People
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.
Postdocs
Dr. Aishwarya Menon
email: menon54
Co-Advisor: Dr. Julie Liu
Dr. Alex Lancelot
email: alancelo
Co-Advisor: Dr. Teresa Sierra, Universidad de Zaragoza
Graduate Students
Mitchell E. Meger
email: mmeger
Nevin Naren
email: naren
Cindy L. Atencio-Martínez
email: catenci
Richard Godsel
email: rgodsel
Isabelle Schaekel
email: ischaek
Mikołaj Balawender
email: mbalawen
Myah Webb
email: webb156
Aaron Mena
email: mena1
Undergraduate Students
Bodhi Scott
email: crscott
School of Materials Engineering
Aidan Brown
email: brow2033
School of Chemical Engineering
Carson Risch
email: rischc
Tarpo Department of Chemistry
Our Alumni:
Postdocs and Visiting Scientists
- Dr. Alex Lancelot, postdoc 2021-2024 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctural Fellow at Universidad de Zaragoza
- Tuhin Subhra Pal, visiting 2022-23 - SERB Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellow - Graduate Student at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
- Dr. Stephen Taylor, postdoc 2011-2012 - scientist at Shepherd Chemical
- Harold McCarron, visiting 2010 - instructor at University of Southern Indiana
- Hyung Joon Cha, visiting 2007 - associate professor at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea
- Dr. Glenn Westwood, postdoc 2004-2006 - Mallinckrodt Baker, Phillipsburg, NJ
- Dr. Jennifer Monahan, postdoc 2001-2003 - assistant professor at St. Louis University, MO
Graduate students
- Clayton Westerman, PhD 2024 - Chief Science Officer at BioBond Adhesives, Inc.
- Jennifer M. García Rodríguez, PhD 2023
- Bradley McGill, PhD 2022 - Lead Scientist at Labcorp
- Taylor A. Jones, PhD 2020 - Research and Development scientist
- Amelia Putnam, PhD 2020 - NRC Research Associate at the Air Force Research Laboratory
- S. Lee Huntington, PhD 2020 - Scientist at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division
- Heather Siebert, PhD 2019 - Scientist at EAG Laboratories (Eurofins Materials Science), Maryland Heights, MO
- Andrés Tibabuzo, PhD 2019 - Postdoc at University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Natalie Hamada, PhD 2018 - Research Associate at the Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy at McMaster University
- Michael Mazzotta, PhD 2017 - Research Chemist at Eastman
- Shannon Daily, MS 2017
- Michael North, PhD 2016 - Scientist at Colgate-Palmolive Company
- Chelsey Del Grosso, PhD 2016 - Postdoc at Delft University of Technology
- Michael Johnston, PhD 2015 - Advanced Materials Engineer at Southern Research
- Erik Alberts, PhD 2015 - US Army Engineer Research and Development Center
- Jessica Román, PhD 2015 - Senior member of technical staff at Sandia National Labs
- Cori Jenkins, PhD 2015 - Postdoc at Caltech, now assistant professor of chemistry at Ball State University
- Heather Meredith, PhD 2015 - Materials Engineer at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
- Cristina Matos-Perez, PhD 2011 - Scientist at BASF
- James White, PhD 2010 - Postdoc at Tufts University
- Jeremy Burkett, PhD 2010 - Assistant Professor at University of Great Falls, MT
- Mildred Rodriguez, PhD 2009 - Scientist at Gilead
- Joshua Cloud, MS 2009 - Alkermes, OH
- Jessi Fautch, PhD 2008 - Assistant Professor at York College, PA
- Sarah Gentry, MS 2007 - Genzyme, Boston, MA
- Megan Knagge, PhD 2007 - Science writer in North Carolina
- Steve Howell, MS 2006 - Grad Student in Sport Management and Economics at Purdue University
- Trinity Horton, MS 2005 - Celanese, TX
- Beth Hamilton, PhD 2005 - Scientist at Monsanto, St. Louis, MO
- Mary Sever, PhD 2005 - Assistant Professor at Barnard College, NY
- Jamie Weisser, MS 2005 - Central Regional Crime Lab, Phoenix, AZ
Research Technicians
- Thomas McCarthy, BS 2010 - graduate student at Penn State
- Chris Clark - graduate student in chemistry at Purdue University
Undergraduates
- Sebastian Gomez Combellas, SURF Intern
- Kaniese I. Mack, SURF Intern
- Shawn Belongia
- Morgan Heidingsfelder
- Ashley Nguyen, SURF intern
- Yamil Adorno, BS 2021
- John Sloan, BS 2021
- Elizabeth R Nichols, BS 2021
- Ian Bretz
- Natalie Renfro, BS 2020
- Michael Lengel, BS 2019
- Ai Jennifer Kobayashi
- Narelli Narcisso, SURF intern
- Dominic Sanchez
- Courtney Yonkers
- Peter Stark
- Nicolás M. Morato Gutiérrez, SURF intern, graduate student at Purdue University
- Jennifer M. García Rodríguez, SROP intern - graduate student at Purdue University
- Victor Roman
- Jenna DeSousa, BS 2015 - graduate student at Vanderbilt University, TN
- Gwendolyn Snyder, BS 2015
- Katherine Allemeier, BS 2015 - applying to graduate schools for Fall 2016
- Stephanie Edwards, BS 2012 - scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Kevin Chang, BS 2012 - graduate student at Ohio State
- Robert Clegg, BS 2011 - scientist at BASi
- Alison Mattes, BS 2009 - Henkel, Milwaukee, WI
- Josh Calvert
- Greg Doddridge - Eli Lilly
- Katie Renouf - graduate student at University of St. Andres, Scotland
- Michael Dowd - graduate student at University of California-San Diego, CA
- Jonathan Gortat, BS 2002 - Purdue Research Foundation
- Ellie Hattery - U.S. Air Force
- Lauren Hight, SURF intern - graduate student at Purdue University
- Dana Holcomb, BS 2004 - post doc at Boston University, MA
- Alex Huang
- Marcus Lee - the Peace Corps
- Dave Linson, BS 2000 - Eli Lilly
- Tiffany Mills
- Iren Mungo - medical school
- Brian Neel - graduate student in psychology at University of Chicago, IL
- Shara Pettit (now Compton), BS 2004 - visiting assistant professor, Roosevelt University
- Jesica Ryczko
- Andrew Shrum
- Hailey Stowe, BS 2002 - Pharmicia, Skokie, IL
- Mike Walls, BS 2002 - E-Ink