From left to right front row: Catherine Farnham, Estefanny Quispe Cardenas, Yoshifume Nakazawa, Zarin Tasnim, Nafisa Amin. Second row: Darrell Harry, Nadia Sheppard, Diyuan Wang, Peyton Woodruff. Third row: Stefanie Silsby, Sarah Teagle, Lan Cheng, Sarangi Joseph, Tiffany VanDerwerker. Fourth row: Nathen Silsby, Jordan Powell, Danielle Westerman, Detlef Knappe (May 3, 2024)
From left to right: Maria Isabel Alexander Rodriguez, Detlef Knappe, Nancy Lee Alexander, Jordan Powell, Sarangi Joseph, Lan Cheng, Nadia Sheppard, Nafisa Amin, Danielle Westerman, Yuemei Ye, Pingping Meng (End-of-semester coffee, December 2022)
Clockwise from top center: Nancy Lee Alexander, Amie McElroy, Detlef Knappe, Lan Cheng, Tiffany Tang, Chuhui Zhang, Yoko Koyama. Sarangi Joseph, Noelle DeStefano, Zachary Hopkins, Stefanie Silsby, Pingping Meng (May 2021)
CURRENT GROUP MEMBERS
Post-docs
Lan Cheng (PhD, NC State University) – Non-target analysis of PFAS in soil and sediment cores, PFAS removal by novel and incumbent sorbents
Yoshifumi Nakazawa (PhD, Hokkaido University) – PFAS desorption from granular activated carbon
Estefanny Quispe Cardenas (PhD, Clarkson University) – Electrochemical precipitation (co-advised with Doug Call)
Diyuan Wang (PhD, NC State University) – Adsorption models, data analysis workflows for non-target analysis
Danielle Westerman (PhD, University of South Carolina) – Development of total organic fluorine methods for blood serum, water, and other matrices
PhD Students
Darrell Harry (BS, Louisiana State University) – Phosphate uptake by metal oxides (co-advised with Jacob Jones)
Yue Hu (MS, Fudan University) – Occurrence of ultra-short-chain PFAS in drinking water sources
Sarangi Joseph (BTech, Open University of Sri Lanka) – Mechanisms of PFAS adsorption to activated carbon – adsorption equilibrium
Zarin Tasnim (MS, BUET) – Kinetics of PFAS adsorption to granular activated carbon
Tiffany VanDerwerker (MS, Virginia Tech) – Spatio-temporal PFAS trends in groundwater near Fayetteville Works (co-advised with Owen Duckworth)
MS Students
Nathen Silsby (BS, Norwich University) – Thermal reactivation of PFAS-laden granular activated carbon
Sarah Teagle (BS, Washington Lee University) – Behavior of fluoroethers in the total oxidizable precursor assay
Peyton Woodruff (BS, Xavier University) – PFAS fate and transport in concrete
Research Technician
Nadia Sheppard (BS, MS NC State University)
Undergraduate Researchers
Norah Patterson – PFAS occurrence in wells at NC fire stations
Catherine Farnham – Air emissions from PFAS destruction processes
Adeena Khan – PFAS occurrence in wells at NC fire stations
ALUMNI
Post-doctoral research associates
Shannon Bartelt-Hunt (PhD, University of Virginia) – Professor and Chair, University of Nebraska
Noelle DeStefano (PhD, Duke University) – Metiri Group
Zachary Hopkins, (PhD, NCSU) – US Geological Survey
Nadine Kotlarz, (PhD, University of Michigan) – Assistant Professor, NCSU
Amie McElroy, (PhD, NCSU) – Savannah River National Laboratory
Pingping Meng (PhD, Tsinghua University) – Assistant Professor, ECU
Erik Rosenfeldt (PhD, Duke University) – Director of Drinking Water Process Technology, Hazen and Sawyer
Mei Sun (PhD, Carnegie Mellon University) – Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Yuemei Ye (PhD, Tongji University) – Assistant Professor, Lehman College
Yue Cecile Zhi (PhD, McGill University) – Associate Professor, Chongqing University
PhD students
Stefanie Silsby, PhD 2024, Assistant Professor, Uniformed Services University
Nafisa Amin PhD 2024
Nancy Lee Alexander, PhD 2023, Geosyntec
Lan Cheng, PhD 2023, NCSU (postdoc)
Chuhui Zhang, PhD 2022, Assistant Professor, China University of Geosciences (Beijing)
Zachary Hopkins, PhD 2021, US Geological Survey
Amie McElroy, PhD 2020, Savannah River National Laboratory
Bilgen Yuncu, PhD 2010, TRC Companies
Jovita Saquing, PhD 2009, University of Delaware
Carolina Baeza, PhD 2008, Professor and Chair, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile
Alfred Rossner, PhD 2008, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile
Ye Chen, PhD 2003, CPKelco
Lei Li, PhD 2002, California Environmental Protection Agency
Bingyan Wu, PhD 2002, Rho
MS students
Tiffany Tang, MS 2022, Northeastern University
Yoko Koyama, MS 2021, Carollo
Maia Fitzstevens, MS 2019, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Obatayo Harold Hounwanou, MS 2018, Little Rock Water Reclamation Authority
J. Clark Maness, MS 2017, WithersRavenel
Catalina Lopez Velandia, MS 2016, Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department
Jonathan Moreno Barbosa, MS 2016, Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department
Amber Greune, MS 2014, Dewberry
Viking Edeback, MS 2014, Carollo
Rachel Ingham, MS 2014, Town of Holly Springs
Elisa Arevalo, MS 2014, Hazen and Sawyer
Allison Reinert Spinelli, MS 2013, Orange Water and Sewer Authority
Meredith Fotta Miller, MS 2012, CDM Smith
Leigh-Ann Dudley, MS 2012, Dewberry
Susan Dunn Auten, MS 2011, Black & Veatch
Angela Mastropole Walsh, MS 2011, Biogen
Qianru Deng, MS 2010, Carollo
Anjali Viswakumar, MS 2010, Eco Services India
Isabella Mezzari, MS 2006, Shell
Lisa Mitchell, MS 2005, City of Durham
Alfred Rossner, MS 2004, continued as PhD student
Travis Wagner, MS 2003, Trinnex
Patricia Quinlivan Chandley, MS 2001, AECOM
Caleb Taylor, MS 2000, New River Valley Water Authority
Steven Gandy, MS 2000, WK Dickson
Neerja Rastogi, MS 1999, CDM Smith
R. Christopher Belk, MS 1999, Hazen and Sawyer
David Briley, MS 1998, Hazen and Sawyer
Andrew Rike, MS 1998, Harbor Environmental