ExPeRT: Experimental Petrology Rice Team

Ye Peng

Postdoctoral Researcher/ Outreach Project Coordinator

Yishen (Eason) Zhang

Postdoctoral Researcher

Srijita Ray

Postdoctoral Researcher

Anna Johnson

PhD Candidate

Aindrila Pal

PhD Candidate

Debjeet Pathak

PhD Candidate

Dian Ji

PhD Student

Ainsley Ganti

Undergraduate Researcher

Ayush Gupta

Visiting Graduate Student

Previous Members

Post-Doctoral Scholars

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Vincent Clesi

Postdoctoral Scholar, Aug 2021-Oct 2023

Now at University of Münster

Kyusei Tsuno

Postdoctoral Scholar (2009-2012); Lab Manager (2012-2022)

Now a Staff Member at the Eyring Materials Center, ASU

Valerie Payré

Weiss Postdoctoral Fellow, Sep 2018-Nov 2020

Now an Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa

Chenguang Sun

Postdoctoral Scholar, Aug 2016-Nov 2019

Now an Assistant Professor of Geological Sciences at UT Austin

Xu Chu

Postdoctoral Scholar, Sep 2016 - Dec 2017
Co-advised with Cin-Ty Lee

Now an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto

Yuan Li

Postdoctoral Scholar, Aug 2013 - May 2016

Now a Senior Staff Scientist at BGI & an Adjunct Research Scientist at Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, CAS

Sébastien Jégo

Postdoctoral Scholar, 2011 - Aug 2013

Now a Postdoctoral Researcher at ISTO, University of Orléans

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Justin Filiberto

Postdoctoral Scholar, Sep 2009 - July 2011

Now the Deputy Chief in Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) Research Office at NASA Johnson Space Center

Véronique Le Roux

Postdoctoral Scholar, Oct 2009 - Dec 2010
Primary supervisor - Cin-Ty Lee

Now a Professor at CRPG/ENSG & an Adjunct Scientist at WHOI

Graduate Students

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Maria Rodriguez

MS, May 2024

Now Working at the Harris County Pollution Control

Michael Lara

PhD, Jun 2022

Now a Postdoctoral Scholar at Cornell University

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Damanveer Grewal

PhD, Dec 2021

Now an Assistant Professor at Arizona State University

Emily Falksen

MS, Jan 2021

Proteek Chowdhury

PhD, Aug 2020

Now a Research Staff at Rice University

Sriparna Saha

PhD, Aug 2019

Now a GeoEd Research Postdoc at UC Boulder

James Eguchi

PhD, May 2019

Now a Postdoctoral Scholar at Rutgers University

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Laura Carter

PhD, May 2018

Now a Communications Content Coordinator at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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Shuo (Echo) Ding

PhD, Oct 2016

Now an Associate Research Scientist at LDEO, Columbia University

Megan Duncan

PhD, Nov 2015

Now an Assistant Professor of Geosciences at Virginia Tech

Ananya Mallik

PhD, Nov 2014

Now an Assistant Professor of Geosciences at the University of Arizona

Han Chi

MS, May 2013

Now a Science Journalist - China Science Daily

Undergraduate Students

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Bavan Rajan

Undergraduate Researcher, 2020-2022

Now a Graduate Student at Washington University in St. Louis

Naod Araya

Undergraduate Researcher, Spring-Summer 2019

Alexandra Holmes

Undergraduate Researcher, 2015 - 2018

Now a Graduate Student at UT Austin

Michelle Muth

Undergraduate Researcher, Feb 2013 - May 2015

Now an Assistant Professor at University of Washington