Group Members

Principal Investigator 

Professor Tori Forbes

Current Graduate Students

Samantha Kruse^, Grant Benthin*, Harindu Rajapaksha#, Vidumini Samarasiri,  Sarah Scherrer, Emma Markun, Ecem Celik*, Nicole Shapiro&, Cameron Flester

# - co-advised with Prof. Sara Mason, UI Chemistry 
* - co-advised with Prof. Korey Carter, UI Chemistry 
^ - co-advised with Prof. Len MacGilivray, UI Chemistry
& - co-advised with Prof. Dave Cwiertny, UI Chemistry and Civil and Environmental Engineering

Undergraduate Students

Haley Lightfoot, Esmee Belzer, Ryleigh Mulcahey, Maianh Nguyen, Ferris Bissen, Ellie Turk

Group Alumni

Post-Doctoral Scholars

Dr. Andrew Nelson - 2016 (Current:  Staff Scientist, Sandia National Laboratory), Dr. Rebecca Laird 2014-2015 (Current:  Lecturer, University of Iowa), Dr. Daniel Unruh  2011 - 2014 (Current:  X-ray Facility Director, Texas Tech University)

Graduate Students

Samangi Abeysinghe - M.S. (with Thesis) 2010 - 2012, Joshua de Groot - Ph.D. 2011-2016  (Assistant Professor, College of Southern Idaho), Dr. Andrew Knight (Staff Scientist, Perspective Therapeutics), Prof. Eric Eitrheim (Associate Professor, University of Central Oklahoma), Dr. Ashini Jayasinghe (Staff Scientist, Idaho National Laboratory), Adam Johns (M.S. Environmental Engineering), Dr. Mo Payne (Staff Scientist, Sandia National Laboratory), Dr. Jennifer Bjorklund (Postdoctoral Scholar, Brookhaven National Laboratory), Seth Van Helten (M. S. Fabric8Labs), Maggie Carolan (M. S. TetraTech), Dr. Md. Shohel (Postdoctoral Scholar, Sandia National Laboratory),  Dr. Lindsey Applegate (Assistant Professor, Webster University), Dr. Mikaela Pyrch (NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley), Dr. Dmytro Kravchuk (Postdoctoral Scholar, Argonne National Lab), Dr. Logan Augustine (Postdoctoral Scholar, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Dr. Tiron Jahinge (Postdoctoral Scholar, FDA),

Former Group Members

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Stay in contact with Doctor Forbes by emailing tori-forbes@uiowa.edu.