Drew Bernhard is a student at Great Oak High School (class of 2017). He will participate in the summer school from June 8 to Sept 18.
Brian Bliss is a UCSD undergraduate Chemical Engineering major (Revelle, Class of 2017). His project focus is on high capacity energy storage using porous silicon. His mentor is David Roberts. He will participate in the summer school from June 30 to Sept 18.
Project A: "Oxide-modified Porous Silicon"
email
Alice Boarino is a second year student of Chemistry at Turin University. She will participate in the summer school from July 20 to August 27.
Yonit Bussi is a PhD student in the Norman Seiden International Multidisciplinary Graduate program in Nanoscience & Nanotechnology at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, working under the direction of Ester Segal. Her research focuses on responsive hybrid systems based on porous Si. She will participate in the summer school from July 6 to August 21.
Project K: "Photoluminescence in pH-Responsive Porous Silicon Hybrids"
email
Chengcheng Fang is an incoming Ph.D. student in the UCSD Materials Science and Engineering program. She recieved her B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Zhejiang University, China and her M.Phil. from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, working on Si-based nanocomposite materials for lithium ion batteries. She will participate in the summer school from mid-July to September.
Project F: "Oxidation of Porous Si for Drug Delivery"
email
Gaby Garcia is a first year PhD student in the Science and Engineering Materials Graduate program at Autonomous University of San Luis Potosi, Mexico; her thesis involves the study of optoelectronic and mechanical interactions between live cells and nanostructured materials (carbon nanotubes and porous Si), under direction of Prof. Gabriela Palestino. She will participate in the summer school from July 1 to August 28.
Project O: "Enhancement and Stabilization of Porous Silicon Photoluminescence"
email
Hankyeol Jung is an incoming PhD student in the MSE Department. She received her BS and MS in Materials Science and Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Her MS graduate research work with Prof. Duk Young Jeon focused on photo-induced charge transfer between CuInS2 quantum dots and graphene and its application to photodetectors.
Project K: "Photoluminescence in pH-Responsive Porous Silicon Hybrids"
email
Anthony Kang is a high school sophomore at Canyon Crest Academy (Class of 2017). He will participate in the summer school starting June 8.
Project H: "Dissolution rate of oxidized Porous Si"
email
Byungji (BJ) Kim is a Ph.D. student in the UCSD Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) program, who joined the group in Fall 2014. She received her B.S.E in Materials Science and Engineering from University of Michigan- Ann Arbor, and her M.S. in Bio and Brain Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).
Project P: "Targeted drug delivery with core-shell nanoparticles"
email
Taeho Kim is a post-doctoral researcher who joined the lab in November, 2014. He completed his Ph.D. in Chemical & Biological Engineering from Seoul National University (SNU), Korea in 2013. His Ph.D. work with Prof. Taeghwan Hyeon focused on development of functional inorganic nanoparticles for medical diagnostics and therapeutics, particularly for stem cell tracking and ischemic stroke treatment.
Project A: "Oxide-modified Porous Silicon"
email
Dokyoung Kim is a post-doctoral researcher who joined the lab in January, 2015. He completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Postech in Korea in 2014 under the direction of Prof. Kyo Han Ahn.
Project G: "Hydrosilylation to produce Si-C bonds on the porous Si surfaces"
email
Nikita Krishnan is a high school student at The Bishop’s School (class of 2018). She will participate in the summer school starting July 13.
Alex Krotz is a student at Torrey Pines High School (class of 2016). In addition to the SSSiN, Alex is an intern at NanoTecNexus where he is exploring tools to expand public awareness of nanotechnology concepts. He will participate in the summer school starting June 1.
Project B: "Maximizing Drug Loading"
email
Kaiser Pister is a UCSD undergraduate Computer Science major (Warren, Class of 2018).
Project M: "Automated SLIM"
email
Yeon Joo Rhee is a UCLA undergraduate chemical engineering major (class of 2017). She will participate in the summer school from July 6th to August 21st.
Project O: "Enhancement and Stabilization of Porous Silicon Photoluminescence"
email
Katharina Urmann is a second year PhD student in a Dual Doctorate Program between Leibniz University Hannover and the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on the integration of aptamers as novel capture probes in porous silicon optical biosensors. She will participate in the summer school from July 6th to August 21st
Project L: "Target Capture with Porous Silicon Particles"
email
Vibha Vijayakumar is a junior at San Marcos High School (Class of 2016). She will participate in the summer school from May 13th to August 21st.
Juan Ybarra received his B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT in 2012. While there he competed his senior thesis in the research group of Prof. Caroline Ross studying the self-assembly of metal-containing block copolymers as an alternative to photolithography for creating nanoscale circuits. Before joining the Sailor Group, Juan worked at Bio-Rad's Digital Biology Center in Cambridge researching and developing methods for scalable manufacturing of plastic microfluidic consumable devices used in automated genetic sequencing systems.
Project J: "Metal Assisted Etch of Silicon"
email
Bridget Zhang is attending UCSD on exchange from the University of Hong Kong. She will participate in the summer school from July 6th to August 21st.
Project D: "Polymer/Porous Silicon Nanoparticle Composites"
email
Ling Zhang is an incoming PhD student in the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department. She was an analytical chemistry major at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, and did her undergraduate research work with Prof. Jianmin Wu. Her interest is in porous silicon-based biosensors. She will participate in the summer school from July to September.