{"id":6787,"date":"2024-09-26T13:53:44","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T17:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/?p=6787"},"modified":"2025-09-26T13:53:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T17:53:57","slug":"benjamin-auer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/2024\/09\/26\/benjamin-auer\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Auer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/photonics-programs\/files\/2023\/10\/IMG_9693-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" class=\" wp-image-5075 alignleft\" \/>Ben is from Kansas where he is also attending the University of Kansas as a junior majoring in chemical engineering.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Atomic Substitution of 2D WS2: Exploring Thickness Dependent Reactivity and Preventing Decomposition: <\/b>This summer,\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ben worked with the Ling Group and was mentored by Zifan Wang. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/xi-ling-2023\/\">Read more about the project here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Learn more about Ben&#8217;s REU experience below!<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 56.25% 0 0 0; position: relative;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/913778160?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" title=\"Ben Auer - REU Program Interview\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben is from Kansas where he is also attending the University of Kansas as a junior majoring in chemical engineering.\u00a0\u00a0 Atomic Substitution of 2D WS2: Exploring Thickness Dependent Reactivity and Preventing Decomposition: This summer,\u00a0Ben worked with the Ling Group and was mentored by Zifan Wang. Read more about the project here.\u00a0 Learn more about Ben&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22341,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6789,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6787\/revisions\/6789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}