Graduate Students

Allgeier Research Group

Victor K. Sharma
victorsharma@ku.edu

Pursuing Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering
Current research: enzyme catalysis to develop a feasible method to produce acetaldehyde from corn-based ethanol

John P. Styers
johnstyers@ku.edu

Pursuing
Current research: methods to efficiently promote gas separation

Murilo Toledo Suekuni
suekuni_murilo@ku.edu

Pursuing Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering
Current research: analyzing the behavior of catalyzed reactions in porous media using Time-Domain Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (TD-NMR) with a long-term focus on building pressure cells to look at phase behavior in mesoporous oxides

Simon Velasquez Morales
svelasmor@ku.edu

Pursuing Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering
Current research: enhancing interfacial transport between two-phase systems to improve reaction efficiency, developing modular chemical processes that utilize a homogeneous iron catalyst in the hydrogenation of nitriles to primary amines

Kwon Research Group

Mohammadamin Ezazi
aminezazi@ku.edu

Pursuing Ph.D.
Current research: self-healing coating, photocatalytic membrane, and thermo-responsive hydrogel

Seyedvahid Rad
s.vahidrad@gmail.com

Pursuing Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
Current research: superomniphobic surfaces and fuel cell membranes

Bishwash Shrestha
bishwashs@ku.edu

Pursuing
Current research: zwitterionic polymer, PFAS detection, and anti-icing surfaces

Shiflett Research Group

Karim Al-Barghouti
karim_5@ku.edu

Pursuing Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering
Member of Project EARTH
Current research: transport properties of refrigerants and ionic liquid systems

Kalin Baca
kalinbaca@ku.edu

Pursuing Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering
Member of Project EARTH
Current research: separation of hydrofluorocarbons using ionic liquids

Ethan Finberg
ethan.finberg@ku.edu

Pursuing M.S. in Chemical Engineering
Member of Project EARTH
Current research: modeling and building an extractive distillation column to separate refrigerants using an ionic liquid solvent

Abby Harders
abbynharders@ku.edu

Pursuing Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering
Member of Project EARTH
Current research: separation of hydrofluorocarbons using membranes

Nicole Montoya
nicole.montoya@ku.edu

Pursuing M.S. in Chemical Engineering
Member of Project SAVE
Current research: thermal stabilization of vaccines using mesoporous silica

Nicholas Reding
n221r069@ku.edu

Pursuing Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering
Current research: application of computational fluid dynamics and numerical modeling techniques to predict pressure evolution during contained metal dust explosion events

Ankit Verma
ankitverma@ku.edu

Pursuing Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering
Current research: metal separations from mixed metal oxides

Andrew Yancey
andrew_yancey@ku.edu

Pursuing Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering
Member of Project EARTH
Current research: development of zeolites and other porous media for the selective separation of hydrofluorocarbons