People
James H. Rudy Professor Sara E. Skrabalak
Sara Skrabalak received her BA (chemistry) from Washington University in St. Louis (2002) where she conducted research with Prof. William Buhro. She then moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she completed her PhD (chemistry, 2006) under the tutelage of Prof. Kenneth Suslick. After postdoctoral research at the University of Washington - Seattle with Profs. Younan Xia and Xingde Li, she began on the faculty at Indiana University - Bloomington in 2008. She is the James Rudy Professor. She is a recipient of both NSF CAREER and DOE Early Career Awards. She is a 2012 Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar, a 2013 Sloan Research Fellow, a 2014 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar and 2017 Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellows. In 2014, she received the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry and in 2017 was the recipient of the Frontiers in Research Excellence & Discovery Award from Research Corporation. She was an Editor for Nanoscale (2017-20) and Nanoscale Advances (2018-20), both RSC journals. In 2020, Sara was named Editor-in-Chief of Chemistry of Materials and ACS Materials Letters.
Email: sskrabal@iu.edu
- Post-doctoral Research Associate: University of Washington – Seattle, Younan Xia (Chemistry) and Xingde Li (Bioengineering)
- Ph.D. (Chemistry): University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign, Kenneth S. Suslick
- B.A. (Chemistry): Washington University in St. Louis, William E. Buhro
- Skrabalak CV (PDF)
Aditi Aggarwal
adiagga@iu.edu
Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
M.S. Chemistry - IISER Mohali (advisor: Prof. Santanu K. Pal)
B.S. Chemistry - IISER Mohali
Nayana Christudas Beena
ncb@iu.edu
Postdoctoral Scholar – Department of Chemistry
Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry, 2019-2025
M.S. (Chemistry; thesis research with Prof. Ujjal K. Gautam) - Indian Institute of Science, Education, and Research (IISER), Mohali, India
B.S. (Chemistry) - Indian Institute of Science, Education, and Research (IISER), Mohali, India
Hrittik Ghosh
hrghosh@iu.edu
Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
M.S. (Chemistry): IIT Bombay, India
B.S. (Chemistry): University of Kalyani, India
Sarah Gorski
segorski@iu.edu
Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
B.S. (Chemistry): Taylor University
Shubhangi Goyal
shugoyal@iu.edu
Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
MS (Chemistry): IIT-Mandi, India (Thesis research with Prof. Amit Jaiswal)
BS (Chemistry): Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
Nilotpal Kapuria
nkapuria@iu.edu
Postdoctoral Scholar - Department of Chemistry
Ph.D. (Chemical Sciences): University of Limerick
B.S./M.S. (Chemistry): IISER, Bhopal, India
Megan Knobeloch
megknobe@iu.edu
Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
B.S. (Chemistry): Iowa State University; research with Javier Vela
Varsha Kumari
vakumari@iu.edu
Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
M.S. (Chemistry) IIT Gandhinagar
B.S. (Chemistry): Delhi University
Romesh Jayashan Perera
rjperera@iu.edu
Graduate Student: Department of Chemistry
BS (Chemistry): University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka
Connor Schulte
conschu@iu.edu
Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
B.S. (Biochemistry) - Western Kentucky University, Research with Dr. Matthew Nee
Rukshanthan Selvaraj
rselvara@iu.edu
Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
B.S. (Chemistry) - University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Ekta Verma
ekverma@iu.edu
Graduate Student - Department of Chemistry
M.Sc. (Chemistry) - Punjabi University, Patiala, India
B.Sc. (Chemistry) - DAV University, Jalandhar, India
Research with Dr. Vivek Bagchi, Institute of Nanoscience and Technology, Mohali, India
