Students & Research Staff
Ronny Horax
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Arkansas
Ph.D. Food Science, University of Arkansas, 2009
M.S. Food Science, University of Arkansas, 2003
B.S. Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia, 1993
Research Interests:
Wenbo Xu
Ph.D. Student, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Arkansas
B.S. Biomedical Engineering, University of Arkansas, 2019
Research Interests: Downstream Virus Clearance with Different Purification Techniques: Anion Exchange Chromatography & Low Filtration
Xiaolei Hao
Ph.D. Student, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Arkansas
M.S. Food Science and Technology, Tianjin University of Science and Engineering, China, 2016
B.S. Food Science and Technology, Hebei Agricultural University, China, 2013
Research Interests: Bio-Separation by Membrane, Protein/Virus Purification, Functional Membrane Modification
Mohammad Areeb Afzal
Ph.D. Student, Department of Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
B.S. & M.S. (Integrated) Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, 2020
Research Interests: Downstream processing, Bio-separation, Virus filtration
Akshay Chaubal
Ph.D. Student, Department of Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2021
Research Interests: Gene Therapy, Viral Vectors, Lentivirus, Bioprocessing, and Single-Pass TFF
Amir Hossein Mostafavi
Ph.D. Student, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Arkansas
M.S. Separation Processes, Chemical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran, 2019
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran, 2016
Research Interests: Bioreactor Clarification, Process Design, Membrane Filtration for Biomedical Applications, Synthesis and Surface Functionalization of Membranes, Water Treatment
Matthew Billups
Ph.D. Student, Department of Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
M.S. Chemical Engineering, Rutgers University, 2018
B.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 2016
Research Interests: Virus Filtration, Membrane Separations, Biologics/Vaccines Purification, Bioprocessing
Cannon Hackett
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Arkansas
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Arkansas, 2022
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Missouri, 2017
Research Interests: Green Chemistry, Membrane Fabrication, Surface Functionalization, Water Purification
Aylin Mohammadzadeh
Ph.D. Student, Department of Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
CinnaGen Pharmaceutical company, R&D Expert, 2018-2020
M.S. Biotechnology & Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 2017
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2014
Research Interests: Downstream Processing, Bio-Separation, Monoclonal Antibody (mAb) Purification, Host Cell Protein (HCP) Removal, mAb Formulation and Filling, HPLC, HPCMP
Kieran Fung
Ph.D. Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Temple University, 2018
Research Interests: Microfluidics, Membrane Filtration & Fouling, Particle Manipulation, Water Energy Nexus
Former Students & Research Staff
Qingquan Ma
MAST Student Researcher 2021-2023
Eric Ledieu
MAST Student Researcher 2019-2022
Anthony Pimentel
MAST Student Researcher 2017-2021
Nathaniel Harris
MAST Student Researcher 2021-2022
Huseyin Kaya
MAST Student Researcher 2021-2022
Brian Welch
MAST Student Researcher 2018-2021
Iman Saab
MAST Student Researcher 2020-2022
Saubana Dada
MAST Student Researcher 2021-2022
Solomon Isu
MAST Student Researcher 2018-2022
Mahmood Jebur
MAST Student Researcher 2018-2022
Da Zhang
MAST Student Researcher 2016-2021