People

Members of Sneha Lab

Principal Investigator

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Mahima Sneha

Dr. Mahima Sneha obtained her Ph.D. in 2018 from Stanford University under the supervision of Prof. Richard N. Zare. Her thesis work which led to the first-ever direct observation of quantum mechanical interference effects in reactive scattering for the gas phase reaction of H + H2 was a finalist for the Justin Jankunas doctoral dissertation award in Chemical Physics.

Following her Ph.D., she secured a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral grant to work with Prof. Andrew Orr-Ewing FRS at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. At Bristol, she gained expertise in ultrafast condensed phase transient vibrational and electronic spectroscopies and led the research on the mechanistic investigation of photoredox catalytic reactions.

Mahima next joined Prof. Poul Petersen’s lab at Ruhr University, Germany, as a RESOLV and Alexander von Humboldt fellow to explore water structure and dynamics at zwitterionic polymer-water interfaces with surface-sensitive spectroscopies.


Graduate Students

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Matthew Salinas

  • Joined in September 2024
  • Undergraduate Institution- University of Texas Rio Grande
  • Undergraduate Major- Chemistry
  • Favorite Element: Dysprosium
  • When I’m not in lab, I am: Eating chocolate!
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Zayda Kellogg

  • Joined in September 2025
  • Undergraduate Institution: Bennington College
  • Undergraduate Major: Physics and Chemistry
  • Favorite Element: Copper
  • When I’m not in lab, I am: Baking or playing video games

Undergraduate Students

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Ana Kangsumrith

  • Joined in January 2025
  • Class of: 2028
  • Favorite Element: Fluorine
  • When I’m not in lab, I am: Drawing or oil painting, going for runs, playing board games with friends, or practicing my French!
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Sohini Mandal

  • Joined in January 2025
  • Class of: 2026
  • Favorite Element: Nitrogen
  • When I’m not in lab, I am: at the movie theater!
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Gavin Goss

  • Joined in June 2024
  • Class of: 2026
  • Favorite Element: Carbon
  • When I’m not in lab, I am: at the movie theater!

Alumni

Kate Kogut

  • Lab Member: 2025
  • Current Position: Biochemistry major

Joshua Multhaup

  • Lab Member: 2024-2025
  • Current Position: PhD student at Max Planck Mulheim

Marc Anthony Hill

  • Lab Member: 2023-2024
  • Current Position: Assistant Chemical Engineer @ Burns & McDonnell