{"id":42,"date":"2025-08-12T18:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T18:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chem.fsu.edu\/~latturner\/?page_id=42"},"modified":"2025-08-12T21:07:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T21:07:32","slug":"the-group","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.chem.fsu.edu\/~latturner\/index.php\/the-group\/","title":{"rendered":"The Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Group:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Susan Latturner<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amir Zarei<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Md Sahab Uddin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Olufemi Araoyinbo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Justin Oh<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rofiat Sowemimo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Farjana Chaity<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much thanks to the FSU undergraduates contributing to our research: Luke Marzano, Katelyn Wix, Emily Cope, Ben Schwartz, and many others!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Group News:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to Dr. James Larson for defending his dissertation in April 2023!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to Katelyn for graduating; best of luck starting grad school at Univ. North Carolina in Fall 2023!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Juan Hernandez, Md Sahab Uddin, and Amir Zarei joined the group in Fall 2022. Welcome to the group!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to Dr. Jo Haddock for defending her dissertation in July 2022!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zach Barton joined the group in Fall 2020. Welcome to the group!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary Hertz and Wes Potter defended their dissertations via Zoom in June 2020! Congrats, doctors!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Larson joined the group in Spring 2020. Welcome to the group!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary Hertz and Dr. Latturner spent a week at the Spallation Neutron Source at ORNL in November 2019 collecting single crystal neutron diffraction data on complex metal hydrides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to Jo Haddock for advancing to candidacy in August 2019!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tate Engstrand and Guillermo Vasquez defended their dissertations in June 2019. Congratulations, Doctors!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guillermo Vasquez and Dr. Latturner spent a week at ORNL in October 2018 collecting in-situ neutron powder diffraction data on magnesium flux reactions, observing the crystallization of two silicide intermetallics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wes Potter and Dr. Latturner spent a week at ORNL in January 2018 collecting neutron diffraction data on a single crystal of a new uranium intermetallic compound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Ashini Jayasinghe joined the group in Fall 2017 to work on uranium intermetallics as part of the Center for Actinide Science and Technology. Welcome to the group!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mary Hertz standing on the TOPAZ beamline at the Spallation Neutron Source. The spallation happens in the round concrete bunker behind her; the resulting neutron beam travels in the channel beneath her feet to hit the crystal in the TOPAZ diffractometer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Group Alumni:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ashini Jayasinghe (now Glenn Seaborg Distinguished Postdoctoral Associate at Idaho National Laboratory)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary Hertz (now Instructor at Air Force Academy)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wes Potter (now at Valdosta State University)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guillermo Vasquez<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tate Engstrand<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matt Dickman (now at University of North Florida)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ryan Groom (now at Starfire Energy in Colorado)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sixuan Zhou (now at Samsung)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xiaowei Ma (now at E-One Moli Energy (Canada))<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Julia Zaikina (now at Iowa State University)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evan Benbow (now Development Scientist at Eos Energy Storage)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Milorad Stojanovic (now Adjunct Prof. at U. South Alabama)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeff Whalen (now at National High Magnetic Field Lab)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gina Canfield (now at Tyndall AFB Air Force Research Lab)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parisa Mahjoor (now teaching at Cal State Fullerton, UCLA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Lang (now at Intercat Inc.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patricia Tucker (nee Reynolds) (now at Guardian Industries)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trevor Blankenship<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kurt Silsby<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Group Pictures<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wes Potter looking at the reactor pool at the ORNL High Flux Isotope Reactor, and working with Dr. Huibo Cao on the 4-circle single crystal neutron diffractometer on beamline HB-3a.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Trevor Blankenship and Dr. Latturner went to the SNS at ORNL in Nov 2013, to collect neutron diffraction data on the TOPAZ diffractometer.see pictures<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xiaowei Ma and Dr. Latturner spent a week at the High Flux Isotope Reactor at ORNL in Jan. 2013, collecting neutron diffraction data. see pictures<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Farewell dinner for Xiaowei at Kool Beanz, Nov. 2013: Josiah, Xiaowei, Sixuan, Danielle, Trevor, Daniel, Ryan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Xiaowei and Trevor at NASSCC 2013, along with Corey Thompson and Kirill Kovnir.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Parisa and Gina at graduation, Fall 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Group: Dr. Susan Latturner Amir Zarei Md Sahab Uddin Olufemi Araoyinbo Justin Oh Rofiat Sowemimo Farjana Chaity Much thanks to the FSU undergraduates contributing to our research: Luke Marzano, Katelyn Wix, Emily Cope, Ben Schwartz, and many others! Group News: Congratulations to Dr. James Larson for defending his dissertation in April 2023! Congratulations to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-42","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chem.fsu.edu\/~latturner\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chem.fsu.edu\/~latturner\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chem.fsu.edu\/~latturner\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chem.fsu.edu\/~latturner\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chem.fsu.edu\/~latturner\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.chem.fsu.edu\/~latturner\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/www.chem.fsu.edu\/~latturner\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chem.fsu.edu\/~latturner\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}