September 2020

Pratik is a Ph.D. candidate in the chemical engineering department at Michigan Technological University. He received his bachelor’s degree in Petrochemical Engineering at the University of Pune, India. His research domain focusses on developing innovative processes for vaccine and biotherapeutic manufacturing. His work has found applications in viral purification, inactivation, and surface characterization for bioprocessing and biomedical technologies. His early research work on the virus purification framework in the aqueous two-phase systems was recognized as the best paper in the Rapid...Read more

Kai-Jher Tan is a PhD candidate in Prof. T. Alan Hatton’s group in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kai-Jher’s research interests lie in the design and application of redox-active materials and processes for environmental separations. Kai-Jher received the 2020 AIChE Separations Division Graduate Student Research Award in the area of adsorption and ion exchange, in part for his work on the development of a heterogeneous redox-active system for the enhanced electrochemical separation of ions in water, which was published in Advanced...Read more

Woochul Song received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from School of Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University from South Korea in 2014 and 2015, respectively. After one year of internship at Korea Institute of Science and Technology, he started Ph.D. study at Penn State in 2016 and moved to the University of Texas at Austin in 2019 following his research advisor Prof. Manish Kumar. In UT Austin, he is being co-advised by Prof. Manish Kumar and Prof. Benny D. Freeman. His research has focused on molecular designs of biomimetic membranes for efficient water filtration, and currently he is...Read more

Shiqi Huang is currently a Ph.D. candidate at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), under the supervision of Prof. Kumar Varoon Agrawal. Before moving to EPFL, Shiqi received her Master and Bachelor in Chemical Engineering from Dalian University of Technology in 2016 and 2013. Shiqi’s Ph. D. dissertation focused on single-layer nanoporous graphene membrane for gas separation. Her work on “Single-layer graphene membranes by crack-free transfer for gas mixture separation” was published on Nature Communications, confirming the high promise of the singlelayer graphene membrane for...Read more