Lab Members

Professors

Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Inaugural Dr. Waenard L. Miller, Jr. ’69 and Sheila M. Miller Endowed Chair in Medical Biophysics.
Professor of Physics, Joint appointment in BioEngineering.

Email: lfinzi[at]clemson.edu

(CV) (NIH Biosketch)

Ph.D., University of Oregon,
Director of the C-Trap facility.

Email: dddunla[at]clemson.edu

Visiting Professor and Postdocs

Suleyman Ucuncuoglu
VISITING PROFESSOR
Email: sucuncu[at]clemson.edu

Ritika Gupta
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: ritikag[at]clemson.edu

Narendar Kolimi
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: nkolimi[at]clemson.edu

Graduate Students

Wesley Stine
3rd year physics graduate student
Email: wstine[at]clemson.edu

Catherine Jordan
2nd-Year PhD in Medical Biophysics
Email: cejrdn[at]clemson.edu

Md Abdul Kalam Azad
1st-Year PhD Student in Medical Biophysics
Email: mdabula[at]clemson.edu

Chandu Priya Goalla
2nd-Year Master’s Student in Computer Science
Email: cpriya[at]clemson.edu

Undergraduate Students

Killian Kirkpatrick
Junior Physics Student
Email: kkirkpa[at]clemson.edu

Alumni

Graduate Students and Postdocs

Jin Qian
Graduate Student 2018-2024
Now Postdoctoral Fellow in Quan Wang’s group, NIDDK (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
j8qian[at]gmail.com

Dylan Collette
Graduate student and Postdoctoral Fellow 2020-2023
Now a faculty at Oglethorpe University
dcollette[at]oglethorpe.com

Derrica McCalla
Lab Technician 2019-2021
Now a medical student at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
derrica.mccalla[at]gmail.com

Wenxuan Xu
Graduate student 2016-2021
Now a Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Hongxia Fu’s lab at the University of Washington
wuxu73[at]uw.edu

Eugene Ostrofet
Postdoctoral Fellow 2020-2021
Now Customer Success Scientist for acoustic force spectroscopy (AFS) with Lumicks Inc. in Amsterdam, NL
eugeniu.ostrofet[at]emory.edu

Josh Mendez
Postdoctoral Fellow 2019-2020
Now Director, Sensors for Extreme Environments Lab at the University of Oregon
jmendez7[at]uoregon.edumendez

Yan Yan
Graduate student 2013-2018
Postdoctoral Fellow 2018-2019
Now a Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Peng Yin’s lab at Harvard University
yanyanyy77[at]gmail.com

Daniel Kovari
Postdoctoral Fellow 2014-2019
Now Process Development Engineer in Abbott Atlanta
dkovari[at]gmail.com

Zsuzsanna Voros
Visiting Scholar 2015-2018
zsuzsanna.voros[at]emory.edu

Roberto Ortiz
Rotation Student 2015-2016
roberto.daniel.ortiz[at]emory.edu

Sandip Kumar
Postdoctoral Fellow 2014
Now in the department of biochemistry in the University of Oxford: Oxford, Oxfordshire, GB
sandip[at]udel.edu

Yue Ding
Graduate Student 2008-2014
Now at Pacific Biosciences,CA
ydingemory[at]gmail.com

Emrah Simsek
Graduate Student
Fall Rotation 2013
emrah.simsek[at]emory.edu

Diane Wiener
Postdoctoral Fellow 2012-2013
Sr. R&D Engineer, Bioengineering at Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
dianemariewiener[at]gmail.com

Monica Fernandez Sierra
Postdoctoral Fellow 2011-2013
Now senior Scientific Director at Vaniam Group, Articulate Science
monica.fersier[at]gmail.com

Shengming Zhang
Rotation Student 2012-2013
Now at Dept. of Physics, University of Georgia

Ning Gao
Postdoctoral Fellow 2011-2012
Now Postdoctoral Fellow at Dept. of Surgery, Emory University
ning.gao[at]emory.edu

Haowei Wang
Graduate Student 2005-2011, Postdoctoral Fellow 2011-2012
Now Associate Professor at Dept. of Optics,
University of Science and Technology of China
haowei.wang[at]gmail.com

Sachin Goyal
Postdoctoral Fellow 2010-2011
Now Assistant Professor at Dept. of Mechanical Eng.,
University of California at Merced
sgoyal2[at]ucmerced.edu

Qing Shao
Graduate Student 2005-2011 and PRISM fellow 2009-2011
Now Associate Professor at Georgia Gwinnett College
qshao[at]ggc.edu

Neslihan Ucuncuoglu
Graduate Student
Summer Rotation 2010

Chiara Zurla
Undergraduate, Graduate Student, and Postdoctoral Fellow
2001-2008
Now at Emory, Department of Biomed Eng.
chiara.zurla[at]emory.edu

Carlo Manzo
Postdoctoral Fellow 2006-2008
Now Associate Professor at Universitat de Vic Universitat Central de Catalunya, Spain
carlo.manzo[at]icfo.es