Zaikina Group

Principal Investigator

Julia V. Zaikina

Associate Professor, August 2023 - current
APS User Organization Steering Committee Member
SNS-HFIR User Group Executive Committee Member

Assistant Professor, August 2017 - August 2023, Departmnet of Chemistry, Iowa State University
Postdoctoral Fellow (2012-2017), UC Davis (Advisors: Prof. Susan M. Kauzlarich and Prof. Alexandra Navrotsky)
Postdoctoral Fellow (2008-2010), Florida State Univeristy (Adivisor: Prof. Susan E. Latturner)
Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry (2005-2008) (Advisor: Prof. Andrei V. Shevelkov), Moscow State University, Russia
Ph.D. in solid state chemistry (2005-2008) (Advisor: Prof. Juri Grin) Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids (MPI-CPfS), Germany
M.S., B.S. (2000-2005) Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia)

ORCID iD iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8755-1926

Postdoctoral Scholars

Dr. Abhijit Bera

co-advised with Prof. Matthew Panthani (CBE, ISU)
Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences, AcSIR, CSIR-National Chemical laboratory, Pune, India (2014 - 2021)
M.S. in Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai, India (2011 - 2013)
abhijitb@iastate.edu


Graduate Students

Aishwarya Mantravadi

5th year Graduate Student
B.S. in Chemistry, University of Mumbai, India (2015)
M.S. in Chemistry, University of Mumbai, India (2017)
amantra@iastate.edu


Sandita Das

1st year Graduate Student
B.S./M.S. in Chemistry, IISER Mohali, India (2020)
sandita9@iastate.edu



Willie (William) Josul

1st year Graduate Student (co-advised with Prof. Aaron Rossini)
B.S. in Materials Chemistry, Winona State University, Winona, MN (2022)
wjosul@iastate.edu







Undergraduate Students

Rae Earnest

Undergarduate Student, Chemistry, ISU
expected graduation date: May 2024
























Group Alumni

Dr. Volodymyr Gvozdetskyi

Postdoctoral Researcher (2018-2021)

Dr. Tori Cox

Ph.D. in Chemistry (November 2022)

Dr. Adedoyin (Nife) Adeyemi

Ph.D. in Chemistry (July 2022)

Brittany Courteau

MS. in Chemistry (November 2021)

Kristian Shipley

Undergraduate Student, Chemistry, ISU

Cale Bangs

Undergraduate Student, Chemical Engineering, ISU

Irina Pogorelko

Undergraduate Student, Chemical Engeneering, ISU

Kaden Osborn

Undergraduate Student, Chemistry, ISU





Thomas Seymour-Cozzini

3rd year Graduate Student
B.S. in Chemistry, San Jose State University (2019)
tcozzini@iastate.edu



Paul Oftedahl

1st year Graduate Student
B.S. in Chemistry, B.Mus. in Organ, Arizona State University, AZ (2022)
oftedahl@iastate.edu


Mahmudul Islam Rain

1st year Graduate Student
B.S. in Chemistry, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh (2021)
mrain1@iastate.edu












Vittal Kamal

Undergarduate Student, Chemistry, ISU
expected graduation date: May 2025


Bradyn Weaver

Undergarduate Student, Chemistry, ISU
expected graduation date: Fall 2025









Dr. Sangki Hong

PhD in Chemistry, May 2021

Dr. Gourab Bhaskar

PhD in Chemistry, July 2022

Margarita Clemente

Undergarduate Student, Chemistry, ISU

Mark Bertolami

Undergarduate Student, Chem. & Animal Ecology, ISU

Ryan Dreher

Undergarduate Student, Chemistry, ISU

Meet Patel

Undergarduate Student, Chemistry, ISU

Zeina Miari

Undergarduate Student, Chemistry, ISU

Noah Balta

Undergarduate Student, Chemistry, ISU