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Götz Veser

Nickolas DeCecco Professor of Chemical Engineering
Leonard Peters Fellow in Sustainability
Director, Covestro Circular Economy Program
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Aime Laurent Twizerimana

Ph.D. student since 2020
(B.S., ChE, U Rochester)
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Aaditya Bharanidharan

Ph.D. student since 2020
(M.S., ChE, UCSD)
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Santiago Ortiz Laverde

Ph.D. student since 2022
(M.S., CHE, Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia)
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Charles Ambrass

Ph.D. student since 2024
(B.S., ChE, University of Pittsburgh)
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Cornelius Dorsogilaa

Ph.D. student since 2022
(B.S., PetE, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Ghana)
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GROUP ALUMNI

Our group alumni - aka, our extended family.  Only graduate students and postdocs are listed, with year of graduation and current or last known affiliation.  

Apologies to our >150 awesome undergraduate student researchers over the years! We miss you but the list got too long—please do stay in touch!  We always love to hear from you!

  1. Judith Schicks (Postdoc, 2002; GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Germany)
  2. Dirk Neumann (PhD, 2004; BASF, Germany)
  3. Vanessa Gepert (MS, 2004; Air Liquide, Germany)
  4. Sudipta Chattopadhyay (PhD, 2004; Clariant, KY)
  5. Hakan Temur (Visiting Scholar, 2005; Ataturk University, Erzurum, Turkey)
  6. Michael Wartmann  (MS, 2005; Shell, Netherlands)
  7. Tengfei Liu  (PhD, 2007; Chevron, Richmond, CA)
  8. Katie Barillas  (MS, 2007; Rowan University, NJ)
  9. Gianalfredo Rossi  (MS, 2007; Siemens, Pittsburgh, PA)
  10. Tom Sanders  (PhD, 2008; TARDEC, Macomb, MI)
  11. Yi Zhang  (Postdoc, 2008; Pittsburgh, PA)
  12. Rongwen Lu  (Visiting Scholar, 2009; State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian, China)
  13. Yanan Wang  (Postdoc, 2009; Dalian University of Technology, China)
  14. Mark Kirchhoff  (PhD, 2010; Sony, Salzburg, Austria)
  15. Rahul Solunke  (PhD, 2010; Praxair, NY)
  16. Anmin Cao (Postdoc, 2010; Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing)
  17. Lu Whaley  (PhD, 2011;  BASF, NC)
  18. Sen Liu (PhD, 2011; China National Petroleum Corporation, Beijing)
  19. Shuang Liang   (PhD, 2012;  Bayer Technology Services, TX)
  20. Karen Uffalussy  (Postdoc, 2012; DOE-NETL, PA)
  21. Michelle Najera  (PhD, 2013; CMC Biologics, WA)
  22. Saurabh Bhavsar  (PhD, 2014; Intel, WA)
  23. Chris Ewing  (PhD, 2015; PNC Bank, PA)
  24. Yung-Chieh Lai  (PhD, 2015; California Institute of Technology, CA)
  25. Amey Moore (PhD, 2016; Intel, WA)
  26. Sharlee Mahoney (PhD, 2016; CardnoChemRisk, WA)
  27. Yu-Chieh Cheng  (MS, 2017; Military Service, Taiwan)
  28. Wanling Zhu  (MS, 2017; Unilever, Shanghai, China)
  29. Hao Chi  (PhD, 2018; Lam Research, CA)
  30. Zequn Li  (MS, 2019; )
  31. Zibo Zhen (MS, 2019; Procter & Gamble , Guangzhou)
  32. Yahui Yang (PhD, 2019;  BASF, Shanghai)
  33. Edmund Sam-Gyandoh (MS, 2020;  Los Alamos National Labs, PA)
  34. Taylor Doliveira-Shaffer (MS, 2020;  Sherwin-Williams, MN)
  35. Gizem Ozbuyukkaya  (PhD, 2020;  Pfizer, NJ)
  36. Christopher Parker  (MS, 2021; Sparrow, MI)
  37. Hari Mantripragada (Postdoc, 2022;  Keylogics, PA)
  38. Jiayuan Li (MS, 2022;  Li Industries, NJ)
  39. Runze Zhao (MS, 2022;  University of Massachusetts, MA)
  40. Yifan Deng (PhD, 2022;  Braskem, PA)
  41. Nasser Al Azri (PhD, 2022; Lubrizol, OH)
  42. Sanjana Karpe (PhD, 2023; Intel Corp., WA)
  43. Riddhesh Patel (PhD, 2024; ExxonMobil, NJ)
  44. Remsha Rafiq (PhD 2025; AVN Corp., WV)