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Ricardo Javier Vázquez

Principal Investigator

Email:
ricvazqu@iu.edu

BS from UPR – RP | Ph.D. from UMich | Post-Doc from NUS | Expertise: Excited State Dynamics, Energy, Electrochemistry, and Biological Nanoparticle Characterization

Sarah Cox-Vázquez

Research Scientist

Email:
sjcoxvaz@iu.edu

BS from Alma College. | Ph.D. from UMich. Post-Doc from NUS Ph.D. | Expertise: Biophysics, Aging, and Biological Nanoparticle Characterization

Jatan Sharma

Postdoctoral Scholar. | Ph.D. from the University of North Texas | Interested in understanding the excited state dynamics of charge transfer materials.

Soumya Dawn

Postdoctoral Scholar. | Ph.D. from the Louisiana State University | Interested in conjugated oligoelectrolytes and biomimetic chemistry.

Dhari Shah

Graduate Student (4th year). Interested in using time-resolved spectroscopy and microscopy to solve biophysical problems.  

Kingsley Bortey

Graduate Student (5th year). Interested in the design, synthesis, and photophysical characterization of emissive materials.

Batul Shakir

Graduate Student (3rd year). Interested in bioelectrosynthesis and energy transduction.

Oscar Medrano

Graduate Student (3rd year). Interested in open-shell conjugated polyelectrolytes (CPEs) and their energy transduction applications.

Celeste Carlos

Graduate Student (3rd year). Interested in interfacing water-soluble dyes with biological molecules for sensing applications.

Chi-Tam Vo

Graduate Student (3rd year). Quantitative Chemical Biology (QCB) fellow. Interested in pH responsive dyes.  

Ruvinne Wehigaldeniya

Graduate Student (2nd year). Interested in pH responsive dyes, amyloids, and exosomes.

Carlos Agosto

Graduate student (2nd year). Interested in water-soluble probes for biosensing.

Declan Mackey

Undergraduate student. Interested in bioelectrosynthesis.

Samuel Benjamin Baker

Undergraduate student. Interested in electrochemistry.

Bidisha Biswas

Former Postdoctoral Scholar. Now Research Specialist @ HHMI Janelia research campus.

Crystal Tran

Former undergraduate. Now in graduate school at University of California - Santa Bárbara.

Megan Gunter

Former undergraduate. Now in graduate school at SUNY Buffalo State University.

Austin Tran

Former undergraduate. Now in graduate school at UMich Ann Arbor. 

Conor Wallace

Former undergraduate. Now a graduate student at Penn State.

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