Jenny graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s in Materials Science & Engineering in 2023. Currently, she is a 2nd year master’s student in Prof. Shamberger’s group at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on electro-thermal characterization and compact model simulations.
Marcetta Darensbourg
Texas A&M University; Chemistry Dept.
(Co-Lead, Thrust 3)
Darensbourg is a Distinguished Professor and Davidson Chair in Science at Texas A&M. She was elected to the National Academy of Science in 2017.
Kim Dunbar
Texas A&M University; Chemistry Dept.
Dunbar is a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Texas A&M.
Maryam Ghotbi
Maryam received her B.S. in Chemistry from Sharif University of Technology, Iran. Her research Interests include formation and properties of the SEI in lithium metal batteries.
Alice Giem
Alice is a PhD student 4th year at Texas A&M and graduate intern at NREL. Her research interests include leveraging midgap states in semiconductor photocatalysts heterostructures for hydrogen evolution and investigating the role of stereochemically active lone pairs in insertion electrode hosts for mediating fluoride-ion diffusion and for modulating the metal-to-insulator transition of doped MxV2O5 bronzes for neuromorphic computing applications.
Shruti Hariyani
Shruti received her Bachelors of Science and Ph. D. at the University of Houston. Her doctoral research under the guidance of Prof. Jakoah Brgoch focused on the discovery and characterization of novel phosphor materials through experiment and computation. She is now working as a postdoctoral researcher at Texas A&M University with Prof. Sarbajit Banerjee on the synthesis of substituted vanadium oxide-based materials for neuromorphic computing applications.
Junjie Huang
Fatima Jardali
Fatima is a senior research engineer working on electrical and thermal responses of vanadium dioxide under electrical bias. Her research interests include thin films growth and characterization sputter deposition, plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition, physical vapor deposition, device fabrication and electro-thermal characterization, and ion insertion/extraction into/from host materials.
Dakota Jones
Dakota obtained his B.S. in chemistry from Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah) in 2021, where he worked on optimizing microwave-promoted iminyl radical cascade reactions to be used as steps in the synthesis of natural products. In the fall of 2021 he joined Professor Kim R. Dunbar’s research group at Texas A&M University. His main research objective for his PhD work has been to design multimetallic coordination complexes with long-range magnetic coupling between transition metal centers using thiolate or organic nitrile bridging ligands.
Aiden Kang
Aiden received his BS in Mechanical Engineering in University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2019. His research focuses on fabrication and characterization of materials for neuromorphic computing and corresponding mechanical phenomena in these systems. His research interests include inspection of stress/damage during operation and how mechanical loading influences phase transitions in these systems.