Current Members

Graduate Students

Fuat Şakirler (5th year Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering)

B.S., Chemical Engineering, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2013

M.S., Chemical Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, 2016

Research interests: DFT calculations on cellulose pyrolysis

Awards: Foundations of Molecular Modeling and Simulation (FOMMS) Travel Award (2022); 27th International Symposia on Chemical Reaction Engineering (ISCRE) Travel Award (2023); 28th North American Catalysis Society Meeting (NAM) Kokes Travel Award (2023); AIChE Catalysis and Reaction Engineering (CRE) Division Travel Award (2023)

Mihriye Doğa Tekbaş (5th year Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering)

B.S., Chemical Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 2019

Research interest: lnterplay between mass transfer and kinetics during pastics pyrolysis

Christian Ayafor (4th year Ph.D. in Energy Engineering)

B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Douala, Cameroon, 2008

M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Douala, Cameroon, 2010

M.S., Chemical Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 2018

Research interest: In-situ product removal during bioconversion of PET

Undergraduate Researcher

Matthew Wright (B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Class of 2024)

Protitee Paromita (B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Class of 2024)

Immersive Scholars

Aidan Hamilton (B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Class of 2026)

Abgail Lynch (B.S. in Environmental Engineering, Class of 2026)