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
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