Team
Principal Investigator

Dion G. Vlachos
He obtained a five-year diploma in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1987, his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1990 and 1992 respectively, and spent a postdoctoral year at the Army High Performance Computing Research Center in Minnesota. After that, Dr. Vlachos joined the University of Massachusetts as an assistant professor, was promoted to an associate professor in 1998 and joined the University of Delaware in 2000. He was a visiting fellow at Princeton University in the spring of 2000, a visiting faculty member at Thomas Jefferson University and Hospital in the spring of 2007 and the George Pierce Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota in the fall of 2007, and the Elizabeth Inez Kelley Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, 2009-2016.
He is the corresponding author of more than 400 refereed publications with over 22,000 citations, and an h factor of 84 (google scholar), and has given over 270 plenary lectures, keynote lectures and other invited talks. Professor Vlachos has served as an executive editor of the Chemical Engineering Science journal and also served or currently serves on the editorial advisory board of ACS Catalysis, Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, Applied Catalysis A: General and others.
For full CV and to learn more, visit Professor Vlachos’ faculty profile.
Graduate Students

Erha Andini
Experimental

Montgomery Baker-Fales
Experimental

Sai Batchu
Computational

Himaghna Bhattacharjee
Computational

Eric Chen
Computational

Tai-Ying (Chris) Chen
Experimental

Tso-Hsuan (Eric) Chen
Computational

Max Cohen
Computational

Charles (Chas) Fields
Experimental

Tejas Goculdas
Experimental

Yagya Gupta
Experimental

Yung Wei (Jessie) Hsiao
Experimental

Dat Huynh
Computational

Nefeli Kamarinopoulou
Experimental

Sophia Kurdziel
Computational

Yeonsu Kwak
Experimental

Seungyeon (Lina) Lee
Computational

Vinson Liao
Computational

Arnav Mittal
Computational

Darien Nguyen
Experimental

Christine Oberhausen
Experimental

Rucha Railkar
Computational

Esun Selvam
Experimental

Sanjana Srinivas
Computational

Jessie Sun
Experimental

Brandon Vance
Experimental

Yifan Wang
Computational

Jon Wilson
Computational

Alfred Worrad
Computational

Yurong Wu
Experimental

Piaoping Yang
Computational

Kewei Yu
Experimental

Jiahua Zhou
Experimental

Xue (Sherry) Zong
Computational
Postdoctoral Scholars

Pooja Bhalode
Computational

Fabio Cameli
Experimental

Siddharth Deshpande
Computational

Salman Khan
Computational

Pavel Kots
Experimental

Qiang Li
Computational

Yilang Liu
Computational

Sean Najmi
Experimental

Mozhdeh Parizad
Experimental

Abhirup Patra
Experimental

Anjana Puliyanda
Computational

Sagar Sourav
Experimental

Vibin Vargheese
Experimental

Cong Wang
Experimental

Tianjun Xie
Computational

Mehdi Zare
Computational
Staff
Deputy Director
Siemens
Sr. Program Manager
Associate Director, Computational
Assistant to the Director
Associate Director, Research
Computational Scientist
Lab Manager
Research Associate
Software Engineer
Technical Communications Specialist
Alumni
Graduate Students
Ph.D., 2022
University of Delaware
Ph.D., 2022
Bristol Myers Squibb
Ph.D., 2021
3M
Ph.D., 2020
Dow Chemical
Ph.D., 2019
Los Alamos
Ph.D., 2018
CFD Research Corporation
Ph.D., 2017
Intel Corporation
M.S., 2016
University of Notre Dame
Ph.D., 2014
Shell
M.S., 2014
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Ph.D., 2013
ExxonMobile
M.S., 2012
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Ph.D., 2011
Saudi Aramco
M.S., 2009
Cruise
M.S., 2007
DuPont
Ph.D., 2006
Velocys
Ph.D., 2006
Merck
Ph.D., 2005
ExxonMobile
Ph.D., 2002
ExxonMobile
Ph.D., 2000
IIT Madras
M.S., 1999
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Ph.D., 2022
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Ph.D., 2021
Meta
Ph.D., 2020
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.S., 2020
Pfizer
Ph.D., 2018
Continuus Pharmacauticals
Ph.D., 2018
Stoner, Inc.
Ph.D., 2017
Cargill
Ph.D., 2015
Element
Ph.D., 2014
Dow Chemical
Ph.D., 2013
3M
Ph.D., 2012
ExxonMobile
Ph.D., 2011
Intel
M.S., 2011
LifeLens Technologies
Ph.D., 2007
IIT Bombay
M.S., 2007
Anyscale
Ph.D., 2006
Lehigh University
M.S., 2001
Excel Engineering
Ph.D., 2004
IBM
Ph.D., 2001
AE Industrial Partners
Ph.D., 2000
Gore
Ph.D., 1998
GE
Ph.D., 2022
McKinsey
Ph.D., 2021
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Ph.D., 2020
ONR
M.S., 2020
WuXi Biologics
Ph.D., 2018
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Ph.D., 2018
Korea Institute of Technology (KENTECH)
Ph.D., 2017
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Ph.D., 2014
Air Products
Ph.D., 2014
Eastman Chemical Company
Ph.D., 2013
Apogee Research
Ph.D., 2012
ExxonMobile
Ph.D., 2011
ExxonMobile
Ph.D., 2009
ExxonMobile
Ph.D., 2007
ExxonMobile
Ph.D., 2006
University of Houston
Ph.D., 2006
Johnson Mathey
Ph.D., 2005
Regeneron
Ph.D., 2003
SABIC
M.S., 2001
Yara International
Ph.D., 2000
Carrier
M.S., 1995
Knowesis
Postdoctoral Scholars
Culture Biosciences
Star Research
Citadel
Isreal Institute of Technology
IIT Madras
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
Auburn University
ACS
Rutgers University
University of Houston
Ingevity
Queens University, Belfast
EAFIT University, Columbia
DDH Advanced Materials & Systems, Inc.
University of Waterloo
KU Leuven
IIT Madras
IIT Madras
IIT Dhanbad
Singapore
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Penn State University
Oregon State University
Brazil
Kansas State University
AutoAlert
Air Liquide
Grant Thornton Greece
ITT, Guwahati
Pusan National University
NREL
UCL, London
Dow Chemical
University of Alberta
COMSATS University Islamabad
Specialty Granules, LLC
Amogy
Penn State University
Tianjin University
Siemens
Umass Lowell
EDRC
Villanova University
Ajou University, South Korea
Aspen Technology
Beijing Institute of Technology
University of Virginia
University of Crete
Mississippi State University
Argonne National Laboratory
University of Alberta
Intel
Virginia Tech University
Neal Fernandes
Powerhouse Wind Ltd
Marina Lebedeva
Penn State
Scientific Research Staff
2015-2020
Assoc. Director of Research, RiKarbon
2011-2013
Assoc. Prof., University of Pittsburgh
2011-2015
Assoc. Director of Research, W.L. Gore
2011-2013
Magee Women’s Research Inst. & Foundation
2012-2015
Lab Manager, CBD, University of Delaware
2009-2012
Self-employed