Principal Investigator
Dr. Kathryn A. Perrine
Associate Professor, Chemistry
Affiliated Faculty, Materials Science and Engineering
Department of Chemistry
Michigan Technological University
1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton, MI 49931
906.487.3214
Dr. Perrine earned her B.S in Chemistry from the University of South Carolina (2004) and Ph.D. from the University of Delaware (2011). She was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Irvine (2011-2015) and visiting scientist at the California Institute of Technology as part of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (2014-2015).
Dr. Perrine has 18+ years of experience in the field of surface science, at the gas/solid interface and liquid/vapor interface and in modern surface analysis instruments, including FTIR, AES, XPS, TPD, AFM, and SEM for surface analysis. Her graduate research was focused on semiconductor film growth and using bottom-up surface functionalization. In her postdoc, she worked with different teams to measure the interaction of aqueous solutions of organics, solutes, and ionic solutions at the liquid/vapor interface, using Liquid-Jet XPS. Dr. Perrine research program is currently focused on interfacial reactions on iron and other earth-abundant materials for understanding environmental and energy processes using a surface catalysis approach.
Student Researchers
Group photo summer 2022: (left to right) Drew, Subash, Danica, Dr. Perrine, Richard
Group photo 2018: (left to right): Zongguang, Joseph, Alex, Dr. Perrine, Julia, Mikhail, Chathura
Group photo 2017: (left to right) Sarah, Dr. Perrine, Nathan
Group photo 2016: (left to right) Shelby, Mikhail, Sarah, Dr. Perrine
Group Members
Toba Agbelusi
M.S. Materials Science and Engineering (Spring 2024)
Subash Pandey
PhD. Chemistry
Richard Ikwugbado
PhD. Chemistry
Dr. Chathura de Alwis
PhD. Chemistry (Summer 2022)
*recipient of the 2021 Robert and Kathleen Lane outstanding graduate student research award
*2023 Bhakta Rath Research Award
Dr. Mikhail Trought
PhD. Chemistry (Spring 2021)
*recipient of the 1st place 2020 NOBCChE Physical Chemistry Poster award
*recipient of the Michigan Tech University Teaching Award
Timothy Ham
B.S. Biology student
Nick Kelliher
B.S. Chemistry student
Ryan Mackie
B.S. Chemistry student (Fall 2023)
Danica Lemmons
B.S. Chemistry student (Spring 2024)
*recipient of the 2022 Rebecca Sandretto and Susan Stackhouse Undergraduate Summer Fellowship
Drew Kolodge
B.S. Materials Science & Engineering student (Spring 2023)
William Green
B.S. Chemistry (Fall 2023)
Kayleigh Wahr
B.S. Chemistry (Spring 2022)
*recipient of the 2021 SURF undergraduate research fellowship
Alex Marcyan
B.S. Materials Science (Spring 2022)
Zach Angst
B.S. Chemistry (Fall 2020)
Alex Denofre
B.S. Computer Science (Fall 2021)
Julia Lundeen
B.S. Materials Science and Engineering
Zongguang Liu
B.S. Electrical Engineering (Spring 2019)
Isobel Wentworth
B.S. Chemical Engineering (Spring 2019)
Sarah Pudas
B.S. Chemical Engineering (Spring 2018)
Shelby McGuire
B.S. Chemistry (Spring 2018)
Nathan Schlorke
B. S. Applied Physics, (Spring 2019)
recipient of the Presidential Achievement Scholarship
Nathan Baldwin