People – Welcome to the Schoop Lab

	Leslie Schoop, Ph.D (she/her) Associate Professor of Chemistry CV Ph.D. in Chemistry, Princeton University Diploma in Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz Room: Frick 393 Phone: 609-258-9390 Email: lschoop@princeton.edu Leslie received her training in Germany and the United States. She enjoyed the diversity of education philosophies. Thus, she is looking forward to working with students and postdocs from different backgrounds. When not conducting research, she likes to engage in outdoor activities and has fallen in love with the U.S. national parks.
	Kimberly Bitterman (she/her) Faculty Assistant Room: Frick 128 Phone: 609-258-3674 Email: kbitterman@princeton.edu

Postdocs

	Ratnadwip Singha, Ph.D. (he/him) Postdoctoral Research Associate rsingha@princeton.edu Frick 354 Ph.D. Condensed Matter Physics Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 2019.
	Fang Yuan, Ph.D. (she/her) Postdoctoral Research Associate fy6@princeton.edu Frick 354
	Jason Khoury, Ph.D. (he/him) Postdoctoral Research Associate jfkhoury@princeton.edu Frick 354 B.S. the Ohio State University, 2015 Ph.D. Northwestern University, 2020
	Milena Jovanovic, Ph.D (she/her) Postdoctoral Research Associate milenaj@princeton.edu Frick 391 B.S. University of Belgrade Ph.D. University of Colorado Boulder
	Nitish Mathur, Ph.D. (he/him) Postdoctoral Research Associate nm8200@princeton.edu Frick 391 Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2021. Nitish’s current research focuses on the magnetic and optical property measurements of 2D van der Waals materials.
	Grigorii Skorupskii, Ph.D. (he/him) Postdoctoral Research Associate gs1514@princeton.edu Frick 391 B.Sc. Moscow State University, 2015 Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021
	Tanya Berry (she/her) Postdoctoral Research Associate tberry@princeton.edu Frick 391 Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University
	Jiaze Xie (he/him) Postdoctoral Research Associate jx3731@princeton.edu Frick 391 Ph.D. University of Chicago

Fifth Year Graduate Students

Tyger Salters (they/them, she/her)
Graduate Student
tsalters@princeton.edu
Frick 354
B.S. in Chemistry, Stony Brook University, 2018
Tyger’s current research focuses on the synthesis of new magnetic topological materials and their complex crystallography using synchrotron x-ray and neutron scattering techniques.

Fourth Year Graduate Students

	Joseph Stiles (he/him) Graduate Student jwstiles@princeton.edu Frick 354 B.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of Southern California
	Grace Villalpando (she/her) Graduate Student gvv@Princeton.EDU Frick 354 B.S. in Chemistry, Texas A&M University

Third Year Graduate Students

	Brianna Hoff (she/her) Graduate Student bhoff@princeton.edu Frick 354 B.S. from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell
	Mulan Yang (she/her) Graduate Student mulany@princeton.edu Frick 354 B.S. in Chemistry at Northeastern University
	Scott Lee (he/him) Graduate Student scottbl@princeton.edu Frick 391 B.S. in Materials Science & Engineering, double major in Chemistry, University of Wisconsin – Madison

Second Year Graduate Students

Connor Pollak (he/him)
Graduate Student
connorpollak@princeton.edu
Frick 391
B.S. in Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley
Favorite Band: Stereolab
Favorite Book: Siddartha
Favorite Rock: Granite

First Year Graduate Students

Kimberly Ventura-Martinez (she/her)
Graduate Student
kv8435@princeton.edu
Frick 354
B.S. in Chemistry, Drexel University

Undergraduate Students

André Koch Liston (he/they)
Undergraduate Student
koch.liston@princeton.edu
Frick 354
Chemistry Major, Class of 2023
Certificates in Materials Science & Engineering and Optimization & Quantitative Decision Science

Alumni

Kirstine Dalgaard, Ph.D (she/her)
Postdoctoral Research Associate
dalgaard@princeton.edu
M.Sc., Nanoscience, Aarhus University, Denmark
Ph.D., Nanoscience, Aarhus University, Denmark

	Robert Kirby (he/him) Graduate Student rjkirby@princeton.edu B.Sc. in Chemistry, McGill University M.Sc. in Chemistry, the University of Toronto. Robert is using ultrafast spectroscopy to study how optically-excited electrons behave around the Dirac point in topological semimetals on ultrashort timescales
	Xiaoyu Song (she/her) Graduate Student xiaoyus@princeton.edu B.Sc., Nanjing University, P.R. China. Xiaoyu’s current research interest is magnetic 2D nanosheets.

	Sabrina Sequeira Undergraduate Alumna sgs4@princeton.edu Chemistry Major, Class of 2021
	Anna Soltys Undergraduate Alumna asoltys@princeton.edu Frick 354 Chemistry Major, Class of 2021
	Ethan Whittaker Undergraduate Alumnus ew17@princeton.edu Frick 354 Chemistry Major, Class of 2021
	Aurland Hay Visiting Undergrad Student, Summer 2019 Graduate Student, UCSB Wellesley College, Class of 2020
	Andreas Topp, Ph.D 2019 Visiting Graduate Student M.Sc., Physics, University of Stuttgart, Germany
	Shiming Lei, Ph.D Postdoctoral Research Associate Research Scientist, Rice University
	Sarah Schneider Undergraduate Alumna sarahns@princeton.edu Frick 354 Chemistry Major, Class of 2020
	Sebastian Klemenz, Ph.D Postdoctoral Research Associate Dr. rer. nat. at Eduard-Zintl-Institut for Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Technische Universität Darmstadt in 2017. Group leader at the Frauenhofer IWKS, Hanau, Germany
	Austin Ferrenti Undergraduate Alumnus, Researcher ferrenti@princeton.edu Princeton University Chemistry Major, Class of 2019
	Ashley Wilczek Undergraduate Alumna awilczek@princeton.edu Princeton University Chemistry Major, Class of 2019
	Ananya Vinayak Visiting Undergrad Student, Summer 2019 avinayak@princeton.edu Princeton University, Class of 2022
	Audrey Saltzman Visiting Undergrad Student, Summer 2019 audreysa@mit.edu MIT, Class of 2021
	Mohamed Oudah Visiting Postdoc Collaborator mohamed.oudah@ubc.ca Ph.D., Physics, Kyoto University, Japan Mohamed discovered superconductivity in the hole-doped Antiperovskite Oxide Sr_3-xSnO and studied the negative ionic state of Sn in this unusual oxide. The early part of his postdoc was focused on high-pressure synthesis of new topological phases. The focus has now shifted to identifying new topological materials within the square-net family of compounds.
	Caroline Weinberg Visiting Undergraduate Student, Summer 2018 cfw1@williams.edu Williams College Chemistry Major/Environmental Studies Minor, Class of 2019