Adsorption and Separation Lab
Rezaei Group
Graduate Students
Neila Pederneira
PhD Student
Office: 230 Bertelsmeyer Hall
Project: MOFs for Drug Delivery
Education: M.S. Chemical Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, MO, USA 2017
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa 2010
Turki Almaghdi
PhD Student
Office: 230 Bertelsmeyer Hall
Project: Adsorption-Based Nuclear Waste Remediation
Education: M.S. Chemical Engineering - University of Dayton, Ohio, USA, 2015
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Yanbu Industrial College, Saudi Arabia, 2011
Kyle Newport
PhD Student
Office: 222 Bertelsmeyer Hall
Project: Biogas Upgrading
Education: B.S. Chemical Engineering, Missouri S&T, USA, 2020
Ruthra Murugavel
PhD Student
Office: 226 Bertelsmeyer Hall
Project: Gas Storage
Education: B.S. Chemical Engineering, Anna University, India, 2019
Peter Aina
PhD Student
Office: 226 Bertelsmeyer Hall
Project: Indoor Air Quality Control
Education: M.S. Chemistry - Missouri S&T, USA 2021
B.S. Chemistry, Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Nigeria, 2018
Abdullah Moinee
PhD Student
Office: 230 Bertelsmeyer Hall
Project: Electric Swing Adsorption
Education: M.S. Chemical Engineering, BUET, Bangladesh 2020
B.S. Chemical Engineering, BUET, Bangladesh, 2017
Usman Shareef
PhD Student
Office: 230 Bertelsmeyer Hall
Project: Carbon Capture-Utilization
Education: M.S. Chemical Engineering, UTM, Malaysia 2018
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of the Punjab, Pakistan, 2014
Maxwell Tsipoaka
PhD Student
Office: 226 Bertelsmeyer Hall
Project: Hydrogen Storage
Education: M.S. Energy Science and Engineering, DGIST, South Korea, 2021
B.S. Petrochemical Engineering, KNUST, Ghana, 2018
Research Scholars and Postdocs
Dr. Sukanta Mondal
PostdocFall 2022
Jimmy Moreno
Visiting ScholarFall 2022
Undergraduate Students
Sarah Bogel
Fall 2022
Joshua Costain
Fall 2022
Katelynn Timmons
Fall 2022
Alumni - Graduate Students
Khaled Baamran, PhD
PhD Student: Fall 2019 - May 2023
Project: CO2 assisted ethylene production and subsequent ethylene purification: a material development, kinetic assessment, and process performance investigation
Thesis defended: May 2023
Qasim AL-Naddaf, PhD
PhD Student: Fall 2015 - May 2022
Project: Advanced Materials and Processes for Gas Separation and Storage Applications
Thesis defended: May 2022
Busuyi Adebayo, PhD
PhD Student: Fall 2017 - July 2021
Project: Development of Hybrid Materials and Processes for Abatement of VOCs Emissions
Thesis defended: July 2021
Biogen
Shane Lawson, PhD
PhD Student: Fall 2017 - Spring 2021
Project: 3D-Printed Adsorbents for Gas Separations: A Material Development, Kinetic Assessment, and Process Performance Investigation
Thesis defended: March 2021
Donaldson Company, Inc.
Ahmed Al-Mamoori, PhD
PhD Student: Spring 2015 - Spring 2020
Project: Development of Novel Materials and Processes for Direct Conversion of CO2 Flue Gas to Chemicals and Fuels
Thesis defended: March 2020
Al-Nahrain University
Anirudh Krishnamurthy, PhD
PhD Student: Spring 2015 - Spring 2019
Project: Designing Bifunctional Materials for in-situ Capture and Conversion of Volatile Organic Compounds
Thesis defended: April 2019
Shell
Harshul Thakkar, PhD
PhD Student: Spring 2014 - Spring 2018
Project: Engineering Advanced Adsorbent Materials for CO2 Capture Applications
Thesis defended: November 2017
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Teresa Gelles, MSc
MSc Student: Spring 2017 - Spring 2019
Project: Diffusion Kinetics in Promising Adsorbents for Gas Separation Processes
Thesis defended: May 2019
Mana Al-Mansour, MSc
MSc Student: Spring 2016 - Fall 2017
Project: GO-MOF Hybrid Nanomaterials for Methane Storage
Graduated: December 2017
Amit Hajari, MSc
MSc Student: Spring 2015 - Spring 2017
Project: Simultaneous Removal of SOx, NOx, and CO2 from Flue Gas Streams
Thesis defended: April 2017
Pavithra Ethi Rajan, MSc
MSc Student: Spring 2015 - Fall 2016
Project: Advanced Buffer Materials for Indoor Air CO2 Control
Thesis defended: December 2016