Group

Cape Crystal research group at Cornell UniversityPhoto credit: Thomas Dienel (September 18, 2024)

From left to right: Nicholas DeMayo, Skylar Bush, Hillary Pan, Andreia Fenley, Reum Scott, Theodore Foulen, Rachael Skye, George Padilla, Julianne Berry-Stoelzle, Hongjin Du, Julia Dshemuchadse, Katherine Wang, (not on photo) Rohan Ukhade

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Principal Investigator

Julia DshemuchadsePhoto credit: Maya Martirossyan
Julia Dshemuchadse (she/her/hers)
Assistant Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
✉️ jd732@cornell.edu
Dr. sc. (Materials Science), ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2013
Diploma (Physics), TU Dresden, Germany, 2008
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Graduate Students

Rachael Skye
Photo credit: Maya Martirossyan
Rachael S. Skye (she/her/hers)
PhD student, 2019–
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
✉️ rss364@cornell.edu
PhD (Materials Science and Engineering), Cornell University, 2024
BS (Materials Science and Engineering), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019

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Hillary Pan
Photo credit: Sabrina Li
Hillary Pan (she/her/hers)
PhD student, 2020–
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
✉️ hp393@cornell.edu
MS (Materials Science and Engineering), Cornell University, 2020
BA (Physics), Oberlin College, 2017
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Andreia Fenley
Andreia L. Fenley (she/her/hers)
PhD student, 2021–
Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
✉️ alf242@cornell.edu
BS (Chemical and Biological Engineering), Princeton University, 2015

Hongjin DuPhoto credit: Maya Martirossyan
Hongjin Du (she/her/hers)
PhD student, 2022–
✉️ hd329@cornell.edu
BSc (Materials Science and Engineering), Cornell University, 2022

George PadillaPhoto credit: Maya Martirossyan
George Padilla (he/him/his)
MS student & ACS Bridge Fellow, 2023–
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
✉️ gp389@cornell.edu
BS (Biology), Temple University, 2022

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Katherine Xiaoxin Wang (she/her/hers)
PhD student, 2023–
✉️ xw682@cornell.edu
BS (Chemical Engineering & Materials Science and Engineering), University of California, Berkeley, 2023

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Joan Rodríguez Castellón
MS student, 2024–
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
✉️ jr2429@cornell.edu
BEng (Materials Science and Engineering), Swansea University, 2024

Undergraduate Students

Theodore FoulenPhoto credit: Maya Martirossyan
Theodore Foulen (he/him/his)
undergraduate researcher, 2024–
✉️ rf444@cornell.edu
BSc student, Cornell University, 2023–
Skylar Bush
Skylar Bush
undergraduate researcher, 2024–
✉️ sgb95@cornell.edu
BSc student (Earth and Atmospheric Sciences), Cornell University, 2022–

Nicholas DeMayo
Nicholas DeMayo
undergraduate researcher, 2024–
✉️ nd354@cornell.edu
BSc student, Cornell University, 2022–


If you are interested in joining the group
– as an undergraduate student at Cornell: please contact Prof. Dshemuchadse directly;
– as an external undergraduate student: the group regularly hosts summer research students via the CCMR REU Program, to which you can apply directly; you can also apply to the Cornell LSAMP Summer REU program;
– as a graduate student: apply with a MS or PhD program at Cornell (decisions are made by the admissions committees → MSE, ChBE) or through our bridge program with Ezra’s Bridge or the ACS Bridge Program;
– as a postdoctoral researcher: please contact Prof. Dshemuchadse describing your research interests and the funding (e.g., fellowships) you intend to apply for. (There are currently no open funded positions for postdoctoral scholars.)