People

Our Team

Lab Director

Dr. Reza Nazemi

Dr. Reza Nazemi is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and School of Materials Science and Engineering at Colorado State University since 2022. Prior to this appointment, he was a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Yale University (2021-2022). Before this, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology (2020-2021). He earned his Ph.D. from the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech in 2020. Dr. Nazemi’s academic research experiences have been cross-disciplinary and span materials chemistry, photoelectrochemistry, and advanced spectroscopic techniques (Link).

Postdoctoral Associates and Research Scientists

Rami Reddy Boppella
Rami reddy boppella
Research Scientist

Ph.D. – Chemistry, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, India, 2014

Postdoctoral fellow – Ewha Women’s University, South Korea, 2014-2017

Research Professor – Yonsei University, South Korea, 2017-2022

Graduate Students

Maryam Ahmadi
MECH Ph.D. Student

B.S. – Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 2022

Brenden Arndt
MSE Ph.D. Student

B.S. – Physics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 2022

 

Undergraduate Students

Gavin Vonalt
CBE Undergraduate Researcher

SURE Program student and Undergraduate researcher

Jack Bicksler
MECH Undergraduate Researcher

Undergraduate researcher

Alumni

Sriram Mosali
Sriram Mosali
Postdoctoral Associate (02/2023-09/2023)

Ph.D. – Chemistry, Monash University, Australia, 2021

Pravin Babar
Postdoctoral Associate (02/2023-09/2023)

Ph.D. – Materials Science and Engineering, Chonnam National University, South Korea, 2020

Postdoctoral Fellow – King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), 2021-2022

Tasnim Mahmud
MSE Ph.D. Student (08/2023-12/2023)

M.S. – Textile Engineering, Wuhan Textile University, China, 2021

B.S. – Textile Engineering, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University Bangladesh, 2017

Hasive Ahmad
Physics M.S. Student (06/2023-12/2023)

M.S. – Physics, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, 2021

B.S. – Physics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2018

Katie Dunteman
MECH Undergraduate (01/2023-12/2023)

Senior Design student (2023)

 

Aaron Kennedy
MECH Undergraduate (01/2023-12/2023)

Senior Design student (2023)

Ben Haggard
MECH Undergraduate (01/2023-12/2023)

Senior Design student (2023)

 

Reed Westall
MECH Undergraduate (01/2023-12/2023)

Senior Design student (2023)

 

Marc Smoorenburg
CBE Undergraduate (01/2023-05/2023)

SURE Program student (2023)

Joy St. Clair
MECH Undergraduate (05/2023-08/2023)

Summer Research Program student (2023)