People
Principal Investigator
Jonathan Rochford, Ph. D., Assistant Professor, 2009 - present
Prof. Rochford earned his B.Sc. in Pure and Applied Chemistry with first class honors at the School of Chemical Sciences, Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland in 2000. He continued his studies at DCU where in 2005, under the supervision of Dr. Mary T. Pryce, he completed his Ph.D. titled "Steady state and laser flash photolysis studies of ferrocenyl group VI Fischer carbenes and metalloporphyrins". Subsequently, Prof. Rochford spent two years as a Postdoctoral Associate in the research group of Prof. Elena Galoppini at Rutgers University investigating molecule-semiconductor interfaces in dye-sensitized solar cells. In 2007 Prof. Rochford joined the Thermal, Photo- and Radiation-Induced Reactions in Condensed Media program at Brookhaven National Laboratory as a Research Associate where, under the supervision of Dr. Etsuko Fujita, he investigated proton-coupled electron transfer reactions of transition metal catalysts for application in water oxidation catalysis.
Postdoctoral Associates
| Seema Bag | Fall 2012 - present | Photoacoustic contrast agents |
Graduate Students
| Liangcheng Dong (Piccolo) | Fall 2012 - present | p-type electrode fabrication |
| Tue (Ken) Ngo | Fall 2012 - present | PCET and water oxidation catalysis |
| Stephanie Bellinger-Buckley | Summer 2012 - present | Non-innocent ligands for DSSC applications |
| Helen Cuiyun Zhao | Fall 2011 - present | DSSCs & Photocatalyst design for CO2 reduction |
Undergraduate Students
| Daniel Kossila | Summer 2012 - present | TiO2/NiO sensitization |
| Sashari Pinnace (McNair fellow) | Fall 2011 - present | Non-innocent ligand design |
| Barbara Mello | Fall 2010 - present | Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction |
Former Lab Members (current position)
| Danielle Robinson | Fall 2011 - Fall 2012 | Photoacoustic probe synthesis (Pre-Med) |
| Joseph P. Harney | Spring 2010 - Spring 2012 | Ruthenium polypyridyl and porphyrin dye design and analysis for DSSCs (Adjunct, Wentworth Institute of Tech.) |
| Hara P. Chowdhury | Fall 2010 - Spring 2011 | Synthesis and electrochemistry of Re(I) CO2 reduction catalysts (employee at Shire Pharmaceuticals) |
| Chibueze Nwokeji | Summer 2010 | p-NiO electrode fabrication (undergraduate, Dept. of Engineering, UMass Amherst) |
Collaborators
| David C. Grills | (Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY) |
| Massimiliano Lamberto | (Monmounth University, NJ) |
| Ming-Kang Tsai | (National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei) |
| Chandra Yelleswarapu | (Department of Physics, UMass Boston) |