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 (2000), a visiting faculty member at Thomas Jefferson University and Hospital (2007), the George Pierce Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota (2007), the Elizabeth Inez Kelley Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware (2009-2016) and the ExxonMobil Visiting Chair Professor at the National University of Singapore (2018-2021).
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
Max Bobbin
Experimental
Devin Dabagian
Computational
Charles (Chas) Fields
Experimental
Tejas Goculdas
Experimental
Yagya Gupta
Experimental
Alex Hawkins
Experimental
Dat Huynh
Computational
Nefeli Kamarinopoulou
Experimental
Jae Kim
Computational
Quentin Kim
Experimental
Asena Kizil
Experimental
Hasan Koybasi
Exp./Comp.
Yeonsu Kwak
Experimental
Rajas Mehendale
Computational
Arnav Mittal
Computational
Jackie Ngu
Experimental
Darien Nguyen
Experimental
Christine Oberhausen
Experimental
Rucha Railkar
Computational
Pedro Reis Moura
Experimental
Sakshi Satyanand
Computational
Zoe Schwarz
Experimental
Esun Selvam
Experimental
Sanjana Srinivas
Computational
Jessie Sun
Experimental
Arun Sundaramoorthy
Computational
Alfred Worrad
Computational
Azad Yilmaz
Experimental
Postdoctoral Scholars
Deep Patel
Computational
George Yan
Computational
Piaoping Yang
Computational
Sinmyung Yoon
Experimental
Jiahua Zhou
Experimental
Staff
Siemens
Lab Manager
Assistant to the Director
Technical Communications
Software Engineer
Associate Director
PPPL
Alumni
Graduate Students (Alumni)
Scott Coia
MChE, expected 2025
University of Delaware
Jiahua Zhou
Ph.D., 2024
University of Delaware
Piaoping Yang
Ph.D., 2024
University of Delaware
Roel Raike
MChE, 2024
EPFL Ph.D. Program
Kewei Yu
Ph.D., 2024
Eli Lilly & Co.
Brandon Vance
Ph.D., 2024
Honeywell UOP
Xue (Sherry) Zong
Ph.D., 2023
OpenEye Scientific
Tso-Hsuan (Eric) Chen
M.S., 2023
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.
Sophia Kurdziel
Ph.D., 2023
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Montgomery Baker-Fales
Ph.D., 2023
Dow Chemical
Seungyeon (Lina) Lee
Ph.D., 2023
Dow Chemical
Yung Wei (Jessie) Hsiao
Ph.D., 2023
Dow Chemical
Zhaoxing (Joe) Wang
Ph.D., 2023
Regeneron
Sai Praneet Batchu
Ph.D., 2023
Northwestern University
Jon Wilson
Ph.D., 2023
W.L. Gore & Associates
Himaghna Bhattacharjee
Ph.D., 2023
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Jiayi Fu
Ph.D., 2022
Bristol Myers Squibb
Natalia Rodriguez Quiroz
Ph.D., 2022
McKinsey
Gerhard Wittreich
Ph.D., 2022
University of Delaware
Tai-Ying (Chris) Chen
Ph.D., 2022
DuPont
Max Cohen
Ph.D., 2022
24M Technologies, Inc.
Yurong Wu
M.S., 2022
University of Delaware
Pierre Desir
Ph.D., 2021
3M
Elvis Ebikade
Ph.D., 2021
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Yifan Wang
Ph.D., 2021
Meta
Hsuan-Lan (Sandy) Wang
M.S., 2020
WuXi Biologics
Jordan Willie
M.S., 2020
Pfizer
Jonathan Lym
Ph.D., 2020
Dow Chemical
Angela Norton
Ph.D., 2020
ONR
Joshua Lansford
Ph.D., 2020
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ziwei (Lily) Cheng
Ph.D., 2019
Los Alamos
Geun Ho Gu
Ph.D., 2018
Korea Institute of Technology (KENTECH)
Matthew Gilkey
Ph.D., 2018
Stoner, Inc.
Stephen Giles
Ph.D., 2018
CFD Research Corporation
Alexander Mironenko
Ph.D., 2018
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Huong Thi Thanh (Hannah) Nguyen
Ph.D., 2018
Continuus Pharmaceuticals
Tyler Josephson
Ph.D., 2017
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Ryan Patet
Ph.D., 2017
Cargill
Marcel Nunez
Ph.D., 2017
Intel Corporation
Garam Lee
M.S., 2016
University of Notre Dame
T. Dallas Swift
Ph.D., 2015
Element
Andrew Black
M.S., 2014
Jonathan Sutton
Ph.D., 2014
Eastman Chemical Company
Nima Nikbin
Ph.D., 2014
Dow Chemical
Matthew Christiansen
Ph.D., 2014
Shell
Timothy Courtney
Ph.D., 2014
Air Products
Vinit Choudhary
Ph.D., 2013
ExxonMobile
Jacob McGill
Ph.D., 2013
Apogee Research
Sarah Tupy
Ph.D., 2013
3M
Stephen Edie
M.S., 2012
Michael Salciccioli
Ph.D., 2012
ExxonMobile
Matthew Mettler
Ph.D., 2012
ExxonMobile
Jacob Weiner
M.S., 2011
LifeLens Technologies
Khalid Ali Al-Majnouni
Ph.D., 2011
Saudi Aramco
William Lonergan
Ph.D., 2011
ExxonMobile
Danielle Hashagen
Ph.D., 2011
Intel
Stuart Collins
M.S., 2009
Cruise
Justin Federici
Ph.D., 2009
ExxonMobile
Asawari Samant
M.S., 2007
Anyscale
Anne Marie Schilthuis
M.S., 2007
DuPont
Jeffrey Ludwig
Ph.D., 2007
ExxonMobile
Abhijit Chatterjee
Ph.D., 2007
IIT Bombay
Kapil Mayawala
Ph.D., 2006
Merck
Joseph Fedeyko
Ph.D., 2006
Johnson Mathey
Mark Snyder
Ph.D., 2006
Lehigh University
Soumitra Raghavendra Deshmukh
Ph.D., 2006
Velocys
Jeffrey Rimer
Ph.D., 2006
University of Houston
Ashwin Mhadeshwar
Ph.D., 2005
ExxonMobile
Daniel Norton
Ph.D., 2005
Regeneron
Griselda Bonilla
Ph.D., 2004
IBM
Scott Fisher
Ph.D., 2003
SABIC
Stéphanie Raimondeau
Ph.D., 2002
ExxonMobile
Robert Lam
M.S., 2001
Yara International
Mallika Gummalla
Ph.D., 2001
AE Industrial Partners
Benjamin Feist
M.S., 2001
Excel Engineering
Young Park
Ph.D., 2000
Carrier
Vladimiros Nikolakis
Ph.D., 2000
Gore
Preeti Aghalayam
Ph.D., 2000
IIT Madras
James Reese
M.S., 1999
Pierre Bui
Ph.D., 1998
GE
Stavros Kalamatianos
M.S., 1995
Knowesis
Postdoctoral Scholars (Alumni)
Scientific Research Staff (Alumni)
2002-2024
(dec. 2024)
2019-2022
Centre for Research and Technology, Hellas
2012-2015
Lab Manager, CBD, University of Delaware
2009-2012
Self-employed
2020-2024
NET Power
2015-2020
Assoc. Director of Research, RiKarbon
2011-2013
Assoc. Prof., University of Pittsburgh
2022-2023
Retired
2011-2015
Assoc. Director of Research, W.L. Gore
2011-2013
Magee Women’s Research Inst. & Foundation