MEMBERS
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
L. Robert Baker
PhD: University of California, Berkeley, 2012 Office: Newman Wolfrom 2110
BS: Brigham Young University, 2007 Phone: 614 - 292 - 2088
Email: baker.2364@osu.edu
BUSINESS OPERATIONS
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS
Tomaz Neves Garcia
Joined: August 2024
BS: Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil & University of Bristol, U.K., 2015
MS: Universidad de Valladolid, Spain, 2017
PhD: The Ohio State University, 2024
Research Area: Catalysis and Surfaces
Ratnadip De
Joined: February 2025
BS: B.Sc: St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, 2016
M.Sc: IISER Kolkata, 2019
Ph.D.: Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena and Leibniz IPHT Jena, 2024
Research Area: Ultrafast spectroscopy on surface and interfaces of heterostructures
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Jaclyn Rebstock
Joined: January 2021
MS: The College of William and Mary, 2020
BS: Minnesota State University, 2015
Allen Partin
Joined: January 2022
BS: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2021
Subhajit Das
Joined: January 2023
MS: Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India, 2020
BS: University of Calcutta, India, 2018
Research Interest: Photoelectrocatalysis / Spectroscopy
Emma Schell
Joined: January 2024
BA: College of Wooster, 2023
Research Area: Plasmonic Nanoparticles
Anshuman Samanta
Joined: January 2024
BSc: Vidyasagar University, 2021
MSc: Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT Bombay), 2023
Research Area: Sum Frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy
Piyush Anil Kumar Sharma
Joined: January 2024
BS/MS: National Institute of Technology Surat/Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, 2023
Research Area: Synthesis of Nanomaterials and Spectroscopy
Tithi Lai
Joined: January 2024
Integrated BS-MS: Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata, India
Research area: Nano-catalytic CO2 reduction
Tina Ko
Joined: January 2025
BS: National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan, 2014
MS: National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan, 2020
Soumyadeep Saha
Joined: January 2025
Integrated BS/MS: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Berhampur, India
Research Interest: Spectroscopy/Electrocatalysis
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS
ALUMNI
Former Graduate Students
- Tomaz Neves-Garcia (08/2021-08/2024)
Current Position: Postdoc with Robert Baker at The Ohio State University - Harshad Gajapathy (01/2020-08/2024)
Current Position: Postdoc at Los Alamos National Lab - Ananya Patnaik (01/2020-08/2024)
Current Position: Intel - Quansong (Sam) Zhu (01/2020-06/2024)
Current Position: Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment - Emily Hruska (01/2019 - 06/2023)
Current Position: Postdoc with Dr. Birgitta Schultze-Bernhardt at TU Graz, Austria - Savini Bandaranayake (01/2018 - 12/2022)
Current Position: Postdoc with Dr. Krupa Ramasesha at Sandia National Lab - Sam Johnson (01/2021 - 06/2022)
EPA Office of Transportation and Air Quality, Assessment and Standards Division - Stephen Londo (01/2017 - 12/2021)
Current Position: Postdoc with Professor Légaré at INRS, Québec, Canada - Hongyu (Amy) Shang (01/2017 - 09/2021)
Current Position: Secondary School Affiliated to Renmin University of China - Spencer Wallentine (01/2017 - 05/2021)
Current Position: STAR Dynamics Corporation - Somnath Biswas (01/2016 - 05/2020)
Current Position: Postdoc, University of Washington - Elizabeth Fugate (01/2015 - 12/2019)
Current Position: Postdoc with Professor Personick at Wesleyan, CT - Yutichai Mueanngern (01/2015 - 12/2019)
Current Position: Postdoc with Professor Jeong Young Park at KAIS - Jakub Husek (01/2015 - 05/2019)
Current Position: Intel
Former Postdocs
- Dr. Conner Dykstra (01/2024 - 12/2024)
Current Position: Research Scientist at NeXUS Facility at OSU - Dr. Adam Jenkins (10/2023 - 12/2024)
Current Position: Laser Scientist at Stony Brook University
- Dr. Ganghua Deng (09/2020 - 08/2022)
Current Position: Associate Professor at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications - Dr. Xin Yang (11/2014 - 01/2018)
Current Position: Postdoc with Professor Shiyu Zhang at OSU
Dr. Anthony Cirri (07/2016 - 08/2017)
Current Position: Postdoc at Stony Brook University
Former Researchers
- Max Buskirk (05/2024-08/2024) - Graduate Researcher
- Katrina Sumarli (05/2024-08/2024) - Undergraduate Researcher
- Mallaki Dishmon (05/2024-08/2024) - Undergraduate Researcher
- Ethan Crane (05/2023-08/2023) - Undergraduate Researcher
- Emily Baschab (05/2022 - 07/2022) - REU Undergraduate Researcher
- Meiling Spelic (06/2019 - 05/2022) - Undergraduate Researcher
Current Position: Graduate student at Georgetown University - Runiya Juni Dasgupta (06/2019 - 08/2019) - Undergraduate Researcher
Current Position: US Consumer Product Safety Commission - Emma Montgomery (06/2018 - 12/2018) - Undergraduate Researcher
Current Position: Graduate student in Pharmaceutical Sciences at OSU - Nathan Pimental (06/2018 - 12/2018) - Undergraduate Researcher
- Mathew Clement (06/2018 - 12/2018) - Undergraduate Researcher
- Scott Garner (05/2017 - 05/2018) - Undergraduate Researcher
Current Position: Postdoc at Princeton University - Skylar Ware (09/2016 - 07/2018) - Undergraduate Researcher
Current Position: Graduate student at Cal Tech - Josh Graham (03/2017 - 06/2018) - Undergraduate Researcher
Current Position: Masters of Education student at OSU - Allen Zhu (Summer '15,'16) - High School Intern
Current Position: Undergraduate student at Emory - Kyle Mincheff (02/2016 - 06/2016) - Undergraduate Researcher
- Quinn Baker (11/2014 - 08/2015) - Research Assistant
Current Position: Radiology Fellow, Mayo Clinic