Weliky Lab - About Us
Postdoctoral Fellow, 1995-97 | NIH
Ph.D., 1995 | The University of Chicago
B.A., 1985 | Swarthmore College
Dr. David Weliky (CV) studied Chemistry and Physics at Swarthmore College, graduating with High Honors. He then worked as an Analytical Chemist at the Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, California. David earned his doctorate in Chemistry at University of Chicago, where he was advised by Takeshi Oka.
David’s Ph. D. projects included infrared-microwave double resonance spectroscopy of small molecules and rotation-vibration spectroscopy of molecular hydrogen solids with molecular deuterium impurities. During the Ph. D., David received a NSF pre-doctoral fellowship and an AT&T Scholarship and spent one summer at Bell Laboratories working with Rob Tycko. David then completed a post-doc with Tycko at the National Institutes of Health and worked on anisotropic NMR correlation spectroscopy and on antibody-bound peptide structure. David began as an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University in January 1998. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2004 and Full Professor in 2009. David received the MSU NatSci Meritorious Faculty Award in 2019.
David works to make the research environment one in which the diversity of backgrounds, experiences, strengths, and challenges among different people is appreciated, with a goal of understanding, accepting, and appreciating these differences among individuals while working together towards discovery of new knowledge of our shared world.
In his “free” time, David enjoys Planet Fitness, visual art, live theater, architecture, and keeping up with public policy, fashion, and food. He is an armchair New Yorker and an avid reader of Wikipedia.
Graduate Research Associates
Noel Chau | Graduate research associate
Forkan Saroar | Graduate research associate
Tahmina Khatun | Graduate research associate
Alumni
Robert Wolfe | Ph. D. 2022
Scientist at Michigan State University
Lihui Jia | Ph. D. 2017
Scientist at Alcon
Li Xie | Ph. D. 2014
Scientist at Michigan State University
Kelly Sackett
Scientist at Pfizer
Yan Sun | Ph. D. 2009
Instructor at Binghamton University
Matthew Gave | Ph. D. 2008
Scientist at SK Siltron CSS
Paul Parkanzky | Ph. D. 2006
Scientist at Amway
Jun Yang | Ph. D. 2003
Scientist at Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic
Scientist at Florida State University
Ujjayini Ghosh | Ph. D. 2016
Scientist at St. Jude's
Koyeli Banerjee | Ph. D. 2014
Health Scientist Administrator at ARHQ/DHHS
Erica Vogel | Ph. D. 2012
Owner of 'Be Like Missy' boutique
Wei Qiang | Ph. D. 2009
Professor at Binghamton University
Zhaoxiong Zheng | Ph. D. 2007
Scientist at Shell Oil
Rong Yang | Ph. D. 2005
Scientist at FDA
Bhagyashree Khunte | M. S. 2001
Scientist at Pfizer Corporation
Scientist at Alcon
Punsisi Ratnayake | Ph. D. 2015
Scientist at Katahdin Analytical Services
Scott Schmick | Ph. D. 2013
Scientist at 3M
Matthew Nethercott | Ph. D. 2012
Scientist at Kansas Analytical Services
Jaime Curtis-Fisk | Ph. D. 2009
Scientist at Dow Chemical
Michele Bodner Mailhot | Ph. D. 2006
Scientist at Colorado State University
Christian Canlas | Ph. D. 2004
Scientist at the King Abdullah University of Science & Technology