Current Members
Faculty
Mark Wiesner
James B. Duke Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Membrane processes, nanostructured materials, transport and fate of nanomaterials in the environment, colloidal and interfacial processes, and environmental systems analysis
Postdoctoral Fellows
Nick Geitner
Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Center for the Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology (CEINT)
Research Interests: I am interested in the fundamentals of nanomaterial behavior in the environment, ranging from interactions with biomolecules or pullutants to attachment to microorganisms and environmental surfaces, and their effects on nanoparticle transport.
Ryan Smith
Postdoctoral Associate
Research Interests: Investigating the recovery of rare earth elements from coal combustion products using liquid membrane processes
PhD Students
Nadrat Chowdhury
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: Nano-bio interactions; antibiotic resistance; extracellular DNA
Marielle DuToit
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: Developing novel conductive-membrane filtration technologies that utilize electrochemical sensing techniques to probe the membrane interior and surrounding system during fouling events.
Ethan C. Hicks
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: Particle aggregation, molecular dynamics simulations, and bacteriophage biology
Joana M Sipe
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: Microplastics, degradation of plastic pollution, nano-additives in plastic
Amalia Turner
Doctoral Candidate
Research Interests: Fate, transport, and transformation of nanoscale particles in the environment
Bioavailability of nanoparticles to plants
Exposure and risk assessment (chemical and nanomaterial)
