Kulik group alumni

  • Isuru Ariyarathna, PD, Postdoctoral Associate, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Naveen Arunachalam, GS, Ph.D. ‘23 ChemE and now ML Scientist at Nosis Bio
  • Sule Atahan-Evrenk, VS, Assistant Professor at TOBB University of Economics and Technology
  • Anna Bair, UROP, MIT SB Course 5 expected ‘23
  • Akash Bajaj, GS, Ph.D. ‘21 DMSE and now postdoc at Trinity College Dublin (Sanvito group)
  • Naomi Bright, UROP, MIT SB ‘19 ChemE and now Associate Research Scientist at Bristol-Myers Squibb
  • José Caetano , VS, PhD student MIT-Portugal
  • Lydia Chan, SS, Troy H.S. ‘18 and now Stanford University BS expected ‘22
  • Rafa Chavez, UROP, MIT SB CS expected ‘25
  • Shouping Chen, SS, Ph.D. Student in UC Berkeley ChE
  • Shuxin Chen, UROP, MIT SB Course X expected ‘22
  • Yeoungsu Cho, PD, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Houston
  • Yael Cytter, PD, Research Scientist in Israel
  • Chenru Duan, GS, Ph.D. ‘22, Research Engineer, Microsoft Quantum
  • Freya Edholm, UROP, MIT ChemE SB ‘23, now MIT CSE S.M. Student ‘24
  • Mohamed El-Safy, VS, PhD student with David Balcells, UiO, Norway
  • Kristen Eller, UROP, PhD Student in CU Boulder ChE
  • Terry Gani, GS, Ph.D. ‘20 ChemE (w/ Roman group) and now senior scientist, Cabot Corporation
  • Zach Giaccone, SS, Grad Student in UConn Dental School
  • Conrad Goffinet, UROP, MIT MSECP Program S.M. ‘21
  • David Gonzalez Narvaez, UROP, University of Puerto Rico-Cayey, now PhD student Columbia University Chemistry
  • Bryan Gough, UROP, MIT SB expected ‘24
  • Stefan Gugler, MS, ETH Zürich MS ‘18 Chemistry (with M. Reiher) and now postdoc at TU Berlin
  • Natalia Hajlasz, UROP, BS Harvard expected ‘22
  • Daniel R. Harper, GS, S.M. ‘21 and now Consultant, Sage Analysis
  • Alondra Hernandez, UROP, MIT ChemE SB expected ‘25
  • Wilson Ho, UROP, MIT SB expected ‘25
  • Efthymios Ioannidis, GS, Ph.D. ‘16 ChemE MBA ‘18 and now Quantitative Researcher at Ellington Management Group
  • Jon Paul Janet, GS, Ph.D. ‘19 ChemE and now Senior Scientist at AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • Mugyeom Jeon, UROP, MIT Chemistry SB expected ‘25
  • Haojun Jia, GS, Ph.D. ‘24 Chemistry, and now stealth-mode startup
  • Yu Jin, SS, Peking University BS ‘18 Chemistry and now Ph.D. student in U Chicago Chemistry (Galli Group)
  • Jelissa Kamguem, UROP, Lafayette College ChemE BS ‘23, now PhD student Cornell University ChemE
  • Maria Karelina, UROP, MIT SB ‘17 Biology/EECS (6-7) and now Ph.D. Student in Stanford Biophysics (Dror Group)
  • Irem Kilic, SS, Bogazici University BS expected ‘23
  • Jeong Yun Kim, PD, Samsung Korea
  • Frederik Ørsted Kjeldal, VS, PhD student at DTU
  • Hannes Kneiding, VS, PhD student at UiO
  • Yashraj Kulkarni, PD
  • John La, UROP, MIT SB ‘17 EECS and now Oculus VR
  • Adriana Ladera, SS, University of South Florida BS expected ‘22
  • Greg Lever, PD, IQVIA
  • Grace Li, UROP, MIT CSE SB expected ‘25
  • Sean Lin, SS, Troy H.S. ‘19 and now UC Berkeley BS expected ‘23
  • Fang Liu, PD, Assistant Professor at Emory University
  • Mingjie Liu, PD, Assistant Professor at the University of Florida
  • Yusu Liu, GS, Weiss Asset Management LP
  • Brendan Mar, VS, Tenure Track Lecturer at DeAnza College
  • Maximiliano Martinez, UROP, MIT ChemE SB expected ‘25
  • Ralf Meyer, PD
  • Rimsha Mehmood, GS, Ph.D. ‘21 Chemistry and now Senior Scientist at Merck
  • Mohamad Seyed Moosavi, VS, Ph.D EPFL ‘20, Assistant Professor at University of Toronto
  • Aditya Nandy, GS, Ph.D. ‘23 Chemistry and now Schmidt AI Futures Fellow U. Chicago 23-25 and incoming TT. Asst. Prof. UCLA CBE 2025
  • Azadeh Nazemi, PD, Senior Scientist at Pfizer
  • Jonas Oldenstaedt, MS, TUM expected ‘23 CSE
  • Niladri Patra, PD, Assistant Professor at IIT Dhanbad
  • Helena W. Qi, GS, Ph.D. ‘19 Chemistry and now Principal Scientist at Pfizer
  • Sangeeta Rajpurohit, VS, Postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
  • Sahasrajit Ramesh, MS, Oxford MS ‘19 Materials
  • Alexander Reily Rocha, VS, Associate Professor Institute of Theoretical Physics, UNESP, Campus Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Matt Rivera, PD, Chief Technical Officer; First Light Solutions, Inc.
  • Dechen Rota, UROP, MIT SB Course X expected ‘23
  • Jose Salcedo-Perez, SS, S.M. MIT Nuclear Engineering ‘19, now Staff Scientist ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN
  • Natasha Seelam, GS, Machine learning engineer @ MindsDB
  • Shaheer Syed, UROP, Mount St. Mary’s University BS expected ‘24
  • Michael Taylor, PD, Staff Scientist at Los Alamos National Lab
  • Jakob Teetz, MS, ETH Zürich MS in Chemistry ‘24
  • Titus Tsai, UROP, MIT Chemistry SB expected ‘26
  • Vyshnavi Vennelakanti, GS, Ph.D. ‘23 Chemistry and now Postdoctoral Associate with Emily Carter at Princeton
  • Ava Waggett, UROP, MIT SB ‘19 ChemE and now Exxon-Mobil
  • Mengyi Wang, GS, S.M. MIT DMSE ‘20
  • Lisi Xie, GS, Ph.D. ‘16 ChemE and now Process Engineer at Lam Research
  • Eve Xu, UROP, Smith B.S. ‘20 and now Princeton Ph.D. student, Chemistry
  • Jing Yang, PD, Assistant Professor at Sun Yat-sen University
  • Tzuhsiung Yang, PD, Assistant Professor at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU)
  • Zhongyue Yang, PD, Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University
  • Shuwen Yue, PD, Assistant Professor at Cornell University
  • Qing Zhao, GS, Ph.D. ‘18 MechE, Assistant Professor at Northeastern University
  • Hongqian Zheng, UROP, USTC ‘23, now PhD student UC Berkeley Materials

SS = summer student, UROP = undergraduate, VS = visiting scientist, MS = masters student resulting in degree, GS = graduate student, PD = postdoc

Heather J. Kulik
Heather J. Kulik
Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry