Where they are now

Ziqin Ni

Postdoctoral Fellow · 2023-2025

• Research Administration & Support (RA&S) Spotlight Award (2025)
• 2026 Spring Nerem Conference Award

Olatomiwa Bifarin

Postdoctoral Fellow · 2021-2025

• Best CoS Talk, 7th GT Annual Postdoctoral Research Symposium
• 2022 School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Research Faculty High-Impact Communication Award

Xin Ma

Postdoctoral Fellow · 2021-2025

• 2022 ASMS Professional Development Award

Daniel Vallejo

Postdoctoral Fellow · 2021-2024

• Best Lightning Talk Overall, 7th GT Annual Postdoctoral Research Symposium
• Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority (CSURM) Fellowship to support participation in the 2022 GRC on Scientific Methods in Cultural Heritage Research
• 2022 Robert M. Nerem Travel Award.

Ziad Mahmoud

Postdoctoral Fellow · 2022-2024

Clint Alfaro

Postdoctoral Fellow · 2019-2020

• 2019 ASMS Asilomar Conference Travel Award

Marcos Bouza-Areces

Postdoctoral Fellow · 2017-2020

Yafeng Li

Postdoctoral Fellow · 2018-2020

• MSACL Young Investigator grant.

Molly Soper-Hopper

Postdoctoral Fellow · 2015-2018

Sandra Blair

Postdoctoral Fellow · 2016-2017

Chaevien Clendinen

Postdoctoral Fellow · 2015-2017

Anyin Li

Postdoctoral Fellow · 2015-2017

• ASMS 2016 Asilomar travel award
• ASMS 2016 Asilomar best poster highlight award

Mathew Bernier

Postdoctoral Fellow · 2014-2016

Jay Forsythe

Postdoctoral Fellow · 2014-2016

Martin Paine

Postdoctoral Fellow · 2014-2016

• ASMS Postdoctoral Award 2015

Julia Culzoni

Postdoctoral Fellow · 2012-2013

Asiri Galhena

Postdoctoral Fellow · 2008-2011

Manshui Zhou (co-advised with Prof. McDonald)

Postdoctoral Fellow · 2007-2009

Katherine Kenney

M.SC · 2024-2026

Rithika Gorrepathi

M.SC · 2024-2025

Katherine Kenney

MSC · 2024-2025

Alexandria Van Grouw

PH.D · 2020-2025

• 2023 Outstanding Research Award
• 2023 Lake Louise Travel Award

Dmitry Leontyev

PH.D · 2020-2025

Jada Grey

M.SC · 2022-2024

• SMART Fellowship Semifinalist

Carter Asef

PH.D · 2019-2024

• North American Mass Spectrometry Summer School 2021
• 2022 ISIMS Dave Atkinson Student Travel Award
• Top oral presentation, 2023 SoCB Graduate Retreat, 2023

Alexis Pulliam

PH.D · 2019-2024

Markace Rainey

PH.D · 2019-2024

• Best poster award at MANA 2020
• William Emerson Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award 2021
• CTL GTA Award 2023

Emily Phillips

MSC · 2021-2023

• 2022 Skyline Workshop Travel Award

Samyukta Sah

PH.D · 2018-2023

Kaira Mayberry

M.SC · 2021-2023

Swapna Kannan

M.SC · 2020-2022

Kristin McKenna

PH.D · 2016-2021

• CHEM Graduate Research Symposium Runner-up award 2021
• William Emerson Outstanding Graduate Student Service Award 2021

Stephen Zambrzycki

PH.D · 2015-2021

Eric Gier

M.SC · 2019-2021

Danning Huang

PH.D · 2014-2021

• 1st Annual North American Mass Spectrometry Summer School, Travel award
• FACSS Student Poster Award

Scott Hogan

PH.D · 2012-2019

• Co-advised with Michele LaPlaca

David Donndelinger

M.SC · 2017-2018

Sam Moore

M.SC · 2016-2018

Xiaoling Zang

PH.D · 2012-2018

• O’Hara Scholarship (2017)

JazzLynn Murphy

M.SC · 2014-2016

Joel Keelor

PH.D · 2010-2016

• 2013 GTIRC Travel Award Winner

Eric Parker

PH.D · 2012-2016

• 2017 ACS Astrochemistry Outstanding Dissertation Award
• 2014 Astrobiology Winter School Fellowship Winner
• 2013 GTIRC Fellowship Winner

Ezequiel Morzan

PH.D · 2012-2015

Jose Perez

M.SC · 2007-2016

Christina Jones

PH.D · 2009-2015

First employed at Hollings Marine Laboratory, NIST

• 2013 GTIRC Travel Award Winner
• Facilitating Academic Careers in Engineering and Science Fellowship (FACES, 2009-2015)

Rachel Bennett

PH.D · 2010-2015

First employed at Coca-Cola

• 2013 GTIRC Travel Award Winner
• Molecular biophysics trainee (2010)
• Best poster award at origins of Life GRC-2012

Glenn Harris

PH.D · 2007-2011

First employed as postdoc in Caprioli group, Vanderbilt. Now at 908 Devices.

• Awarded 2008 NSF Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention
• Awarded Outstanding Second Year Seminar Award at CHEM/GT.
• Awarded 2009 Best Poster at GT Homecoming Award

Carrie Pierce

PH.D · 2005-2011

Employed at the CDC

Mark Kwasnik

PH.D · 2004-2010

First employed at Solvay.

• Advanced to candidacy in 2006

Arti Navare

PH.D · 2005-2010

First employed as postdoctoral researcher in the Katze Group, UW.

• Advanced to candidacy in 2006
• Awarded 2007 FACSS Student Poster Award

Leonard Nyadong

PH.D · 2005-2009

First employed at NHMFL, Tallahasee, FL with Prof. Alan Marshall.

• Awarded US Pharmacopeia Graduate Fellowship (2006-2007 and 2007-2008)
• Accepted to the 4th Annual Interfacial and Condensed Phase Chemical Physics Summer Research Institute (SRI) hosted at EMSL/PNNL

Christina Hampton

PH.D · 2004-2009

First Employed as postdoc at SLAC, Stanford University

• Advanced to candidacy in 2006
• Molecular biophysics trainee (2005-2008)
• Awarded best presentation at the 2007 Atlanta AAMSDG meeting, GA 04/26/07

Deanna Snyder

MSC · 2009-2011

Dana Hostetler

M.SC · 2008-2011

Krystyn Alter Hall

M.SC