People
Principal Investigator
Prof. Eve Mozur
Assistant Professor, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Eve grew up outside of Boston, in the town where the Salem Witch Trials happened (not Salem!). She graduated from Reed College in Portland, OR with a B.A. in Chemistry. She completed her PhD in Chemistry in the lab of Prof. Jamie Neilson at Colorado State University, investigating the role of organic cation dynamics in hybrid perovskites for photovoltaics. After earning her PhD, Eve worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the Materials Research Laboratory at the University of California Santa Barbara under Prof. Ram Seshadri. There, she studied the effects of composition on the formation of large magnetic bodies, such as skyrmions. When not at Mines campus, Eve spends her time reading fiction, hiking, camping, and baking.
Office: Hill Hall 356
Contact: evemozur@mines.edu
POstDoctoral Researchers
Anupam Biswas
Anupam is from Kolkata, India, and earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Janardan Kandu at the National Chemical Laboratory, India, where he studied organic–inorganic hybrid and perovskite materials. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Seokhyoung Kim at Michigan State University on the CVD growth of 2D halide perovskites. Anupam later joined Prof. Sumit Agarwal and Prof. Matthew Crane at Colorado School of Mines to understand the degradation mechanisms of hole transport layers (HTLs) in perovskite solar cells. He subsequently joined Prof. Eve Mozur to study the magnetic and dielectric properties of hybrid and perovskite materials. Outside the lab, Anupam enjoys cooking and learning about new technology
graduate Researchers
Jordan Sweeney
Jordan grew up in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania (Amish country!). She moved to Florida in high school where she fell in love with electrochemistry doing her first big project on batteries. She spent her undergrad at the University of Florida, receiving a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering with a certificate in Semiconductor Materials. Her undergraduate research consisted of writing scripts in Python to help interpret TEM images, particularly improper ferroelectrics for her honors thesis. Her first internship was at Materion where she worked on beryllium copper alloys. She also spent a summer here at Mines with the Maughan group working on antiperovskite electrolytes. Outside of the lab, Jordan loves synchronized swimming, reading murder mysteries, and playing several musical instruments.
Nathan Cretegny
Nathan Cretegny is a second year PhD student in the Material Science Program, advised by Dr. Eve Mozur. He started his PhD at Colorado School of Mines after receiving a B.S. and M.S. in Material Science and Engineering from Clemson University, where his research focused on protonic ceramic fuel cells. He now works in collaboration with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory researching hybrid materials and inorganic perovskites for various sensing applications. Outside the lab he enjoys hiking, skiing, and cooking.
Jack Forbord
Originally from Oakland, California, Jack earned his B.S. in Chemistry from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont California. His undergraduate research spanned gas separation membranes and photovoltaics, culminating in a senior thesis focused on thin-layer deposition and quantum dot solar cell design. Outside of the lab, Jack enjoys climbing, weightlifting, hiking, skiing, and reading fantasy and sci-fi novels.
Siah Vernon
Siah Vernon is a Colorado Native who loves skiing, hiking mountains, and anything outdoors. After getting his undergraduate at Northern Arizona University, he returned to Colorado to obtain his PhD in Chemistry. Working on the Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Materials portion of our research, he is hoping to classify a subset of HOIMs capable of magneto electric coupling by understanding by understanding how internal interactions and dimensionality impacts their formations and functional properties.
UnDERgraduate Researchers
Andrew hope
Andrew grew up outside of Minneapolis, Minnesota. In high school, Andrew fell in love with chemistry after doing an independent study of nickel electroplating. He decided to escape the frozen swamp of Minnesota and study material engineering at Colorado School of Mines. When he isn’t studying or in the lab, Andrew is an avid skier, mountaineer, and rock climber. Over the summer Andrew worked in the steel industry optimizing the steel recycling process and alloy recovery. He hopes to use his experience in industry to aid his research.
Douglas Sides
Doug is a second-year undergraduate student, studying physics.
Victoria Wilson
Victoria is a second-year mechanical engineering student. She became interested in chemistry while in high school in Houston, Texas, and after a brief hiatus, is pursuing it again through the hybrid materials project. Outside of school, she enjoys playing clarinet and saxophone, weightlifting, and Scrabble.
Alumni
Undergraduate Researchers
Bryce Walsh (2023 – 2025)
Aryn Loew (2024-2025)
Emily Stec (2023-2024)
Claire Vozel (2022-2023)
REU Participants
Douglas Sides (Red Rocks Community College)
Kieran McDonnell (Haverford College)
Julissa Cesareo (University of California Santa Barbara)
Corryn Hiers (Arapaho Community College)
