Members - Owen Group at Columbia University

Owen Group
Fall 2021
Current Group Members

Prof. Jonathan Owen
2009 –
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Dr. Jim Shanahan
Postdoc, 2020 -
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Dr. Ellie Bennett
Postdoc, 2021 -
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Dr. Sungho Park
Postdoc, 2021 –
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Dr. Mark Ziffer
Postdoc, 2021 –
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Dr. Rodolphe Valleix
Postdoc, 2021 –
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Natalie Saenz
5th Year PhD, 2017 –
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Bereket Zekarias
2nd Year PhD, 2020 –
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Yuzuka Karube
1st Year PhD, 2021 –
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William Zhang
1st Year PhD, 2021 –
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Leslie Castro
Undergraduate, 2020 –
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Anna Wolock
Undergraduate, 2020 –
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Alexis Turturici
Undergraduate, 2021 –
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Andrew Kelly
High School, 2021 –
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Former Group Members

Nicholas Anderson
PhD, 2009–2014
Blue Dot
Evelyn Auyeung
Postdoc, 2014–2015
Dow Chemical
Alex Beecher
PhD, 2011–2016
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
Aya Buckley
Undergraduate, 2010–2013
Opus 12
Michael Campos
PhD, 2012–2017
Prime Impact Fund
Peter Chen
PhD, 2012–2017
Osram Opto Semiconductor
Rena Chen
Undergraduate, 2011–2013
PhD Student, Rice
Josh Choi
Postdoc, 2012–2014
Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Virginia
Greg Cleveland
Undergraduate, 2013–2016
PhD Student, MIT
Aidan Coryell
Undergraduate, 2014–2016
Osram Opto Semiconductor
Brandi Cossairt
Postdoc, 2012–2014
Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Washington
Jonathan De Roo
Postdoc, 2017–2019
Professor, Dept. of Chemistry,
University of Basel
Daniel DeRosha
Postdoc, 2019–2021
McKinsey & Co.
Kate Gordon
REU Student, 2018, 2019
University of Tennessee
Matthew Greenberg
PhD, 2015–2020
Visiting Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Bard College
Leslie Hamachi
PhD, 2013–2018
Professor, Dept. of Chemistry,
California Polytechnic State University
Mark Hendricks
PhD, 2010–2015
Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Whitman College
Suk ho Hong
MS, 2013–2015
PhD Student, Columbia University
Trevor Hull
PhD, 2014–2019
Reynolds American Inc.
Ilan Jen-LaPlante
Postdoc, 2014–2016
Nanosys
Abraham Jordan
Postdoc, 2019–2022
Novomer
Ava Kreider-Mueller
PhD, 2009–2014
Lecturer, Dept. of Chemistry,
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Brandon McMurtry
PhD, 2016–2021
SPIE
Michele Myong
Undergraduate, 2014–2016
PhD Student, Northwestern
Zachariah Norman
PhD, 2010–2015
Lockheed Martin
Kevin Qian
Undergraduate, 2016–2020
PhD Student, MIT
Eric Reisel
Undergraduate, 2016–2019
PhD Student, Northwestern
Iva Rreza
PhD, 2014–2019
Syngenta
Rebecca Siegelman
Undergraduate, 2011–2014
DuPont
Octavi Semonin
Postdoc, 2013–2016
Powerhouse
Robert Swain
Undergraduate, 2013–2015
Decisive Analytics Corporation
Anindya Swarnakar
Postdoc, 2017–2018
Entegris
Bert Vancura
Undergraduate, 2012–2015
MD/PhD Columbia University
Abraham Wolcott
Postdoc, 2012–2014
Professor, Dept. of Chemistry,
San Jose State University
Helen Yang
Undergraduate, 2013–2015
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