Team

 Principal Investigator

Ben Snyder

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
Assistant Professor (Affiliate), Materials Research Laboratory
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Postdoc., University of California, Berkeley, 2022 
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2018
B.S., University of Rochester, 2012 

E-mail: bsnyder at illinois dot edu


Guoqing Zhao

Research: Channel effects of selective hydroxylation in α-Fe containing zeolites
Ph.D. in Chemistry: Tongji University, (Shanghai) China, 2019 
MS inChemical Engineering: Tongji University, China, 2016
BS in Applied Chemistry: Liaocheng University, China, 2013

Email: gz16 at illinois dot edu


Graduate Students

Amrinder Bhuller

Research: Spectroscopic elucidation of carbon supported single atom catalysts 
BS in Chemistry: University of California, Santa Cruz, 2022

Email: bhuller2 at illinois dot edu

Annie Hsu

Research: Entatic metal sites for C-H functionalization and group transfer reactions
BS in Chemistry and Forensic Science: Syracuse University, 2022

Email: anniejh2 at illinois dot edu

Sayantani Sur

Research: Spectroscopic investigation of copper-oxygen reactive intermediates in zeolites
MS in Chemistry: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 2022 
BS in Chemistry: Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 2020

Email: sur3 at illinois dot edu

Harshit Jain

Research: Selective installation of multinuclear sites in zeolites
Integrated BS-MS in Chemistry: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, 2022 

Email: hjain10 at illinois dot edu

Andrew Norris

Research: Spectroscopic investigation of one-electron oxidative chemistry in Fe zeolites
BS in Chemistry: University of Maryland, 2023

Email: anorris5 at illinois dot edu

Sunyu Jung

Research: Characterization of Cu active sites in co-cation modified Cu zeolites
BS is Chemistry: University of California, Berkeley, 2025

Email: sunyuj2 at illinois dot edu

Prachi Priya

Research: Spectroscopic and reactivity studies of Co-containing zeolite systems
MS is Chemistry: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2025
BS is Chemistry: Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, 2022

Email: priya6 at illinois dot edu


Chloe French

Senior, Chemistry
Email: chloeaf2 at illinois dot edu

Tommy DeMaria

Senior, Chemistry
Email: tommyd3 at illinois dot edu

Charly Qian

Junior, Chemistry
Email: charlyq2 at illinois dot edu

Jonas Martinkus

Senior, Chemistry
Email: jonasm2 at illinois dot edu


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