Alumnus Michael Otley is now a postdoctoral fellow on the team of one of the 2016 Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry, Dr. J. Fraser Stoddart, at Northwestern University. During Michael Otley’s graduate studies in the Sotzing Group (Ph.D. Organic Chemistry, 2015), Michael focused on developing the next generation of organic electronics using conductive polymers.

Currently, Michael is still working with organic electronics but now uses macrocycles instead of polymers in the Stoddart Group. He has developed a self-assembly system of redox-active macrocycles to form ‘nanotubes’ for membrane applications, and also works on energy storage by using rigid redox-active macrocycles for organic rechargeable batteries.