PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Nick Jackson (he/him)
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
e: jacksonn@illinois.edu
POSTDOCS
Chun-I Wang (he/him)
Postdoctoral Researcher
ciwang@illinois.edu
B.S., Ph.D. Chemical Engineering – National Chung Cheng University
Zheng Yu (he/him)
Postdoctoral Researcher
zhengyu@illinois.edu
Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering – University of Wisconsin, Madison
B.S. Physics – Nanjing University
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Anna DeBernardo (she/her)
Graduate Student
ad60@illinois.edu
B.S. Chemistry, Mathematics – Case Western Reserve University
David Friday (he/him)
Graduate Student
friday1@illinois.edu
M.S. Chemistry – UIUC
B.S. Chemistry – United States Air Force Academy
Shruti Iyer (she/her)
Graduate Student
shrutii2@illinois.edu
Integrated M.S. Chemistry – Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
Seonghwan Kim (he/him)
Graduate Student (co-advised w/Prof. Schroeder)
sk77@illinois.edu
B.S. Physics – Seoul National University
Charlie Maier (he/him)
Graduate Student
jcmaier2@illinois.edu
B.S. Physics, Mathematics – University of Virginia
Huihang Qiu (he/him)
Graduate Student
huihang2@illinois.edu
M.S. Chemical Engineering – University of Tokyo
B.S. Chemistry – Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Archana Verma (she/her)
Graduate Student
archana3@illinois.edu
B.S. Chemical Engineering – Stanford University
Jason Wu (he/him)
Graduate Student – (co-advised w/Prof. Schroeder)
jasonlw3@illinois.edu
B.S. Chemistry, B.A. Computer Science – Boston College
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Reesa Espera (she/her)
respera2@illinois.edu
UIUC – ChBE Expected ’26
Aidan Lindsay (he/him)
aidancl3@illinois.edu
UIUC – Chemistry Expected ’25
Remec & Morisato Scholar
Sofia Sivilotti (she/her)
sofials3@illinois.edu
UIUC – CS + Chemistry Expected ’25
Remec & Morisato Scholar
ALUMNI
Andriy Bilobokyy (UG ’23) – Associate Software Engineer I at Northrop Grumman
Andrew Qin (UG ’23) – Ph.D program at UChicago PME
Rohini Ramabadran (UG ’22) – Software Engineer at SeatGeek