Group

Principal Investigator

Matthias J. Young, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Assistant Professor of Chemistry

B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2010
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Colorado-Boulder, 2015
NSF-GRFP Fellow, University of Colorado-Boulder, 2013-2015
NRC Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2015-2017
Postdoctoral Appointee, Argonne National Laboratory, 2017-2018

Awards and Honors

Richard Wallace Faculty Incentive Grant Recipient (2018)
AVS Thin Film Division Paul H. Holloway Young Investigator Award (2020)
ACS Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator Award Recipient (2022)
NSF CAREER Award Recipient (2023)

Postdoctoral Scholars

Andreas Werbrouck

MU Materials Science and Engineering Posdoctoral Fellow

B.S. Physics and Astronom, Ghent University, May 2014
Ph.D. in Solid State Sciences, Ghent University, May 2021, Dr. Christophe Detavernier
Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University, 2021-2023, Dr. Stacey Bent

Graduate Students

Shima Mehregan

Ph.D. Student
Department of Chemistry
B.S. Inspection Engineering, Petroleum University of Technology, Abadan, Khuzestan, Iran, 2014
M.S. Chemical Engineering, Petroleum University of Technology, Abadan, Khuzestan, Iran, 2016

Mahya Mehregan

Ph.D. Student
Department of Chemistry
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Petroleum University of Technology, Abadan, Khuzestan, Iran, 2015
M.S. Chemical Engineering, Petroleum University of Technology, Abadan, Khuzestan, Iran, 2019

Amit Datta

Ph.D. Student
Department of Chemistry
B.S. Chemistry, University of Dhaka, 2019

Azeez Musa

Ph.D. Student
Department of Chemistry
B. Tech. Chemistry, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria, 2015
M.S. Chemistry, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 2020
M.S. Chemistry, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2022

Sabu Adhikari

Ph.D. Student
Department of Chemistry
B.S. Chemistry Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2018
M.S. Chemistry Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2023

Colin Gopaul

Ph.D. Student
Department of Chemistry
B.S. Chemistry, Lyon College, Batesville, AR, 2023

Nazifa Khan

Ph.D. Student
Department of Chemistry
B.S. Applied Chemistry, University of Dhaka, 2018
M.S. Applied Chemistry, University of Dhaka, 2020

Undergraduate Students

Will Murphy

Major: Mechanical Engineering
Expected Graduation: May 2024

Tawfiq Thabit

Major: Chemical Engineering
Expected Graduation: May 2025

Anthony Khoury

Major: Electrical Engineering
Expected Graduation: May 2026

Former Students

Xiang Lei Li

M.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2019
Department of Chemical Engineering

Chandler McCoy

B.S. Chemistry, Lyon College, Batesville, AR, 2018
Hired by Future Fuel, May 2019

Lauren Baratta

B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Missouri-Columbia, May 2021
Hired by Burns & McDonnell, May 2021

Katy Whitledge

B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Missouri-Columbia, December 2021
Pursuing a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Missouri-Columbia