People

Mary Jane Shultz


Professor, Department of Chemistry
Pearson Chemistry Laboratory
62 Talbot Avenue
Tufts University  
Medford, MA 02155

Laboratory: P100
Office: P100-D
Tel: 617-627-3477
Fax: 617-627-3443
E-mail: Mary.Shultz@tufts.edu

B.S., 1970, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
1970-1971, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
Ph.D., 1975, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Current Members

Ziqing Xiong
Ph.D. Candidate

Ziqing comes from Hunan Province, China. He spent most of his effort researching on electrochemical cataysis in Xinguo Li’s Group (Peking University, 2017-2019) as an undergraduate student, and worked on electrochemial nitrogen reduction in Jeremy Smith Group (Indiana University Bloomington, 2019-2020) as a visiting scholar. With a interest of physical chemistry and instrumental designs, he joined Shultz Lab in 2020 as PhD student in Tufts University and started working on Nonlinear Interferometer and Amonia-air Interfaces. Ziqing has a wide range of hobbies in his spare time especially watching dramas and live music.

Zhenyu Lin
Ph.D. Candidate

Zhenyu grew up in Shanghai, China and graduated with B.S in Chemistry from Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY in 2021. He joined Shultz Group as a Master student in 2021 focusing on titanium dioxide photocatalyst based organic pollutant photo degradation research. He finished the Master’s program by the end of 2022 and keep doing research on the same topic as a Ph.D. student starting from 2023.

Rubel Talukder
Postdoctoral scholar

Rubel grew up in Bangladesh and graduated with B.S. in Applied Physics, Electronics & Communication Engineering from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 2012 and completed his MSc and PhD from the University of Manitoba, Canada in 2016 and 2023, respectively. He joined Shultz Group as a Postdoctoral Scholar in January 2025 focusing on phase sensitive sum frequency generation spectroscopy of Ice, PVA, titanium dioxide films.

Alumni

Ph.D. Alumni
Steve Baldelli, Ph.D 1998 | Professor, University of Houston
Cheryl Schnitzer, Ph.D. 1999 | Associate Professor of Physical and Environmental
Chemistry, Stonehill College
Danielle Simonelli, Ph.D. 2000 | Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR
Henning Groenzin, Ph.D. 2007 | MB-Technology GmbH, Germany
Irene Li, Ph.D. 2008 | Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Margaret Kuo, Ph.D. 2008
Faith Dukes, Ph.D. 2013 | Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Patrick Bisson, Ph.D. 2013 | Research Scientist, Cambridge Polymer Group, Inc.
Tuan Vu, Ph.D. 2014 | Technologist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jing Wang, Ph.D. 2017 |
Joam Marmolejos, Ph.D. 2022 | Lecturer, UMass Boston
Nicolas Anderson, Ph.D. 2022 I Scientist I, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
Rebecca Lynch, Ph.D. 2024 I Associate, Global Prior Art
Emma Gubbins, Ph.D. 2025 I
Master Alumni
Carolyn Gin, M.S. 2002
Noelani Kamelanela, M.S. 2008 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Karen Batchelder, M.S. 2017
Amanda Carey, M.S. 2019 | Chemical Safety Officer, Tufts University
Rui Liang M.S. 2019
Allyson MacInnis, M.S. 2023
Bachelor Alumni
Sarah Kalin, B.S. 2009 | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, and Flom LLP
Bryce Meyer, B.S. 2013
Alexandra Brumberg, B.S. 2016 | Graduate Student, Northwestern University
Jordin Metz, B.S. 2016 | Graduate Student, Rice University
Joshua Golubovsky, B.S. 2016
Thien Khuu, B.S. 2018 | Graduate Student, Yale University
Kenny Huang, B.S. 2019
Robert Joseph, B.S. 2020
Mitch Shapiro-Albert, B.S. 2022
Drew Hyde
Postdoctoral Researcher
Chuan-Yi Wang, Postdoc 2006 | Professor, Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry,
China
Patrick Bisson, Postdoc 2020 | Research Scientist, Cambridge Polymer Group, Inc.

Associate Alumni

Tongzhou Xu, Visiting Graduate Scholar 2019