Principal Investigator
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Prof.
Thomas M. Truskett
Department Chair, Les and
Sherri Stuewer Endowed Professor, and
Bill L. Stanley Leadership Chair
Email:
truskett at
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Postdoctoral Fellows
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Mike Howard
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Debapriya Banerjee
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Zach Sherman
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Graduate Students
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Camila A. Saez Cabezas (co-advised w/ D. J. Milliron)
Chemical Engineering
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Xilan Zhu (co-advised w/ R. T.
Bonnecaze)
Chemical
Engineering
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Amjad Chowdhury (co-advised w/
K. P. Johnston)
Chemical
Engineering
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Sanket Kadulkar (co-advised w/
V. Ganesan)
Chemical
Engineering
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Laxmicharan Samineni (co-advised w/
M. Kumar)
Chemical
Engineering
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Recent Group Alumni
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Dr. Ehsan Moaseri (co-advised w/ K. P. Johnston)
PhD, Chemical
Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (2018)
Thesis: Biodegradable NIR-active contrast agents for photoacoustic imaging
Current Position:
Scientist at Bristol-Myers Squibb
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Dr. Barton Dear (co-advised w/ K. P. Johnston)
PhD, Chemical
Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (2018)
Thesis: Relation of protein-protein interactions to rheological properties and stability of highly concentrated solutions of monoclonal antibodies
Current Position:
Scientist at Bristol-Myers Squibb
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Dr. Jessica Hung (co-advised w/ K. P. Johnston)
PhD, Chemical
Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (2018)
Thesis: Design of co-solute formulations for stable, highly concentrated monoclonal antibody solutions with low viscosity
Current Position:
Scientist at Bristol-Myers Squibb
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Dr. Jon Bollinger
PhD, Chemical
Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (2016)
Thesis: From confinement
to clustering: decoding the structural and diffusive
signatures of microscopic frustration
Current Position:
Sandia National Laboratories
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Dr. Mark Ferraro (co-advised
w/ R. T. Bonnecaze)
PhD, Chemical
Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (2015)
Thesis: Graphoepitaxy for
directed self-assembly of particle monolayers
Current Position:
Sandia National Laboratories
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Dr. Avni Jain
PhD, Chemical
Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (2014)
Thesis: Inverse design methods
in targeted self-assembly
Current Position:
Postdoctoral Fellow, DESY (Hamburg, Germany)
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Dr. Ameya Borwankar (co-advised
w/ K. P. Johnston)
PhD, Chemical
Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (2014)
Thesis: Formation of
Nanostructures and Weakening of Interactions between
Proteins to Design Low Viscosity Dispersions at High
Concentrations
Current Position: Scientist II at
Bristol-Myers Squibb
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Sai Gourisankar (co-advised
w/ K. P. Johnston)
BS Chemical
Engineering and BA Plan II, The University of Texas at Austin
(2015)
Current Position: Rhodes
Scholar, Oxford University
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Kyle Hollingshead
MSE, Chemical Engineering, The
University of Texas at Austin (2014)
Thesis: Efficient Computational
Strategies for Predicting Homogeneous Fluid Structure
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Brian Wilson (co-advised
w/ K. P. Johnston)
BS Chemical
Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (2013)
Current Position: PhD Student,
Princeton University
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Dr. James Carmer
PhD, Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
(2013)
Thesis: Local structure and
dynamics of complex fluids
Current Position:
Software Engineer, Google
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Dr. Mark Pond
PhD, Chemical Engineering, The
University of Texas at Austin (2011)
Thesis: Structure and
dynamics of fluids: From molecular to colloidal perspectives
Current Position:
Business Manager, Capital One
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Dr. Gaurav Goel
PhD, Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (2009)
Thesis: From polymer
collapse to confined fluids: Investigating the implications of
interfacial structuring
Current Position:
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT
Delhi
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Dr. William P. Krekelberg
PhD, Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (2008)
Thesis: Relationships
between structure and dynamics of attractive colloidal fluids
Current Position: Staff
Engineer, Chemical and Biochemical Reference Data
Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology |
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Dr. Jeetain Mittal
PhD, Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (2007)
Thesis: Structure, thermodynamics, and
dynamics of confined and supercooled liquids
Current Position:
Professor, Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University |
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Dr. Jason K. Cheung
PhD, Chemical Engineering, The
University of Texas at Austin
Thesis: Coarse-grained
modeling of concentrated protein solutions
Current Position:
Director, Sterile Product and Analyical Development, Merck
Research Laboratories |
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Dr. Pooja Shah
Postdoctoral Associate, Chemical
Engineering, The
University of Texas at Austin
Current Position: Adjunct
Faculty, Dallas County Community College (DCCD)
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Tanuj Kumar
MSE, Chemical Engineering, The University
of Texas at Austin
Current Position:
Head & Head – Digital Transformation and Assistant General Manager at RPG Enterprises,
Mumbai, India
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Dr. Scott Carmichael
BS, Chemical Engineering, The
University of Texas at Austin
PhD,
Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
Current Position: Postdoctoral
Fellow, National Renewal Energy Laboratory
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Dr. Artemis Ailianou
BS, Chemical Engineering,The
University of Texas at Austin,
PhD , Chemical Engineering,
Caltech
Current Position: Research
Scholar, Niagara Bottling
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Poonam Kulkarni
BS, Chemical Engineering, The
University of Texas at Austin
Senior Honors Thesis: Using
a thermodynamic model and data from the human proteome to
understand protein stability
MCEE, Environmental Engineering,
Rice University
Current Position: Environmental
Engineer, GSI Environmental Inc
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Dr. Katherine Clarridge, MD
BS, Chemical Engineering,
BA, Plan II, &
MSE, Biomedical Engineering, The
University of Texas at Austin,
Plan II Honors Thesis:
Predicting protein behavior in a confined space
Current Position:
Instructor of Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
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Recent Visiting Scientists
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Frank van Swol, PhD
Sandia National Laboratories,
Advanced Materials Laboratory,
Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Trond Ingebrigtsen, PhD
The Department of Fundamental
Engineering
University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
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F. Nicholas Braun, PhD
Institute of Medical Biology,
University of Tromso,
Tromso, Norway.
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