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Meet our team None of us is as smart as all of us

-Ken Blanchard
Christina Birkel
Group Leader Associate Professor Dr.rer.nat.habil.
Niels Kubitza
PostDoc, TU Darmstadt PhD, TU Darmstadt M.Sc., TU Darmstadt
Suneet Kale
PhD student, ASU M.Sc., ASU
Jordan Sinclair
PhD student, ASU B.Sc., U of Delaware
Arya Loloee
PhD student, ASU B.Sc., U of Houston
Vaibhav Joshi
PhD student, ASU M.Sc., IIT Guwahati, India
Isabel Huck
PhD student, TU Da M.Sc., TU Da B.Sc., TU Da
Pedram Babaei
Undergr. student, TU Da B.Sc., TU Da, Birkel group Chem
Yiran Chen
Undergr. student, ASU Biochem
Kamalesh Goggi
Undergr. student, ASU
Jacob Brown
Undergr. student, ASU Medical Microbiology
Hailey Facio
Undergr. student, ASU Biomedical Sciences
TJ Cataldi
Undergr. student, ASU Biology

former group members - PhD students and postdocs

Rose Snyder
PhD, 2024, ASU Thesis: Advancing the Synthesis and Chemistry of Vanadium-Based MAX Phases andMXenes Instructor, SMS/ASU
John Jamboretz
PhD, 2024, ASU Thesis: In Situ Raman Spectroscopic Investigations of Microwave-Assisted InorganicTransformations solestial
Carina Büchner
PostDoc, 2022-2023 Atlantic GmbH
Jan Paul Siebert
PhD, 2022, ASU Thesis: Development of Wet Chemical SynthesisStrategies for the Class of MAX Phases ICL Group
Minh Hai Tran
PhD, TU Da, 2021 Thesis: Exfoliability of various transition metal-based MAX phases Heraeus
Andreas Reitz
PostDoc, ASU, 2019-2021 Corning Specialty Mater.
Christin Hamm
PostDoc, ASU, 2019-2020 PhD, TU Da, 2013 Thesis: Synthese, Charakterisierung undmagnetische Eigenschaftenausgewählter Laves- und MAXPhasen Umicore
Lothar Bischoff
PostDoc, TU Da, 2018-19 Heraeus
Leah Renner
PhD student, 2020-21 Alaska Dep. of Environm. Conservation

Past group members (undergraduate students)

Janica Schramm
B.Sc., TU Da, 2025 Thesis: Synthese von Mo-haltigen Mischkristall-MAX-Phasen als potentielle Vorläuferverbindungen für neuartige 2D-Materialien
Tom Keil
Undergr. student assistant, Tu Da, 2023/34
Marius Schlapp
Undergr. student assistant, Tu Da, 2023/34
Linus Kramberger
B.Sc., TU Da, 2024Thesis: Unkonventionelle Synthese von Mischkristall-MAX-Phasen
Pedram Babaei
B.Sc., TU Da, 2024 Thesis: Ausgewählte Synthesestrategien zur Herstellung der MAX-Phase V2GaC1−xNx und des Antiperovskits Mn3GeC
Sanja Jankovic
B.Sc., TU Da, 2023Thesis: Unkonventionelle Synthesis carbonitridischer MAX-Phasen im System V-Ge-C-N
Rylee James
Undergr. student B.Sc. ASU 2024 won the Dean's medal
Michael Bedner
M. Sc., ASU, 2024 Thesis: A-site solid solution between MAX phases Nb2InC and Nb2SnC
Matthew Flores
Undergr. student B.Sc. ASU, 2023
Andrew Wasserbeck
Undergr. student M.Sc. ASU, 2022
John Kim "JK"
Undergr. student B.Sc. ASU, 2022
Shayna Mallett
Undergr. student B.Sc. ASU, 2022
Keene Patarakun
Undergr. student B.Sc. ASU, 2022
Langston Tillman
Undergr. student B.Sc. ASU, 2022
Alexa Sanchez
Undergr. student B.Sc. ASU, 2022

past group members (summer programs)

Lin-Lin Elliott
REU student ASU, 2024
Lauren Driggers
REU student ASU, 2023
Jordan Hill "Dani"
REU student ASU, 2022
Zainab Goawala
Summer student Luce Foundation ASU, 2022

past group photos (since 2019)

Fall 2024
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Fall 2021
Fall 2020? Covid blur
Fall 2019
Contact Info
christina.birkel@asu.edu
1001 S. McAllister Ave. Tempe 85281
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