Brozek Research Group

Current Group Members

Carl K. Brozek

Principal Investigator
WRF Innovation Postdoctoral Fellow,
University of Washington (D. R. Gamelin), 2015-2018
Ph.D., MIT (M. Dincă), 2015
S.B., University of Chicago (G. L. Hillhouse), 2010

Honors and Awards
NSF CAREER Award (2024)
Dream Chemistry Award (2022)
Cottrell Scholar Award (2022)
ACS DIC Young Investigator Award (2016)
Davison Thesis Award, MIT (2015)
Washington Research Foundation Innovation Fellow in Clean Energy (2015)
NSF Graduate Research Fellow (2011-2014)
Beckman Scholars Program Fellow (2007-2009)

C.V.
Office: LISB 434
Phone: 541-346-0146
Email: cbrozek@uoregon.edu

Postdocs

Jiawei Huang

Postdoctoral Scholar
Ph.D., University of Florida (W. David Wei group), 2021
B.S., Xi’an Jiaotong University (Shaohua Shen group), 2015

Office: LISB 437
Phone: 541-346-7655
Email: jhuang10@uoregon.edu

Erik Svensson Grape

Postdoctoral Scholar
Ph.D, Stockholm University (A. Ken Inge group), 2022
B.S., Stockholm University (Dag Noreus group), 2018

Office: LISB 437
Phone: 541-346-7655
Email: ersv@uoregon.edu@uoregon.edu

PhD Students

Audrey Davenport

B.S., Butler University (Chemistry, French language and cultural studies) 2021
Office: LISB 438
Phone: 541-346-7655
Email: adavenp3@uoregon.edu

Faiqa Khaliq

M.S., COMSATS University of Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Pakistan, (Chemistry), 2021

Office: LISB 437
Email: faiqak@uoregon.edu

Ashley Mapile

Co-advised with Scatena and Richmond
B.S., University of Puget Sound (Chemistry, Music Minor), 2019

Office: WIL 210
Email: amapile@uoregon.edu

Jacob McKenzie

B.S., Pacific Lutheran University (Chemistry), 2018
M.Sci., University of Oregon, 2019

Office: LISB 437
Phone: 541-346-7655
Email: jmckenzi@uoregon.edu

Michael LeRoy

B.S., UC Santa Cruz (Chemistry), 2012

Office: LISB 438
Phone: 541-346-7655
Email: mleroy@uoregon.edu

Quinn Valentine

B.S., University of West Florida (Chemistry), 2020

Office: LISB 437
Phone: 541-346-7655
Email: jpd@uoregon.edu

Golnaz Navidi

B.S., University of Tabriz 2018
M.S., University of Tabriz 2020

Office: LISB 438
Phone: 541-346-7655
Email: gnavidi@uoregon.edu

Rachel Galfo

B.S., Oral Roberts University (Mathematics), 2016
B.S., Northeastern State University (Biochemistry), 2023

Office: LISB 437
Phone: 541-346-7655
Email: galfo@uoregon.edu

Dario Nuñez

B.A., University of Chicago (Chemistry), 2018

Office: LISB 437
Phone: 541-346-7655
Email: dario@uoregon.edu

Adam Mather

B.A., Lander University (Environmental Science and Chemistry), 2023

Office: LISB 437
Phone: 541-346-7655
Email: mather@uoregon.edu

Undergrads

Emma Mahady

2nd Year Undergraduate Student
Hometown: Beaverton, OR
Office: LISB 438
Phone: 541-346-7655
Email: emahady@uoregon.edu

Miles Griffith

2nd Year Undergraduate Student

Office: LISB 438
Phone: 541-346-7655
Email: mgriff11@uoregon.edu

Group Alumni

Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr. Kasinath Ojha, 2022-2023

Currently: Senior Electrochemist Engineer, Utility Global, Denver, CO

Dr. Kentaro Kadota, 2020-2022

JSPS Fellow, 2021-2022
Currently: Assistant Professor, Kyoto University

Dr. Kostas Lazarou, 2019-2020

Currently: Information Scientist, CAS

Graduate Students

Checkers Marshall

Rosaria Haugland Awardee, 2020-2022
Currently: Svante, Materials Synthesis R&D Chemist
Ph.D. Thesis: "Nanoparticles of Metal-Organic Frameworks: A General Synthetic Method and Size-Dependent Properties" (2022)
B.S., Fort Lewis College (Math minor), 2016

Kevin Fabrizio

Currently: Transaera, Principal Materials Chemist
Ph.D. Thesis: "Modulating the Electronic Structure of Metal-Organic Frameworks through Nuclear Rearrangement" (2023)
B.S., Suffolk University (Chemistry, German Studies, Philosophy), 2019

Emma Timmel, 2019-2020, M.S., Evidera
Augie Witkowski, 2019-2021, M.S., Medtronic

Undergraduates

Sara Staudhammer, 2018-2020, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Maria Anderson, 2019-2020, Lonza
Alexi Overland, 2019-2021, Knight Campus Master's Industrial Internship Program

Vistors

Haeun Chang, 2022

Visiting Student, University of California—San Diego (Schimpf Group)

Sergio Tatay, 2022

Visiting Professor, University of Valencia (Martí-Gastaldo Group)

Hooman Parhizkar, 2019-2022

Visiting Scholar, Ph.D. Candidate (Architecture)
M.S., University of Oregon (Building Science and Technology), 2018
B.A., University of Kashan (Architectural Engineering), 2015