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)
From left to right: Lan Cheng, Tiffany Tang, Chuhui Zhang, Stefanie Starr, Zack Hopkins, Detlef Knappe, Danielle Westerman, Pingping Meng, Yuemei Ye (Good-bye lunch for Zack, April 2022)
Front: Tiffany Tang, Pingping Meng, Chuhui Zhang, Yoko Koyama. Back: Nancy Lee Alexander, Stefanie Starr, Lan Cheng, Sarangi Joseph, Noelle DeStefano, Amie McElroy, Zachary Hopkins, Detlef Knappe (May 2021)
Chuhui Zhang, Cecile Zhi, Amie McElroy, Zack Hopkins, Nadine Kotlarz, Lan Cheng, Detlef Knappe, and John Merrill (March 2018)
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
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
Nafisa Amin – (MS, University of Oklahoma) – Development of PFAS-selective sorbents (co-advised with Wei Gao)
Darrell Harry – (BS, Louisiana State University) – Phosphate uptake by metal oxides (co-advised with Jacob Jones)
Sarangi Joseph (BTech, Open University of Sri Lanka) – Mechanisms of PFAS adsorption to activated carbon – adsorption equilibrium
Stefanie Starr (MS, Johns Hopkins University) – Fate of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances during thermal reactivation of granular activated carbon
Zarin Tasnim (MS, BUET) – Kinetics of PFAS adsorption to granular activated carbon
MS Students
Nadia Sheppard (BS, NC State University) – PFAS chronology in lake sediment
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
Jordan Powell (BS, University of New Hampshire) – Sample preparation, PFAS analysis
Undergraduate Researchers
Emma Budden – Fluorine mass balance during thermal degradation of PFAS
Catherine Farnham – Combustion ion chromatography for total fluorine analysis
Zachary Swartzwelder – Fluorine mass balance during thermal degradation of PFAS
ALUMNI
Post-doctoral research associates
Shannon Bartelt-Hunt (PhD, University of Virginia) – Professor and Chair, University of Nebraska
Noelle DeStefano (PhD, Duke University) – Eurofins
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
Nancy Lee Alexander, PhD 2023, Geosyntec
Lan Cheng, PhD 2023, NCSU (postdoc)
Chuhui Zhang, PhD 2022, Colorado School of Mines (postdoc)
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, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile
Alfred Rossner, PhD 2008, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile
Ye Chen, PhD 2003, Novozymes
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, Geosyntec
Viking Edeback, MS 2014, Carollo
Rachel Ingham, MS 2014, Jacobs Ladder Engineering
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, SUEZ Smart & Environmental Solutions
Patricia Quinlivan Chandley, MS 2001, AECOM
Caleb Taylor, MS 2000, New River Valley Water Authority
Steven Gandy, MS 2000, TRC Companies
Neerja Rastogi, MS 1999, CDM Smith
R. Christopher Belk, MS 1999, Freese and Nichols
David Briley, MS 1998, Hazen and Sawyer
Andrew Rike, MS 1998, Harbor Environmental