Alumni (2005-2009)

2009
Barz, Bogdan (Ph.D.; Advisor: Ioan Kosztin) – Postdoctoral Fellow: Biophysics of Proteins and Biomimetic Membranes Group: Drexel University (bbarz [at] physics.drexel.edu)
Beckner, Matthew W. (M.S.; Advisor: Peter Pfeifer) – see Ph.D. 2012 for more information (mwb8cc [at] missouri.edu)
Burress, Jacob (Ph.D., M.S. 2008; Advisor: Peter Pfeifer) (website) – Assistant Research Professor: Alliance for Collaborative Research in Alternative Fuel Technology (ALL-CRAFT): MU (2011-present); National Research Council (NRC) Fellow: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) (2009-2011) (Jacob.Burress [at] live.com or BurressJW [at] missouri.edu)
Cai, Qingsheng (Ph.D.; Advisor: William Yelon) – Research Associate: Neutron Powder Diffraction Facility (NPDF): North Carolina State University (qcai [at] unity.ncsu.edu)
Kujala, Naresh Gandhi (Ph.D., M.S. 2007; Advisor: Ping Yu) – Postdoctoral Associate: The Biophysics Collaborative Access Team (BioCAT): Argonne National Laboratory
Lin, Haibo (Ph.D.; Advisor: Ping Yu) – Medical Residency: Department of Radiation Oncology: University of Pennsylvania
Mayo, Michael Louis (Ph.D., M.S. 2006; Advisor: Peter Pfeifer) (website) – Environmental Laboratory: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Michael.L.Mayo [at] usace.army.mil or mlmayo [at] gmail.com)
Owens, Jeffrey A. (M.S.; Advisor: Suchi Guha) – Operations Manager for Missouri Solar Applications, LLC; Founded Show Me Solar and served as the Executive Director from 2009-2011; currently Executive Officer for Show Me Solar (jowens [at] showmesolar.org)
Patty, Mark (Ph.D., M.S. 2004; Advisor: Wouter Montfrooij) – Navy, South Carolina
Yang, Kai (M.S.; Advisor: Suchi Guha) – M.S. Radiological Physics (2011): Medical Physics Division: Department of Radiation Oncology: Wayne State University
2008
Burress, Jacob (M.S.; Advisor: Peter Pfeifer) (website) – see Ph.D. 2009 for more information (Jacob.Burress [at] live.com)
Chen, Gengsheng (M.S.; Advisor: Shi-Jie Chen) – see Ph.D. 2011 for more information (allison [at] wubios.wustl.edu)
Gaddy, John Marshall (M.S.; Advisor: Wouter Montfrooij) – see Ph.D. 2011 for more information (John.Gaddy [at] gmail.com)
Gramlich, Michael William (M.S.; Advisor: Paul Miceli) – see Ph.D. 2011 for more information (mwgp63 [at] missouri.edu)
He, Jiexuan (Ph.D., M.S. 2007; Advisor: Shufeng Zhang) – Engineer: Seagate Technology LLC (2008-present)
Johnson, Kevin R. (M.S.; Advisor: Maikel Rheinstädter) – Physicist: Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) (China Lake, CA): Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) (2008-present)
Liu, Liang (M.S.; Advisor: Shi-Jie Chen) – see Ph.D. 2012 for more information (liangliu [at] missouri.edu)
Sun, Mingzhai (Ph.D., M.S. 2005; Advisor: Gabor Forgacs) – Post Doctoral Fellow: Shaevitz Lab: Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics: Princeton University (mingzhai [at] princeton.edu)
2007
Arif, Mohammad Ali Iftekhar (Ph.D., M.S. 2005; Advisor: Suchi Guha) – Professor: North South University (Bangladesh); Postdoctoral Fellow: Khondaker Group: University of Central Florida (2008-2010); Postdoctoral Scholar: Electrical & Computer Engineering and Department of Physics and Astronomy: MU (2007-2008) (iftekhar4581 [at] yahoo.com)
Criswell, Leah Michelle (Ph.D., M.S. 2003; Advisor: Haskell Taub) – Postdoctoral Research Associate: Surface Physics Research Group: MU; Teacher: William Woods University (thecriswells [at] gmail.com)
Das, Jhuma (M.S.; Advisor: Ioan Kosztin) – see Ph.D. 2010 for more information
Eyermann, Sarah E. (M.S.; Advisor: Angela Speck) (website) – Programmer Analyst: Contract Employee for NASA (Syneren Technologies) (sarah.e.eyermann [at] nasa.gov)
Hayden, Shawn T. (M.S.; Advisor Paul Miceli) – continuing Ph.D. student at Mizzou (shawnthayden [at] missouri.edu)
He, Jiexuan (M.S.; Advisor: Shufeng Zhang) – see Ph.D. 2008 for more information
Janosi, Lorant (Ph.D.; Advisor: Ioan Kosztin)Marie Curie Fellow: Dipartimento di Fisica: Università degli Studi di Cagliari (Italy) (2010-present); Postdoctoral Fellow: Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology: University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (2009-2010); Postdoctoral Fellow: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering: University of Houston (2007-2009)
Korobkov, Pavel V. (Ph.D.; Advisor: Sergei Kopeikin) – Entered into service in a Russian Orthodox monastery
Kujala, Naresh Gandhi (M.S.; Advisor: Ping Yu) – see Ph.D. 2009 for more information
Wijewardane, Harshani Ovamini (Ph.D.; Advisor: Carsten Ullrich) – Faculty: Rajarata University of Sri Lanka (2009-present) Postdoctoral Fellow: Neepa T. Maitra Group: Department of Physics and Astronomy: Hunter College CUNY (2007-2009)
Yang, Zhaoyang (Ph.D.; Advisor: Shufeng Zhang) – Masters Financial Engineering (2009): Walter A. Haas School of Business: University of California-Berkeley; Assistant Vice President: Markit
2006
Amenta, Gregory E. (M.S. Advisor: H.R. Chandrasekhar) – works in Health IT (gamenta [at] gmail.com)
Damon, Brook James (Ph.D.; Advisor: Gabor Forgacs) – Postdoctoral Fellow: Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology: Cardiovascular Developmental Biology Center: Medical University of South Carolina (damon [at] musc.edu)
DePew, Kyle (M.S.; Advisor: Angela Speck) (website) – Ph.D. Physics (2011): MacQuarie University (Australia) (kyle.depew [at] mq.edu.au)
Diama, Armand (Ph.D.; Advisor: Haskel Taub) – Assistant Professor: Universite de Cocody Abidjan (Ivory Coast) (2007-present); Postdoctoral Fellow: MURR
Jakab, Karoly Robert (Ph.D. Advisor: Gabor Forgacs) – Postdoctoral Fellow: ForgacsLab (Organ Printing): Department of Physics & Astronomy: MU (2009-present); Postdoctoral Research Associate: Morphogenesis & Regenerative Medicine Institute: Department of Cell Biology: University of Virginia (2006-2009) (JakabK [at] missouri.edu)
Kattumuri, Vijayalakshmi (Ph.D.; Advisors: Meera Chandrasekhar and Kattesh Katti) – SAS Analyst: SDI Health (Vancouver, Canada) (ravijaya5 [at] yahoo.com)
Kopeikin, Zoia (Ph.D.; Advisor: Shi-Jie Chen) – Research Associate: Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center: MU (KopeikinZ [at] missouri.edu)
Lapilli, Cintia Mariela (Ph.D, M.S. 2004; Advisor: Carlos Wexler) – Scientist: WesternGeCo (Schlumberger Research & Development); Postdoctoral Fellow: Pacific Northwest National Lab
Li, Linghui (M.S.; Advisor: Ping Yu) – see Ph.D. 2010 for more information
Martin, Christopher M. (Ph.D.; Advisor: H.R. Chandrasekhar) – musician
Mayo, Michael Louis (M.S.; Advisor: Peter Pfeifer) (website) – see Ph.D. 2009 for more information (Michael.L.Mayo [at] usace.army.mil or mlmayo [at] gmail.com)
Mishra, Subodha (Ph.D.; Advisor: Sashi Satpathy) (website) – Faculty of Engineering and Technology: Institute for Technical Education and Research (ITER): SOA University (India) (2009-present); Post-Doctoral Research Associate: Department of Physics and Astronomy: MU (2006-2007) (subodhamishra [at] iter.ac.in)
Shimoga, Vinay (M.S.; Advisor: Sashi Satpathy) – Ph.D. Student: Synthetic & Systems Biology Research Group: Department of Bioengineering: University of Texas at Dallas (2011-present); Research Assistant at Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg Hospital (Germany) (2008-2010); Guest Student: Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona) (2006-2007)
Solbrekken, Yvonne (M.S.; Advisor: Ping Yu) – Ph.D. Student: Science Education: MU Science Education Center (MUSEC): College of Education: MU; Science Tutoring Coordinator: MU Learning Center; President of the Board of Directors: Arts and Science Alumni Organization (ASAO): MU; Adjunct Faculty: Department of Natural Sciences: Stephens College (2007-present) (SolbrekkenY [at] missouri.edu)
Vlasov, Igor Yu. (Ph.D.; Advisor: Sergei Kopeikin) – Research Associate: Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University; Postdoctoral Fellow: Department of Physics: University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada)
2005
Arif, Mohammad Ali Iftekhar (M.S.; Advisor: Suchi Guha) – see Ph.D. 2007 for more information (iftekhar4581 [at] yahoo.com)
Graham, John S. (Ph.D.; Advisor: Michael Grandbois) – Lecturer (Biochemistry): Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies (2011-present); Post Doctoral Fellow: Department of Molecular Biosciences (Marko Lab): Northwestern University (2006-present); Postdoctoral Associate: University of Illinois at Chicago (2005-2006) (john-graham [at] northwestern.edu)
Hou, Chen (Ph.D., M.S. 2000; Advisor: Peter Pfeifer) – Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Evolutionary Systems Biology Laboratory: Department of Systems and Computational Biology: Albert Einstein College of Medicine: Yeshiva University; Postdoctoral Fellow: Santa Fe Institute (chen.hou [at] einstein.yu.edu)
Mertens, David Charles (M.S.; Advisor: Wouter Montfrooij) (website)– Ph.D. Physics (2011): University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Postdoctoral Fellow: Amaral Lab of Complex Systems and Systems Biology: Chemical & Biological Engineering: Northwestern University (dcmertens [at] gmail.com)
Meskine, Hakim (Ph.D.; Advisor: Sashi Satpathy) (website) – Research Fellow: Interfacial Nanostructures Group: Department of Chemical and Process Engineering: University of Strathclyde (UK); Postdoctoral Fellow: Fritz-Haber Institute (Berlin, Germany) (hakim.meskine [at] strath.ac.uk)
Schott, Robert (M.S.; Advisor: Peter Pfeifer) – M.S. Medical Physics (2009): Nuclear Science and Engineering Institute: University of Missouri
Srivastava, Nitin Kumar (M.S.; Advisor: H.R. Chandrasekhar) – Ph.D. student: Curriculum and Instruction (Science Education): West Virginia University
Sun, Mingzhai (M.S.; Advisor: Gabor Forgacs) – see Ph.D. 2008 for more information (mingzhai [at] princeton.edu)
Thulasi, Sunita (Ph.D.; Advisor: Sashi Satpathy) – Resolution Enhancement Techniques Design Engineer: Intel Corporation (Portland, Ore.) (2005-present)

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