Members | The Bonnecaze Research Group

Graduate Students

Abisola Ojoawo:abisola.ojoawo@utexas.edu
Graduate Research Assistant
B.S. Chemical Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology(SDSM&T)
Research Focus: Modeling Stability of Colloidal Gels

Shreyas Sudhaman:sudhaman.shreyas@austin.utexas.edu
Graduate Research Assistant
B.S. Chemical Engineering, The Ohio State University
Research Focus: Mechanical Tuning of Colloidal Gels using acoustic waves

Postdoctoral Fellows:

Minaspi Bantawa:minaspi.bantawa@austin.utexas.edu
M.S. Physics, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
M.S. and Ph.D. Physics, Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
Research Focus: Colloidal gel stability, soft adhesive particle pastes

Alumni Members:

Tianfei Liu
B.S. Biochemical Engineering, Zhejiang University
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

Ali Shahmohammadi
Alumni Post-doctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada
Currently: Senior Statistician at Moderna

Yang H. Ban
B.S. Physics and Chemistry, University of North Florida
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
Currently: Simulation Engineer at Sandbox Semiconductors

Monica Zakhari
Alumni Post-doctoral fellow
M.Sc. Computational Mechanics, Swansea University, Swansea, UK and Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Postdoc: Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, California, USA
Currently: Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Xilan Zhu

B.S. Chemical Engineering, Purdue University
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
Currently: Process Engineer at Lam Research

Steven Stanley

B.S. Chemical Engineering, Brigham Young University
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

Soumik Das

B.Tech. Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
Currently: Post-doctoral associate at Cornell University

Fardin Khabaz
Alumni Post-doctoral fellow
PhD Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, 2016
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2011
Currently: Assistant Professor at the University of Akron

Meghali Chopra

B.S. Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
PhD Chemical Engineering, UT Austin, 2017
Currently: CEO, Sandbox Semiconductor

Mohammadreza Shafiei
Graduate Researcher
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology
M.S. Polymer Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

Shruti Jain
PhD Candidate
B.Tech. Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin