Members of the Simon Lab at The University of Chicago

Jonathan Simon
Associate Professor of Physics, The James Franck Institute, & The Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering

Postdoc, Harvard 2010-2012
Ph.D., Harvard 2010
B.A., Caltech, 2004

Physics Page
Molecular Engineering Page

GCIS E207
simonjon@uchicago.edu
773.702.9661

• Doctoral Thesis

Keywords

Maria Jimenez
Group Administrator

GCIS E225
mdjimene@uchicago.edu
773.702.9971

Matt Jaffe
Postdoctoral Researcher

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2019

GCIS ESB06
mattjaffe@uchicago.edu
773.702.8928

• Doctoral Thesis

Ash Kumar
Postdoctoral Researcher

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2019

GCIS ESB06
ashk.phy@gmail.com
773.702.8928

• Doctoral Thesis

Andrei Vrajitoarea
Kadanoff-Rice Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D., Princeton University, 2020

GCIS ESB06
andreiv@uchicago.edu
773.702.8928

• Doctoral Thesis

Henry Ando
NSF Graduate Fellow

B.S., Princeton University, 2020

GCIS ESB06
hando@uchicago.edu
773.702.8928

Claire Baum
NSF Graduate Fellow

B.S., University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, 2017

GCIS ESB06
thebaum@uchicago.edu
773.702.8928

Lukas Palm
Graduate Student

M.S., B.S., University of Heidelberg, 2019

GCIS ESB06
lpalm@uchicago.edu
773.702.8928

• Master Thesis

Meg Panetta
NSF Graduate Fellow

B.A., Harvard University, 2017

GCIS ESB06
mpanetta@uchicago.edu
773.702.8928

Gabrielle Roberts
NSF Graduate Fellow

B.A., Yale University, 2018

GCIS ESB06
glcroberts@uchicago.edu
773.702.8928

Brendan Saxberg
Graduate Student

B.S. University of Washington, 2016

GCIS ESB06
bsaxberg@uchicago.edu
773.702.8928

Danial Shadmany
NSF Graduate Fellow

B.S. Stanford University, 2021

GCIS ESB06
shadmany@stanford.edu
773.702.8928

• Bachelor Thesis

Lavanya Taneja
Graduate Student

B.S. Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 2018

GCIS ESB06
tlavanya@uchicago.edu
773.702.8928

Chuan Yin
Graduate Student

B.S. University of Chicago, 2018

GCIS ESB06
chuanyin@uchicago.edu
773.702.8928

Dawit Belayneh
Undergraduate Researcher

GCIS ESB06
dawitmesfin39@gmail.com
773.702.8928

Tingran Wang
Undergraduate Researcher

GCIS ESB06
trwang@uchicago.edu
773.702.8928