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ABOUTDr. Prabhakar Clement is a tenured professor at the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, The University of Alabama. He is also the director of the Center For Water Quality Research. Dr. Clement received his B.S. in Physics from Loyola College, Madras, India in 1983. He then went on to complete his M.S. in Physics from American College, Madurai, India in 1985. He also received an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from IIT-Bombay, India in 1987. He completed completed his M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2001. He then went on to receive his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at Auburn University in 1993.
LOCATION1004B Bevill
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ABOUT Dr. Mark Elliott is an associate professor at the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, The University of Alabama. Dr. Elliot received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Penn State University in 1998. He also completed his M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2001. He then went on to receive his Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the University of North Carolina in 2010.
LOCATION 1112 Bevill |
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ABOUT Dr. Milad R. Esfahani is an assistant professor at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The University of Alabama. Dr. Esfahani received his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from AISH University in 2007. He also completed a M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Science and Research University in 2010. He received a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Tennessee Technological University in 2014.
LOCATION 1110 Bevill |
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ABOUT Dr. Amanda Koh is an assistant professor at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The University of Alabama. Dr. Koh received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2011. She completed her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2016.
LOCATION 3038 NERC |
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ABOUT Dr. Mukesh Kumar is an associate professor at the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, The University of Alabama. Dr. Kumar received his B. Tech in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2002. He also, completed a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 2009. Prior to joining The University of Alabama, he was a faculty member at Duke University.
LOCATION 1064 Cyber |
D R . M E S F I N M E K O N N E N |
ABOUT Dr. Mesfin Mekonnen is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, The University of Alabama. Dr. Mekonnen received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia in 1989. He then went on to complete an M.S. in Renewable Energy from the University of Oldenburg, Germany in 1994. He, additionally received an B.A. in Economics from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia in 2003 and an M.S. in Environmental Science an Technology from the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Infrastructure, Water and Environment, The Netherlands in 2005. He, also completed his Ph.D. in Water Engineering and Water Management at the University of Twente, The Netherlands in 2011.
LOCATION 1065 Cyber |
D R . L E I G H T E R R Y
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ABOUT Dr. Leigh Terry is an assistant professor in the civil, construction, and environmental engineering department at The University of Alabama. Her current research areas focus on water quality and include biological filtration, disinfection by-product formation, organic matter characterization, trace constituents in drinking water sources such as pharmaceuticals and personal care products, life cycle assessment of sustainable drinking water treatment plants, environmentally-friendly deicing alternatives, storm water run-off, and STEM education for women and underrepresented minorities. Dr. Terry completed her bachelor’s degree in civil engineering at The University of Alabama in 2012 and completed her master’s in 2013 and doctorate in 2017 at the department of environmental engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
LOCATION 1109 Bevill |
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ABOUT Dr. Steve T. Weinman is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Alabama. He received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Kentucky in 2013 and received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the Clemson University in 2018. Dr. Weinman's group focuses on functionalizing commercial membranes via surface chemistry and surface morphology modifications with the ultimate goal to improve current commercial membranes.
LOCATION 1115 Bevill |
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ABOUT Dr. Evan K. Wujcik received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 2008 and B.S. in Applied Mathematics in 2010 from the University of Rhode Island. He continued there to get an M.S. in Chemical Engineering in 2009 and an M.B.A. in Management in 2011. In 2013, he attended the University of Akron to received a Ph. D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Wujcik is currently an assistant professor at the The University of Alabama and is in charge of the Materials Engineering and Nanosensor, or Mean, Laboratory, which investigates and develops advanced materials, fundamental biomedical and environmental sensor platforms, and wearable electronics.
LOCATION 1114 Bevill |
Graduate Students
Sandhiya ThiagarajanSandhiya Thiagarajan joined Dr. Koh's Lab in Spring 2020. She is a passionate chemical engineer, and her research work focuses on the behavior of different materials in the presence of magnetic fields. Traveling has always been her passion and exploring the world about different materials is her constant hobby. She is an active member of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers-Student chapter and also a recipient of Acharya P C Ray Award 2019. She is also a perfervid Mime artist.
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Sydney BlueIn May 2019, Sydney graduated from Presbyterian College with a B.S in Physics and B.A. in Music. She joined Dr. Koh’s Lab in August of 2020 after spending a year teaching high school algebra 2. During her undergraduate education she researched granular materials, and is excited to be back in the lab, as well as continuing to grow as a teacher.
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Isaiah DorseyIsaiah Dorsey recently graduate Cum Laude with his bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering at Mississippi State University in May 2020. During his undergraduate years, he was apart of several Research Experience for Undergraduates programs at LSU and Alabama, even working with Koh’s lab at the University of Alabama. He has also gained industrial experience as a co-op at AOC LLC, a resin chemical company in Memphis, Tennessee. During his time at Mississippi State also heavily involved with Theta Tau Professional Engineering Fraternity in which he took several different roles such as: Service Head, Brotherhood Head, and Corresponding Secretary. He also served as a member of the fraternity’s executive council. He is excited to be back in Koh’s lab and Alabama and is looking forward for new opportunities to grow, learn, and make an impact for the university and the chemical engineering realm.
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Elizabeth BuryElizabeth Bury has been a member of Dr. Koh’s Lab since Fall 2018. In December 2020, she graduated magna cum laude from The University of Alabama with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering. During her time as an undergraduate, Elizabeth was involved in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Society of Women Engineers, Omega Chi Epsilon, and Phi Eta Sigma. For her research as an undergraduate in the Koh Lab, she has received the Future Leaders in Chemical Engineering Symposium Award in 2020, the 2020 Alexander Stanton Memorial Undergraduate Research Award, the 2020 Randall Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award, and was selected as a finalist in 2019 and 2020 for the Society of Women Engineers collegiate undergraduate research competitions. In Spring 2021, she returned to the Koh Lab as a graduate student. Her research primarily focuses on utilizing liquid metal and polymeric materials to develop novel soft and stretchable electronic materials.
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Maria ArekhiMaria graduated with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Guilan University and a M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Iran University of Science and Technology. She had been with Dr. Terry's team since 2018 researching the development of fingerprinting methods to find the source of oil contamination of marine environments and beaches using petroleum biomarkers, and quantifying and monitoring toxic compounds.
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