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Jose D. Hernandez-Betancur

Jose has a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, and a master’s in materials and processes engineering from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin, Colombia. During his master’s degree, he worked on a framework for assessing hot-dip galvanizing process sustainability to obtain insights for process engineers and other stakeholders. Currently, Jose is part of an internship program at the Office of Research & Development (ORD), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He is pursuing his doctoral degree at Universidad de Salamanca,...Read more

Yi Ji

Yi Ji is a Ph.D. candidate from Environmental Ecological Engineering (EEE) program at Purdue University. She is co-advised by Dr. Fu Zhao and Dr. Chad T. Jafvert. She received her M.S. degree from EEE program at Purdue in 2019. Her research mainly focuses on cathode materials sustainable recovery from spent lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles and fluoride pollution reduction during recycling process. She is currently involved in projects funded by Critical...Read more

Pahola Benavides

Dr. Benavides studies the energy and environmental effects of conversion processes used to produce fuels and chemicals from bio-based and waste feedstocks. She has also studied catalyst production, their impact on the life cycle of biofuels, and the fate of catalyst waste materials from catalyst production and use. Recently, she has been studying plastic production pathways to quantify the life cycle GHG emissions and fossil fuel consumption of bioplastics, considering end-of-life (EOL) tradeoffs between biodegradability and carbon sequestration. She has worked closely with colleagues at...Read more

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