Recent Graduate Spotlight: Congratulations to Dr. Victor Barbosa! Next stop > Tokyo Electron Limited!
I graduated from University of North Florida with a B.S. in Chemistry in 2018. During two years of my undergrad career, I had the opportunity to work with Dr. Michael Lufaso. Our research was focused on the synthesis and characterization of rare-earth substituted Aurivilius type structures. My focus on the Woodward group is to synthesize, characterize, and investigate the magnetic properties of various double perovskite oxides, especially the ones containing 5d metals. In addition, we have recently been developing high-quality perovskite target materials for the growth of magnetic thin films.
Email: dacruzpinhabarbosa.1@osu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-4331-5216
Graduate Students:
Becky Haight
I graduated from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2019 with a B.S. in Chemistry. My undergraduate research under Dr. Thomas Rauchfuss involved synthesizing iron- and ruthenium-based active sites of hydrogenase compounds. After developing an interest in solid-state materials, I came to The Ohio State University to work under Dr. Woodward in 2019. I currently work on manipulating ground state magnetism in thin-film perovskite materials through epitaxial strain.
Haight.22@osu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-3971-2967
Joe Race
I graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Chemistry in 2018. During my undergrad, I conducted research under Dr. Scott Williams working on various inorganic materials. I’m excited to continue my research at The Ohio State University in the Woodward Group, working on perovskites.
Email: race.33@osu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-8551-3627
Alex Milder
I graduated from Haverford College in 2018 with a B.S. in Chemistry. Throughout my undergraduate career, I studied organically templated inorganic materials and worked on the Dark Reactions Project, a machine learning approach to materials discovery, with Dr. Alex Norquist. Since joining the Woodward group in 2019, I have been researching new data-driven approaches to the discovery of novel ferroelectric perovskites.
Email: milder.3@osu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-3143-1482
Emma Pollock
Hi, I’m Emma! I came to Ohio State in August of 2020 after graduating from Westminster College (PA) with a B.S in Chemistry. While there, I worked with Dr. Pete Smith on a variety of projects including rare earth element extractions from deep eutectic solvents and synthesis of 1D coordination polymer catalysts. I also spent some time at the Idaho National Lab, where I worked under Dr. Mary Case on chemical-mediated rare earth metallization. I joined the Woodward lab in December of 2020 and am excited to be working with perovskite oxides.
Email: pollock.339@osu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0001-9840-7631
Cierra Foster
I graduated from Oklahoma City University in 2021 with a B.S. in Chemistry and Mathematics. During my undergraduate, I worked on the mechanical buckling of elastomers for improved adaptive materials. I joined the Woodward lab in December 2021 and I am happy to be working with hexagonal perovskite oxides.
Email: foster.1400@osu.edu
David Liu
Hi, I am David Liu. I graduated from the Ohio State University with a B.S. in Biochemistry in 2020. Throughout my undergrad, I worked with Dr. Patrick Woodward on the photoluminescence of halide perovskites. In the Fall of 2021, I decided to continue my academic pursuits in the Woodward Lab. My research is driven by the desire for a more environmentally conscious and sustainable future. As a result, I am also a member of the NSF EmPOWERment program at Ohio State under the mentorship of Dr. Anne Co: to supplement my research with energy field related policies.
Email: liu.6002@osu.edu
Ye Wang
I graduated from the Ohio State University with a B.S. degree in Chemistry. During my undergraduate studies, I worked in Dr. Woodward’s group on double perovskites and photoluminescence of the hydrated phase derivatives of perovskites. I continued my study in this group in 2022 as a graduate student and I am currently focusing on metal oxyfluorides and RP phase perovskites.
Email: wang.11573@osu.edu
Undergraduate(s)
Brendan Beck