Group Members
Principal Investigator
Kelsey Stoerzinger
Associate Professor - Chemical Engineering & Materials Science
Office: 487 Amundson Hall
Email: zinger [at] umn.edu
Links: Google Scholar | LinkedIn
Education:
- Linus Pauling Postdoctoral Fellow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 2016 - 2018
- Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016
- M.Phil., Physics (Churchill Scholar), University of Cambridge, 2011
- B.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, 2010
Postdoctoral Associates
Rajkumar Jana
Ph.D., Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2022
M.S., Chemical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, 2015
B.Sc., Chemistry (Honors), Ramakrishna Mission Residential College (Narendrapur) - University of Calcutta, 2012
Joined the group in 2023.
Email: jana0047 [at] umn.edu
Links: Google Scholar | LinkedIn
Graduate Students
Kaavya Nimmakayala
5th Year Materials Science PhD student
M.S., Materials Science Engineering, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, 2024
B.S., Materials Science Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, 2021
Email: nimma019 [at] umn.edu
Molly Vitale-Sullivan
5th Year Materials Science PhD student
M.S., Materials Science, Oregon State University, 2023
B.S., Mathematics - Physics, The College of Idaho, 2020
Email: vital071 [at] umn.edu
Links: Google Scholar | LinkedIn
Kelly White
4th Year Materials Science PhD student
B.S., Chemistry, University of California Santa Barbara, 2021
Email: whit3550 [at] umn.edu
Links: LinkedIn
Ruth Bello
3rd Year Chemical Engineering PhD student
B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Buffalo (UB), 2023
Email: bello153 [at] umn.edu
Links: LinkedIn
Uyen Nguyen
3rd Year Chemical Engineering PhD student (co-advised with Prof. Neurock)
B.S., Chemistry and Physics, Hollins University, 2023
Email: nguy5137 [at] umn.edu
Mohan Sabbineni
3rd Year Materials Science PhD student
B.Tech., Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, 2021
Email: sabbi006 [at] umn.edu
Links: Google Scholar | LinkedIn
Mohammad Asaf Zaki (Zaki)
3rd Year Materials Science PhD student
B.Tech., Ceramic Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, 2020
Email: zaki0011 [at] umn.edu
Links: LinkedIn
Shinnosuke Kamohara
2nd Year Materials Science PhD student
B.E., Materials Science, Tohoku University, 2024
Email: kamoh001 [at] umn.edu
Links: LinkedIn
Skyler Kauffman
2nd Year Chemical Engineering PhD student (co-advised with Prof. Neurock)
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2024
M.S., Chemical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2024
Email: sbk [at] umn.edu
Links: Google Scholar | LinkedIn
Amber Simon
2nd Year Chemical Engineering PhD student (co-advised with Prof. Neurock)
B.A., Chemistry and Physics, Gustavus Adolphus College, 2023
Email: simo0783 [at] umn.edu
Links: LinkedIn
Justin Cao
1st Year Materials Science PhD student (co-advised with Prof. Siepmann)
B.S., Materials Science & Engineering, University of Central Florida, 2024
Email: cao00122 [at] umn.edu
Links: LinkedIn
Michael Galvin
1st Year Chemical Engineering PhD student - NSF GRFP
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Iowa State University, 2025
Email: galvi080 [at] umn.edu
Links: Google Scholar | LinkedIn
Undergraduate Students
Visiting Students/Researchers
- Gabrielle Solymosy - 2024 MRSEC REU Student, University of Chicago
- Yaneiska Ruiz-Torres - 2025 MRSEC REU Student, Universidad Ana G. Méndez - Cupey Campus
Alumni
- Dr. Devesh Pathak, Postdoctoral Researcher, 2025.
- Dr. Sri Krishna Murthy Padavala, Ph.D. and Postdoctoral Researcher, 2025, Research Scientist - Lam Research
- O. Quinn Carvalho, Ph.D., 2023, Postdoctoral Researcher - National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Prajwal "PJ" Adiga, Ph.D., 2022, Process Engineer - 8 Rivers
- Kuan-Hsun Chou, M.S., 2022