From back to front: (left) Andreia Fenley, Joan Rodríguez Castellón, George Padilla, Rachael Skye, (middle) Hongjin Du, Hillary Pan, Julia Dshemuchadse, (right) Katherine Wang, Nicholas DeMayo, Theodore Foulen, (not on photo) Skylar Bush

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Principal Investigator
Photo 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 → Faculty Profile, Google Scholar, → Julia Dshemuchadse’s page
Graduate Students
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 → Google Scholar
	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 →
Photo credit: Maya Martirossyan	Hongjin Du (she/her/hers) PhD student, 2022– ✉️ hd329@cornell.edu BSc (Materials Science and Engineering), Cornell University, 2022 →
Photo 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 →
Photo credit: Maya Martirossyan	Katherine Xiaoxin Wang (she/her/hers) PhD student, 2023– ✉️ xw682@cornell.edu BS (Chemical Engineering & Materials Science and Engineering), University of California, Berkeley, 2023 → → Katherine Wang’s page
	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
Photo credit: Maya Martirossyan	Theodore Foulen (he/him/his) undergraduate researcher, 2024– ✉️ rf444@cornell.edu BSc student, Cornell University, 2023–
	Skylar Bush undergraduate researcher, 2024– ✉️ sgb95@cornell.edu BSc student (Earth and Atmospheric Sciences), Cornell University, 2022– →
	Nicholas DeMayo undergraduate researcher, 2024– ✉️ nd354@cornell.edu BSc student (Materials Science and Engineering), Cornell University, 2022–
	Sylvie Shaya (she/her/hers) undergraduate researcher, 2025– ✉️ svs56@cornell.edu BA student (Physics), Wellesley College, 2022– →
	Sariaka Tiana Alexandra Rakotoarison (she/her/hers) undergraduate researcher, 2024– ✉️ str46@cornell.edu BSc student (Materials Science and Engineering), Cornell University, 2023– →

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.)