Professor Marc A. Anderson Lab of Sol-Gel Chemistry

welcome to our world of environmental technologies

Site Outline

•  History

   - students

   - visitors

•  Materials

   - characterization

   - synthesis

•  Applications

   - water treatment

   - air treatment

   - energy storage

   - sensors

   - self clean surfaces

   - CO₂ purification

•  Papers and Patents


Web Sites of Interest

   - UW-Madison

   - WARF

   - Ur-Water

   - Imdea

   - MOST

UW Madison Students (Postions Uncertain)

John Hassett, Ph.D. 1978, Professor, Chair of Chemistry, State University of NY at Syracuse

Dean Malotky, Ph.D. 1978, Vice-President, Barr Engineering, Minneapolis, MN

Dennis Iverson, Ph.D. 1980, Research Associate, International Paper Co., Cincinnati Ohio Retired

Robert Stanforth, Ph.D. 1981, Professor of Chemistry, University of Singapore, Singapore

Kirsti Sorsa, Ph.D. 1983, Environmental Chemist, Madison Health Department, Madison, WI

Thomas DeFouw, M.S. 1984

Nicholas T. Loux, Ph.D. 1985, Athens Env. Research Lab, Athens, GA

Douglas Hansmann, Ph.D. 1985, Research Chemist, Retired

Michael Machesky, Ph.D. 1986, Environmental Chemist, Illinois Water Survey, Champaign, IL (deceased 2024)

Walter Zeltner, Ph.D. 1986, Researcher, Water Chemistry Program, Madison, WI Retired

Eric Yost, Ph.D. 1986, Environmental Engineer, Minneapolis, MN

Mark Knaebe, M.S. 1987, Forrest Products Laboratory, Madison, WI

Simonetta Tunesi, Ph.D. 1990, Environmental Consulting Engineer, Bologna, Italy

Quinyin Xu, Ph.D. 1990, Plainsboro, NJ

Mary Gieselman, Ph.D. 1991, Scientist, Dow Chemical, Midland, MI

Vincent Hackley, Ph.D. 1991, Scientist, National Inst. of Standards and Tech., Gaithersburg, MD

Barry Verdegan, Ph.D. 1992, Senior Scientist, Cummins, Stoughton, WI

Bischoff, Ph.D. 1992, Staff Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN

Dong Hyung Kim, Ph.D. 1993, Chief Environmental Chemist, Korean Electric Power, Seoul, Korea

Fernando Tiscerano, Ph.D. 1992, Joint with Prof. C.G. Hill Jr.,, Prof. of Chem. Eng., Univ. of Celya, Mexico

Lane Tickanen, Ph.D. 1994 (Deceased) Staff Environmental Scientist, RMT Co., Madison, WI

Dan Gapen, Joint with Prof. C.G. Hill Jr., M.S. 1993

Morgan Edwards, Joint with Prof. C.G. Hill Jr., Ph.D. 1994

Reid Peterson, Joint with Prof. C.G. Hill Jr., Ph.D. 1995, Pacific Northwest Laboratories, Redmond, WA

Lixin Chu, Ph.D. 1995, Research Scientist, Kodak, Rochester, NY


Forrest Shultz, Ph.D. 1997, Professor in Chemistry, UW-Stout, Menomonie, WI

Kuo-Chuan Liu, Ph.D. 1996,Dept. Director, Backend Tech. and Serv. Company, Hsinchu Taiwan

Elizabeth Webster, Ph.D. 1999, Joint with Prof. C. Hill Jr.

Larry Miller, Ph.D. 1999, Professor, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago IL

Jim Duffy, Ph.D. 1999, Consulting Engineer, San Francisco, CA

Debbie Bell, Ph.D. 1999, Joint with Prof. C.G. Hill Jr. Research Scientist, Dupont Laboratories, DE

Suh Cem Pang, Ph.D. 2000, Associate Professor, University of Sarawak, Malaysia

Suk-Fun Chin, M.S. 2000, Scientist, University of Sarawak, Malaysia,

John Akawat Sirisuk, Joint with Prof. C.G. Hill Jr., Ph.D. 2003, Assist. Professor, Chulalongkom University, Bangkok, Thailand

Sho Kataoko, Ph.D. 2003, Scientist, National Laboratories of Japan

Eunkyu Lee Ph.D. 2004, Research Engineer, A.O. Smith, Milwaukee WI

Joanna Skluzacek, Ph.D. 2005, Staff Member, Univ. Wisc. Extension, Madison, WI

Jeffrey Brownson, Ph.D. 2005, Staff Scientist, Penn State, University Park, PA

Troy Twesme, Ph.D. 2006, Lt. Colonel, US Air Force

Ken Walz, Ph.D. 2006, Chemistry Instructor, Madison Area Technical College, Madison, WI

Rhong Zhang, Ph.D. 2006, Laboratory Manager, Jackson State University, Jackson Mississippi

Rodolfo Perez, PhD 2008, Joint with Prof. Noguera, Post Doctoral Staff, Env. Chem and Tech. Prog. UW Madison

Juan Francisco Munoz, PhD 2009, Post Doctoral Candidate, Fed Hwy. Admin. Washington DC

Yukihiro Hara, PhD 2011, Post Doctoral Staff, Univ. of North Carolina, Raleigh NC

Kevin Leonard, PhD 2011, Post Doctoral Staff, Univ. Texas, Austin, TX

Jessica Sanfilippo, PhD 2012, Post Doctoral Staff, Fed Hwy. Admin. Washington DC

Rachel Moss, PhD 2012, Environmental Engineer at Amazon in Seattle Washington.

Kevin Francforter, PhD 2018, Senior Scientist at C-Motive, Middleton Wisconsin