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Research Faculty and Postdoctoral Researchers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Name<\/th>Role at NOME<\/th>Current position<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Deepak Patil<\/td>Post-doc<\/td>FunGlass (Center for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass, Slovakia), Researcher<\/td><\/tr>
Travis Olds<\/td>Post-doc<\/td>Carnegie Museum Pittsburgh, Curator of Mineralogy<\/td><\/tr>
Jason Lonergan<\/td>Post-doc<\/td>Missouri University of Science & Technology, Research Professor<\/td><\/tr>
Jos\u00e9 Marcial<\/td>Post-doc<\/td>Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Research Scientist<\/td><\/tr>
Mostafa Ahmadzadeh<\/td>Post-doc<\/td>Exponent, Materials Science Consultant<\/td><\/tr>
Nick Stone-Weiss<\/td>Post-doc<\/td>Corning Inc., Glass Scientist<\/td><\/tr>
Hua Chen<\/td>Visiting scholar<\/td>Inner Mongolia University of Science & Technology (IMUST), Associate Professor<\/td><\/tr>
Irmak Sargin<\/td>Research professor<\/td>Middle Eastern Technical University (METU) Turkey, Assistant Professor<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Graduate Students<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Name<\/th>Role at NOME<\/th>Current position<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Junghune Nam<\/td>MS MSE<\/td>Ascend Elements, Battery Engineer<\/td><\/tr>
Jamie Weaver<\/td>PhD Chemistry<\/td>National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Staff Research Chemist<\/td><\/tr>
Ke Xu<\/td>PhD MSE<\/td>ASML, Sr. Application Engineer<\/td><\/tr>
Yue Cao<\/td>PhD MSE<\/td>ASML, Sr. Competence Engineer<\/td><\/tr>
Saehwa Chong<\/td>PhD MSE<\/td>Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Staff Scientist<\/td><\/tr>
Brian Riley<\/td>PhD MSE<\/td>Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Staff Scientist<\/td><\/tr>
Mostafa Ahmadzadeh<\/td>PhD MSE<\/td>Exponent, Materials Science Consultant<\/td><\/tr>
Jos\u00e9 Marcial<\/td>PhD MSE<\/td>Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Staff Scientist<\/td><\/tr>
Muad Saleh<\/td>PhD MSE<\/td>Lam Research, Staff Product Engineer<\/td><\/tr>
Emily Nienhuis<\/td>PhD MSE<\/td>Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Staff Chemist<\/td><\/tr>
Michael Kindle<\/td>PhD MSE<\/td>Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Staff Materials Scientist<\/td><\/tr>
Sam Karcher<\/td>PhD MSE<\/td>Washington State University, Research Assistant Professor<\/td><\/tr>
Matt Athon<\/td>PhD MSE<\/td>Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Staff Scientist<\/td><\/tr>
Steven Luksic<\/td>PhD MSE<\/td>Washington River Protection Solutions, Engineer<\/td><\/tr>
David Bollinger<\/td>PhD MSE<\/td>University of Texas Austin, Operations Director<\/td><\/tr>
Natalie Smith-Gray<\/td>PhD MSE<\/td>Walla Walla University, Assistant Professor<\/td><\/tr>
Jani Jesenovec<\/td>PhD MSE<\/td>BAE Systems, Principal Scientist Crystal Grower<\/td><\/tr>
Aya Azzedioui<\/td>MS MSE intern<\/td>University of Montpellier, PhD student<\/td><\/tr>
Julio Zamora<\/a><\/td>PhD MSE<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
Jonathan Evarts<\/td>PhD MSE<\/td>Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Staff Scientist<\/td><\/tr>
Benjamin Dutton<\/td>PhD MSE<\/td>Penn State University, Applied Research Laboratory, Assistant Research Professor<\/td><\/tr>
Arumala Josiah Lere-Adams<\/td>PhD MSE<\/td>Washington State University, Post-doc<\/td><\/tr>
Rachael Bergman<\/td>MS Chemistry<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
Maddison Rex<\/td>MS MSE<\/td>Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Nuclear Engineer<\/td><\/tr>
Seon Jin Kim<\/td>PhD NucE intern<\/td>PhD student, POSTECH university, Pohang, Republic of Korea<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Undergraduate Students<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Name<\/th>Role at NOME<\/th>Current position<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Emily (Allen) Larsen<\/td>BS ME<\/td>Washington State University, Scholarly Assistant Professor<\/td><\/tr>
Cassandra Steffen<\/td>BS Civil Eng<\/td>AHBL Inc, Civil Engineer<\/td><\/tr>
Erik Fergerstrom<\/td>BS MSE<\/td>Schweitzer Engineering Lab, Compliance Engineer<\/td><\/tr>
Mahmood Abusamha<\/td>BS ME, BS MSE<\/td>Real estate broker<\/td><\/tr>
Gabe Cocking<\/td>BS MSE<\/td>Cascade Aircraft, Engineer<\/td><\/tr>
Joey Kabel<\/td>BS MSE<\/td>Electrified Thermal Solutions, Founder and CTO<\/td><\/tr>
Jonathan Moore<\/td>BS MSE<\/td>Full time pastor<\/td><\/tr>
Jacob Peterson<\/td>BS Chem Eng<\/td>Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Staff Scientist<\/td><\/tr>
Abigail Poelstra<\/td>BS Env Eco Sci<\/td>Washington State University, Admin Assistant<\/td><\/tr>
Joseph L. Osborn<\/td>BS Manag Inf Sys<\/td>US Army, Supply Technician<\/td><\/tr>
Maddison (Heine) Rex<\/td>BS MSE<\/td>Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Nuclear Engineer<\/td><\/tr>
Zayne Nelson<\/td>BS Civil Eng<\/td>Central Plateau Cleanup Company, Industrial Hygienist<\/td><\/tr>
Camila Romero<\/td>HS student intern<\/td>University Saarland, Physics graduate student<\/td><\/tr>
Sophia Rubero<\/td>BS Chem Eng<\/td>Washington River Protection Solutions, Chemical Engineer<\/td><\/tr>
Jessica (Erickson) Sly<\/td>BS MSE<\/td>Pennsylvania State University, PhD student<\/td><\/tr>
Julia Esakoff<\/td>BS Earth Sciences<\/td>Colorado School of Mines, PhD student<\/td><\/tr>
Brooke Downing<\/td>BS MSE<\/td>Colorado School of Mines, PhD student<\/td><\/tr>
Halen Walker<\/td>BS MSE<\/td>Naval Nuclear Laboratory<\/td><\/tr>
Ian Wells<\/td>BS ME<\/td>Washington State University, PhD student<\/td><\/tr>
Shella Crafton<\/td>BS MSE<\/td>Novelis, Metallurgist<\/td><\/tr>
Ravi Lin<\/td>BS MSE<\/td>Case Western University, UG student<\/td><\/tr>
Raine Antonio<\/td>BS MSE<\/td>Lehigh University, PhD student<\/td><\/tr>
Audra Totten<\/td>BS MSE<\/td>Framatome, Engineer<\/td><\/tr>
JP Pittman<\/td>BS MSE<\/td>Micron, Engineer<\/td><\/tr>
Nathan Sakaguchi<\/td>BS MSE<\/td>Boise State University, PhD student<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Research Faculty and Postdoctoral Researchers Name Role at NOME Current position Deepak Patil Post-doc FunGlass (Center for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass, Slovakia), Researcher Travis Olds Post-doc Carnegie Museum Pittsburgh, Curator of Mineralogy Jason Lonergan Post-doc Missouri University of Science & Technology, Research Professor Jos\u00e9 Marcial Post-doc Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Research Scientist Mostafa Ahmadzadeh […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_wsuwp_accessibility_report":null},"categories":[410],"tags":[553],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/mccloy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/mccloy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/mccloy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/mccloy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/mccloy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":53,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/mccloy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3238,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/mccloy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1782\/revisions\/3238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/mccloy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/mccloy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/mccloy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/mccloy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/mccloy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}