Alumni - Graduate Students

Matthew S. Mettler, Ph.D.

 

Matthew Mettler

  Graduate Student:   2009 - 2012

 Thesis:  Revealing Cellulose Pyrolysis Chemistry for Biofuels Production

 Post-Graduate Affiliation:  ExxonMobil

Jin Yang, Ph.D.

 

Jin Yang

  Graduate Student: 2008 - 2013

 Thesis:  Experimental and Computational Studies of Aqueous-Phase Hydrogenation of Biorenewable Aromatic Chemicals

 Post-Graduate Affiliation:  Dow Chemical Company

Andrew R. Teixeira, Ph.D.

 

Andrew Teixeira

  Graduate Student: 2009 - 2014

 Thesis:  Transport Limitations in Zeolites and Biomass Pyrolysis

 Post-Graduate Affiliation:  Assistant Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

 

C. Luke Williams, Ph.D.

 

C. Luke Williams

Graduate Student: 2009 - 2014

 Thesis:  Diels-Alder Cycloaddition of Biomass-Derived Furans

 Post-Graduate Affiliation:  Idaho National Laboratory

Sara K. Green, Ph.D.

 

Sara Green

 Graduate Student: 2009 - 2014

 Thesis:  Renewable Toluene by Diels-Alder Cycloaddition of Biomass-Derived Methylfuran

 Post-Graduate Affiliation:  ExxonMobil

Sheng Chu, Ph.D.

 

Sheng Chu

Graduate Student: 2009 - 2014

Thesis:  Production of Renewable Chemicals and Energy from Waste Biomass

 Post-Graduate Affiliation:  Natural Systems Utilities, New Jersey, USA

Alex Paulsen, Ph.D.

 

Alex Paulsen

Graduate Student: 2010 - 2015

Thesis:  Primary and Secondary Reactions of Cellulose Melt Pyrolysis

Post-Graduate Affiliation:  Mainstream Engineering, Florida, USA

Christoph Krumm, Ph.D.

 

Christoph Krumm

Graduate Student: 2011 - 2016

 Thesis:  Pulse-Heated Analysis of Solid Reactions

 Post-Graduate Affiliations:  Sironix Renewables

Cheng Zhu, Ph.D.

 

Cheng Zhu

 Graduate Student: 2011 - 2016

 Thesis:  Energetics of Cellulose Initiation

 Post-Graduate Affiliation:  Post-doc - North Carolina State University

Katherine Vinter, Ph.D.

 

Katherine Vinter

 Graduate Student:  2013 - 2018

 Thesis:  Production of Renewable Aromatic Chemicals from Biomass-Derived Furans through Bronsted Acid Zeolites

 Post-Graduate Affiliation:  Ginkgo Bioworks

Saurabh Maduskar, Ph.D.

 

Saurabh Maduskar

 Graduate Student:  2013 - 2018

 Ph.D. Millisecond Kinetics of Cellulose Activation

 Post-Graduate Affiliation:  ExxonMobil, Houston, TX

Kristeen Joseph, Ph.D.

 

Kristeen Joseph

Graduate Student:  2013 - 2018

 Thesis:  Synthesis of Oleo-Furan Sulfonate (OFS) Surfactants

 Post-Graduate Affiliation:  Dow Chemical Company

Greg Facas, Ph.D.

Greg Facas

Graduate Student:  2015 - 2020

Thesis:  Catalytic Activation of Cellulose for Biofuels

Post-Graduate Position:  National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Gaurav Kumar, Ph.D.

Gaurav Kumar

Graduate Student:  2016 - 2021

Thesis:  Dehydra-decyclization of tetrahydrofuran with Boron-containing zeolites

Post-graduate affiliation:  DuPont

Vineet Maliekkal, Ph.D.

Vineet Maliekkal

Graduate Student:  2016 - 2021

Thesis:  Computational Chemistry of Metal-Catalyzed Activation of Cellulose

Post-Graduate Affiliation: Lam Corporation

Yutong Pang, Ph.D.

 

Yutong Pang

Contact:  [email protected]

Research Areas: 

Catalysis, Biomass, Reaction Engineering

Graduate Student:  2017 - 2022

 

Yuxiao Wu, Ph.D.

Yuxiao Wu

Contact:  [email protected]

Research Area:  Hybrid Chemical Synthesis

Graduate Student:  2017 - 2022

 

Ankita Naik, Ph.D.

Ankita Naik

Contact:  [email protected]

 Research Area:  

 Catalysis and Reaction Engineering

 Renewable Surfactants

Graduate Student:  2017 - 2022

 

ChoongSze Lee, Ph.D.

ChoongSze Lee

Contact:

[email protected]

Research Areas: 

Catalysis, Biomass & Reaction Engineering

Co-Advised with Professor Michael Tsapatsis

Graduate Student:  2017 - 2022