Welcome to Satoshi Ohtsuka! Satoshi is a masters student in Chemistry who will be working on his thesis research in our group, studying the spectroscopic properties of metal nanoclusters.

Welcome to Zain Zaidi! Zain is a new freshman at SBU in Chemistry, and will be working with Arshad on a project related to photochemistry.

Welcome to Michael Rivera-Lazu! Michael is a summer student from the University of Puerto Rico. As part of IACS’s NSF-funded REU program, Michael will be working with Arshad to study excited state proton transfer.

Welcome to Pen Chang Chang! Pen in a rising senior in Chemistry and Math here at SBU. He will be doing a senior honor thesis project in our group.

Welcome to Xin Qi “Frank” Liu! Frank is a high school student from Bronx High School of Science, and will be working on a research project in collaboration with Fangchun.

Welcome to Jiří Suchan, who is visiting our group for a month. Jiří is a Ph.D. student in the Slavíček group at the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague.

Welcome to Andrew Nicoll and Ying You! Ying and Andrew are Chemistry PhD students who are beginning rotations in our research group.

The Levine group is pleased to welcome new graduate student Thomas Knoll to the group. Thomas earned his BS and MS in Chemistry at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Germany. He has done research in excited state electronic structure and dynamics with Leticia Gonzalez and Regina De Vivie-Riedle. Welcome, Thomas!

The Levine group is very pleased to welcome new postdoc Alex Teplukhin to the group. Alex earned his PhD at Marquette University working with Dmitri Babakov. He joins us after doing a postdoc at Los Alamos with Brian Kendrick. Welcome, Alex!

We are very excited to welcome Kenneth Berard, a Chemistry graduate student, to the group! Kenneth completed BS in Chemistry at University of Rhode Island (with minors in Physics and Math). Welcome aboard, Kenneth!