Recent Group Alumni
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Buddhika Wijenayake
Current position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA.
Graduation date: December 4,2023
Thesis title: STM Studies of Restructuring and Stability of Bimetallic Alloys.
Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2023
M.S. in Engineering, University of Yamanashi, Japan, 2016
B.S. in Chemistry, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, 2014
Ravi Ranjan
Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California- Riverside,900 University Ave, Riverside, CA 92521.
Graduation date: September 6,2023
Thesis title: Ultrahigh Vacuum Studies of Surface Reactions on the Pd(111) surface.
Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2023
Integrated B.S. & M.S. in Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali, India, 2017
Arephin Islam
Current position: Postdoctoral Scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973-5000
Graduation date: January 3, 2023
Thesis title: Polarization Infrared Spectroscopy of Adsorbed Molecules on Cu(111) and Pd/Cu Bimetallic Surfaces
Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2023
M.Sc. in Applied Chemistry, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2016
B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2014
Mark Muir
Current position: Postdoctoral Appointee at Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S Cass Ave, Lemont, IL 60439
Graduation Date: December 10, 2020
Thesis title: Selective Hydrogenation Reactions on Ag(111) and Pd/Ag(111) Single Atom Alloy Surfaces
Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2020
M.S. in Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2019
B.S. in Mathematics, St. Xavier University, 2016
B.S. in Chemistry, St. Xavier University, 2015
Mohammed Abdel-Rahman
Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218
Graduation date: November 16, 2020
Thesis title: Bridging the Pressure Gap in the Surface Analysis of Transition Metal Catalyzed Reactions
Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2020
B.S. in Chemistry University of Illinois at Chicago, 2012