Recent News:

• May 2023: Congratulations to Varad Joshi on being awarded Outstanding TA in the Cullen College of Engineering!
• Jan 2023: The group is pleased to welcome a new graduate student, Suchetana Samanta.

• April 2022: Sadia Afrin and Jacklyn Hall successfully defend their dissertations. Congratulations, Sadia and Jackie!
• Jan 2022: The group welcomes three new graduate students – Varad Joshi, Joseph Lane, and Meghana Idamakanti.

• November 2021: The group delivers 7 oral presentations at the AIChE Annual Meeting – the first of many AIChE meetings for the group.
• September 2021: Jackie is awarded an Outstanding Dissertation Award from the ChBE Department. Congratulations!
• June 2021: Xiaowei passes his qualifying examination and is now a Ph.D. candidate. Congratulations Xiaowei
• May 2021: Jackie is awarded a DOE SCGSR fellowship, and will spend the Fall of 2021 investigating MOF catalysis at Argonne National Lab. Read the full story here: https://stories.uh.edu/2021-doe-award/index.html
• April 2021: Mengying Li wins the Best Poster Reward at 2021 Southwest Catalysis Spring Symposium held on Gather Town. Her poster was titled ‘Mechanistic Insights into C1-C3 alcohol dehydration reactions over well-defined nodes over MIL-100(Cr).’ Congratulations, Mengying!
• Jan 2021: We welcome Austin Morales to the group; he is co-advised by Michael Harold, and will focus on the development of non-steady state approaches to upgrading light alkanes.

• Nov 2020: Jackie wins an AIChE Women in Chemical Engineering Travel Award. Congratulations Jackie!
• Nov 2020: Xiaohui wins a CRE Travel Award from the AIChE CRE Division. Congratulations Xiaohui!
• Oct 2020: Jackie awarded a top poster prize at the 35th Annual Research Symposium organized by the Organization of Chemical Engineering Graduate Students. Her poster was titled “Partial Oxidation of Methane to Methanol through the Homogeneous Contribution of Tri-Iron Nodes in a Metal-Organic Framework Material”
• Feb 2020: Undergraduate researcher Kevin Fleming awarded a DAAD RISE Fellowship. Congratulations Kevin!
• Jan 2020: Yikang Peng and Xiaowei Wu join the group. Xiaowei is co-advised by Dr. Krishnamoorti, and will be the first student in the group working on adsorption science and technology.

• August 2019: Undergraduate student Kevin Fleming, a Sophomore in Chemical Engineering, joins the group.
• July 2019: NSF REU student Juanny Nunez heads back to CCNY after a successful stint developing MOF materials for catalysis applications. Wish Juanny nothing but success in all her future endeavors!
• May 2019: All three second year graduate students pass their qualifying examinations, creating the sense that great things are in store for the group.
• Feb 2019: Group family and friends successfully crack the Escape Room at Cipher Escape Room Experience. Group members realize they dislike being locked in a room with each other, and thank UH for providing three separate doors to their lab.
• Jan 2019: Jiakang Chen and Mengying Li (willingly) join the group. Jiakang is coadvised by Prof. Balakotaiah and will be the first student in the group combining experiments and non-isothermal reactor modeling.