SDII Phase II – 2022-
Lead Investigators
Onur Avci, West Virginia University (WVU)
Sam Easterling, Iowa State University (ISU)
Matt Eatherton, Virginia Tech University (VT)
Jerry Hajjar, Northeastern University (NU)
Ben Schafer, Johns Hopins University (JHU)
Research Faculty/Staff and Post-doctoral Scholars
Shahab Torabian, JHU
Graduate Students
Rajshri Chidambaram Muthu Kumar, JHU (2022-Present)
Sophrenia David, JHU (2023-Present)
Omar Almasarani, VT (2022-Present)
Feras Abla, WVU (2023-Present)
Shahab Rifai, WVU (2023-Present)
Ruiping Liu, NU (2023-Present)
Nick Briggs, NU (2022-Present)
Sujit Bhandari, NU (2023-Present)
Bayley St. Jacques, NU (2022-2023)
Matthew Chellali, NU (2022-2023)
Abigail Desa, NU (2022-2023)
Maria Mercado, VT (2022-2023)
Cas Caswell, JHU (2022-2023)
Undergraduates
Ben Opie, WVU (2023-Present)
Please contact lead investigators.
SDII Phase I – 2015-2021
Lead Investigators
Sam Easterling, VT (SDII Year 2-)
Matt Eatherton, VT
Jerry Hajjar, NEU
Cris Moen, VT (SDII Year 1)
Rafael Sabelli, WPM
Ben Schafer, JHU
Research Faculty/Staff and Post-doctoral Scholars
Shahab Torabian, JHU
David Padilla-Llano, NEU (SDII Year 1-2)
Kyle Coleman, NEU (SDII Year 2-5)
Paul Bergson, NEU (SDII Year 5)
Graduate Students
Robert Bailey Bond (SDII Year 4-5)
Nicholas Evans Briggs, NEU (SDII Year 3-5)
Astrid Winther Fischer, JHU (SDII Year 2-5)
Hamid Foroughi, JHU (SDII Year 3-5)
Chris Jackson, VT&NEU (SDII Year 5)
Raul Avellaneda Ramirez, VT (SDII Year 3-5)
Gengrui Wei, VT (SDII Year 3-5)
Guanbo Bian, JHU (SDII Year 1 and 2)
Pat O’Brien, VT (SDII Year 1 and 2)
Basit Qayyum, VT (SDII Year 2 and 3)
Yifei Shi, VT (SDII Year 3)
Mithila Bhagavathi Madhavan, NEU (SDII Year 3-4)
Shoaling Li, NEU (SDII Year 2)
Bayley St. Jacques, NEU (SDII Year 5)
Abigail Desa, NEU (SDII Year 5)
Undergraduates
Natasha Leipziger Mundis, NEU (SDII Year 4)
Colin Hug, NEU (SDII Year 4)
Several more, not listed here.. contact lead investigators at specific schools for the complete list.
External Collaborators
Michael Seek, ODU