Group Members

Current & Past
William Ducker

1103 Hahn Hall
Blacksburg
VA, 24061-0212
Tel: 540-231-2249
Fax: 540-231-3255
wducker@vt.edu
Chem. Dept. homepage

Ducker homepage

  
Present:
Bill Lokar – Second year graduate student in the Ducker group. 
  • Obtained his B.S. in Chemistry from Allegheny College in Meadville, PA  in 1999. 
  • Participated in a summer NSF-REU program at the University of Pittsburgh in 1998. 
  • Four year letterman in baseball while at Allegheny.
  • Currently the head coach of Virginia Tech’s women’s club softball team.
Aysen (Pronounced: I-shan) Tulpar : Ph.D. student. 
I am from Istanbul, Turkey. I got my BS from Koc University, Istanbul in 1998. 
I am working on adsorption of surfactants and polymer-surfactant mixtures at the solid-liquid interface.  I have also worked on the decay lengths of electrostatic double-layer  forces.   I teach P.Chem. Lab.

Chang-Hyun Jang: Ph.D. Student
1984-1988: B.S. in Chemistry from Hanyang University
1989-1991: M.S. in Organic Chemistry from Hanyang University
1991-1992: Served in Korean Army
1993-1998: Worked at LG Chemical Research Center
                   (Synthesis and Physical properties of Surfactant, Microencapsulation)
1999-present: Graduate Student at Virginia Tech.
                   (Nanolithography with AFM and Enzyme)

Spencer Clark:  Ph.D. Student
1995-98: B.S. Utah State University, Logan, Utah
1998       Past Research: Los Alamos National Labs: 
1998-00 Current Research: Spectroscopic characterization of surfactants at the solid-liquid interface

Other Interests: Woodwork & Travel

Robert Cain: Post-Doc
2000 PhD Mechanical Engineering, University of Newcastle

Past:

Jun-Fu Liu: Post-Doctoral Researcher, formerly from National Laboratory of Molecular and Biomolecular Electronics, Nanjing, China. Now at Wayne State University

Vivek Subramanian: Post-Doctoral Researcher, formerly from Mining Engineering, Virginia Tech.  Now at Unilever Research, Edgewater.

Julian Thimm, Ph.D. Student, University of Otago, Plant Cell Wall Architecture.

Reuben Lamont, M.Sc. Student, University of Otago. Now at Merryl Lynch, London

Dr Erica Wanless, formerly a post-doc. in my group, now a Lecturer at the University of Newcastle

Tim Davey, Ph.D., University of Otago, 1998, now a post-doc at the University of Sydney

Lachlan Grant, M.Sc., University of Otago, 1998, now studying for a PhD at the Surface Chemical Institute in Stockholm.

Kathryn Edgecombe, M.Sc., University of Otago, 1996, previously  worked R&D at Cadbury's Chocolate factory in Dunedin, New Zealand.  Now works at Yale University.
 
 
 
 

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