Alumni

Gary McCuistian earned his B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas in the Spring of 2018. The following Fall, he joined the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineeering department as a professional master’s student at Rice University. His current research involves building and characterizing devices from perovskites, as well as assisting in the development of a protective chemical coating for perovskite based solar cells.

Joseph Essman graduated from Rice University in 2020, majoring in physics. His past research projects involved diffusion simulations in synthetic biology as well as charge transport simulation, device fabrication, and device characterization in organic photovoltaics. He joined the MPEM group in the fall of 2019 to carry out his senior thesis research project. His research involves investigating the fundamental nature and behavior of 2D Perovskites for use in stable and efficient optoelectronic devices. 

Yafei Wang received his bachelor’s degree in electronic science and technology from Huaqiao University. He completed his Ph.D. in optical engineering at the University of Electronic Science and Technology. He joined the MPEM group as an exchange student in 2019. His study mainly focuses on synthetic engineering and optoelectronic applications (photovoltaic, photodetector, etc.) of perovskite materials. 

Anamika Mishra is a Fulbright Doctoral Research Fellow 2020-21 with Dr. Aditya Mohite in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. She works on synthesizing organic spacer cations for stable and efficient 2D perovskite solar cells. Anamika is a PhD scholar from CSIR-NPL, New Delhi, India. Her research works focus on developing interfacial and active perovskite materials for solar cell application. She has prior research experience in synthesizing organic molecules, including drugs and medicines, polymers, polymorphs, etc.

Ms. Darwish has joined Professor Mohite’s group on March 2022 as a PhD exchange student from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) in Germany . Elshaimaa is working on the fabrication of water-stable perovskite solar cells for solar water splitting, her previous experience is in the fabrication of Nanomaterials and 3D perovskites for optoelectronic applications. she started her Ph.D. in January 2020, working with professor Christoph J. Brabec at I-MEET institute with DAAD (German Academic exchange services). Elshaimaa’s visit is funded by the Gender and Diversity office at FAU in addition to the DAAD.

Xinting Shuai joined Dr. Mohite’s group in fall of 2018. He received his B.S. degree in Material Science and Engineering from the Jiangsu University of Science and Technology (JUST) of China in 2015. He joined the Materials Science and NanoEngineering (MSNE) department at Rice University in the summer of 2016 as a professional master’s student. He has previous research experience in the CVD growth of graphene and 2D materials. Currently, his interests focus on CVD growing optical organic and inorganic materials. His motto is: “Build better materials and change the world”