Experience

D'Youville University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Associate Professor Of Chemistry

  • Aug 2019 - Present

• Assistant Professor of Chemistry

  • Aug 2010 - Present

  Soja, G.; Awad, M.; Tyrpak, S.; Hinterberger, E. Surface and Interface Analysis. 2019; I 51: 791.



University at Buffalo (UB)

• Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Mar 2010 - Aug 2010

  Adviser: Dr. Esther S. Takeuchi Worked in the Advanced Power Sources Laboratory in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. My research dealt with optimizing Lithium-ion battery systems. Adviser: Dr. Esther S. Takeuchi Worked in the Advanced Power Sources Laboratory in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. My research dealt with optimizing Lithium-ion battery systems.



Drexel University

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  • Dec 2008 - Feb 2010

  Adviser: Dr. Jonathan E. Spanier Worked within the Materials Science and Engineering Department. My projects involved vapor phase deposition of complex metal oxides, and synthesis of binary hybrid nanocrystals. ■ Nonnenmann, S.; Galo, E.; Coster, M.; Soja, G.; Johnson, C.; Joseph, R.; Spanier, J. Applied Physics Letters, 2009. 95, 232903. Adviser: Dr. Jonathan E. Spanier Worked within the Materials Science and Engineering Department. My projects involved vapor phase deposition of complex metal oxides, and synthesis of binary hybrid nanocrystals. ■ Nonnenmann, S.; Galo, E.; Coster, M.; Soja, G.; Johnson, C.; Joseph, R.; Spanier, J. Applied Physics Letters, 2009. 95, 232903.



University at Buffalo

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Student

  • Aug 2004 - Dec 2008

  Adviser: Dr. David F. Watson Investigated self-assembly strategies of inorganic nanomaterials to surfaces. Combined this self-assembly chemistry with monolayer photolithography for site specific assembly on nanocrystalline titania films. Applied this substrate-catalyzed technique to other surface adsorbed species, such as porphyrins, which are currently being researched by others as chromophores for solar energy conversion. Studied binary mixed monolayer systems, which are also… Show more Adviser: Dr. David F. Watson Investigated self-assembly strategies of inorganic nanomaterials to surfaces. Combined this self-assembly chemistry with monolayer photolithography for site specific assembly on nanocrystalline titania films. Applied this substrate-catalyzed technique to other surface adsorbed species, such as porphyrins, which are currently being researched by others as chromophores for solar energy conversion. Studied binary mixed monolayer systems, which are also implemented for preferential assembly of nanomaterials to interfaces. Discovered a temporal evolution of the films composition after saturation coverage. Exploited these compositional changes, due to covalent interactions between surfactant molecules, for precise tuning of surface functionality. ■ Mann, J.; Nevins, J.; Soja,G.; Wells, D.; Levy, S.; Marsh, D.; Watson, D. Langmuir, 2009. 25, 12217. ■ Soja,G.; Watson, D. Langmuir, 2009. 25, 5398. ■ Soja, G.; Mann, J.; Watson, D. Langmuir, 2008. 24, 5249. ■ *Dibbell, R.; *Soja, G.; Hoth, R.; Watson, D. Langmuir, 2007. 23, 3432. (* Contributed Equally)

• Teaching Assistant

  • 2004 - 2006

  Supervised and taught general chemistry laboratory, general chemistry for engineers, and advanced inorganic chemistry



University of Rochester

• REU Student

  • Jun 2003 - Aug 2003

  Adviser: Dr. Richard Eisenberg National Science Foundation funded 10-week REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates). Performed organometallic chemical synthesis, working on Pt-based chemical systems for solar energy conversion. Adviser: Dr. Richard Eisenberg National Science Foundation funded 10-week REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates). Performed organometallic chemical synthesis, working on Pt-based chemical systems for solar energy conversion.