Current Meldrum Lab people

Group, Spring 2024

Shalom Akolatse
Olivia Cassara
Chemistry & Economics, 2025
Arvada, Colorado

Coffee order: Large iced coffee

Favorite animal: Otter

Dream job: Small town bakery owner

Best part of working in the Meldrum Lab: The people are all really interesting and helpful, and it is great to learn from them!

Current projects: Working on implementing dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) on single-sided NMR

Nathan Choi
Chemistry, Fall 2024
Falls Church, Virginia

Favorite ice cream: Cotton Candy

Dream job: Physician

Best part of working in the Meldrum Lab: Everyone is very welcoming and enthusiastic about their respective projects.

Current projects: I will be working on creating a spatially localized polarizing agent media that will increase signal intensity for our DNP NMR.

Aidan Delpino
Eliza Evans
Chemistry, 2026
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Coffee order: Large iced latte

Favorite animal: Cow

Dream job: Broadway pit musician

Best part of working in the Meldrum Lab: Working with some of the best people inside and out of the lab

Current projects: Verifying molecular dynamic simulations

Thomas Felton
John Golding
Shinjer Li
Chemistry, Fall 2024
Vienna, Virginia

Favorite ice cream: Strawberry

Favorite animal: Axolotl

Dream job: Professional food taster

Best part of working in the Meldrum Lab: The passion that everyone has for their projects and the diverse backgrounds of skills and knowledge that everyone brings!

Current projects: I’ll be working on using Hall sensors to map the magnetic field for our magnets and shimming magnets to make them more homogeneous.

Megan Pruitt
Kelly Ann Sutterfield
Chemistry BS, 2026
Euharlee, Georgia

Coffee order: Vanilla almond milk latte with an extra shot

Dream job: Lab director for a big material or pharmaceutical company

Best part of working in the Meldrum Lab: The people and the atmosphere make it a great place to have fun and learn something new.

Current projects: I am working on using NMR to analyze epoxies and curing agents.


Interested in joining the Meldrum lab? Please reach out to Tyler or any group member to learn more. Importantly, you do not need to have a background in magnets, materials, or NMR to join and learn with the group.


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Collaborators

We are fortunate to work on interdisciplinary projects with fantastic collaborators. Here are a few of our science friends: