People

Faculty

Rohan Akolkar

  • Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
  • Milton and Tamar Maltz Professor of Energy Innovation,
  • Ohio Eminent Scholar in Advanced Energy Research, and
  • Chief Scientist - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Joint Appointment)

Email: rna3@case.edu

Research Interests:

  • Electrodeposition (Zn, Li) for battery applications
  • Electrodeposition and electroless-deposition for nanoscale Cu interconnect metallization
  • Electrochemical growth of amorphous alloys
  • Electrometallurgy of multivalent metals, including titanium

Nicholas Sinclair

  • Research Engineer, and
  • Adjunct Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Email: nss20@case.edu

Research Interests:

  • Electrochemical energy storage
  • Sustainable manufacturing
  • Critical material recycling

Postdoctoral and Graduate Students

Sam Sankar

Postdoctoral Scholar

Email:sxs3159@case.edu

Research Interests:

  • Electrodeposition of lithium

  • Advanced energy storage in extreme conditions

Theodore Phung

Graduate Student Researcher, Doctoral Candidate

Email:typ2@case.edu

Research Interests:

  • Electrochemical atomic layer deposition (e-ALD) and etching (e-ALE) of metals
  • Additives for the suppression of Zn corrosion

Vaishnavi Sree Jeganathan

Graduate Student Researcher, Doctoral Candidate

Email: vxj98@case.edu

Research Interests:

  • Electrochemical atomic layer deposition (e-ALD) of Au

Yuanman Ma

Graduate Student Researcher, Doctoral Candidate

Email: yxm557@case.edu

Research Interests:

  • Electrodeposition of Li and Li battery fabrication

Benjamin Holcombe

Graduate Student Researcher, Doctoral Candidate

Email: bph34@case.edu

Research Interests:

  • Electrodeposition of rare-earth elements
  • Electrochemical transport phenomena

Anar Badalbayli

Graduate Student Researcher, Doctoral Candidate

Email: axb1630@case.edu

Research Interests:

  • Electrodeposition of iron in molten salts

Christian Kellamis

Graduate Student Researcher, Doctoral Candidate

Email: cjk167@case.edu

Research Interests:

  • Nuclear fuel reprocessing

Undergraduate Students

 

Alex Siegel

Undergraduate Research Student

Email: aws108@case.edu

Research Interests:

  • Non-carbothermic molten salt electrolysis for aluminum electrowinning

Rebecca Shick

Undergraduate Research Student

Email:rns80@case.edu

Research Interests:

  • Electroless deposition of silver onto copper
  • Reactive sputtering of ruthenium oxide

Alumni/Past Members

Bethany Dean-Kersten

2019-2023
Postdoctoral Researcher at Argonne National Laboratory

Badri Mainali

2021-2023
Research Scientist at National Energy Technology Laboratory

 

Nora Shaheen

2018-2022
Postdoctoral Researcher at Argonne National Laboratory

Ruwani Wasalathanthri

2020-2022
Senior Scientist at Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories

Felicity Orndoff

2021-2021
Doctoral Student at University of Pittsburgh

Yukun (Jack) Gong

2017-2021
Process Engineer at Lam Research

Adam Maraschky

2016-2021
Postdoctoral Researcher at Sandia National Laboratory

Mahesh Ijjada

2019-2021
Assistant Professor at Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research

Peilun Zhang

2019-2021
PhD student at City University of Hong Kong

Tim Schwartzkopff

2019
Undergraduate student at CWRU

Dai Shen

2014-2019
Process engineer at Intel Corporation

Katherine (Katie) Steinberg

2015-2019
PhD Candidate at MIT

Yan Sun

2017-2019
PhD Candidate at Xiamen University

Xinyu (Sherry) Liu

2013-2018
Research chemist at ECI Technology

Kailash Venkatraman

2015-2018
Process engineer at Lam Research

Jacob Blickensderfer

2013-2017
Process engineer at Lam Research

Ryan Gusley

2015-2017
PhD candidate at Columbia University

Darshika Jauhari

2015-2017
Maternity

Lu (Jack) Yu

2012-2017
Senior Scientist at Xerion Advanced Battery Corp.

Stephen Banik

2012-2016
Process engineer at Lam Research

Karun Kumar Rao

2012-2016
PhD candidate at University of Houston

Alex Miller

2013-2015
Process engineer at Cooper Standard Automotive

Chang-Jung (Alan) Hsueh

2014-2015
Researcher at ITRI

Alan Long

2012-2015
PhD candidate at MIT

Paige Altemare

2013-2014
Engineer at Ecolab

Ajay Kumar

2012-2013
Researcher at Atotech USA