Front row left to right: Fernando Carmona, Yong Zhang, Yinke Jiang, Ed Maginn, Barnabas Agbodekhe, and Dinis Abranches.
Back row: Eliseo Marin Rimoldi, Daniel Kim, Cole Strickling, Montana Carlozo, Ryan Smith, Eseban Cea Klapp, and Gabriela Barreto Correa.
Previous Group Phot
Principal Investigator
Edward Maginn
Keough-Hesburgh Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Professors, Postdocs and Staff Scientists
Graduate Students
Visitors
Alumni and current position
Ning Wang, PhD 2024; postdoc, University of Illinois
Dinis Abranches (joint with Yamil Colón), PhD 2024; University of Aveiro
Ryan Smith, PhD 2024; National Energy Technology Lab
Yinke Jiang, MS 2024
Bridgette Befort (joint with Alex Dowling), PhD 2022; Diveplane Corp.
Derrick Poe, PhD 2022; Siemens Digital Industries
Haimeng Wang, PhD 2022; OTI Lumionics
Andy Wang, postdoc, 2020-2022; Argonne National Lab
Ryan DeFever, postdoc 2019-2021; Phillips66
Garrett Tow, PhD 2021; Army Research Lab
Juliane Fiates, 2019, School of Chemical Engineering, University of Campinas, Brazil
Michael Humbert, PhD 2019; Best Buy
Yushan Zhang, PhD 2019; McKinsey and Company
Ken Newcomb, PhD 2019: University of South Florida
Jacob Gerace, MS 2019.
Matthew Howenstein, BS 2018; BrandMuscle
Sheridan Foy, BS 2018, Epic
Dr. Jingqui Wang, visiting professor, 2018: Nanjing University, China.
Ryan Mullen, postdoc, 2016-2018: Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
Quintin Sheridan, PhD 2017: Institutional Cash Distributors
Brian Yoo, PhD 2017: Fero Labs.
Eliseo Marin-Rimoldi, PhD 2017: University of Notre Dame
Andreas Bröhl, visiting Fulbright student, 2015: Bayer Pharmaceuticals
Samir Budhathoki, PhD 2015: National Energy Technology Lab.
Surya Prakash Tiwari, PhD 2015: National Energy Technology Lab.
Akihiro Otani, visiting PhD student, 2014-2015: Kobe University, Japan.
Daniele Kerlé, postdoc, 2013-2015: University of Dortmund, Germany.
Chris Dearolf, BS 2015: process engineer, Hospira, Clayton, NC.
Andrea Reveco, visiting PhD student, 2014: Pontifical University of Chile.
Katie Maerzke, postdoc, 2012-2014: staff scientist, Los Alamos National Lab.
Sandip Khan, postdoc, 2012-2014: professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Patna.
Ramesh Singh, postdoc, 2012-2014: University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown.
Akash Sharma, PhD, 2011-2013: deceased. PhD awarded posthumously, 2015.
Hao Wu, PhD 2013: Solidenergy Systems
Amir Vahid, postdoc 2013: postdoc, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University
Andrew Paluch, PhD 2013: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Paper Engineering, Miami University
Marcos Perez-Blanco, PhD 2013: Ingersoll-Rand
Dave Smith, BS 2013: graduate student, Department of Chemical Engineering, UC Santa Barbara
Dan Cryan, BS 2012: analyst, Accenture
Cameron Vitter, BS 2011: BlackBrush Oil and Gas, LP
Vladimer Pomogaev, postdoc 2011-2012: Associate Professor, Tomsk State University
Neeraj Rai, postdoc 2009-2012: Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Mississippi State University
Hongjun Liu, postdoc 2009-2012: postdoc, Oak Ridge National Lab
Pavi Tiruppathi, MS 2011: Syntellect, Chicago, IL
Craig Powers, PhD 2011: software developer, Aspen Technology
Craig Tenney, postdoc 2008-2011: staff scientist, Sandia National Lab
Tom Rosch, postdoc 2008-2010: staff scientist, National Institue of Standards and Technology
Bryce Chung, BS 2010: Neuroscientist and business strategist
Sai Jayaraman, PhD 2009: researcher, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Wei Shi, postdoc 2005-2008: staff scientist, National Energy Technology Lab
Keith Gutowski, postdoc 2006-2008: researcher, BASF
Manish Kelkar, PhD 2008: researcher, AbbVie
Brian Novak, PhD 2008: postdoc Louisiana State University
Nate Stober, BS 2007: financial analyst, 3M
David Tagler, BS 2007: Booz Allen Hamilton
David Couling, BS 2006: staff researcher, Dow Chemical
Haizhong Zhang, postdoc, 2003-2006: technical staff, Fisher-Klosterman
Cesar Cadena, PhD 2006: Technologist
David Eike, PhD 2006: researcher, Procter and Gamble
Jim Larentzos, PhD 2006: researcher, U.S. Army Research Laboratory
Mary Ann Jentz, BS 2005: MBA student, Emory University
Tim Morrow, PhD 2005: Subsurface Engineering Specialist, ExxonMobil
Jacob Crosthwaite, PhD 2005: Sr. Research Engineer, Dow Chemical Company
Jindal Shah, PhD 2004: Associate Professor, Oklahoma State University
Jennifer Anthony, PhD 2004: Associate Professor, Kansas State University
C. J. O’Keeffe, BS 2004: Staff Scientist, Arete Associates
Gaurav Arya, PhD 2003: Associate Professor, Duke University
Robert Landis, MS 2002: Y-12 National Security Complex
Qing Dai, postdoc 2001: Monash University
Robert Nooney, postdoc 1999-2001: Dublin City University
Michael Macedonia, PhD 2000: President and CEO, Veracity Forecasting and Analysis
Loukas Kioupis, PhD 2000: General State Chemical Laboratories of Greece
Darrin Moore, MS 2000: Site Technology Leader, Dupont Nutrition and Health
Jing Chen, MS 2000; BioSpace
Yiannis Kaznessis; PhD 1999 Founder and CEO, General Probiotics, Inc.
Jim Kelly, BS 1999; Washington University Medical School
Vince Keating, BS 1999; Indiana University Medical School
Renee Sehee, BS 1998; Bristol-Myers Squibb
Matt Macura, BS 1997; Procter and Gamble
Ron Runnebaum, BS, 1996: Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis