Graduate Students

Gregory Larsen

Ph.D., 2011

Thesis: Simulations and Experiments on Gas Adsorption in Novel Microporous Polymers

Alma Cataño Barrera

M.S., 2011

Thesis: Polymer Solutions and Solvent-Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Studies Applying PC-SAFT

Fidel Castro-Marcano

M.S., 2010

Thesis: High-Pressure Gases in Amorphous Polymers

Postdoctoral and Visiting Researchers

Hujun Shen

Postdoctoral Researcher, 2008-2010

Dynamics of poliovirus (PV) RNA dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) using molecular dynamics (MD) and the elastic network model (ENM)

Nicolás Moreno

Visiting Researcher, 2010

The interaction between the glycoproteins mucin and biopolymers, studied with dissipative particle dynamics (DPD)

Undergraduate Students

José Ponte

Undergraduate Researcher, 2011-2012

Molecular simulations of organic molecules of intrinsic microporosity (OMIMs)

Brittany Smith

Undergraduate Researcher, 2010-2011

Adsorption of model proteins on surfaces with different hydrophobicities using dissipative particle dynamics (DPD)

Patrick Hricko

Undergraduate Researcher, 2009-2010

Mechanical stiffness of DNA through molecular dynamics (MD) simulations

Jedidiah Chubb

Undergraduate Researcher, 2009

Molecular simulations of polymers of intrinsic microporosity

Anna Kobb

Undergraduate Researcher, 2009

Rebeca Romero Aburto

Undergraduate Researcher, 2008

Molecular dynamics simulations of a mutation of the 1RA6 polymerase

Richard Rump

Undergraduate Researcher, 2008

Richard now works at the US Patent Office

Erik Haussmann

Undergraduate Researcher, 2008

Simulations of biomaterials and proteins

Tamara Lubysheva

Undergraduate Researcher, 2008

Noah Pierce Cohen

Undergraduate Researcher, 2007

REU Students

Ben deGlee

REU Student, Summer 2011

Modeling the packing behavior of organic molecules of intrinsic microporosity (OMIMs)

Grant Gonzalez

REU Student, Summer 2011

Atomistic simulations of amorphous, linear polymers by a simulated polymerization technique

Stephen Weitzner

REU Student, Summer 2011

Dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) simulations to model calcium phosphate nanocomposites

Victor Torrealba

REU Student, Summer 2010

Aggregation of polymeric biomaterials using the mesoscopic technique dissipative particle dynamics (DPD)

Mallory Smyth

REU Student, Summer 2009

Polymers of intrinsic microporosity

Wai-Fong Chan

REU Student, Summer 2009

Polymers of intrinsic microporosity