Current Members

Name Title
Shriram Ramanathan Assistant Professor
LaShanda Banks Admin Assistant
Tyler Cain Undergraduate Student
Chia-Lin Chang Graduate Student
Changhyun Ko Graduate Student
Adrian Podpirka Graduate Student
Kian Kerman Graduate Student
Gokul Gopalakrishnan Post Doctoral Fellow
Bo-Kuai Lai Post Doctoral Fellow
Dmitry Ruzmetov Post Doctoral Fellow
Subramanian Sankaranarayanan Post Doctoral Fellow
Rafael Jaramillo HUCE Fellow
Alumni

Name Title Currently At
Antonio Baclig Undergraduate Student (2009 Senior Thesis and 2007 Summer) Energy Startup
Vincent Oletu Undergraduate Student (2008 Summer) Energy consulting
Daniel Harburg Undergraduate Student (2008 REU Student) Dartmouth University
Amrita Saigal Undergraduate Student (2007 REU Student) MIT Mechanical Eng
Chuk Nomnso Undergraduate Student (2007 REU Student) WPI Physics
Daniel Wulin Undergraduate Student (2006 REU Student) Columbia Physics
Nana Ayensu Undergraduate Student (2007 Senior Thesis and 2006 Summer) GE Global Research
Masaru Tsuchiya Graduate Student (2006-2009) Harvard Univ
Alex Johnson Post Doctoral Fellow (Environmental Fellow 2006-08, Research Associate 2008-09) Sunprint
Annamalai Karthikeyan Post Doctoral Fellow (2006-08) Univ Wisonsin, Oshkosh
Claire Xiong Post Doctoral Fellow (2008-09) Argonne National Lab
Prof. Kunio Okimura Visitor (2009) Tokai University
Prof. Qingzhong Xue Visitor (2008) Tsinghua U
Recent Group News

  • 10/09: Congratulations to Masaru Tsuchiya for being selected as the winner of the 2009 'Bernard S. Baker Award for Fuel Cells Research'.

  • 09/09: Raf Jaramillo joins our group as a Ziff Environmental Fellow from the Physics Department at University of Chicago.

  • 08/09: Chia-Lin Chang receives First Place in the graduate student award competition at the Tri-services Conference on Corrosion

  • 07/09: MRS Bulletin highlights recent articles by A.C. Johnson; B.K. Lai et al on advancing ultra-thin oxide cathodes for low temperature solid oxide fuel cells

  • 06/09: Masaru Tsuchiya graduated with a PhD. in Applied Physics. Congratulations Masaru!!
    He was also the recipient of a 'MRS Graduate Student Award' in 2008.

  • 06/09: Alex Johnson joins a solar startup in the bay area after completing his fuel cell research at Harvard

  • 06/09: Bo-Kuai Lai gave a Keynote presentation at Solid State Ionics conference (held in Toronto) on experimental demonstration of micro-solid oxide fuel cells that operate below 500C