Group photo, Summer 2014

Bottom row, left to right: Suyang Wang (PhD candidate, MSE JHU), Bethsy A. Aguilar-Castillo (PhD candidate, MSE UNAM), Hanying Luo (PhD candidate, MSE JHU), Elena Lepekhina (PhD candidate, CBE JHU), M. Herrera-Alonso

Top row, left to right: José Luís Santos (postdoc), Yuxuan Huang (MS, MSE JHU)

 

Margarita Herrera-Alonso
Assistant Professor
Margarita graduated from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) with a BS and a MS in Chemical Engineering.  She received her PhD in Polymer Science and Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2004.  She held two postdoctoral appointments, at Princeton University (until 2007) and at the UNAM (until 2009).  In 2010 she joined the Faculty at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at JHU.

Courses currently taught: Chemical and biological properties of materials (EN.510.606, spring) and Physical chemistry of materials I: Thermodynamics (EN.510.312, fall).

 

Current students
Hanying Luo
Hanying received a BS in Biomedical Engineering from the Southeast University in Nanjing, China.  She then obtained her MS in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Florida focusing on silica nanoparticles and their self-assembly. Her current research interests are on amphiphilic brush polymers synthesis and solution self-assembly.

Elena Lepekhina
Elena received a BS in Chemistry and Applied Mathematics from the College of William and Mary in 2012.  Her undergraduate research focused on fluorescence photomodulation in conjugated polymer nanoparticles.  In 2013, she started a PhD program at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.  Her current research interest is on patterned nanoparticles.

Suyang Wang
Born in China, Suyang got her BS in Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2013. Shortly after, she enrolled in the PhD program at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Hopkins.

 

Alumni

Clayton Rische (BS, MSE)
Brandon Doan (BS, MSE)
Heidi Culver (BS, MSE)
Sheree Geller (BS, MSE)
Suntharanund Putarut (BS, MSE)
Yanet E. Aguirre-Chagala (PhD, CHE, UNAM, co-advised)