Luis De Jesus Named Assistant Professor

With support from the DMREF program, we have built and sustained an authentic partnership with the University of Puerto Rico Cayey. One of our UPR students, Luis De Jesus, was a PhD student with Sarbajit Banerjee at Texas A&M.

Sarbajit Banerjee (TAMU) and David F. Watson (Buffalo)

Luis De Jesus and Sarbajit Banerjee pictured at Texas A&M University

With support from the DMREF program, we have built and sustained an authentic partnership with the University of Puerto Rico Cayey. One of our UPR students, Luis De Jesus, was a PhD student with Sarbajit Banerjee at Texas A&M. He was a huge contributor to both the research and outreach aspects of our project. After completing a post-doctoral stint at University of Pennsylvania, Luis has accepted an offer for a tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Chemistry at the University at Buffalo, exemplifying a significant success with training of members of underrepresented groups to a career in academia. Luis is one of several underrepresented minority students with excellent outcomes across our two institutions.

Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF)