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Maria Alexandra Gomez, Elizabeth Page Greenwalt Professor of Chemistry, studies ion conduction through a combination of ab initio and graph theory methods. She is one of the founding members of MERCURY and directs the Passport to Chemistry Adventure Program.
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Shirui Li , class of 2025, is a chemistry and statistics double major. Shirui studies the effect of an oxygen vacancy on proton conduction pathways in scandium-doped barium zirconate. She enjoys playing the piano, soccer, cooking, musical movies, traveling and making plans.
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Anh Dao, class of 2026, is a mathematics major. Anh is exploring how to extract from a centrality image map including an electric field, the key areas measured in impedance spectroscopy. Anh enjoys playing instruments, traveling, skiing, doing yoga and the Big Bang Theory series.
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Ada Siepmann, class of 2026, is a double major in chemistry and chemical engineering. Ada studies the proton pair motion in yttrium-doped barium zirconate after a second proton gets added. Ada is part of the Mount Holyoke varsity soccer team and enjoys doing sports, reading books, and spending time with her friends.
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Puja Chakraborty, Class of 2027 is a chemistry major. She is investigating how to identify key areas from a centrality image map including an electric field. Her favorite physical phenomenon is quantum superposition. She loves rock music and her cat.