Principle Investigator

Jonathan D. Burns, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
Department of Radiology

Current Members

Postdoctoral Researchers

Jennifer M. Pyles

Ph.D. University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 2023

Joined March 2023

Graduate Students

Noimat A. Jinadu

Third Year PhD Student

Joined January 2022

Jehan Perera

First Year PhD Student

Joined August 2023

Imansha Madhushan

First Year PhD Student

Joined August 2023

Carson Smith

First Year PhD Student

Joined January 2024

Undergraduate Students

David V. Russell

Undergraduate Researcher

Joined August 2023

Adrianna L. Orsi

Undergraduate Researcher

Joined October 2023

Karma K. Cook

Undergraduate Researcher

Joined January 2024

Former Members

Alumni

Postdoctoral Researchers

Avinash K. Srivastava

Postdoctoral Researcher, UAB

January 2023 – January 2024

Currently in the Keinänen Research Laboratory

Jeffrey D. Einkauf 

Postdoctoral Researcher, TAMU

September 2018 – November 2019

Currently at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Graduate Students

Andrew J. Wilcox

MS in Nuclear Engineering, TAMU May 2018

Currently at Sandia National Laboratory

Undergraduate Students

Brooke B. Nguyen

Undergraduate Researcher, UAB September 2023 – December 2023

Michael A. Jones

Undergraduate Researcher, UAB January 2022 – May 2023

Emma G. Schaetzle

Undergraduate Researcher, UAB October 2022 – March 2023

REU Summer Students

Chandni Bhat

UAB REU Student 2023 from the University of Alabama

Maddison Gibson

UAB REU Student 2022 from Savannah State University

HIPPO Students

Aditi Gurudutt 

HIPPO Undergraduate Student Summer 2023 from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Michael A. Jones

HIPPO Undergraduate Student May 2022 – April 2023 from the University of Alabama at Birmingham