Professor
Marcus B. Foston, PhD
Associate Professor
Post-Docs & Graduate Students
Aditya Ponukumati
Graduate Student
The role that the extended catalyst environment has on external mass transfer limitations, internal mass transfer limitations, and adsorption/desorption for catalytic lignin disassembly
Huiyong (Morgan) Li
Graduate student
Mechano-chemical correlations in plant cell walls using AFM-IR and AFM-ToFSIMS, novel production of cellulose-recombinant protein and cellulose-polysaccharide nanocomposites, and tension wood formation
Jialiang Zhang
Graduate student
Catalytic reductive depolymerization of lignin with different characterization methods
Post Doc & Graduate Student Alumni
Hui Duan
Post-Doc
Novel catalyst for depolymerization of lignin and building lignin model compounds/polymers
Master's Students
2020
- Qishen Lyu
- Xianli Zou
- Jamarii Robinson
2018
- Zhenyang Jiang
2016
- Cheyenne Martins
- Merima Begonovic
2015
- Andressa Gusmão
Undergraduate Research Students
| Name | Year | Current Status | Previous Status |
| Mariah Cushman | 2013 | Team Manager (DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences) | Chemical Engineer (DuPont) |
| Manvitha Marni | 2013 | Junior Risk Analyst (Optiver) | MS in Environmental Engineering (Northwestern University); Consultant (Argonne National Lab) |
| Jennifer Elwell | 2013 | Senior Air Quality Specialist (Bay Area Air Quality Management District) | Project Manager (Stantec) |
| Jeane Xu | 2013 | Quality Control Associate Sr Position (Alder Biopharmaceuticals Inc.) | Quality Control Associate (Alder Biopharmaceuticals Inc.) |
| Jennifier Biener | 2013 | Ops Associate (Capital One) | Data Analyst/Data Engineer (Computer Aid, Inc.) |
| Cassandra Fagan | 2013 | Energy Consulting Manager (PowerAdvocate) | MS in Environmental Engineering (University of Texas, Austin); Assistant Engineer (Schaaf & Wheeler) |
| Alexandra Rodriguez-Beuerman | 2013 | Software Developer (McMaster-Carr) | ME at UI-Chicago |
| Imani Smith | 2013-2016 | Technology Solutions Consultan (Mastercard) | MBA (WUSTL); Management Associate (Mastercard) |
| Naomi Micheal | 2013 | Uber Frieght Operations Associate (Uber) | MBA (WUSTL); Strategy, Insights, & Planning Business Analyst (ZS) |
| Name | Year | Current status | Previous status |
| Noah Felvey | 2014 | PhD in Chemical Engineering and Material Science (UC Davis) | |
| Sara Chinnaswamy | 2014 | Legal Assistant Paralegal (Satisky & Silverstein) | District Sales Representative (Nalco Champion, an Ecolab) |
| Amy Brummer | 2014 | PhD in Material Science (Gerogia Tech) | Technical Services Analyst (Epic) |
| Cole Davis | 2014 | MD student (Emory University) | |
| Christian Ralph | 2014 | Data Scientist (Ameren) | MS in Data Analytics and Statistics (WUSTL); Project Manager Intern (Ameren) |
| Tossaporn (Jack) Choowuttichao | 2014 | Sales Executive (Brenntag Group) | |
| Mythili Ramachandran | 2014-2015 | PhD student in Pharmacology and Toxiocology (UC Davis) | |
| Lauren Reidy | 2014-2015 | Teaching middle school science; will be a rising senior student in physics at WUSTL | |
| Ryan Harlan | 2014-2015 | Scientist (NASA Michoud) | Internship (NASA’s Imaging Technologies Facility) |
| Samuel Brodfuedrer | 2014-2015 | PhD Student in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin |
| Name | Year | Current status | Previous status |
| Camille Noblet | 2015 | PhD Student in Atmospheric Chemistry (chez Ineris - Institut national de l'environnement industriel et des risques) | |
| Victor Moreira | 2015 | MS in Environmental Engineering (Federal University of Minas Gerais) | |
| Vernalli Mohanty | 2015 | Founder (Bombay Dessert Company) | |
| Brock Workman | 2015-2016 | Air Quality Specialist (Arcadis) | Associate Technical Professional (Halliburton) |
| Jeffrey Steptin | 2015-2016 | Technical Services Engineer (Epic) | |
| Aja Welch | 2015 | Coordinator of Strategic Initiatives (Generate Health STL) | MPH (WUSTL) |
| Austin Smestad | 2015-2016 | Application Engineer (H.B Fuller) |
| Name | Year | Current status | Previous status |
| Brian Gersten | 2016 | Research Assistant (WUSTL) | MEng in EECE (WUSTL) |
| Zayid Oyelami | 2016 | Data Analytics Teaching Assistant (Trilogy Education) | MS in Computer Science (WUSTL) |
| Name | Year | Current status | Previous status |
| Haowen (Vicky) Su | 2017 | Research Assistant (WUSTL) |
| Name | Year | Current status | Previous status |
| Logan Verheyen | 2018-2019 | Appying for Medical Schools after Graduating from SLU |
| Name | Year | Current status | Previous status |
| Elijah Begin | 2019 | Graduated from Ouachita Baptist University | |
| Brandon Hutchisan | 2019-2020 | Graduated from WUSTL in May 2020 |
| Name | Year | Current status | Previous status |
| Will Goldberg | 2020-2021 | A Junior Majoring in Mechanical Engineering at WUSTL |
| Name | Year | Current status | Previous status |
| Kathryn Tang | 2021 | A junior majoring in earth science at WUSTL | |
| Nicole Mut | 2021 | A sophomore majoring in EECE at WUSTL |