People

PhD students


Scott SvadlenakScott Svadlenak: Scott got his BS in Chemistry with a concentration in Chemical Engineering from Oregon State University in 2019, where he did undergraduate research with Mas Subramanian. He joined the group in July 2019 and he is working on converting waste polymers to fuels and chemicals. In his free time, he dances salsa and does SCUBA diving.








Tanmayi Bathena: Tanmayi got her BS in Chemical Engineering from Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering. She joined the lab in Fall 2018 and she successfully defended her MS thesis on the fundamentals of oxygenate reactions over bimetallic catalysts. She was recently awarded a distinguished graduate research program fellowship to work at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory on dynamic C-N bond formation catalysis. She is jointly advised by Dr. Karthikeyan Ramasamy.







Stephen Kristy: Stephen got his BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wyoming in 2017 and joined Oregon State University as a PhD student in Fall 2019 after a stint as an engineer in the semiconductor industry. He joined the lab in April 2020 and has been working on catalysis for emissions control.

Brooklyne Thompson: Brooklyne got her BS in Chemistry from Idaho State University in June 2020 and joined the lab in April 2021. Her research, in collaboration with Idaho National Lab, focuses on the production of liquid fuels and chemicals from natural gas and its derivatives. She is jointly advised by Dr. Rebecca Fushimi.

Undergraduate students

Michael Vannevel: Michael is a senior in Chemical Engineering at Oregon State. He joined in January 2019 and he is working on Fischer-Tropsch synthesis over Ru catalysts.

Lenora Mathis: Lenora is a junior in Chemical Engineering at Oregon State. She joined the lab in June 2020 and she is working on the upcycling of plastic waste.

Kyle Reem: Kyle is a senior in Chemical Engineering at Oregon State. He joined the lab in June 2020 and he is working on the upgrading of biomass to fuels and chemicals.

Jade Minzlaff: Jade is a junior in Chemical Engineering at Oregon State. She joined the lab in June 2020 and he is working on the conversion of algae to fuels and chemicals.

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