MENG Alumni Database
Explore what recent UChicago molecular engineering graduates are doing now, and what opportunities they pursued while on campus. While alumni profiles are anonymous, feel free to contact us to connect with our graduates!
Quantum
Molecular Engineering, Physics '24
Undergrad: Research assistant at Squires Lab at UChicago PME: single-molecule counting and dispersal of biomolecular condensates by heat shock proteins. Summer research intern at Ramanathan Lab at Argonne National Laboratory: accelerating deep learning-mediated protein design with a synthetic sequence evaluation pipeline, hyperparameter optimization. Quantum engineering associate at memQ, Inc.: Characterizing nanofabricated quantum repeater devices for quantum network and photonic quantum computing.
Current: Ph.D. in Biophysics at Harvard University, Boston, MA
Molecular Engineering '24
Undergrad: Worked at ErrorCorp as a Quantum Error Correction Research Intern and at NanoPattern Technologies as a Quantum Dot Characterization intern.
Current: Research at Fermi Lab, Chicago, IL.
Molecular Engineering '24
Undergrad: Research assistant at Awschalom group at PME, University of Chicago. Quantum sensing of biological materials. Summer internship: CNRS at Université Côte d’Azur in Nice, France. Quantum entanglement and communication
Current: Ph.D, Chicago, IL.
Molecular Engineering '19
Undergrad: Interned with Junhong Chen, Argonne National Lab, Polsky Center, Single Quantum B.V., and did research with Hannes Bernien
Current: R&D Engineer at AOSense, Inc. in Fremont, CA
Chemical
Molecular Engineering, Chemistry '24
Undergrad: Interned with NNSA at DOE (worked on designing CAD components for a nuclear energy powered submarine)
2nd year: SULI intern at Argonne (Simulation of VOCs for pollutant mitigation models. 3rd-4th year: Research Aide at Argonne (Transitioned to synthetic electrochemical and material characterization work. Developed and characterized high energy density single crystal cobalt free cathodes for next generation Li-ion batteries).
Current: Chemical Engineering PhD at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
Molecular Engineering '24
Undergrad: Undergraduate Research in Hsu Group at Kovler . Worked on fabrication and encapsulation of tunable thermoradiative device using solution processable methods. Utilized FTIR and electrochemical techniques to characterize the device.
Current: MS Material Science and Engineering at Northwestern. Chicago area.
Molecular Engineering '24
Undergrad: Worked in Prof. Chong Liu’s lab for 2 summers, and also worked at SparkCognition for 2 summers doing AI/ML for seismic imaging. 1 of the summers spent doing both lab work and work for SparkCognition
Current: PhD at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) with Prof. Rachel Kurchin
Molecular Engineering '24
Undergrad: Photothermal based carbon capture system in Dr. Esser-Kahn’s lab at UChicago PME.
Current: Graduate school at Caltech.
Molecular Engineering, Chemistry '23
Undergrad: Worked in the Wang Research Group at PME (stretchable electronics) and the Faber Group at Caltech in Summer 2022 (battery separators). Internships: R&D intern at Nanograf (battery anode materials), and engineering intern at Neopenda (medical tracking device).
Current: PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University.
Molecular Engineering '23
Undergrad: Li-ion batteries/electrolytes at Argonne and Amanchukwu Lab. Worked in industry battery storage system development at ConEd CEB.
Current: Working in mining lithium at Rio Tinto, Chicago
Molecular Engineering '23
Undergrad: DAAD RISE scholarship, Future Talent Intern at Merck, Goldwater Scholar, Astronaut Scholar.
Current: Launch Engineer at SpaceX, Brownsville, TX.
Biological
Molecular Engineering, Biology '24
Undergrad: Research Assistant at Basu Lab: contributed to Cell Atlas of Crohn’s Disease project, focusing on the development of human-derived organoids. Research Assistant at BillionToOne in Menlo Park, CA (2023).
Research assistant at NeptunLab, Freiburg, Germany (2022). Research assistant at Guha Lab/Basu Lab Chicago, IL Research Assistant / Quad Research Scholar (2021-2022).
Current: Working as a research tech at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, before applying for PhD.
Molecular Engineering '24
Undergrad: Worked in Aaron Esser-Kahn’s lab for 2 years. Started a project about macrophage-bacteria interactions with a PhD student mentor, and continued the project independently when she graduated.
Current: Biomedical engineering PhD at Columbia University in New York City.
Molecular Engineering '24
Undergrad: Chevrier Lab – undergraduate researcher; Bridge Bio – research and development intern; CLIME TL; UChicago Peer Mentor
Current: Graduate School in Dallas, TX.
Molecular Engineering '23
Undergrad: Research tech at the McLaughlin Research Institute in Great Falls, MT studying genetic neurodegenerative diseases. Research assistant in the Savage Lab at UChicago (in the BSD) studying specialized T cells subsets and attempting to generate novel cell therapies for cancer.
Current: Immunology PhD program at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
Molecular Engineering '23
Undergrad: Worked in two pediatric cancer labs studying Ewing Sarcoma at CHOP and neuroblastoma at UChicago.
Current: Fulbright year in Heidelberg, Germany.
Molecular Engineering '23
Undergrad: Heat Biologics (now nighthawk biosciences) in research triangle—company working on immunotherapeutics and engineered cell lines for cancer treatment.
Current: PhD in bioengineering at University of Pennsylvania.