Weiss Group Members

Meet the Weiss Group!

group photo

The Weiss group on the steps of Davey Laboratory, June 2006. Back Row: Vasilis Kostakis, Tomo Takami, Luis Fernandez-Torres, TJ Mullen, Amit Vaish, Adam Kurland, Rong Zhang, Hector Saavedra, Nate Hohman
Middle Row: Paul Weiss, Tao Ye, Jennifer Hinds, Ajeet Kumar, Steve Bumbarger, Beth Anderson, Chris Pochas, Meaghan Blake
Front Row: Mitch Shuster, Susan Gillmor, Amanda Moore, Sanjini Nanayakkara, Liz Morin, Moonhee Kim

Not pictured: Saruwat Cheunkar, Julia Heetderks, Dongbo Li, Patrick McClanahan, John McManigle, Wei Xu, Peng Peng Zhang

Graduate Students
	Meaghan Blake (ladyblakey@hotmail.com)
	Sarawut Cheunkar (suc179@psu.edu)
	Daniel Dewey (dcd162@psu.edu)
	Julia Heetderks (juliaheetderks@msn.com)
	Nate Hohman (jnh140@psu.edu)
	Justin Ingram (jui@psu.edu)
	Moonhee Kim (moon219@psu.edu)
Vasilis M. Kostakis (vmk105@psu.edu)
	Ajeet Kumar (axk948@psu.edu)
	Adam Kurland (axk181@psu.edu)
	Amanda Moore (amm420@psu.edu)
	TJ Mullen (tmullen@psu.edu)
	Balakrishna Pathem (bxp@nano.psu.edu)
	Hector Saavedra (hms@nano.psu.edu)
	Mitch Shuster (mjs648@psu.edu)
	Charan Srinivasan (charan@psu.edu)
	Amit Vaish (auv3@psu.edu)
	Rong Zhang (rxz139@psu.edu)
Senior Staff
	George Chriss (GChriss@psu.edu)
	Patrick Han (pxh164@psu.edu)
	Dr. Dongbo Li (dbl@nano.psu.edu)
	Dr. Peng Peng Zhang (ppz@nano.psu.edu)
Undergraduate Students
	Lafone Brown (ltb122@psu.edu)
	Ashley Gibb (Ashley@psu.edu)
	Megan Gilbert (mlg5060@psu.edu)
	John McManigle (jem443@psu.edu)
	Patrick McClanahan (pdm5014@psu.edu)
	Liz Morin (eim106@psu.edu)
	Chris Pochas (cmp294@psu.edu)
	Chris Thompson (cmt5002@psu.edu)
Visitors
Staff
	Stephen Bumbarger (sxb10@psu.edu)
Fearless Leader
	Paul S. Weiss (stm@psu.edu)

Coming Soon
	Andrea Giordano University of North Carolina at Charlotte Department of Chemistry (angiorda@uncc.edu)
Jeff Lawrence Franklin & Marshall Department of Chemistry (jlawrenc@fandm.edu)
Kazunori Ohashi Nagoya University Department of Chemistry (kazunori@nano.chem.nagoya-u.ac.jp)
	Wei Xu (xuwei@phys.au.dk)
	Ashlee Madawela

Alumni

Graduate Student Alumni
	Beth Anderson (meabeth@bu.edu)
Jamie Arnold (jja5@psu.edu)
	Lyndon F. Charles (jahprofile@hotmail.com)
	Michael Cygan (mcygan@erols.com)
	Arrelaine Dameron (Arrelaine.Dameron@colorado.edu)
	Zachary Donhauser (zadonhauser@vassar.edu)
	Terry D'Onofrio (terrence.donofrio@us.army.mil)
	Jim Ferris (jimsan@ComCAT.COM)
	Dan Fuchs (dan_fuchs_4@hotmail.com)
Tracy Graham (tracybelle@comcast.net)
	Patrick Han (pxh164@psu.edu)
	Jennifer Jackiw (jjackiw@jjay.cuny.edu)
	Jennifer Johnson (jenjohnson@erols.com)
	Marilyn Kamna (marilyn_kamna@ccm.sc.intel.com)
	Kyle Krom (Kyle.Krom@merial.com)
	James Kushmerick (james.kushmerick@nist.gov)
	Penelope Lewis (pld2103@columbia.edu)
	Brent Mantooth (bmantooth@gmail.com)
	Greg McCarty (gmccarty@email.unc.edu)
	Jason Monnell (jmonnell@engr.pitt.edu)
	Sanjini Nanayakkara (sanjiu@seas.upenn.edu)
	Rachel Smith (RKSmith@lbl.gov)
	Stephan J. Stranick (stephan.stranick@nist.gov)
Who's Next?
Post-doctoral Alumni
	Former Post-Doc and Staff Lloyd A. Bumm (bumm@nhn.ou.edu)
	Dr. Ann-Sofie Cans (annsofie@chem.psu.edu)
	Dr. Anne Counterman (aec@nano.psu.edu)
	Dr. Luis C. Fernández-Torres (lcfernandez@cayey.upr.edu)
	Dr. Susan Gillmor (sdgill@gwu.edu)
	Dr. Andrew Greenberg (greenberg@chem.wisc.edu)
	Dr. Jennifer Hampton (jhampton@washjeff.edu)
	Former Post-Doc and National Nanofabrication Users Network Former National Area Expert in Chemical Advances in Nanolithography: Dr. Anat Hatzor (depicciottoa@mail.montclair.edu)
Former Staff Scientist: Emily Indriolo (eyi101@psu.edu)
	Prof. S. Alex Kandel (S.A.Kandel.1@nd.edu)
	Prof. Chris Dolan Keating (keating@chem.psu.edu)
	Prof. Kevin Kelly (kkelly@rice.edu)
Dr. Nina Kovtyukhova (nina@chem.psu.edu)
Dr. Li Shao Chun (shaochun.li@pnl.gov)
Dr. Joe Meyer (meyerja@aol.com)
	Former Staff Scientist: Morgan Mihok (mxm571@psu.edu)
	Prof. Thomas P. Pearl (tppearl@ncsu.edu)
Dr. Sherman Ponder (ponder@chem.psu.edu)
	Former Staff Scientist: Matt Sandel (mattsandel@yahoo.com)
Dr. Erica Schulman (ens@ix.netcom.com)
	Prof. Charlie Sykes (ech@nano.psu.edu)
	Former Staff Scientist: Jackie Lim-Piu Tan (lxt139@psu.edu)
	Dr. Hirofumi Tanaka (htanaka@ims.ac.jp)
	Former Staff Scientist: Amy Whelpley (axw@nano.psu.edu)
	Prof. Tao Ye (tao.ye@ucmerced.edu)
Dr. Michael G. Yoshikawa Youngquist (mgy@alumni.caltech.edu)
Undergraduate Student Alumni
Michael J. Abrams
	Beth Anderson Samford University (mea151@psu.edu) (Beth was back for grad school! See above.)
Ivan Baxter
Priya Bhatia (pbhatia@rice.edu)
	Chris Binns Ithaca College (cbinns1@ic3.ithaca.edu)
	Aimee Bross (alb214@psu.edu)
Erin Carter (emc199@psu.edu)
Phil Cerami (pjc5000@psu.edu)
	>Lyndon F. Charles
George Chriss (gchriss@psu.edu)
	Molly P. Heyer Cambridge University (mph29@hermes.cam.ac.uk)
Emily Hiers (eah012@latech.edu)
	Jennifer Hinds (jhinds@ncsu.edu)
Renée M. Itle
	Lee Katrincic (lmk137@psu.edu)
	Read Langlois (rtl117@psu.edu)
J. Christopher Love (jcl9a@unix.mail.virginia.edu)
Tarah Lubinski (tarah_lubs@hotmail.com)
Jason Lurie (lurie@fas.harvard.edu)
Tanvir Mahmud
Kelly McElhinny (kmm726@lulu.acns.nwu.edu)
	Morgan Mihok (mxm571@psu.edu) (Later came back on staff!)
Abner J. Mintz
Elizabeth Muth (ehm109@psu.edu)
Ryan Nevin
Michael G. Pirrello (pirre001@mc.duke.edu)
Marian Popescu (mxp171@psu.edu)
Sue Prueksaritanond
Nancy Santagata Monmouth University
Mark Schlegel (stmks03@moravian.edu)
Nicole Shedlock (sxp207@psu.edu)
Jared Swart
	Marta Ventura (mxv176@psu.edu)
	Roger Wang (ryw100@psu.edu)
Lane Weaver (BlaneW@aol.com)
	Alex Wissner-Gross Massachusetts Institute of Technology (alexwg@physics.harvard.edu)
	Jeremy L. Weeden Juniata College (WEEDEJL1@juniata.edu)
Fujun Wu (fxw126@psu.edu)

Former Visiting Scientists

Tae Kyung Ahn Hanyang University Department of Chemistry
Boaz Alperson Department of Chemistry Weizmann Institute of Science (cpboaz@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il)
Chris Carlisle Department of Chemistry University of Cambridge (cic1001@cus.cam.ac.uk)
Dr. Marguerite Ciolkosz State College Area High School
	Dr. Luis C. Fernández-Torres (lcfernandez@cayey.upr.edu)
Prof. Atsushi Ikai Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama
Takao Ishida (t-ishida@aist.go.jp)
Kevin Kelly Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Rice University (now back at Rice!)
Sang Min Kim Hanyang University Department of Chemistry
Prof. Haiwon Lee (haiwon@hanyang.ac.kr) Hanyang University Department of Chemistry
	Dr. Hans Peter Rust Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft . (rust@fhi-berlin.mpg.de)
	Prof. Hiroshi Sakaguchi Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University (sakaguchi@rie.shizuoka.ac.jp)
	Dr. Tomo Takami (takami@visionarts.co.jp) VisionArts SpinLab
	Dr. Gary Taylor (gnt@nano.psu.edu)
Dr. Roger van Zee NIST
	Prof. Glenn Vogel Department of Chemistry Ithaca College (vogel@ithaca.edu)
	Prof. Marcus Weck Department of Chemistry (then) Cal Tech (now at Georgia Tech)
Prof. Darin Zimmerman Department of Physics Penn State Altoona (dtz1@psu.edu)