he/him rd3996@princeton.edu B.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2023 4th Year Graduate Student Born and raised in Littleton, Colorado, Rory completed his undergraduate degree in biochemistry/biophysics and mathematics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. At RPI, he was involved in computational biophysics studies of collagen peptides with Dr. Makhatadze. He also spent 6 months working on…

he/him ag9840@princeton.edu B.S., University of Wisconsin Madison, 2024 3rd Year Graduate Student Amory received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry and biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In his undergrad, he developed catalysts for use in highly tunable asymmetric C–H amination reactions and dearomative ring expansions in the lab of Dr. Schomaker. In the Stache lab,…

she/her ds6743@princeton.edu B.A., Reed College, 2024 3rd Year Graduate Student Deepika earned her bachelor’s degree in chemistry at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. As an undergrad, she worked with Dr. Jay Mellies and Dr. Daniel Loya on PET biodegradation by a plastic-degrading bacterial consortium. In the Stache lab, Deepika works on the photothermal depolymerization of…

he/him sk5532@princeton.edu B.A., Swarthmore College, 2025 2nd Year Graduate Student Stephen is originally from Madison, Wisconsin. Before coming to Princeton, he earned his Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and Anthropology at Swarthmore College. At Swarthmore, he worked under Dr. Anna Yang, where he used dynamic covalent chemistry to synthesize macromolecular architectures. In the Stache Group, Stephen…

she/her cv1099@princeton.edu B.S., University of Toledo, 2025 2nd Year Graduate Student Chloe is from Toledo, Ohio and attended the University of Toledo, where she received her bachelor’s degree in biochemistry. As an undergraduate, she worked in Dr. Wei Li’s lab on the photochemical syntheses of N-heterocycles. She also completed two internships, one at Huntsman Corporation in…

she/her gw3972@princeton.edu B.S., Colorado State University, 2025 2nd Year Graduate Student Gwen is from Fort Collins, Colorado and completed her bachelor’s degree in chemistry with a minor in mathematics at Colorado State University. As an undergrad, she worked under the guidance of Dr. Megan Hill to improve mechanical recyclability of commodity polymers by using chain…

he/him es9674@princeton.edu B.S., Oakland University, 2025 2nd Year Graduate Student Evan hails from Detroit, Michigan. He conducted his undergraduate studies at Oakland University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. During undergrad, he worked in the lab of Dr. Zacharias Kinney, developing a series of luminescent organometallic complexes for use in OLEDs. He has…

he/him ls3255@princeton.edu B.S., University of Göttingen, 2025 Visiting Researcher Lucas his earned his Bachelor´s degree in Chemistry from the University of Göttingen in 2025, where he worked in Prof. Lutz Ackermann´s lab on iron-catalyzed C−H activations. After that, he spent two months at the National University of Singapore in the group of Prof. Yu Zhao,…