 Kenya Gordon | Investigating Conformational Dynamics and Ion-Dependent Cleavage of RNA by Nsp15: A Single-Molecule PIE-FRET and FCS Approach.
| 13-Dec-2025 | Ph.D. (LeBlanc) | Private School Teacher |
 Rachel Evans | Studies of DNA mismatch repair: recognition by MutS and regulation of MutL. | 13-Dec-2025 | Ph.D. (Weninger) | Bioprocess Technician at Pfizer |
 Rachel Evans | Connectivity and Contraction in Cytoskeletal Networks | 12-June-2025 | Ph.D. (Belmonte) | Faculty Lecturer at Middle Tennessee State University |
 Brenton Boland | Manipulating Flow Rate and Ionic Conductivity in Unconfined Melt Electrospinning and the Effect on Fiber and Spinning Morphology. | 19-Apr-2024 | Ph.D. (Clarke/Bochinski) | Postdoc NC State |
 Vrinda Desai | Identifying Precursors of Creeping Landslides through Remote Sensing and Network Science. | 15-Aug-2023 | Ph.D. (Daniels) | Postdoc North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies |
 Ashkan Fakharzadeh | Structure, Stability, and Dynamics of Select Nucleic Acids Associated with Neurodegenerative Diseases. | 07-Dec-2022 | Ph.D. (Roland/Sagui) | Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
Jiahui Zhang | Modeling and Understanding Pathogenic Trinucleotide Repeats and Related Proteins. | 20-Jul-2022 | Ph.D. (Roland/Sagui) | Returned to China |
 Pengning Xu | Dynamic Slippage of Mutagenic Trinucleotide Repeat DNA Revealed by Single Molecule FRET. | 30-Sep-2022 | Ph.D. (Weninger) | Postdoc at UNC |
 Hancheng Qin | Theoretical Simulations of Nanostructured Materials. | 29-Sep-2022 | Ph.D. (Bernholc) | Senior Software Engineer at ASML |
 Abbas Ghaffariesfehani | Near-Field Interferometry based on Subwavelength Aperture and its Application in Small Particle Detection. | 03-Nov-2022 | Ph.D. (Riehn) | Postdoc at NC State |
 Marcus Begley | Microtubule Bundle Structure and Mechanics: From Mammals to Yeasts. | 01-Nov-2022 | Ph.D. (Elting) | Postdoc at Rutgers University |
 Farnaz Fazelpour | Failure and Flow in Sheared Granular Materials. | 21-Jun-2022 | Ph.D. (Daniels) | Postdoc at UNC |
 Ming Liu | Protein-induced DNA Conformation Changes under Nanoconfinement. | 21-Jun-2022 | Ph.D. (Riehn) | Postdoc at Columbia University |
 Neelam Sheoran | Influence of Ionic Conductivity on Unconfined Melt Electrospinning of Thermoplastics. | 29-Mar-2022 | Ph.D. (Clarke/Bochinski) |
Senior Process Engineer I at ASM |
 Keith Hillaire | Instabilities in Oxidizing Liquid Eutectic Gallium-Indium. | 24-Mar-2022 | Ph.D. (Daniels) | Functional Manager and Experimental Physicist at Northrop Grumman |
 Shih-Yuan Chen | Mechanics and Dynamics in Soft Matter Systems: from Microscopy to Bulk Phenomena across Multiple Time Scales. | 04-Jul-2021 | Ph.D. (Daniels) | Postdoc at Duke University |
 Bing Zhang | Mechanisms of Dielectric Enhancement in Innovative Polymeric Metamaterials. | 21-Jul-2020 | Ph.D. (Bernholc) | Senior quantitative analytics specialist at Wells Fargo |
 Brandon Long | Morphology, Chemistry and Domain Studies of Disparate Mesoscale Organic Systems: Patterned Conjugated Polymers and Preserved Ancient Molecules. | 24-Jul-2019 | Ph.D. (Hallen) | Application Engineer at Brookhaven Instruments |
 Saroj Dangi | Nanoplumbing for a Single Molecule Study of DNA. | 04-Nov-2019 | Ph.D. (Riehn) | PTD Litho Module and Integration Device Yield Engineer at Intel Corporation |
 Scott M. Lindauer | Flow-stabilized Solids: From Colloids to Bacteria. | 29-May-2019 | Ph.D. (Daniels/Riehn) | Senior Associate Software Developer at SAS |
Pengyu Hao | Single Molecule Study of DNA Mismatch Repair. | 21-Mar-2019 | Ph.D. (Weninger) | Senior Scientist at Early is Good |
 Feng Pan | Structure, Stability, and Dynamics of Select DNA and RNA Double Helices: Trinucleotide Repeats and Ion Distributions. | 03-Nov-2017 | Ph.D. (Sagui/Roland) | Associate Director of Data Science at Insilicom |
 Kory Kevin Green | Single Particle Investigations of the Photophysics and Applications of Upconversion Nanoparticles. | 28-Oct-2016 | Ph.D. (Lim) | Hardware Engineer at Meta |
 Yuan Zhang | Structural Characterization of Various Peptides and Nucleotides Associated with Neurodegenerative Diseases. | 18-Oct-2016 | Ph.D. (Sagui/Roland) | Chief Scientist of R&D at Insilicom |
 Preston James Countryman | Single-Molecule Studies of Sequence and Structure Dependent DNA Binding by SA1 and SA2. | 21-Jun-2016 | Ph.D. (Wang) | Data Scientist at Buffalo Business Solutions LLC |
 Zubair Azad | Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Nanoconfined DNA. | 21-Mar-2016 | Ph.D. (Riehn) | Project Fellow at World Economic Forum |
 Yan Li | First-principles Investigations of Enzymatic Function, Molecular Sensors and Electrical Monitoring of DNA Replication. | 10-Mar-2016 | Ph.D. (Bernholc) | Wells Fargo Securities |
Maedeh Heidarpourroushan (a.k.a. Maedeh Roshan) | Dynamics of DNA Looping in Nanochannels. | 28-Oct-2015 | Ph.D. (Riehn) | Senior Sales Specialist, Biologics Characterization at Revvity |
Stephen Lee Strickland | Surfactant Dynamics: Spreading and Wave Induced Dynamics of a Monolayer. | 07-May-2015 | Ph.D. (Daniels) | Samford University |
Tianchi Chen | Free Energy and Structural Characteristics of Proline-rich Peptides with Distributed Multiple Guests. | 25-Mar-2014 | M.Sc. (Roland/Sagui) | Senior Decision Scientist at Merck |
 Bikan Tan | First-principles Studies of Conformation and Solution Effects on DNA Transport. | 28 Feb 2014 | Ph.D. (Bernholc) | Software Development Engineer in Test at MicroStrategy |
Alena Karpusenka | Physics and Application of Nanofluidic Systems. | 12-Mar-2013 | Ph.D. (Riehn) | VitalSource and William Peace University |
Ling Li | Spectroscopic Enhancement Utilizing Nanoscale Metallic Structures: Bow-tie Antenna and Shell Cavity. | 07-Feb-2013 | Ph.D. (Hallen/Riehn) | |
Chunda Zhou | DNA Manipulation in Microfluidic Devices. | 16-Jul-2012 | Ph.D. (Riehn) | Manager at Reexen Technology |
 Ruoyi Qiu | Dynamics of DNA Mismatch Repair Initiation Complexes Revealed by Single Molecule Fluorescence. | 17-Oct-2012 | Ph.D. (Weninger) | Basic Life Research Scientist at Stanford University School of Medicine |
Vadzim Karpusenka | Free Energy and Structure of Helix-forming Peptides: A Theoretical Investigation. | 04-Nov-2011 | Ph.D. (Sagui/Roland) | Intel Corporation |
 Mahmoud Moradi | Free Energies, Transition Mechanisms, and Structural Characteristics of Proline-Rich Peptides. | 15-Mar-2011 | PhD (Roland/Sagui) | Bruker Analytical Science Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Bruker Analytical Science Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at University of Arkansas |
 John Sakon | Detecting the Conformation of Individual Proteins in Live Cells using Single Molecule Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer. | 02-Nov-2010 | Ph.D. (Weninger) | Project Scientist at UCLA Department of Neurosurgery |
 Ucheor B. Choi (a.k.a Brandon Choi) | Single molecule fluorescence reveals dynamic structures of SNARE protein assemblies. | 16-Jul-2010 | Ph.D. (Weninger) | Staff Scientist at Quantum-Si |
 Laura Wessels | A fluorescence microscopy study of the dynamics of low-pH triggered Membrane Fusion. | 15-Apr-2009 | PhD (Weninger) | Asst. Professor at Xavier University |
 Diana Elisabeth Streng | The Nanofluidic Analysis of Chromatin. | 16-Jul-2009 | M.sc. (Riehn) | Associate Director Statistical Programming at BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc |
 Wor Thongthai | Effects of Photobleaching on Membrane Fusion and Infectivity of Dye Labeled Sindbis Virus. | 21-Jul-2008 | M.sc. (Weninger) | Software Developer at SAS |
