Postdoctoral Fellows

Claudia L. Sánchez Huerta

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interests: ​Membrane bioreactor, Biological wastewater treatments, biotechnology,, Organic micro-pollutants, water reuse

Fernan David Martinez Jimenez , Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Mathematical modeling, Simulation process, Biotechnological science, Mechanistic and not-mechanistic models, Python, Matlab, Julia, C, Java

Fernanda Tavares, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interests: Trace metal, Water Treatment, Porous materials characterization, Natural deep eutectic solvents

Filipa Simoes, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interests: RO membrane, Scaling, LA-ICP-MS, Analytical chemistry

Hari Ananda Rao, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Electromicrobiology, Microbial ecology, Microbial interactions, Waste to resources, Biocorrosion

Harun Elcik, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Membrane distillation, Membrane fouling, Water and Wastewater Treatment, Renewable Energy, Microalgae

Hua Cheng, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interests: Movement ecology, Landscape ecology, Remote sensing, Resource selection, Foraging behavior

Jamal Elfarkh, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interests: Crop model, Evapotranspiration, Water stress, Water use efficiency, Remote sensing

Kennedy Odokonyero, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Plant biology/ecology, Plant microbial interaction, Material engineering, Soil science, Irrigation management

Marcel El Hajj, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Synthetic aperture radar data, Optical data, LiDAR, Soil moisture, Biomass, Crop mapping, Crop parameters, Crop modeling

Mohammed Obaid Awad, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Seawater desalination, Wastewater Treatment1, Membrane fabrication, Electrospinning, Forward Osmosis, Ultrafiltration

Muhammad Nawaz, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interests: ​Forward osmosis membrane filtration, Biological treatment of wastewater, Water purification, Fate of chemical contaminants in water treatment

Muhammad Subkhi Sadullah, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interests: Droplets, Liquid-infused surfaces, Wetting, Lattice Boltzmann, Oil-water separation

Saichao Dang

Postdoctoral fellow

Sarvajith Manjunath, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interests: Microbial biotechnology, Aerobic and anaerobic bioprocesses, Aerobic Granular Sludge, Wastewater treatment technologies, Microbial ecology of engineered systems

Shakeel Ahmad

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interests: Water harvesting, Thermal management, Radiative cooling, Heat transfer, Machine learning

Shuo Zhang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Anaerobic membrane reactor, Industrial wastewater, water reuse, Pathogen, Emerging contaminants, Membrane fouling

Yanpei Tian, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interests: Photonic manipulation, Photothermal conversion, Near-field radiative heat transfer, Solar steam generation

Yong Jin, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Condensation, Heat transfer, Desaliantion, Materials, CFD