August 2016

Prof. Yue Wu joined Iowa State University as the Herbert L. Stiles Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering in summer 2014. He obtained his B.S. degree in Chemistry at the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, P.R.China in 2001, with Best Undergraduate Thesis Award. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry at Harvard University (07/2001-06/2006) in Prof. Charles Lieber’s group. He then received Miller Fellowship and performed postdoctoral research in Prof. Paul Alivisatos’ group at the University of California at Berkeley (08/2006-07/...Read more

Dr. Krista S. Walton is Professor and Marvin R. McClatchey and Ruth McClatchey Cline Faculty Fellow in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech.

She received her B.S.E. in chemical engineering from the University of Alabama-Huntsville in 2000 and obtained her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Vanderbilt University in 2005, working with Prof. M. Douglas LeVan. Prof. Walton completed an ACS PRF Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northwestern University in 2006 under the direction of Prof. Randall Snurr.

Her research program focuses on the design,...Read more

Mansi Shah joined the Ph.D. program in Chemical Engineering at University of Minnesota in Fall 2012 and is co-­advised by Professors Michael Tsapatsis and J. Ilja Siepmann. She received Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering (2012) from Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India. Mansi’s research focusses on developing new materials for gas separation, primarily zeolites for adsorptive sour gas sweetening, using a combination of molecular simulations and experiments. Her doctoral research resulted in a patent application and three ...Read more

Katy Olafson is a doctoral candidate at the University of Houston. She received her BS degree in chemical engineering in 2012 from the University of Louisville J.B. Speed School of Engineering. Her research focuses on the fundamental mechanisms of hematin crystallization that underlie malaria pathophysiology and the mode of inhibition by antimalarials.Read more