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June 6, 2025
Congratulations, Dr. Pelkie!
Brenden Pelkie successfully defended his dissertation, titled “Automated and Autonomous Experiments for Sol-Gel Nanomaterial Synthesis,” on May 30th, 2025. His presentation highlighted his work in developing new tools and software for accessible lab automation, with a focus on optimizing silica...
June 6, 2024
Congratulations, Dr. Guio!
Lorenzo Guio successfully defended his dissertation, titled “Understanding the Relationships between the Structure and the Physical Properties of Conjugated Polymers using Particle Scattering and Electronic Properties,” on June 3rd, 2024. His presentation highlighted his work in furthering our understanding of...
June 5, 2024
Congratulations, Dr. Politi!
On May 29th, 2024, Maria Politi successfully defended her dissertation, titled “Open Science Materials Acceleration Platforms for Clean Energy Material Design Spaces.” Maria’s presentation highlighted her contributions to self-driving laboratories (SDLs) by developing low-cost, open-source platforms and tools for automated...
March 28, 2024
Moeez's Trip to Berlin for Full Stack X-Ray Training
Pozzo research group member Abdul Moeez is working at the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing in Berlin, Germany, under the supervision of Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw. The four-week trip encompasses...
March 19, 2024
Yummy Gummy and Hello Jell-O!
Members of the Pozzo research group participated in the 8th annual Introduce a Girl series organized by Women in Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington!
March 19, 2024
Congratulations, Dr. Scheiwiller!
Sage Scheiwiller successfully defended her dissertation, titled “Morphological Characterization of Conjugated Polymer Blends in Solid and Solution States Using Small Angle Scattering,” on March 1st, 2024. Her presentation highlighted how understanding polymer blend morphology can allow for better property optimization....
March 19, 2024
Brenden Passes Candidacy Exam
Brenden Pelkie successfully presented his thesis proposal, titled “Acceleration of Experimental Materials Research with Data Enabled Methods,” to his committee at his General Exam on Thursday, February 22.
July 26, 2023
Brenden Teaches Clubes de Ciencia Course on Self-Driving Labs
This July, Brenden Pelkie traveled to Guadalajara, Mexico to teach a weeklong course with Clubes de Ciencia MX. Clubes de Ciencia is a non-profit that hosts weeklong STEM courses for high school and undergraduate students in Ibero-American countries. Graduate students...
March 23, 2023
Congratulations, Dr. Lachowski!
Kacper Lachowski successfully defended his dissertation, titled “Bottom-Up Synthesis of Colloidal Systems Using Sequence Defined Molecules,” on March 10, 2023. His presentation highlighted his research contributions to the use of sequence defined molecules in the synthesis of colloidal materials. Kacper...
March 22, 2023
Maria Passes Candidacy Exam
Maria Politi successfully presented her thesis proposal to her committee at her General Exam on Thursday, March 16. She is now a PhD candidate. Congrats, Maria!
February 21, 2023
Introduce a Girl to Hydrogels in Green Tech
We were excited to participate in WChE’s 7th annual Introduce a Girl event, which took place on February 18, 2023. This year’s theme was green technology, and the Pozzo Group had fun educating young scientists about hydrogels and their many...
February 16, 2023
Shayna Awarded ASEE Engineering Postdoctoral Fellowship
Shayna Hilburg was selected as an eFellow in the 2022 cohort for her work on retrosynthesis and materials characterization of lipid nanoparticles for improved nucleic acid therapeutics.
February 9, 2023
Maria Wins Prize at ACCELERATE
Maria Politi was awarded a prize for her poster entitled “Open-Hardware Materials Acceleration Platforms for Accessible and Democratized Materials Discovery.” She presented her work at ACCELERATE 2022, the first annual conference of the University of Toronto’s Acceleration Consortium. The conference...