LNF Users Committee

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This page describes the role and composition of the LNF Users committee.

LNF Users Committee Role

The LNF User Committee is a group of LNF lab users who advise and give feedback to the LNF staff from a student/lab user perspective, and work on ways to improve the lab, promote student camaraderie, stimulate professional interactions among users, and improve the lab community and environment for LNF users. They can be reached at LNFUsercommittee@umich.edu.

LNF Users Committee Membership

Join the LNF Users Committee


2021-2022 LNF Users Committee Members:

  • Ashley Jian
  • Audrey Rose Gutierrez
  • Christopher Allemang
  • Ester Bentley
  • Hannah Masten
  • Robert Hower
  • Michael Barrow
  • Nathan Dvorak
  • Subhajit Mohanty
  • Thomas Daunais
  • Tonglin Lu
  • Eunah Ko


2019-2020 LNF Users Committee Members:

  • Ashley Jian
  • Audrey Rose Gutierrez
  • Christopher Allemang
  • David Laleyan
  • Ester Bentley
  • Hannah Masten
  • Mayur Birla
  • Michael Barrow
  • Nathan Dvorak
  • Sajal Singh
  • Sandra Diez
  • Subhajit Mohanty
  • Thomas Daunais
  • Brian VanderElzen

LNF Users committee Activities

New User Orientation

The LNF users Committee is responsible for guiding the New User orientations Tours. These tours are the first introduction for new users to the inside of the facility. Users are taken on a walk through the facility, where they are shown the gowning/ungowning procedure and they are exposed to clean room etiquette. Users are also shown important safety features like showers, eye wash, fire extinguishers, alarm location, etc. Users are also shown tool location and how it relates to the process flow, kiosks to create, start and end tool reservations, microscopes, computers and supplies are located throughout the lab. The tour includes the main cleanroom, CAD room, LNF store and the ROBIN lab. New users find these tours highly informative and valuable. These tours take place on a weekly basis or as needed and they are hosted by LNF Users Committee volunteers.

Outreach Activities

Senior User

Senior users are volunteer lab users who have extensive experience working in LNF and are willing to help answer questions related to equipment and processes especially during times when LNF staff are not immediately available, such as during week ends or after regular work hours. Senior users have special nametags identifying them as “Senior Users”, green color name tag with a brown border, which indicates that other lab users can approach them with questions. Senior Users are not obliged to help other lab users if they are busy, and there is no expectation that Senior Users would spend more time in the lab than they ordinarily would. Volunteering to be a Senior User would simply mean that if you happen to be in the lab We hope that by having knowledgeable, experienced lab users give advice to newer lab users, the whole community will benefit.


Senior Users 2016

2016 senior Users: Razi Haque, Katherine Knisely, Vikrant Gokhale, Codrin Cionca, Yi Yuan, Yemin (Stacey) Tang, Adam Peczalski, Ali Besharatian, Onnop Srivannavit, Siddharth Gaba, Vikram Thakar, Jaeyoong Cho, and Erkan Aktakka.

2017 New Senior Users

Alex Benken

2018 New Senior Users

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Audrey Rose Mayur Birla Qiwen Wang Saurabh Acharya Chris Allemang Milad Zolfagharloo Koohi

2019 New senior Users

Senior Users 2019


2021 New Senior users

Robert Hower

Social Activities

The LNF Users Committee organizes a variety of social activities such as: Donut hour, Board Game Night, Recipe Swap, the annual BBQ together with the OSUM organization.

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Picture Contest

Please visit LNF Picture Contest page to learn about the this activity from the LNF Users Committee.