The list of members of the CHESS External Advisory Committee and the CHESS Users' Executive Committee
Advisory Bodies

External Advisory Committee

G. Brian Stephenson

Don Bilderback
School of Applied and Engineering Physics
Cornell University
dhb2@cornell.edu

Paul G. Evans
Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison
evans@engr.wisc.edu

Robert Fischetti
Life Sciences Advisor to the APS Director
GM/CA Group Leader
Argonne National Laboratory
rfischetti@anl.gov

Robert (Bob) Hettel
Director of the Advanced Photon Source Upgrade Project
Argonne National Laboratory
rhettel@anl.gov

Lee Makowski
Professor Bioengineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
National Synchrotron Light Source
Northeastern University
l.makowski@neu.edu

David Rubin

Michael Sangid
Elmer F. Bruhn Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Prof of Materials Engineering
msangid@purdue.edu

Brian E. Schuster, Ph.D.
Metallurgical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering
The University of Texas at El Paso

Jean Jordan-Sweet
IBM Research Division
National Synchrotron Light Source
Brookhaven National Laboratory
jlj@bnl.gov
Users' Executive Committee

Lymari Fuentes-Claudio
(Chair, 2024)
Natural Sciences
Universidad Ana G. Mendez, Cupey Campus in San Juan, Puerto Rico
lfuentes@uagm.edu

William Thomas
(2024)
Postdoctoral Associate
University of California, Berkeley
wct44@cornell.edu

Ashley Buscek
(2025)
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
University of Michigan
abucsek@umich.edu

Kushol Gupta
(2025)
Research Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of Pennsylvania
kgupta@upenn.edu

Lisandro Cunci
(2026)
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus

Alberto de la Torre Duran
(2026)
Assistant Professor of Physics
Northeastern University