People

Prof. Gangli Wang, PI

• BS/MS, 1996/1999, Peking Univ.
• PhD, 2004, Univ. North Carolina at Chapel Hill (w/ Royce Murray)
• Postdoc, 2007, Univ. Utah (w/ Henry White)
• Faculty, GSU chemistry since 2007

Warren Brown – I obtained my BS, MS and PhD degrees in chemistry at Georgia State University under the guidance of Dr. Gangli Wang. I am now working as a Postdoc in his lab on simulation and experiments on nanotransport projects for energy and separation.

Swagatika Kamila –I received my PhD from the CSIR-Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar, India. I was working on graphene/pseudo-capacitive hybrid electrode materials for supercapacitor applications. Then I joined as a postdoc at Georgia State University, under the supervision of Dr. Gangli Wang. Here, I focused my research on asymmetry shape nano-channels carbon membrane for blue energy harvesting application.

Sydney Howard – I am an undergraduate student supported by MARC fellowship (Maximizing Access to Research Careers). My research is the nanotransport experiments and controlled nucleation and crystal growth.  

Emmanuel Balogun – I am a Senior major in chemistry learning electrokinetic transport through single conical nanopipettes for energy harvesting and separation applications.  

Hedi Ma – I earned my bachelor’s in materials chemistry (2014) at South Central University for Nationalities in China, then I started my Master-Ph.D. study (2016-2017) at Georgia State University from now on. My major is focusing on the synthesis and electro-optical features of atomically precise metal nanoclusters.

Ruoyu Yang – I’m a PhD student focusing on crystallization of macromolecules through a nanopipette. I obtained my BS degree in biology at GSU (2016-2018) and SWJTU (in China, 2014-2016).

Michael Messinger – I am a Ph.D. student with research interests in metal nanoclusters and nanopipette electrochemistry crystallization. I earned my B.S. (’15) and M.S. (’16) in chemistry from Georgia State University and worked as a chemistry instructor at Georgia State University Perimeter College (2016-2018). I plan to re-enter academia upon completion of my Ph.D. program.

Dipak Baram – A doctoral student at GSU, Department of Chemistry. My study focuses on the Modification of Alumina and Silica nanopore by using polymers/ionophores/chelators to enhance nanochannel permselectivity. Before joining GSU, I earned my Bachelor’s degree in chemistry (in 2012) and Master’s degree in physical chemistry (in 2016) from Tri-Chandra Campus, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. I have researched on synthesis of hydroxyapatite nanoparticle and their composite with degradable polymer as part of MS thesis. I’ve taught High School Chemistry courses from 2017 to 2019.

Sarah Atke – I graduated from Kennesaw State University in 2018 with my Bachelor’s in chemistry. I am currently pursuing my PhD at Georgia State University under the advisement of Dr. Gangli Wang. My current research involves working with the Nanotransport team and performing computational simulations to verify experimental results.

Yusuff Balogun – I obtained B.Tech in Chemistry Education from Federal University of Technology,Minna (Nigeria) in 2018. I am master student working on ion transport in nanopipette.

A recent NSF REU student, Roosevon Lee, won the top poster award at the GSU summer research conference for undergraduate students (several programs jointly) in 2019! Her work is on “nanotransport-controlled nucleation and crystal growth” under the mentoring of graduate student Ruoyu Yang (on the right). Congrats to both!