Meet the Team

Meet the Team

Principal Investigators

Anne McNeil (she/her)

Anne is currently the Carol A. Fierke Collegiate Professor of Chemistry, Macromolecular Science and Engineering, and the Program in the Environment, at the University of Michigan. She is also an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and HHMI Professor. Prior to Michigan, Anne was a L’Oreal Post-doc Fellow with Prof. Tim Swager at MIT from (2005–2007), earned her PhD from Cornell with Prof. Dave Collum (1999–2004), and graduated summa cum laude with a BS in Chemistry from the College of William and Mary (1999).

Listen to Anne's interview on NPR's Here and Now (April 2026).
Read Anne and Maddie's highlight of the glove contamination paper in The Conversation (April 2026).
Listen to Anne's interview (feat. Takunda, Henry, and Malavika) on Points North (IPR) about capturing microplastics (Jan 2025)

Yan Ying Tan

Postdocs

Allison Gatz

Graduate Students

Avery Long

Graduate Students

Chloe Lucci

Graduate Students

Lauren Meagher

Graduate Students

Malavika Ramkumar

Graduate Students

Amelia Seropian

Graduate Students

Jackson Sweet

Graduate Students

Henry Thurber

Graduate Students

Jack Turnbull

Graduate Students

Jacob Kadir

Rotation Students

Maya Juratli

Undergraduate Students

Samantha Pyatt

Undergraduate Students

Quinn VanZile

Undergraduate Students

Paavani Tewari

High School Student