Alumni

Doctoral Students

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Dr. Xi Chen

Sept. 2015 – Jul. 2020

Thesis: Advancing Membrane Technologies for Sustainable Production of Energy and Water

Next position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University

Current position: Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong

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Dr. Adam Atia (secondary co-advised)

Sept. 2016 – Feb. 2021

Thesis: Integrating Renewable Energy and Desalination: Modeling Intra-hourly, Variable Salinity, Reverse Osmosis Powered by Photovoltaics

Next position: Senior Engineer, KeyLogic Systems

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Dr. Stephanie Nicole McCartney

Sept. 2017 – Jun. 2022

Thesis: Advancing Membrane Technologies for Recovery of Nitrogen and Phosphorous from Human Urine

Next position: Sustainability Engineer, Ingredion

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Dr. Hanqing Fan

Sept. 2017 – Jul. 2022

Thesis: Developing Ion-Selective Membrane Technologies for Challenges at the Water-Energy Nexus

Next position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Yale University

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Dr. Kinnari Shah

Sept. 2019 – Jun. 2024

Thesis: Advancing Switchable Solvents for the Sustainable Desalination of Hypersaline Brines

Next position: Principal Scientist, Hazen and Sawyer

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Dr. Yuxuan Huang

Sept. 2019 – Jun. 2024

Thesis: Advancing Selectivities of Ion-Exchange Membranes for Water, Energy, and the Environment

Next position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Rice University

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Dr. Ian Billinge

Sept. 2019 – Sept. 2024

Thesis: Structural and applications-based insights into temperature swing solvent extraction desalination

Next position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Yale University

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Dr. Elizabeth Dach

Sept. 2020 – May 2025

Thesis: Switching up the Mineral Recovery Paradigm with Switchable Solvents

 

Postdoctoral Researchers

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Dr. Chanhee Boo

Jul. 2018 – Feb. 2020

Next position: Senior Research Scientist, Korea Institute of Science and Technology

M.S. Students

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Chenxuan Zhu

Jan. – May 2017

Omar Salah Alali
Omar Salah Alali

Sept. – Dec. 2017

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Heyang Qi

Jan. – Dec. 2019

Thesis: Solvent-Induced Precipitation for Hardness Removal in Hypersaline Water

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Lara Stela David Alves

Sept. 2021 – May 2022

Thesis: Scaling Investigation of Reverse Osmosis Membranes Under Thermomorphic Hydrophilicity Base-Induced Precipitation-Treated Feeds

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Zimu Song

Sept. 2021 – May 2022

Thesis: Exploring a Governing Transport Mechanism for PA-TFC Membrane at Lower Permeabilities

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Zhenyu Kang

Jan. – Dec. 2022

Thesis: Exploring a new transport mechanism of the TFC polyamide membranes

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Hongxu Chen

Sept. 2022 – Dec. 2023

Thesis: Sulfonic Polystyrene Membranes for Selective Lithium Recovery

Next position: Ph.D. student at Princeton University

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Shinyoung (Brian) Park

Sept. 2023 – Dec. 2024

Thesis: Direct Lithium Extraction from Lithium/Magnesium Brines via Polymeric Switchable Solvent Selective Extraction (S3E)

Next position: Ph.D. student at University of Pennsylvania

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Daniel Galperin

Sept. 2022 – May 2025

Undergraduate Students

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David Kim

Nov. 2015 – May 2018

Next position: Ph.D. student at Yale University

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Jocelyn Wang

May 2016 – Aug. 2017

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Natalie Williams

May 2016 – May 2019

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Daniel Dray

Sept. 2016 – May 2019

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Amar Bhardwaj

Jan. 2017 – May 2020

Next position: Marshal Scholar at University of Edinburgh

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Kelly Conway

May 2017 – May 2018

Next position: Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley

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Kalisa Ndamage

Nov. 2017 – May 2019

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Robert Winton

Jan. 2018 – Apr. 2021

Next position: Energy Analyst, Tesla

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Nobuyo Watanabe

May 2019 – May 2022

Next position: M.S. student at Columbia University

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Kruti Sutaria

Sept. 2019 – Apr. 2021

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Peter Cruz-Grace

May 2020 – May 2022

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Charmane Gabriel

Sept. 2020 – May 2022

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Karen Copeland

May 2021 – May 2023

Next position: Churchill Scholar at Churchill College, Cambridge

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Max Barros Edelstein

Jun. 2022 – May 2025

Next position: Environmental engineer for the Bureau of Wastewater Treatment at the NYC Department of Environmental Protection

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Juliana Margaux Marston

Dec. 2023 – May 2025

Next position: Ph.D. student in Chemistry at Boston College

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Andrew David Fouty

Jan. 2024 – May 2025

Next position: Ph.D. student in Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Yale University

Visiting Scholars

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Fanny Maritza Rivera Mejia

Sept. – Dec. 2023

Visiting Ph.D. student from University of Valladolid, Spain