Rob Nerenberg
Principal Investigator
Rob is a professor in Environmental Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. His research addresses biofilm processes for water and wastewater treatment, with a special focus on membrane-supported biofilms.
Graduate Students
Yanina Nahum
Yanina’s research focuses on the use of low-frequency ultrasound to enhance antibiotic efficiency in biofilms
Contact: ynahum@nd.edu
Emily Clements
Emily studies opportunistic pathogens in drinking water systems and specializes in nitrifying MABR biofilms
Contact: eclement@nd.edu
Saúl García Perez
Saul’s research focuses on algal biofilms as photoreactors as well as characterization of fungal biofilms for WWT
Contact: jgarciap@nd.edu
Alejandro Linares
Alejandro joined us this summer and is working on fungal biofilm to treat wastewater contaminants
Contact: amarti77@nd.edu
Isaiah Murrel-Thomas
Isaiah started this Fall 2022 and is working on water age and Legionella in drinking water systems
Contact: imurrell@nd.edu
Undergraduate Researchers
Visiting Scholars
Yan Yang
PhD student
Chongqing University, China
Bruno Garcia Silva
PhD student
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Eduardo Leiva
Assistant professor
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
Claudia Sanchez Huerta
PhD student
KAUST, Saudi Arabia
Minmin Jiang
PhD student
Guiling University of Technology, China
Erika Espinosa Ortiz
Assistant Research Professor
Montana State University, USA
Francisca Schiaffino
Undergraduate student
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
Alumni
Postdocs
Patricia Perez Calleja
Current position: Manager of R&D at Cimico, Spain
Aura Ontiveros Valencia
Current position: Assistant professor at IPICIT, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Doctoral Students
Bumkyu Kim (2022)
Current position: Post-doctoral researcher, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mengfei Li (2021)
Current position: Jacobs Engineering
Marcela Vega Muñoz (2019)
Current position: Post-doctoral researcher, UIUC
Fabrizio Sabba (2016)
Current position: Black & Veatch
Marcelo Aybar (2016)
Current position: Assistant Professor, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile
Yue Wang (2015)
Current position: The IFCE, China
Juan Pablo Pavissich (2014)
Current position: Assistant Professor, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile
Kelly Gordon (2013)
Current position: Black & Veatch
Brenda Read-Daily (2011)
Current position: Associate Professor, Elizabethtown college, Elizabethtown, PA
Caitlyn Shea Butler (2009)
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Leon Downing (2008)
Current Position: Black & Veatch
Masters Students
Sarajane Roenke (2022)
Just graduated
Meenu Garg (2019)
Current position: Donohue and Associates, South Bend, IN
Lara Grotz (2018)
Current position: ENFOCUS, South Bend, IN
Andrew DeVries (2015)
Current position: Carollo Engineers, Orlando
Samuel Bruce (2015)
Current position: HDR, Sacramento
Brenda Read-Daily (2011)
Current position: Associate Professor, Elizabethtown college, Elizabethtown, PA
Margaret Dudley (2007)
Current position: unknown
Anna Salamone (2006)
Current position: unknown