GIANTFab - Personnel

GIANTFab Operations Director

Nathan La Porte is a Research Assistant Professor in the Chemistry Department. He obtained his B.A. in chemistry from Swarthmore College in 2008, and his PhD in chemistry from the University of Chicago in 2015. He was advised there by Michael Hopkins. He started at Northwestern in 2015 as a postdoc in Michael Wasielewski’s lab, and has remained here since. Nathan and Prof. Wasielewski started GIANTFab in the fall of 2019.
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GIANTFab Faculty Director

Michael R. Wasielewski is the Clare Hamilton Hall Professor of Chemistry and the Executive Director of the Insitute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern (ISEN). Professor Wasielewski meets regularly with the Operations Director to provide oversight, guidance, and direction to the core facility.

GIANTFab Business Administrator

James Puricelli was hired as the Business Administrator for the Center for Catalysis and Surface Science (CCSS) in August of 2011. He received his Master’s in Healthcare Administration from Washington University in Saint Louis in 1999 and has more than 24 year of experience in operations and research administration in various healthcare and academic institutions. Contact

GIANTFab Financial Adminstrator

Sean Irwin supports aspects of the day to day operations of the ISEN central offices. In addition to working with ISEN’s individual centers, he is responsible for supporting ISEN’s academic certificate program with leadership and faculty. He has a Bachelors of Arts in Sociology from Eastern Illinois, and is currently pursuing a Masters of Public Policy and Administration at Northwestern. Contact

Northwestern Faculty Advisory Committee

• Prof. Tobin Marks – Chemistry
• Prof. Mark Hersam – Materials Science and Engineering
• Prof. Mercouri Kanatzidis – Chemistry