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IUMSC Staff & Affiliates


Dr. Maren Pink
Director of the IUMSC
Senior Scientist
(812) 855-6821
David Bish
Professor Emeritus & Haydn Murray
Chair of Applied Clay Mineralogy
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
Adjunct Professor, Chemistry


Dr. Alex Lovstedt, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

Anthony Parker
Technical Development & Operations




Advisory Board


Amar Flood
Professor
Chemistry
Jeremy Smith
Professor
Chemistry
Faculty Liasion


Xingchen Ye, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor




Present and Former Undergraduate & High School Students


Ibtihag Alfadhl
Undergraduate Student
2023
Wilson Flores-Martinez
Groups STEM Initiative Program
2024


Johan Galicia
Groups STEM Initiative Program
2024
Jasmin Herzig
Senior High School Intern
2019/20


Aniffa Kouton
Undergraduate Student
2018-2022
Groups STEM Initiative
Ju Hyun Lee
High School Student
2012/13
Boston University Academy
Harvard University


Segmet Pinckney
Undergraduate Student
2014
Groups STEM Initiative
Hannah Roe
Undergraduate Student
2016
Groups STEM Initiative


Tiffani Swe
Groups STEM Initiative Program
2024
Khathy Thach
Undergraduate Student
2016
Groups STEM Initiative


Aaron Williams
Undergraduate Student
2015
Groups STEM Initiative
Tessa Woods
High School Student
2007
Bloomington High School South


Claire Woods
High School Student
2007
Bloomington High School South
Van Dawt Zi
Undergraduate Student
2013
Groups STEM Initiative



Current Students & Postdoctoral Users


Nayana Beena
Skrabalak Group
Chemistry
Amanda Coughlin
Zhang Group
Physics


Chenyang Hu
Goicoechea Group
Chemistry
Nabojit Kar
Skrabalak Group
Chemistry


Megan Knobeloch
Skrabalak Group
Chemistry
Heather Lawson
Ribits Group
Eskenazi Museum


Alvaro Garcia Romero
Goicoechea Group
Chemistry
Rukshanthan Selvaraj
Skrabalak Group
Chemistry


Rebecca Skalla
Ye Group
Chemistry
Yi Wang
Ye Group
Chemistry


Emily Ward
Skrabalak Group
Chemistry
Zhao Zhang
Flood Group
Chemistry



Collaborators


Randall Bramley
Professor
Computer Science Department
Indiana University


Kianosh Huffman
Consultant for the CIMA Project
Brown University
Rhode Island
Yaroslav Losovyj
Director, XPS Facility
Nanoscience Center
Chemistry Department
Indiana University


Yu (Marie) Ma
Research Associate
Science Gateways Group
Research Technologies
Sudhakar Pamidighantam
Senior Scientist
Science Gateways Group
Research Technologies


Marlon Pierce
Assistant Director
Science Gateways Group
Research Technologies
Applications Pervasive Technology Inst.



Student & Postdoctoral Alumni


Dileka Abeysinghe
Post Doctoral Scholar
Skrabalak Group
Chemistry
Jaime Aviles Acosta
Zhang Group
Physics


Hannah Ashberry
Skrabalak Group
Chemistry
Sandra Atehortua
Skrabalak Group
Chemistry


Kaustav Chatterjee
Skrabalak Group
Chemistry
Dennis Chen
Skrabalak Group
Chemistry


Nick Daanen
Skrabalak Group
Chemistry
Skye Fortier
Mindiola/Caulton Group
Chemistry


Alison Fout
Mindiola Group
Chemistry
Jie Fu
Skrabalak Group
Chemistry


Matt Gordon
Skrabalak Group
Chemistry
Anne Hickey
Smith Group
Chemistry


Alice Hui
Caulton Group
Chemistry
Soojin Jeong
Ye Group
Chemistry


Mulu Kebede
Raff Group
SPEA Environmental Sciences
Adam Kinne
Smith Group
Chemistry


Tillmann Köpke
Zaleski Group
Chemistry
Nick Labrum
Caulton Group
Chemistry


Kristin Marie Leftwich
Bish Group
Geological Sciences
Yuda Li
Skrabalak Group
Chemistry


Zeke Liu
Ye Group
Chemistry
Yun Liu
Flood Group
Chemistry


Jorge Martinez
Smith Group
Chemistry
Jette Katja Mathiesen
Skrabalak Group
Chemistry


Nancy Ortiz
Skrabalak Group
Chemistry
Youngtae Park
Skrabalak Group
Chemistry


Amanda Peterson
Skrabalak Group
Chemistry
Evan Rugen
Skrabalak Group
Chemistry


Keith Searles
Mindiola Group
Chemistry
Ibrahim Shafei
Skrabalak Group
Chemistry


Matt Star
Zhang Group
Physics
Ellen Steinmiller
Skrabalak Group
Chemistry


Rick Thompson
Mindiola Group
Chemistry
Ba Tran
Mindiola Group
Chemistry


Chenyu Wang
Skrabalak Group
Chemistry
Skylar Wappes
Skrabalak Group
Chemistry


Wencao Yang
Zhang Group
Physics
Dr. Wenka Zhu
Zhang Group
Physics



Former Staff & Affiliates


Dr. John C. Bollinger
Crystallographic Informatics
Scientist
Veronica Carta PhD
Research Crystallographer



Dr. Chun-Hsing (Josh) Chen
Associate Scientist



Vincent F. DiStasi
Research Associate

Michael Durbin
Senior Software Developer



Scott Horn
Research Associate

Dr. John C. Huffman
Senior Scientist
Former Director of IUMSC
Professor Emeritus


Eric Koperda, M.D.
Lead Programmer
Software Architecht
Reciprocal Net Project
Dr. Hyunsoo Park
Associate Scientist
Research Crystallographer


Julia Ritter
Student Intern & Collections Archival

Riley Schaeffer
Visiting Researcher
Professor Emeritus


Dr. William E. Streib
Research Crystallographer

Dr. Kirsten Folting Streib
Research Crystallographer



Shauna-Kay Walder
Graduate Student
Raff Laboratory
SPEA
Nobu Yamamoto
Research Crystallographer




Former Student Employees


Tharaka Devadithya
Programmer

Amruta Kamat
Student Programmer



Vikrant Kaushal
Student Programmer

Padma Priya Ravi Kumar
Programmer



Joe Massa
Undergraduate Student
Caulton Laboratory
Carlos Silva
Undergraduate Student
Programmer
McNair Scholar


Aparna Venkatraman
Programmer



LaboratoryChemistry Building A421
Mailing AddressIndiana University Molecular Structure Center
Chemistry Building A421 - Indiana University
800 E. Kirkwood Ave
Bloomington, IN 47405-7102
Indiana University Molecular Structure Center. Chemistry, A421, Indiana University, 800 E, Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN 47405-7102, 812.855.6821
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