Current Members
Faculty
Mark Wiesner
James B. Duke Distinguished 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
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
Nicholas Rogers
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: Extracellular vesicles, nanoparticle fate/transport, agriculture, particle simulations
Joana M Sipe
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: Microplastics, degradation of plastic pollution, nano-additives in plastic
Luka Lila Thornton
Doctoral Candidate
Research Interests: Machine learning, Emerging materials in consumer products, Cheminformatics, Environmental exposure
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)
Hanna Varga
Doctoral Student