Current Members

LABORATORY MANAGER

Joseph A. (Joe) Schomaker

Email: jaschomaker@wisc.edu

Address:
Joseph A. (Joe) Schomaker received his Ph.D. in Physical Organic/Polymer Chemistry under the direction of Prof. Laren Tolbert at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He retired after a 30-year industrial career that included stints at Dow Chemical, DowPharma, Applied Biosystems, EraGen Biosciences, and Spectrum Brands. Joe also devoted several years to teaching General and Organic Chemistry as an adjunct faculty member at Saginaw Valley State University and Diablo Valley College. He is currently an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Chemistry and is helping the Schomaker Group as Lab Manager, much to Jen’s delight.

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Olivia Duke

Email: oduke@wisc.edu

Joined In: 2022

B.S. University of Delaware

ORCID ID

Bob (Yun) Hu

Email: hu346@wisc.edu

Joined In: 2018

B.A. College of the Holy Cross

ORCID ID

Derek Hu

Email: dbhu@wisc.edu

Joined In: 2022

B.S. University of California Berkeley

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Jed Kim

Email: jhkim45@wisc.edu

Joined in: 2020

B.S. University of Southern California

Ken Lee

Email: lee766@wisc.edu

Joined in: 2020

B.S. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

ORCID ID

Chenxi Lin

Email: clin397@wisc.edu

Joined In: 2022

B.A. Barnard College

Elijah Marris

Email: emarris@wisc.edu

Joined In: 2022

B.S Hamilton College

Sierra Thein

Email: sthein@wisc.edu

Joined In: 2023

B.S. Ripon College

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Tuan Anh (Anh) Trinh

Email: trinh4@wisc.edu

Joined in: 2020

B.S.: Nagoya University

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POSTDOCTORAL SCIENTISTS

Daniel da Silveira Rampon

Position title: Ph.D.

Email: dasilveirara@wisc.edu

Phone: 

Joined in: 2023

B.S., 2007 in Chemical Engineering at Lutheran University of Brazil

Ph.D., 2013 in Chemistry at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

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Zhen-Yao Dai

Position title: Ph.D.

Email: zdai62@wisc.edu

Joined In: 2023

B.S., 2017 in Material Chemistry at Chongqing University

Ph.D., 2022 in Organic Chemistry at  University of Science and Technology of China

MASTER STUDENTS

Jacob Kailing

Email: jkailing@wisc.edu

B.S. 2021 University of Wisconsin, Lacrosse

Joined: 2022

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VISITING STUDENTS

Federico Barbieri

Email: fbarbieri@wisc.edu

Joined: 2023

Ph.D. Student at University of Pavia, Italy

B.S. University of Pavia, Italy