


Our Research Advisor
B.S., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1991
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996
Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology, 1999
The Team
The Wilker Lab is a blend of graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, traveling scholars, and undergraduate researchers - all in pursuit of growth and knowledge.
All emails have "@purdue.edu" as their domain.

Dr. Alex Lancelot
email: alancelo
Postdoc

Dr. Aishwarya Menon
email: menon54
Co-Advisor: Dr. Julie Liu
Postdoc

Jennifer M. García Rodríguez
email: garciar1
Graduate Student

Clayton Westerman
email: westerc
Graduate Student

Mitchell E. Meger
email: mmeger
Graduate Student

Cindy L. Atencio-Martínez
email: catenci
Graduate Student

Nevin Naren
email: naren
Graduate Student

Isabelle Schaekel
email: ischaek
Graduate Student

Mikołaj Balawender
email: mbalawen
Graduate Student

Myah Webb
email: webb156
Graduate Student

Aaron Mena
email: mena1
Graduate Student

Richard Godsel
email: rgodsel
Graduate Student

Aidan Brown
email: brow2033
School of Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate

Bodhi Scott
email: crscott
School of Materials Engineering
Undergraduate
Our Alumni:
Postdocs and Visiting Scientists
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Tuhin Subhra Pal, visiting 2022-23 - SERB Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellow - Graduate Student at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
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Dr. Stephen Taylor, postdoc 2011-2012 - scientist at Shepherd Chemical
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Harold McCarron, visiting 2010 - instructor at University of Southern Indiana
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Hyung Joon Cha, visiting 2007 - associate professor at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea
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Dr. Glenn Westwood, postdoc 2004-2006 - Mallinckrodt Baker, Phillipsburg, NJ
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Dr. Jennifer Monahan, postdoc 2001-2003 - assistant professor at St. Louis University, MO
Graduate students
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Bradley McGill, PhD 2022 - Lead Scientist at Labcorp
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Taylor A. Jones, PhD 2020 - Research and Development scientist
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Amelia Putnam, PhD 2020 - NRC Research Associate at the Air Force Research Laboratory
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S. Lee Huntington, PhD 2020 - Scientist at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division
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Heather Siebert, PhD 2019 - Scientist at EAG Laboratories (Eurofins Materials Science), Maryland Heights, MO
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Andrés Tibabuzo, PhD 2019 - Postdoc at University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Natalie Hamada, PhD 2018 - Research Associate at the Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy at McMaster University
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Michael Mazzotta, PhD 2017 - Research Chemist at Eastman
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Shannon Daily, MS 2017
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Michael North, PhD 2016 - Scientist at Colgate-Palmolive Company
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Chelsey Del Grosso, PhD 2016 - Postdoc at Delft University of Technology
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Michael Johnston, PhD 2015 - Advanced Materials Engineer at Southern Research
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Erik Alberts, PhD 2015 - US Army Engineer Research and Development Center
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Jessica Román, PhD 2015 - Senior member of technical staff at Sandia National Labs
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Cori Jenkins, PhD 2015 - Postdoc at Caltech, now assistant professor of chemistry at Ball State University
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Heather Meredith, PhD 2015 - Materials Engineer at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
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Cristina Matos-Perez, PhD 2011 - Scientist at BASF
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James White, PhD 2010 - Postdoc at Tufts University
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Jeremy Burkett, PhD 2010 - Assistant Professor at University of Great Falls, MT
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Mildred Rodriguez, PhD 2009 - Scientist at Gilead
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Joshua Cloud, MS 2009 - Alkermes, OH
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Jessi Fautch, PhD 2008 - Assistant Professor at York College, PA
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Sarah Gentry, MS 2007 - Genzyme, Boston, MA
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Megan Knagge, PhD 2007 - Science writer in North Carolina
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Steve Howell, MS 2006 - Grad Student in Sport Management and Economics at Purdue University
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Trinity Horton, MS 2005 - Celanese, TX
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Beth Hamilton, PhD 2005 - Scientist at Monsanto, St. Louis, MO
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Mary Sever, PhD 2005 - Assistant Professor at Barnard College, NY
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Jamie Weisser, MS 2005 - Central Regional Crime Lab, Phoenix, AZ
Research Technicians
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Thomas McCarthy, BS 2010 - graduate student at Penn State
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Chris Clark - graduate student in chemistry at Purdue University
Undergraduates
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Sebastian Gomez Combellas, SURF Intern
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Kaniese I. Mack, SURF Intern
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Shawn Belongia
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Morgan Heidingsfelder
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Ashley Nguyen, SURF intern
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Yamil Adorno, BS 2021
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John Sloan, BS 2021
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Elizabeth R Nichols, BS 2021
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Ian Bretz
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Natalie Renfro, BS 2020
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Michael Lengel, BS 2019
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Ai Jennifer Kobayashi
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Narelli Narcisso, SURF intern
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Dominic Sanchez
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Courtney Yonkers
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Peter Stark
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Nicolás M. Morato Gutiérrez, SURF intern, graduate student at Purdue University
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Jennifer M. García Rodríguez, SROP intern - graduate student at Purdue University
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Victor Roman
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Jenna DeSousa, BS 2015 - graduate student at Vanderbilt University, TN
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Gwendolyn Snyder, BS 2015
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Katherine Allemeier, BS 2015 - applying to graduate schools for Fall 2016
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Stephanie Edwards, BS 2012 - scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Kevin Chang, BS 2012 - graduate student at Ohio State
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Robert Clegg, BS 2011 - scientist at BASi
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Alison Mattes, BS 2009 - Henkel, Milwaukee, WI
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Josh Calvert
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Greg Doddridge - Eli Lilly
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Katie Renouf - graduate student at University of St. Andres, Scotland
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Michael Dowd - graduate student at University of California-San Diego, CA
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Jonathan Gortat, BS 2002 - Purdue Research Foundation
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Ellie Hattery - U.S. Air Force
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Lauren Hight, SURF intern - graduate student at Purdue University
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Dana Holcomb, BS 2004 - post doc at Boston University, MA
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Alex Huang
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Marcus Lee - the Peace Corps
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Dave Linson, BS 2000 - Eli Lilly
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Tiffany Mills
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Iren Mungo - medical school
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Brian Neel - graduate student in psychology at University of Chicago, IL
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Shara Pettit (now Compton), BS 2004 - visiting assistant professor, Roosevelt University
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Jesica Ryczko
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Andrew Shrum
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Hailey Stowe, BS 2002 - Pharmicia, Skokie, IL
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Mike Walls, BS 2002 - E-Ink