring 2010 - Summer 2010
Visiting Professor from Ferdowsi University, Mashad, Iran
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Tao Jiang
December 2010 - May 2011
Visiting Professor from Tianjin University of Science & Technology, Tianjin, China
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Gulsah Kurt
April 2011 - July 2011
Visiting Professor from Aksaray University, Turkey
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Abdulhamid A. Alsaygh
July 2011 - September 2011
Visiting Professor from King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology
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Yessi Permana
Fall 2012 - Winter 2013
Visiting Professor from Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia
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Ertugrul Sahmetlioglu
August 2012 - July 2013
Visiting Professor from Nigde University, Turkey
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Feng Liu
June 2014 - June 2015
Visiting Professor from Nanchang University
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Haixia Qi
June 2014 - June 2015
Visiting Professor from Nanchang University
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Alexander Pemba
May 2014 - January 2016
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Zhengzai Cheng
December 2015 - January 2017
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Former Undergraduates
Aaron K. Justice
joined Spring 2002
NSF-REU
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Emily A. Squibb
Summer 2002
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Russell J. Parks
joined Fall 2002
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Daniel W. Marek
joined Fall 2002
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Joshua S. Sanders
joined Spring 2003
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Caron Remi
Summer 2003
NSF-REU
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Charles W. Branham
joined Spring 2003
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Marti L. Kubena
joined Fall 2003
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Brad J. Brennan
joined Summer 2004
NSF-REU
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Maria P. Cortez
joined Summer 2004
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Charles R. Crews
joined Summer 2004
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Jennifer M. Goss
joined Summer 2004
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Lacey C. Martin
joined Summer 2004
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Hannah R. Malcolm
joined Fall 2004
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Juliette J. Commodore
joined Summer 2005
NSF-REU
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Jared D. Peacock
joined Summer 2005
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Laura M. Launer
joined Spring 2006
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Catherine V. Mooney
joined Summer 2006
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Robert B. Mitchell
joined Summer 2006
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Ellese N. Lee
joined Spring 2008
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Frankie J. Costanza
joined Summer 2008
NSF-REU
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Laurie A. Tweed
joined Spring 2008
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Brittany S. Carl
joined Spring 2009
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Ryan Meral
joined Fall 2009
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Ludmila Pons Camargo
joined Summer 2010
NSF-REU
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Jeniree Flores
joined Summer 2009
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Allan Maple
joined Winter 2010
NSF-REU
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Allan Luna Cornejo
joined Spring 2011
NSF-REU
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Cristina Chee Kim Ling Perez
joined Summer 2013
NSF-REU
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Jessica Hvozdovich
joined Spring 2014
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Erik Price
joined Spring 2014
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Dominique Catena
joined Fall 2014
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Marcus Reis
joined Fall 2014
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Alexander Valdes
joined Summer 2015
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William Vickery
joined Fall 2015
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Tatiana Anthony
joined Summer 2016
NSF-REU
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James Austin
joined Winter 2017
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Enita Rastoder
joined Spring 2017
NSF-REU
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Haley Donow
joined Spring 2017
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Julie Chevillard
joined Spring 2018
NSF-REU
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Fabio Ferrari
joined Spring 2018
NSF-REU
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Jessica Thomas
joined Fall 2016
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Amandine Heckmann
Joined Spring 2019
NSF-REU
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Alejandro Faria
Joined Fall 2018
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Caroline Coxwell
Joined Fall 2019
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Noémie Dias Rodrigues
Joined Summer 2021
NSF-REU
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Emily Spitzberg
Joined Summer 2021
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Morgan Gunter
Joined Summer 2022
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