People

Ph.D. Students

	Jackson Powers Ph.D. Candidates (Fall 2020 – ) B.S. in Chemical Engineering at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, New Mexico Current Research: Cell-Free Protein Synthesis for Protocell Development Interests: Traveling, swimming, biking, and cooking.
	Jooyong Shin Ph.D. Candidates (May 2021 – ) B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Yonsei University, South Korea Current Research: Engineering Structural Properties of Protein Vesicles towards Synthetic Cells Interests: Driving, watching sports games, and playing computer games
	Bornita Deb Ph.D. candidate (Jan 2022 – ) M. Tech. in Oils and Surfactants at the Institute of Chemical Technology, India B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Pune University, India Current Research: Designing Minimal Synthetic Cells Capable of Sensing Interests: Cooking Indian food and singing.
	Nishat Tasnim Ph.D. student (Spring 2025 – ) B.S. in Chemical Engineering at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology Current Research: Engineering Fusion Protein Self-Assembled Materials for Therapeutic Applications Interests: Listening to songs, watching social media video contents, cooking
	Celine Jiayi Xu Ph.D. student (Spring 2025 – ) B.S. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle WA Current Research: Developing Artificial Antigen Presenting Cells for Cancer Immunotherapy Interests: cooking, music, photography, movies

Ph.D. Ruwen Tan: Fall 2018 – Fall 2021
Thesis Title: Engineering Surfaces with Tunable Nanostructure and Stiffness to Mitigate Bacterial Adhesion
Currently at Micron Technology

M.S. Elizabeth Meier: Fall 2021 – Spring 2023
Chemical Engineering at the University of Florida
Thesis Title: Investigating the balance of bactericidal and antifouling properties of thin film polymer surfaces to optimize the antibacterial effects
Currently at MycoWorks
M.S. Blair D. Cole: Fall 2020 – Summer 2021
Chemical Engineering at the University of Florida
Currently at the Savanah River Nuclear Site
M.S. Ting Shan: Spring 2020 – Spring 2021
Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida
Currently at WuXi App Tech.
M.S. Gopal Marda: Spring 2023, Material Science & Engineering
M.S. Neelima Sharma: Fall 2022, Chemical Engineering

B.S. Sean Kochanowsky: Fall 2021 – Spring 2024. Chemical Engineering
B.S. Joseph Mancini: Fall 2022 – Fall 2023. Chemical Engineering
B.S. Stella Belony: Fall 2020 – Fall 2022. Chemical Engineering
B.S. Julio C. Zambrano: Spring 2020 – Spring 2022. Chemical Engineering (Honors Thesis)
B.S. Ryan Wind: Summer 2021-Spring 2022. Chemical Engineering
B.S. Macs Burke: Summer 2021 – Spring 2022. Chemical Engineering (Honors Thesis). Currently at Intel
B.S. Nicolas R. Marzolini: Fall 2018 – Spring 2021. Chemical Engineering (Honors Thesis). Currently an MD/PhD at UPENN
Kristen Leong, B.S. in Chemical Engineering, UF (2021)
Shannon Glover, B.S. in Chemical Engineering, UF (2020) (Honors Thesis)
Jackson Parisey, B.S. in Chemical Engineering, UF (2020)
Gabriella Donofrio, B.S. in Chemical Engineering, UF (2020)
Imran Nasrullah: UG in Biomedical Engineering (Fall 2021)
Noah Pruitt: UG in Chemical Engineering (Spring 2021)
Pragati Patel, UG in Chemical Engineering (Fall 2020)
Josie Kilburn, UG in Chemical Engineering (Fall 2018 – Spring 2020)
Jiye Lee, UG in Chemical Engineering (Fall 2019)
Bradley Franco, UG in Chemical Engineering (Fall 2019)
Daniel Guiterrez, UG in Chemistry (Fall 2019)
Camilo Alvarez, UG in Chemical Engineering (Fall 2018, Spring 2019)