Principal Investigator

Marco Caricato

Associate Professor

m330c584@ku.edu

Integrated Science Building, Room 3189E

2019-present:​ Associate Professor, KU

2014-2019: Assistant Professor, KU

2010-2014: Research Scientist, Gaussian, Inc.

2006-2010: Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University

2006: Ph.D. Summa Cum Laude in Chemistry at the Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS),Pisa, Italy.

2002: M.S. in Chemistry at the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.

Graduate Students

Matthew Barclay

Graduate Student

matthewbarclay@ku.edu

2014: Joined Caricato and Elles groups

B.S. from Creighton University.

Sijin Ren

Graduate Student

sren@ku.edu

2014: Joined the Caricato group

B.S. from Murray University

Amy Jystad

Graduate Student

amy.jystad@ku.edu

2015: Joined the Caricato group

B.S. from the University of St. Mary

Ty Balduf

Graduate Student

tybalduf@ku.edu

2016: Joined the Caricato group

B.S. in Chemistry from St. Ambrose University

B.S. in Mathematics from St. Ambrose University

Kaihua Zhang

Graduate Student

kaihua@ku.edu

2017: Joined the Caricato group

M.S. from Beijing University of Technology

B.S. from Beijing University of Technology

Undergraduate Students

Ryan Lampton

Undergraduate Researcher

rlampton@ku.edu

2018: Joined the Caricato group

Katherine Vander Laan

Undergraduate Researcher

k912v447@ku.edu

2017: Joined the Caricato group

Former Members:

• Dr. Tal Aharon
• Delaney Lynam (REU participant from Missouri Northwest University)
• Analila Luna Valenzuela 
• Hunter Leblanc
• Clara Stanton
• Dr. Alessandro Biancardi
• Robert Adams
• Kyler Ross (REU Participant from Southern Nazerene University) 
• Cameron Liss (REU participant from Roosevelt University)
• Jeremy Barnes (REU participant from Park University)
• Joseph Harms (Lawrence High School)
• Claudiu Caraiani (KU physics major)