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Kristen Aviles


Jaroslava Miksovska

Jaroslava Miksovska received her Ph.D. in 1998 for time-resolved spectroscopic studies of electron and proton transfer in the photosynthetic reaction centers of Rhodobacter capsulatus under the supervision of Prof. Pierre Sebban at Center de Genetique Moleculair, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette. After postdoctoral work in the group of Prof. Randy Larsen at the University of Hawaii and then at the University of South Florida, she took a…


Francisco Fernández-Lima

Dr. Francisco Fernandez-Lima joined the University of Georgia in 2026 as a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and Professor in the Department of Chemistry. His interdisciplinary research program focuses on developing next-generation mass spectrometry and ion mobility technologies for biomolecular, biomedical, environmental, and translational applications. He is internationally recognized for advancing trapped ion mobility spectrometry…


Jing Li

Jing Li received his bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and master’s degree in Biochemistry from Beijing Normal University. He earned his Ph.D. in Biophysics and Computational Biology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the mentorship of Prof. Emad Tajkhorshid, where he developed and applied molecular dynamics (MD) simulation approaches to address fundamental questions regarding the molecular mechanisms of membrane transport…


Aaron Aponick


Peter T. Smith

Peter T. Smith received a BS in Chemistry from New York University in 2014 performing research on peptidomimetic molecules under the guidance of Prof. Kent Kirshenbaum. In 2020 he completed his PhD in Chemistry as an NSF Predoctoral Fellow at University of California, Berkeley with Prof. Christopher J. Chang. Peter's graduate research focused on electrochemical and photochemical catalytic transformations of small molecules such as carbon dioxide…


Wenhao Shao

Wenhao was born and raised in Shanghai, China. He earned his B.S. in Chemistry from Fudan University in 2017, where he conducted research on rare-earth upconversion luminescent nanoparticles under the guidance of Prof. Fuyou Li and Prof. Wei Feng. Wenhao completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2022, working with Prof. Jinsang Kim on the computation-assisted molecular design, synthesis, and photophysics of…


Adam Barb


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Brandon Yik

Brandon was born and raised in Michigan. He earned sequential B.S. in Chemistry and M.S. degrees from the University of Michigan while conducting research with Theodore Goodson III before moving to the Georgia Institute of Technology where he received his M.S. degree in inorganic chemistry with Henry La Pierre. Brandon earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry with a focus on chemistry education research under the supervision of Jeffrey Raker at the…
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