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GIANTFab Personnel

Learn about the personel in the GIANTLab and their backgrounds below. See a full list of our faculty or our faculty advisory committee.

GIANTFab Faculty Director

Michael R. Wasielewski

Michael R. Wasielewski

Michael R. Wasielewski is the Clare Hamilton Hall Professor of Chemistry and the Executive Director of the Paula M. Trienens Insitute for Sustainability and Energy. Professor Wasielewski meets regularly with the Operations Director to provide oversight, guidance, and direction to the core facility.

GIANTFab Business Administrator

James Puricelli

James Puricelli

Email: jp@northwestern.edu

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.

GIANTFab Financial Administrator

Olga Loevski

Olga Loevski

Email: o-loevski@northwestern.edu

Olga Loevski supports the administrative and financial operations of the Paula M. Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy and the Center of Catalysis and Surface Science. Olga holds a Bachelor and a Master of Arts in Language and Literature (Spanish and English) form Kyiv State Linguistic University (Ukraine), and she received the certification in Business and Accounting from the School of Professional Studies at Northwestern.