Dr. Tyler J. Duncan successfully defended his thesis titled, Tuning Pillararene Chemistries for Ion Separations across Ultrathin Membranes. He will be continuing on to research scientist position with Tokyo Electron in Austin, TX.

Dr. Nico Marioni successfully defended his thesis titled, Ionic Separations in Salt Transport Processes. He will be continuing on to a post-doctoral position at The University of Pennsylvania with the Winey Group.

Ritu defended her thesis entitled Physics of Protein-Polyelectrolyte Complexes. She will be joining the Gray Group at Johns Hopkins this fall as a postdoctoral researcher.

Bill defended his dissertation entitled Polymer Polarity as a Design Parameter for Polymer Electrolytes. He will be staying with us over the summer in a lab managerial role and starting his new role as a consultant at Energy and Environmental Economics starting this fall.