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, novel production of cellulose-soy protein and model cell wall nanocomposites, mechano-chemical changes in the extracellular matrices of hepatic stellate cells in response to the stiffness of synthetic scaffolds, and tension wood formation
Jialiang Zhang
Graduate student
Catalytic reductive depolymerization of lignin with different characterization methods
Zhenqin (Jerry) Wang
Graduate Student
Novel production of cellulose-recombinant protein nanocomposites and catalytic reductive depolymerization of lignin
Post Doc & Graduate Student Alumni
Hui Duan
Post-Doc
Novel catalyst for depolymerization of lignin and building lignin model compounds/polymers
Master's Students
2021
- Qishen Lyu
2020
- 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 Senior Majoring in Mechanical Engineering at WUSTL |
| Name | Year | Current status | Previous status |
| Kathryn Tang | 2021 | A Senior Majoring in Earth Science at WUSTL | |
| Nicole Mut | 2021 | A Junior Majoring in EECE at WUSTL | |
| Miranda Copenhaver | 2021 | A Junior Majoring in Biomedical Engineering at WUSTL |