Accolades

• Raziyeh Ghahremani, Postdoc, Advisor – Burcu Gurkan; presently Senior Scientist at Schaeffler
• Charles Kolodziej; PhD awarded in Chemistry; Advisor-Clemens Burda; presently working at General Atomics.
• Nelly Cantillo; Postdoc; Advisor-Thomas Zawodzinski; presently at Universidad de La Sabana in Bogota, Columbia.
• Seokyoon Moon, Visiting Chemical engineering student, Advisor – Ah-Hyung Alissa Park, presently at GIST in Korea.
• Dai Shen, PhD awarded in Chemical Engineering, Advisor – Rohan Akolkar, presently at Intel
• Jeffrey Klein, PhD in Chemical Engineering, Advisor – Burcu Gurkan, presently a postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Mohammed Alotaibi, MS awarded in Chemistry, Advisor – Clemens Burda, presently considering PhD studies.
• Mahesh Ijjada, Postdoc, Advisor – Rohan Akolkar, presently seeking a faculty position
• Guanhe Rim, PhD awarded in Earth and Environmental Engineering, Advisor – Ah-Hyung Alissa Park, presently a postdoc in chemical engineering at Georgia Tech.
• Henry Squire, BS/MS awarded in Chemical Engineering, Advisor – Burcu Gurkan, presently a PhD Student at the University of California, Berkeley
• Emmanuel Mapesa, Postdoc, Advisor – Joshua Sangoro, presently Senior Polymer Scientist at Eastman Chemicals Company.

Speakers

• Prof. Andrew Abbott, University of Leicester
• Dr. Adam Imal, BEES EFRC Postdoc
• Sara Hamilton and Sahana Bhattacharyya, BEES EFRC graduate students
• Prof. James Davis, University of South Alabama
• Prof. Melanie Sanford, University of Michigan
• Prof. Robert Savinell, BEES EFRC Director
• Nora Shaheen, BEES EFRC graduate student
• Grant Goodrich, Executive Director of the Great Lakes Energy Institute at CWRU
• Dr. Rangachary (Mukund) Mukundan, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Prof. Joan Brennecke, University of Texas at Austin
• Prof. João Coutinho, University of Aveiro, Portugal
• Prof. Gary Baker, University of Missouri
• Prof. Orlando Acevedo, University of Miami

Fellowships, Workshops & Internships

• Derick Poe – Summer internship (2021) at Sandia National Laboratory
• Jeffrey Klein – DOE Office of Science 2020 Graduate Student Research Fellowship at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
• Adam Imel – presented workshops on neutron scattering.
• William Dean – attended the 2020 National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering co-organized by Argonne National Laboratory and at Oak Ridge National Laboratory; will be doing an internship at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Nora Shaheen – DOE Office of Science 2022 Graduate Student Research Fellowship at Argonne National Laboratory
• EFRC Program Officer Craig Henderson participated in a virtual meeting with students on January 28, 2021 with BEES