DOCTORAL STUDENTS- Alumni

Yuan-Yuan Su; January 1992; Chemical Engineering at Washington University.

Thesis: Interfacial Stability Analysis of Multilayer Viscoelastic Fluids and its Application to Co-extrusion Processes.

Current Position: Professor of Chemical Engineering, NTUT, Taipei, Taiwan

 

Lambros Skartsis; January 1992; Chemical Engineering at Washington University

Thesis: The Permeation of Fiber Beds by Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Fluids with Applications to the Autoclave and Resin Transfer Molding Processes

Current Position: Head of Quality Assurance, Human Resources and Internal Control, Elite S.A. Footwear, Athens, Greece

 

Kapil K. Talwar; May 1992; Chemical Engineering at Washington University

Thesis: Viscoelastic Flow Computations Using the HP-Version of the Finite Element Method with Applications in Flow through Porous Media.

Current Position: Chief Executive Officer, VPAC Innovations, Melbourne, Australia

 

Gregory M. Wilson; May 1993; Chemical Engineering at Washington University

Thesis: An Experimental Investigation of Interfacial Instabilities in Superposed Flow of Polymer Melts.

Current Position: Director of the National Center for Photovoltaics; NREL, Golden, CO

 

Mohammad Ranjbaran: August 1996; Chemical Engineering at Washington University

Thesis: Experimental Studies of Interfacial Instabilities in Multilayer Flow of Polymers Melts.

Current Position: Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Shahid Rajaeey University, Tehran, Iran

 

Kuan-Cheng (Garth) Su; December 1997; Chemical Engineering at Washington University

Thesis: Experimental Studies of Interfacial Instability in Superposed Flow of Well Characterized Polymeric Solutions.

Current Position: Global Director, Business and Market Segments, MTS Systems Corporation, Minneapolis, MN

 

Herambh K. Ganpule; May 1998; Chemical Engineering at Washington University

Thesis: A Theoretical Investigation of Interfacial Instabilities in Multilayer Viscoelastic Channel Flows and Its Applications.

Current Position:  Director, Strategic Business Development at 3M, St. Paul, MN

 

Ibrahim Mustafa; May 1998; Chemical Engineering at Washington University

Thesis: A 3-D Nonisothermal Flow Simulation and Pulling Force Model for Injection Pultrusion.

Current Position: Research Scientist, SABIC Corp., Saudi Arabia

 

Anne Grillet; February 1999; Chemical Engineering at Stanford University (Joint with Eric Shaqfeh)

Thesis: Viscoelastic Instabilities in Recirculation Flows.

Current Position: Research Fellow, Sandia National Laboratory, New Mexico

 

Chao-Tsi Huang; December 1999; Chemical Engineering at Washington University

Thesis: Role of Fluid Elasticity and Dynamic Modulation on the Stability of Multilayer Flows down an Inclined Plane.

Current Position: Senior Research Scientist, Industry Technology Research Institute of Taiwan, Taiwan

 

Sairam Portaraju; December 2000; Chemical Engineering at Washington University (joint with Babu Joseph)

Thesis: Model Based Control of Polymer Composite Manufacturing Processes.

Current Position: Senior Research Scientist, Bayer Corp., Houston, Texas

 

Bin Yang; Graduated May 2001; Chemical Engineering at Washington University

Thesis: Flow Modeling and Stability Analysis of Viscoelastic Flows Using the Finite Element Method.

Current Position: Senior Development Engineer at Corning Corporation, Corning, NY

 

Srikanth Kommu; May 2001; Chemical Engineering at Washington University

Thesis: A Theoretical/Experimental Study of Silicon Epitaxy and Particle Dynamics in CVD Reactors.

Current Position: Executive Director, Semiconductor Business, Brewer Science, INC, Rolla, MO

 

Sweta Goel-Somasi; August 2001; Chemical Engineering at Washington University

Thesis: An Atomistic Simulation of the Epitaxial Growth of Silicon (100).

Current Position:  Manufacturing Scientist at Corteva Agriscience, Indianapolis, IN.

 

Madan Somasi; August 2001; Chemical Engineering at Washington University

Thesis: Dynamics of Polymeric Fluids: A Combined Brownian Dynamics Finite Element Approach.

Current Position: Formulation R&D Leader at Corteva Agriscience, Indianapolis, IN.

 

Usamah Al-Mubaiyedh; August 2001; Chemical Engineering at Washington University

Thesis: Thermomechanical and Thermoelastic Instabilities in Taylor-Couette Flow.

Current Position: Professor and Head, Dept. of Chem. Eng., King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran Saudi Arabia

 

Alex G. Lee; October 2001; Chemical Engineering at Stanford University (Joint with Eric Shaqfeh)

Thesis: Viscoelastic Effects on Free Surface Displacement Flows: A Computational and Experimental Study.

Current Position: Basestocks & Specialties Global Marketing Strategy Advisor; ExxonMobil Fuels, Lubricants & Specialties Marketing, Spring, TX

 

Piyush G. Gigras; From Aug. 1999 to Dec. 2002

Thesis: Flow Simulations of Entangled Polymeric Melts: A Multiscale Approach.

Deceased.

 

Gandharv Bhatara; December 2004; Chemical Engineering at Stanford University (Joint with Eric Shaqfeh)

Thesis: A Computational/Experimental Study of Elastic “Ribbing” Instabilities.

Current Position: Director of Business Development, Mentor Graphics, San Francisco, CA.

 

Vijay Gupta; December 2006; Chemical Engineering at Washington University

Thesis: Multiscale and Continuum Level Simulation of Polymer and Fiber Induced Effects on Flow Transitions and

Turbulence.

Current Position:  Assistant Professor (teaching track), University of Missouri, Columbia.

 

Arpita Mitra; December 2006; Chemical Engineering at Washington University

Thesis: Molecular Interactions Modulating Microtubule Stability and Dynamics

Current Position:  Research scientist, Corning Corporation, New York

 

Dennis Thomas; December 2006; Chemical Engineering at Washington University (Joint with Suresh Sureshkumar)

Thesis: Flow Instabilities and pattern formation in complex fluids: Effect of elasticity and thermal gradients

Current Position:  Research Scientist, PNNL, Richland WA.

 

Vidya Venkataramani; August 2007; Chemical Engineering at Washington University

Thesis: Modeling and Simulation of Dynamics of Dilute Macromoelcular Solutions: A configurational Based Approach.

Current Position:  Research Scientist, General Electric Corp. Bangalore, India

 

Anantha Koppol; August 2007; Chemical Engineering at Washington University

Thesis:  Dynamics and Frictional Drag Behavior of Viscoelastic Flows in Complex Geometries: A Multiscale Simulation Approach

Current Position: Research Engineer, General Electric Corp. Bangalore, India

 

Swapnil Dhumal; December 2007; Chemical Engineering at Washington University

Thesis:  An Experimental/Computational Study of Gas-Phase Nanoparticle Synthesis with Applications in Photocatalysis

Current Position: Research Engineer, General Electric Corp. Bangalore, India

 

Mukund Vasudevan; December 2008; Chemical Engineering at Washington University (Joint with Suresh Sureshkumar)

Thesis:  Flow Induced Self Assembly in Micellar Fluids with Applications to Nanomanufacturing

Current Position:  Business Development Manager at Tessenderio Kerley, Inc., Phoenix, Arizona

 

Jun Mo Kim; August 2010, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee (joint with Brian Edwards)

Area of Research: Non-Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics Simulations of entangled macromolecules

Current Position: Research Professor, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Korea

 

Arash Abedijaberi: August 2011; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Thesis: Dynamics of Polymeric Solutions in Complex Kinematics Bulk and Free Surface Flows: Multiscale/Continuum Simulations and Experimental Studies

Current Position: Fiber Process Modeling Manager, Corning Inc., Corning, New York

 

Travis Russell: August 2014, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Joint with Brian Edwards)

Thesis: Composition Dependency of the Flory-Huggins Interaction Parameter in Polymer Blends: Structural and Thermodynamic Calculations

Current Position:  Senior Engineer, ENERCON Inc., Kennesaw, GA

 

Mahdy Malakzadeh: December 2014, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Thesis: Hi-Fidelity Simulation of the Self-Assembly and Dynamics of Colloids and Polymeric Solutions with Long Range Interactions

Current Position: Senior Polymer Engineer, Newell Brands, Charlotte, NC

 

Mouge Mohagheghi: May 2016, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Thesis: Dynamics and Self-Assembly of Single and Multi-Component Polymeric Fluids: A Mesoscopic Computational Study

Current Position: Senior Scientist Data Modeling, Proctor and Gamble Corporation, Cincinnati, OH

 

Amir Saadat: December 2016, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Thesis: Large Scale Brownian Dynamics Simulations of Dilute and Semi-dilute Polymeric Solutions

Current Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow with Eric S. G. Shaqfeh, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University.

 

Hanieh Seyedeh Niroomand: May 2017, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Joint  with Dibyendu Mukherjee)

Thesis: Morphological and Photoelectrochemical Characterization of Membrane Reconstituted Photosystem I (PSI)

Current Position: Research Scientist, Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN

 

Mohammad Hadi Nafar Sefiddashti: December 2018, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Joint with Brian Edwards)

Thesis: Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of Entangled Polymeric Fluids

Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar with Bamin Khomami and Brian Edwards, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville

 

Tyler Hamilton Bennett: August 2019, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Thesis: Embedding and Photoactivating Photosystem I

Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar with Jagit Nanda, Distinguished Staff Scientist, Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

 

Ravi Pamu: May 2020, Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Joint with  Dibyendu Mukherjee)

Thesis: Tuning the Photocurrent Responses from Photosystem I via Microenvironment Alterations: Effect of Plasmonic Electric Fields and Membrane Confinements

Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar with Professors Mukherjee and Khomami, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville

 

Erick Leonar Ribeiro: August 2020, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Joint with Professor Mukherjee)

Thesis: Manufacturing of carbon-based hybrid nanocomposites with engineered functionalities via Laser Ablation Synthesis in Solution (LASiS) techniques

Current Position: Associated Scientist, NASA Academic Mission Services, Columbia, Maryland

 

Tianyu Li: May 2023, Material Science Engineering at  University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Joint with Kunlun Hong)

Thesis:  Oligo-dimethyl-siloxanes with Charged Chain Ends: Synthesis, Characterization, and Properties

Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, CNMS, ORNL (with Dr. Kunlun Hong)

 

Mahdi Boudaghi Khajehnobar: May 2023, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Thesis:  Molecular Rheology of Entangled Polymeric Fluids: A molecular simulation perspective

Current Position: Senior Engineer/Soft Matter Scientist, Rheological characterization, and Process Modeling and Innovation, Kraton Corporation, Houston, TX, USA.

 

THESIS OPTION MASTER’S-Alumni

 

Catherine A. Langton; December 1989; Chemical Engineering at Washington University

Thesis: Processing-Property Interactions of Two Vinylidene-Fluoride/Trifluoroethylene Co-polymers.

Current Position: Senior Research Engineer, Dow Chemical Corp., Midland, Michigan

 

Yen-Hung Lai; May 1996; Chemical Engineering at Washington University

Thesis: Various Techniques for Measuring Permeability of Woven Fabrics Used in Liquid Composite Molding.

Current Position: Not available.

 

Srikanth Kommu; May 1996; Chemical Engineering at Washington University

Thesis: Numerical Simulation of Injection Pultrusion

Current Position: Executive Director, Semiconductor Business, Brewer Science, INC, Rolla, MO

 

Luis D. Moreno; August 1996; Chemical Engineering at Washington University

Thesis: Stability of Viscoelastic Flows through Periodic Square Array of Cylinders.

Current Position: Senior Research Engineer, Intel Corp., Portland, OR

 

Vijaylakshmi Ganesan; June 2002; Chemical Engineering at Washington University

Thesis: Linear Dynamics of Unidirectional Planar Shear Flows of Linear and Branched Polymeric Melts.

Current Position: Not available

 

Joel Simonson; May 2003; Chemical Engineering at Washington University

Area of Research: Acoustic Streaming in Complex Fluids.

Current Position: Senior Engineer, Anheuser-Bush, St. Louis, MO

 

Arash Abedijaberi: August 2007; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Washington University

Thesis: Dynamics of Branched Polymer Melts in Complex Kinematics Flow: A Computational/ Experimental Study.

Current Position: Fiber Process Modeling Manager, Corning Inc., Corning, New York

 

Sheng Hu; August 2013; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Thesis: The Impact of Selective Solvents on the Structure and Function Evolution in Solvent Annealed Organic Photovoltaics

Current Position: Senior R&D Scientist, Frontida BioPharm, Inc. Philadelphia, PA

 

Reza Ghanbari; December 2013; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Thesis: The Onset of Purely Elastic and Thermo-Elastic Instabilities in Taylor-Coutte Flow: Influence of Gap Ratio and Thermal Sensitivity

Current Position: Postdoc at Lund University, Sweden

 

POST DOCTORAL SCHOLARS-Alumni

 

Dr. Yuan-Yuan Su; 1/92-6/92; Chemical Engineering at Washington University

Area of Research: Interfacial Dynamics of Multilayer Pressure Flows of Viscoelastic Fluids

Current Position: Professor of Chemical Engineering, NTUT, Taipei, Taiwan

 

Dr. Lambros Skartsis; 1/92-12/92; Chemical Engineering at Washington University

Area of Research:  Influence of Capillary Pressure on Permeation of Fiber Beds

Current Position: Head of Quality Assurance, Human Resources and Internal Control), Elite S.A. Footwear, Athens, Greece

 

Dr. Kapil K. Talwar; 1/93-3/93; 7/93-1/95; Chemical Engineering at Washington University

Area of Research: Modeling of Thermoplastic Resin Transfer Molding Processes

Current Position: Chief Executive Officer, VPAC Innovations, Melbourne, Australia

 

Dr. Gyanendra P. Sasmal; 8/93-9/94; Chemical Engineering at Washington University

Area of Research: Development of Finite Volume Based Flow Simulation Methods for Bulk and Free Surface Viscoelastic Fluids

Current Position: Analytical Engineer; Belcan Engineering Group Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

 

Dr. Ali Arefmanesh; 9/91-9/93; Chemical Engineering at Washington University

Area of Research: Compression Molding of Semi-Crystalline Polymer Melts: A Finite Element Based Approach

Current Position: Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran

 

Dr. Changfeng Li; 10/2002-12/2006; Chemical Engineering at Washington University

Area of Research: Multi-scale Flow Modeling of Entangled Polymeric Systems; Mechanism of Polymer and Fiber Induced Turbulent Drag Reduction.

Current Position: Professor, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu 212013, P.R. China

 

Dr. Hoon Goo Sim; 6/2003-5/2005; Chemical Engineering at Washington University

Area of Research: Flow Induced Macromolecular Scission.

Current Position: Research Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

 

Dr. Dibyendu Mukherjee; 2007-2011; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee- Knoxville

Area of Research: Hybrid Photovoltaic Materials and Devices

Current Position: Research Scientist, Research Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee- Knoxville.

 

Dr. Xianggui Ye; 2007-2013; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee- Knoxville

Area of Research: Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing

Current Position: Research Scientist, Brewer Science, Rolla, MO

 

Dr. Sheng Hu; 2015-2017; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Area of Research: Non-Precious Metal Catalysts; Laser Ablation

Current Position: Senior R&D Scientist, Frontida BioPharm, Inc. Philadelphia, PA

 

Dr. Bo Zhang, 2015-2017; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Area of Research: Fission Gas Modeling; Large scale simulation of population dynamics

Current Position: Research Scientist; International Graphene LLC, Columbia, SC

 

Dr. Hanieh Seyedeh Niroomand: 2017-2018, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Area of Research: Photoelectrochemical Characterization of Membrane Reconstituted Photosystem I (PSI)

Current Position: Research Scientist, Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN

 

Dr. Michelle Aranha: 2019-2020, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Area of Research: Atomistic Simulation of  Nano-Particle Membrane Interactions

Current Position: Research Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge , TN

 

Dr. Ravi Pamu: 2020-2021 Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Joint with Dibyendu Mukherjee)

Area of Research: Bio-Hybrid Material for Energy Applications

Current Position: Packaging R&D Engineer, Intel Corp., Phoenix, Arizona

 

Mohammad Hadi Nafar Sefiddashti: 2019-2022, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Thesis: Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of Entangled Polymeric Fluids

Current Position: Senior Computational Scientist/Engineer; Aspen Technologies, Bedford, Massachusetts, USA.

 

RESEARCH ASSOCIATES-Alumni

 

Dr. Shengting Cui, Research Associate Professor; 2008-2015

Area of Research: Molecular Modeling and Simulations

Current Position: Application System Analyst; Washington State University, Washington

 

Dr. Nan-Sheng Liu, Research Associate; 2010 to 2013

Area of Research: Elastic Turbulence

Current Position: Professor, Department of Modern Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, Hefei 230026, China

 

Dr. Xianggui Ye; 2013-2015; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee- Knoxville

Area of Research: Rational Design of Soft Matter

Current Position: Research Scientist, Brewer Science, Rolla, MO

 

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH- Alumni

 

Steven Durst, 1990; Position after Graduation: Joined Industry

John Kasab, 1990; Position after Graduation: ChE Doctorate Program at University Wisconsin-Madison

Michael Cleveland, 1992; Position after Graduation: ChE Doctorate Program at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dean Kassman, 1993; Position after Graduation: ChE Doctorate Program at Rice University

Michael Fanset, 1993; Position after Graduation: ChE Doctorate Program at UCSB

Luis Moreno, 1993; Position after Graduation: ChE MS Program at Washington University

Michael Biehn, 1994; Position after Graduation: ChE Doctorate Program at North Carolina State

Lissa Padnick, 1994; Position after Graduation: BME Doctorate Program at UCSD

Polina Gertsberg, 1995; Position after Graduation: Joined Industry

Donald Eizenga, 1995; Position after Graduation: ChE Doctorate Program at MIT

Dung Nguyen, 1995; Position after Graduation: Joined Industry

Carleen James, 1995; Position after Graduation: Joined Industry

Suzanne Hyde, 1996; Position after Graduation: ChE Doctorate Program at University of Notre Dame

Wendy Jenks; 1996, Position after Graduation: Joined Industry

Darby Robinson; 1997, Position after Graduation: MD/PhD Program at Washington University

Justin Piper, 1998; Position after Graduation: ChE Doctorate Program at Stanford University

Tariq Al-Ameri, 2001; Position after Graduation: ChE Doctorate Program at the Imperial College of London

Karen Leslie, 2001; Position after Graduation: Joined the ChE Doctorate Program at Johns Hopkins University

Bryan Hendricks, 2002; Position after Graduation: MS Program in Env. Eng. at Washington University

Ajey Dambal, 2003; Position after Graduation: ChE Doctorate program at Stanford University

Ryan DePuit, 2005; Position after Graduation: ChE Doctorate program at UCSB.

Heath Johnson, 2008; Position after Graduation: ChE Doctorate program at NCST.

Bryan Smith, 2008; Position after Graduation: ChE Doctorate program at University of Michigan.

Zhao Wang, 2009; Position after Graduation: ChE Doctorate program at University of Wisconsin.

Ben Renner, 2010; Position after Graduation: ChE Doctorate program at MIT.

Mar May, 2010; Position after Graduation: Process Engineer, Dow Chemical Company, Houston, Texas.

Hannah Haines, 2013; Position after Graduation: Process Engineer, Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN.

Neil Brown, 2014; Position after graduation: Process Engineer, Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN.

Samira Ibrahim, 2016; Position after graduation: PhD student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN.

Kangmin Cheng, 2017; Position after graduation: PhD student in Mechanical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Brian Park, 2018; Position after graduation: PhD student in Chemistry, University of Tennessee-Knoxville.

Madison Sherrod, 2018; Position after graduation: Process Engineer, Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN.

Carl Edwards, 2019; Position after graduation: PhD student in Computer Science, University of Illinois- Urbana- Champaign.

Bahar Meshkat, 2019; Position after graduation: Medical School at Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN.

Evan Kirch, 2021;  Position after graduation: Graduate student in CBE at UTK

 

OTHER PAST GRADUATE STUDENTS & POST DOCTORAL COLLABORATORS

 

Scott Prost-Domasky; Doctorate in ME from Washington University in 1997

Current Position: Consulting, Engineer, APES, Inc., St. Louis, Missouri

Area of Research: Dynamics of Polymeric Liquids in Time Periodic Flows

 

Patrick Doyle; Doctorate in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University in 1997

Current Position: Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT

Area of Research: Brownian Dynamic Simulation of Confined Polymeric Flows

 

Bin Lin; Doctorate in ChE from Washington University in 2002

Current Position: Technical Director, Henkel, Phoenix, AZ

Area of Research: Influence of Non-Normal Interactions on dynamics of complex fluids

 

Nathan Woo; Doctorate in Computational Sciences from Stanford University in 2003

Current Position: Research Engineer, Intel Corp. Portland, Or

Area of Research: Non-Local Dynamics of DNA; DNA Scission.

 

Aravind Rammohan; Doctorate in ChE from Washington University in 2003

Area of Research: Single Chain Dynamics in Time Periodic and Stochastic Flows.

Current Position: Division Director, Corning Corporation, New York

 

Kartik Arora; Doctorate in ChE from Washington University in 2004

Current Position: Data Scientist & Vice President of Engineering at TOOVIA, San Francisco, CA

Area of Research: An Experimental/Computational Study of Hydrodynamic Instabilities in Flow of Polymer Solutions and Melts.

 

Charles Schroeder; Doctorate in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University in 2004

Current Position: Professor Ray and Beverly Mentzer Faculty Scholar, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular

Engineering, University of Illinois-Urbana

Area of Research: Understanding the Dynamics of entangled macromolecules via single molecule visualization

 

R. C. Ramaswamy; Doctorate in ChE from Washington University in 2005

Area of Research: Thermoelastic Interfacial Instabilities

Current Position: Senior Research Engineer, Eastman Chemicals, Tennessee

 

Danielle J. Mai ; Doctorate in Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois-Urbana 2018

Current Position: Assistant Professor, James and Anna Marie Spilker Faculty Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Area of Research: Dynamics of Comb Polymers in Shear Flows: A single molecule study

 

Hao Teng ; Doctorate in Modern Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China 2018

Current Position: Unknown.

Area of Research: DNS study of turbulent Couette flow with buoyancy/viscoelastic effects

 

Yabiao Zhu; Doctorate in Modern Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China 2021

Current Position:  Research Engineer at Yangzhou CIRI, Shenyang Aircraft Design & Research Institute, Yangzhou, Jiangsu 225000, China

Area of Research: Direct Numerical Simulation of Viscoelastic Turbulent Spanwise-Rotating Plane Couette Flow

 

Jiaxing Song; Doctorate in Modern Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China 2022

Current Position:  Postdoctoral Scholar, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany.

Area of Research: Direct numerical simulation of viscoelastic turbulent Taylor-Couette flow