Principal Investigator

Carl Denard, PhD

Post-Doc, Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin
​PhD, Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
BS. Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University
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​[email protected]
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Graduate Students

Sage Nelson
Chemical Engineering
Joined Winter 2022

Luis Eduardo Lopez de la Maza
Chemical Engineering
​Joined Winter 2022

Lawton Long
Chemical Engineering
​Joined Winter 2022

Raymond Pho
Chemical Engineering
Joined Winter 2023

Seyednima (Nima) Ajayebi
Chemical Engineering
Joined Winter 2024

Minlyn Chen
Chemical Engineering
Joined Winter 2025

Mariam Montenegro Fontalvo
Chemical Engineering
​Joined Winter 2025

Undergraduate Students

Emily Prins
Neuroscience & Biochemistry
​Joined August 2024

Liz Roggenbuch
Chemical Engineering
​Joined August 2025

Sonia Cheng
Chemical Engineering
Joined November 2024

Ila Gapinski
Chemical Engineering
Joined September 2025

Sarah Murphy
Chemical Engineering
​Joined January 2025

Jake Urrunaga
Biochemistry
Joined January 2026

Adeline Schmidt
Chemical Engineering
Joined May 2025

Kareem Meinel
Biomedical Engineering
​Joined May 2026

Nickolai Farber
Biochemistry & CS
Joined May 2026

Isabella Grzebieluch
Microbiology
​Joined March 2026

Lab Alumni

PhD students

• Samantha Martinusen (May 2025) - Now at Eurofins Discovery

MS students

• Cassidy F Simas - Now at Biocryst Pharmaceuticals
• Athena Ghiasi - Now at Texas A&M PhD
• Julia Saucedo
• Shivani Biskunda - Now a Senior Scientist at Eli Lilly
• Afifa Khan
• Abdul Bais Kadli
• Sai Amirisetti - Applications Engineer at ASML​
• Vandana Prabhakar 

Undergraduate Students

• ​David Arceo Zamora
  
• ​Cianna Scutero - Incoming Georgia Tech PhD Student
• Marcos Javith
• Matthew (Cole) Prutzmann
• Koushin Unber
• Pedro Baerga
• James Chen
• Hunter Vu
• Venkata Bhamidi
• Marian Pulgar
• Ethan W Slaton - Now at Ohio State Chemical Engineering PhD 
• Michael Webb - REU 2024, now at University of Florida PhD
• Paola Oliva
• Ethan Vela
• Ariory Hood - REU 2023, now at Zimmer Biomet
• Spencer Serrano
• Julia Besu
• Gabrielle Wood - SURF REU 2022
• Emily Miller - Now at UT Austin Chemical Engineering PhD
• Breanna Healan
• Benjamin Stone
• Erika Monte
• Lauren Leisen​

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High School Students

• Vivian Zhang - SSTP 2026
• Ahyoung Kim - SSTP 2026
• Alyssa Jamoom - SSTP 2025
• Boyang Zhang - SSTP 2025