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
Jehan Perera
Second Year PhD Student
Joined August 2023
Imansha Madhushan
Second 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
Riley M. Nick
Undergraduate Researcher
Joined September 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
Nicholas M. Becker
HIPPO Graduate Student July 2024 from the University of Utah
Adrianna L. Orsi
HIPPO Undergraduate Student May 2024 – April 2025 from the University of Alabama at Birmingham
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
