Alumni

This is the archived website for the Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation (CCEI), an Energy Frontier Research Center
funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. CCEI operated from 2009 to 2024 at the University of Delaware.

Students
and
Postdoctoral Researchers

Throughout its 15 years of groundbreaking research, the Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation (CCEI) was not only a hub for scientific discovery but also a training ground for future leaders in energy research. The center educated over 200 postdoctoral researchers and Ph.D. students, and provided hands-on research opportunities to more than 100 undergraduate interns as well as several high school students. These talented individuals are now advancing careers in academia, industry, and beyond, shaping the future of energy innovation.

Postdoctoral Scholars

Omar Abdelrahamn
Alex Ardagh
Peng Bai
Rameswar Bhattacharjee
Sourav Biswas
Ying Chen
Hongje Cho
Jeffrey Christianson
Jinlei Cui
Viktor Cybulskis
Siddharth Deshpande
Phuong Do
Mattheus Dorneles de Mello
Saikat Dutta
Konstantinos Goulas
Rajamani Gounder
Qiang Guo

Emmanuel Haldoupis
Yulin Huang
Glen Richard Jenness
Pavel Kots
Jake Kruger
Pawan Kumar
Wen-Sheng Lee
Denis Lee
Marta Leon-Garcia
Chris Lew
Zhe Li
Qiang Li
Sha (Lisa) Li
Shizhong Liu
Peng Lu
Sibao Lui
Jing Luo

Tianyi Luo
Marcella Lusardi
Evangelos Miliordos
Samir Mushrif
Dae Sung Park
Sunghwan Park
Lu Peng
Nafiseh Rajabbeigi
Limin Ren
Prahlad Routh
Sounak Roy
Sunitha Sadula
James Sheehan
Jain Sheetal
Boris Sheludko
Sagar Sourav
Pahari Swagata

Raghuram Thyagarajan
Georgios Tsilomelekis
Despoina Tzoulaki
Subramanian Vaitheeswaran
Vibin Vargheese
Efterpi Vasileiadou
Prasad Vegendla
Qi Wang
Zhuopeng Wang
Cong Wang
Shengguang Wang
Yunzhu Wang
Ruichang Xiong
Xiaofang Yang
Won-Cheol Yoo
Weiqing Yu
Weiqing Zheng

Graduate Students

Sydney Alter
Erha Andini
Abhay Athaley
Samantha Ausman
Sai Praneet Batchu
Ricardo Bermejo-Deval
Himaghna Bhattacharjee
Stephen Kramer Brand
Chun-Chih Chang
Jian Chang
Han Chen
Tso-Hsuan (Eric) Chen
Yu-Ting Cheng
Ziwei Cheng
Hsu Chiang
Hong Je Cho
Chen-Yu Chou
Vinit Choudhary
Matt Christiansen
Timothy Courtney
Jinlei Cui
Gerald Decker
Robert DeJaco
Steven Denny
Vicky Doan-Nguyen
Paul Dornath
Matheus de Mello
Elvis Ebikade
Amani Ebrahim
Menjie Fan
Andrew Foster
Jiayi Fu
Jie Fu
Stephen Giles
Matthew James Gilkey
Tejas Goculdas
Eric Gosselin

Nicholas Gould
Sara Green
Daniel Gregory
Jason Gulbinski
Na Guo
Qianying Guo
Kaivalya Gwande
Justin Hopkins
Yung Wei (Jessie) Hsiao
Renjing Huang
Sheetal Jain
Ashay Javadekar
Abhimanyu Jayakumar
Mi Young Jeon
Yichen Ji
Kristeen Joseph
Tyler Ray Josephson
Ali Kamali
Doyoung Kim
Jae Kim
Maura Koehle
Kyle Korman
Shih-Chieh Kung
Mi Jen Kuo
Mark LaFollette
Joshua Lansford
Ajibola Lawal
ChoongSze Lee
Jechan Lee
Jennifer Daneen Lee
Seungyeon (Lina) Lee
Steven Lee
Jennifer Lewis
Junying Li
Xinyu Li
Vinson Liao
Zhaojia Lin

Zhexi Lin
Yang Liu
Bill Lonergan
Song Lou
Jing Luo
Eyas Mahmoud Mahmoud
Elizabeth Mallon
Justin Marlow
Jesse McManus
Mat Mettler
Alexander Mironenko
Myat Myint
Ankita Naik
Stan Najmr
Huong Thi Thanh (Hannah) Nguyen
Nima Nikbin
Angela Norton
Hakan Olcay
Marat Orazov
Ryan Edward Patet
Ji Qi
Xiaoduo Qi
Srinivas Rangarajan
Rajiv Ranjan
Hui Ren
Channing Richter
Natalia Rodriquez-Quiroz
Daniel Rosen
Sanket Sabnis
Taha Salavati-Fard
Michael Salciccioli
Emily Schulman
Bryan Sharkey
Huibo Sheng
Daming Shi
Zachary Smith
Sanjana Srinivas

Eric Steinman
Taylor Sulmonetti
Jonathan Sutton
Theodore Dallas Swift
Tarnuma Tabassum
Shreya Thakkar
Zheng Tian
Ana Ines Torres
Sarah Tupy
Vassili Vorotnikov
Weiming Wan
Cong Wang
Haodong Wang
Lan Wang
Xiaoling Wang
Yuran Wang
Christopher Williams
Jon Wilson
Lea Winter
Alfred Worrad
Wei Wu
Yurong Wu
Yuxiao Wu
Shuting Xiang
Ke Xiong
Dandan Xu
Sen Yang
Shengsong Yang
Mingchun Ye
Zixing Ye
Jingye Yu
Weiting Yu
Hongseok Yun
Xueyi Zhang
Yuan Zhang
Zhigiang Zhang
Jiahua Zhou

Undergraduate Interns

Mahdi Al Ismail
Kareem Abdelmaqsoud
Kevin Abraham
Mahdi Al Ismail
Erik Anderson
Martin Van Sint Annaland
Montgomery Baker-Fales
Nicholas Barberio
Connor Beach
Adam Bivens
Jake Bragger
Metehan Cebeci
Raymond Chan
Chana Cooper
Brandon Cordova
Sean Daniels
Andrew Danielson
Deniz Alper Dindi
Brian Dinkelacker
Ryan Dudeck
Bluma Dukesz
Mohamed Eltahir
Zach Erdman
Greg Facas
Shuting Feng
Benjamin Fisher
Steven Francisco

Ryan Friedrich
Evan Gantert
Courtney Green
Jason Gulbinski
Jaclyn Haak
Touseef Habib
Catherine Halat
Alexander Hallenbeck
Joseph Hasse
Christopher Ho
Mukund Kabra
Jordan Keith
Kayla Keller
Lindsay Kelly
James Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
Alexander Kuczykowski
Steven Kuntz
Justin Kurian
Kevin Kuttler
Harrison Landfield
Amanda Lashenick
Miriam Lee
Brian Leone
Alyssa Lerner
Diya Li
Siming Li

Xueji Lin
Zhexi Lin
Yifei Liu
Zhanyuan Liu
Juan Lucio-Vego
Henry Ludwicki
Cory Mackintosh
Eyas Mahmoud
Matthew Marino
Nicholas Martin
Tobias Mazal
Brian McCarthy
Julie McLaverty
Jacob Miller
David Moglia
Christopher Mundy
Rachel Muzzelo
Andrew Nardone
Owen Oesterling
Michael Orella
Jai Pakhale
George Peklaris
Hannah Phillips
Amy Quach
Omshri Rajaravivarma
Max Ramirez
Carlos Rodriguez

Nicholas Samulewicz
Nicole Sauer
Michael Schlosberg
Andrew Shah
Christina Simmons
Trent Simonetti
Miles Andrew Simpson
Jacob Sitison
Evan Sohodski
Andrew Speese
Colin Sweeney
Peter Terpeluk
Lisa Thomanek
William Thompson
Sai Mahit Vaddadi
Noah Vineberg
Elizabeth Votta
Leerang Wang
Kyle Whitcomb
Matthew Wiatrowski
Brittany Wiebe
Clare Wunder
Nicholas Xiao
Leerang Yang
Julie Zhu