Team
Associate Professor Kevin M. McPeak
Prof. McPeak received his B.S. from Northwestern University, Ph.D. from Drexel University with Jason B. Baxter, and postdoc at ETH Zurich with David J. Norris. He is a recent recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award and the LSU Rising Early Career Researcher.
Ph.D. Students
Stephania Imbachi-Ordonez
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Project: Machine Learning Algorithms for Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Characterization of Sugar Cane (Collaboration with Audubon Sugar Institute)
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Lina Rojas
Hometown: Cali, Colombia
Project: Emergent properties of noble-transition metal alloys
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Cameron Bachar
Hometown: Zachary, LA
Project: Ultrafast Near-Infrared Photodetection
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Khadijatu Nayi Alhassan
Hometown: Tamale, Ghana
Project: Laser Synthesis of Complex Alloys for Hydrogen Generation
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Somtochukwu (Somto) Anyaorah
Hometown: Nigeria
Project: Photocatalytic Disinfection of Wasterwater for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation
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Marvellous Mareya
Hometown: Gweru, Midlands, Zimbabwe
Project: Operando Near-Field Spectroscopy
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Undergraduate Researchers
Hamood Qureshi
Hometown: Lafayette, LA
Project: Laser Synthesis of Complex Alloys for Hydrogen Generation
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Alumni
Dr. MaCayla Caso (LSU Ph.D. '23 - University of North Alabama), Ella Sheets (LSU BS '23 - ExxonMobil), Dr. Tiago Ramos Leite (LSU Ph.D. '22 - Qorvo), Sarah Glass (LSU BS '22 - Rice University Ph.D. Student), Dr. Daniel Willis (LSU Ph.D. '21 - Silver Bullet Water Treatment Company), Henry Kantrow (LSU BS '21 - GA Tech ChE Ph.D. Student), Noah Smith (LSU BS '21 - Ph.D. Student U. Colorado Boulder), Henry Cain (LSU BS '21 - University of Pennsylvania/Dupont), Scott Wicker (REU Student '21), Dr. Sara Stofela (LSU Ph.D. '20), Gloria Alvarado (LSU BS '20 - ExxonMobil), Garret Lambert (LSU BS '16 - ExxonMobil), Jon Wilson (LSU BS '16 - U Del ChE Ph.D. Student)
Collaborators
Prof. Sam Snow (LSU CEE), Prof. Carolyn Bayer (Tulane BioEngineering), Drs. Sven Burger & Lin Zschiedrich (JCMwave), Prof. Ayash Sahu (NYU), Prof. Phil Sprunger (LSU Physics), Prof. William Shelton (LSU Physics), Prof. Omar Magana-Loaiza (LSU Physics), Prof. Jason Baxter (Drexel University), Dr. Ben Diroll (Argonne National Laboratory), Prof. Martin Villiger (Harvard University)