Alumni

Graduate Alumni

Graduate Students

Kathy Nickson

Credentials: PhD

Stony Brook University, BS, 2018
UW Madison, PhD, 2024
Thesis: Developing Automated Spectral Assignment Programs for Cryogenic Ion Vibrational Spectroscopy

Gina Roesch

Credentials: PhD

Indiana University at Bloomington, BS, 2018
UW Madison, PhD, 2023
Thesis: Innovation in Mass Spectrometry Instrumentation for Applications in Cryogenic Ion Vibrational Spectroscopy
Current: Research Scientist in the Nonstructural Materials Division at the University of Dayton Research Institute

Cole Sagan

Credentials: PhD

St. John’s University, BS, 2017
UW Madison, PhD, 2023
Thesis: Total Photoelectron Yield Spectroscopy
Makes Model Systems of Polycyclic
Aromatic Hydrocarbon Anion Resonances
Current: Princeton Dept of Chemistry, Postdoc (with Prof. Marissa Weichman)

Summer Sherman

Credentials: PhD

University of California, San Diego, BS, 2017
UW Madison, PhD, 2022
Thesis: Utilizing Cryogenic Ion Vibrational Spectroscopy to Investigate How Side Chains Affect Structure and Solvation of Small Peptides
Current: Operations Analyst at Clean Water Services, Department of Research and Innovations, Hillsboro, OR

Casey Howdieshell

Credentials: PhD

Eastern Kentucky University, BS, 2014
Eastern Kentucky University, MS, 2015
UW Madison, PhD, 2021

Thesis: Linear Digital Ion Trap Mass Spectrometry and its Application for Cryogenic Ion Spectroscopy
Current: Integration Engineer/Team Lead at Erisyon in Austin, Texas

Kaitlyn Fischer

Credentials: PhD

Creighton University, BS, 2015
UW Madison, PhD, 2019
Thesis: Using Cryogenic Ion Vibrational Spectroscopy to Investigate the Microsolvation of Amino Acids and Small Peptides
Current: Physician Assistant in Pittsburgh, PA

Glen Thurston

Credentials: PhD

Brigham Young University, BS, 2014
UW Madison, PhD, 2019
Thesis: Investigating a-Oligothiophenes of Chain Lengths 3 to 5 Using Anion Photoelectron Spectroscopy 
Current: Brigham Young University Law

Steve Kregel

Credentials: PhD

University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, BS with distinction, 2013
UW Madison, PhD, 2018
Thesis: Construction of an Anion Photoelectron Spectrometer for Investigating Singlet Fission in Molecular Clusters
Current: Assistant Professor at Bradley University

Jonathan Voss

Credentials: PhD

University of New Haven, BS, 2013
UW Madison, PhD, 2018
Thesis: Developing Cryogenic Ion Vibrational Spectroscopy Methods for the Characterization of Molecular Interactions
Current: Research chemist at Johns Manville

Erin Duffy

Credentials: PhD

Syracuse University, BS, 2012
UW Madison, PhD, 2017
Thesis: A Ruthenium Water Oxidation Catalyst and Intermediates: Vibrational Spectroscopy of Isolated and Solvated Cryogenic Ions
Michigan State University, Postdoc (with Prof. Melanie Cooper)
Current: Assistant Professor at Western Washington University

Brett Marsh

Credentials: PhD

Purdue University, BS, 2011
UW Madison, PhD, 2015
Thesis: Cryogenic Ion Vibrational Spectroscopy of Metal Complexes: Solvation and Reactions
UC Berkeley, Postdoc (with Prof. Steve Leone)

Current: Analytical Chemist at Corteva Agriscience

Postdocs

Katharina Meyer

Email: kmeyer29@wisc.edu

B.S. (2013): Georg-August-Universitat Göttingen
M.S. (2016): Georg-August-Universitat Göttingen
Ph.D. (2019): Georg-August-Universitat Göttingen
Thesis: Carboxylic Acids under Vibrational Scrutiny: Experimental Reference Data to Benchmark Quantum Chemical Calculations
Advisor: Prof. Martin Suhm
Current: Development engineer in measurement technology at Sick AG

Undergraduate Alumni

Christina McNerney

UW Madison, BS, 2018
Current: The Johns Hopkins University (PhD expected 2024)

Mike Soukup

UW Madison, BS, 2016

Awards:
2014: ACS Wisconsin Section Award for Excellence in Analytical Chemistry

Matthew Weis

UW Madison, BS, 2012