My work is under the pharmaceutical manufacturing umbrella with a focus on apparatus design for process control and scale-up (basically: how do we make the thing do what we want). I work at random hours, love quick benchtop experiments and occasional math, don't love anything that involves measuring liquids or writing. Outside the lab, I rock climb, woodwork, and take care of my plants.

As another PhD student under the pharmaceutical umbrella, I have been focusing on utilizing non-planar substrates with organic vapor jet printed materials. From integrating biodegradable polymers into organic vapor jet printed pharmaceutical ingredients to designing drug eluting devices, I have been more focused on the applications organic vapor jet printing can be used for. In my free time, I enjoy watching and playing soccer (go Arsenal).

Daniel Esterkin III

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My work also focuses on utilizing organic vapor jet printing for active pharmaceutical ingredients processing. As a first year, I’m still figuring out my specific focus under this umbrella. Outside of the lab, I like to hike (the wrong hobby to have in AA), play instruments (I play Guzheng, a traditional Chinese string instrument, and am looking to learn electric guitar), cook, and watch/read sci-fi movies/books.

My work centers on organic semiconductor devices that respond to temperature and mechanical force. I explore structure–property relationships using thin films and kirigami-inspired architectures to tune flexibility, sensitivity, and reliability. Outside the lab, I like reading books, visiting museums, and wandering through parks.

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I'm working on creating platforms to culture cells in vitro that will mimic the forces in the cells experience in vivo (eg. how to mimic the forces caused by regular breathing). Outside of the lab I love traveling, crafting, and baking!

I’m an undergrad in materials science, and my current project involves making orodispersible films and testing them with dissolutions. I think high school me would be elated to know I get to mix polymers with drugs and work with such cool people(no but really, I feel so lucky and will miss it when I graduate). In the lab, I enjoy doing experiments, making sure my nose is still working by smelling chemicals after forgetting which one I put in a beaker, leaving PET circles from my experiments everywhere, and blaming my own mistakes on the equipment. If you visit, I WILL make you smell the optics lab to see if you’re the 3rd person who can actually smell it. Outside of the lab, I enjoy making illustrations(I am minoring in art, and hope to illustrate children’s books someday), repeatedly dying in video games, and spending time with my friends.

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