We are looking for creative and motivated graduate and undergraduate researchers to join the lab.
Please email Prof. Osborn Popp for more information.

Group Members

email: osbornpt [at] oregonstate.edu
tomosbornpopp [at] gmail.com

Prof. Thomas M. Osborn Popp

Biography. Tom began his research career while working on his B.S. in chemistry at Arizona State University, using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to study arthropod silks, followed by a short research stint at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM, measuring diffusion of molecules within porous carbons with NMR. He then went on to obtain a Ph.D. in physical chemistry at the University of California Berkeley, using solid state NMR to study the structure and properties of metal-organic and covalent organic framework materials (MOFs, COFs). After completing his Ph.D., he spent a year as a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zürich developing new methodology and hardware for solid state NMR and dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) experiments. In 2021, Tom was awarded an Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Instrumentation at Rutgers University to develop NMR instrumentation to address challenging biomolecular problems such as the localization of peripheral membrane proteins on phospholipid membranes and high-pressure biology. As of September, 2023, he is currently an assistant professor of chemistry in the Department of Chemistry, working on developing new NMR methods and technology to study complexity in material and biological systems.

Awards
2021. Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Instrumentation
2018. Chevron-UC Berkeley Graduate Fellowship
2015. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
2015. Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley

Hobbies
Walking in nature, making homemade fruit wines, playing piano and bass, video games, watching youtube videos and anime, dinner with friends.

Graduate Students

email: scidaa [at] oregonstate.edu

Alexis Scida

Biography. Alexis is a Ph.D. student in materials science, who received her Bachelors of Science in Chemistry from Stony Brook University, in 2018. Alexis’ research throughout her undergraduate has covered a variety of areas, including ice core analysis for climate change, water purification, nanomaterials, and instrumentation, however her deep seated passion for automotives and environmental protection lead her to pursue her graduate research in battery technology. Here, she has specialized in learning unique instrumentation techniques to understand fundamental chemistry of aqueous electrolytes. Alexis is primarily advised by Prof. David Ji, and co-advised by Prof. Tom Osborn Popp.

Research interests. Carbon structures for anode materials, interactions in aqueous electrolytes, decomposition of electrolyte additives for SEI formation.
Hobbies. Mountain biking, skiing, ski mountaineering, rock climbing, scuba diving, anything and everything outside!