Postdoctoral Researchers and Staff
Dr. Anna Simpson (2019-2020) – Joined the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow
Dr. Nicholas Speller (2016-2019) – Joined the Georgia Tech Research Institute as a research scientist, past NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow
Michael Cato (2016-2019) – Joined the Georgia Tech Research Institute as a research engineer
PhD Students
Dr. Chad Pozarycki (2025) – Co-founded start-up company Deleon for development of CE-LIF technology used for health and wellness monitoring
Dr. Markace Rainey (2024) – Joined Kennesaw State University as a Limited Term Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Dr. Chinmayee Govinda Raj (2023) – Joined the Ames Research Center as a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow
Dr. Kenneth Marshall Seaton (2022) – Joined the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow
Dr. Scot Sutton (2022) – Joined the Liotta/Pollet lab at Georgia Tech as a Postdoctoral Program Fellow
Dr. George Tan (2021) – Joined Trinity Life Sciences as a Consultant
Dr. Aaron Pital (2021) – Joined Los Alamos National Laboratory as a staff scientist
Dr. Zachary Duca (2020) – Joined Savannah River National Laboratory as a PhD student
Dr. Giorgio Morbioli (2020) – Joined Virginia Tech as a PhD student
Masters Students
Carlie Novak (2021) – Joined Daylyte Batteries as a chemical engineer
Undergraduate Researchers
Mackenzie Eader – Pursued a Master’s Degree at Georgia Tech
Jenna Larson – Continued her degree at Georgia Tech
Tianyu Xu – Pursued another lab at Georgia Tech for medical-focused research
Mariah Castillo – Joined the Soper Lab to pursue inorganic chemistry
Emily Crawford – Joined the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill as a PhD student
Nickie Nunez – Joined Rice University as a PhD student
Sontee Irvin – Continued at Lander University
Sommer Heuvel – Joined a biochemistry lab in Wisconsin
Ashley Hanna – Joined the University of Maryland as a PhD student
Gigi McGaughey – Went into industry
Aditiya Patel – Joined Emory as a MD/PhD student
Alena Joignant
Mohammed Oromi
Sailor Stevens – Went into industry
Max Dorn – Became a PhD student at Indiana
Julia Fraser – Joined the Center for Disease Control as an ORISE Fellow
Samuel Holtzen – Joined the Oak Ridge National Laboratory an ORISE Fellow
Thomas Cantrell – Joined Law School
Michelle Van Enige
Rishab Chawla
Julia Muller
High School Students
Sanjita Prakash
Rohit Sarnaik – Joined Georgia Institute of Technology as a Chemical Engineering student
Jillian Moss
Erin Leydon – Joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a SB student
[Alumni list work in progress]