Polymer Science, 2022-

Muhammad Faheem Hassan is a Ph.D. student in Dr. Mu-Ping Nieh’s group, where he studies the structure and dynamics of soft and self-assembled materials. He holds an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the American University of Sharjah (UAE) and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the MNS University of Engineering and Technology (Multan, Pakistan). His work involves multi-modal scattering approaches—light, X-ray, and neutron scattering—to probe nanoscale organization in complex materials.

Yi-Jhen Lai is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Polymer Program at the University of Connecticut. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering and M.S. in Polymer Science and Engineering from National Taiwan University (NTU). Her  research focuses on hydrogel systems and the structure and dynamics of soft and self-assembled materials. Her work involves the use of scattering techniques, including light and X-ray scattering, to investigate nanoscale organization and material properties.

Thomas is a graduate student at the UConn Physics Department. As a part of the SAFN Lab he has been investigating the behavior of charged nanoparticles and how their interactions impact light scattering studies. Outside of the lab he also works in particle phenomenology and hadron structure.