Group Members
Principal Investigator
Esther W. Gomez, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
e-mail: ewg10[at]psu.edu
Graduate Students
Undergraduate Students
David Soares
Farah Douglas
Claire Klaye
Barbara Serrano-Acosta
Stella Kibinda
Emilia Gomez
Lab Alumni
Graduate students:
Chinmay Sankhe (PhD Chemical Engineering 2024), now a postdoc at Nationwide Children's Hospital
Joshua De Mundo (PhD Chemical Engineering 2023), now a postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Sintu Rongpipi (PhD Chemical Engineering 2021), now at Lam
Akanksha Gupta (PhD Chemical Engineering 2021), now at Apple
Megan Farell (PhD Chemical Engineering, 2020), now at Dow
Dan Ye (PhD Chemical Engineering, 2018), now at Dow
Joseph O'Connor (PhD Chemical Engineering, 2015), now at BioNTech
Sandeep Nalluri (MS Chemical Engineering, 2015), now at Alphatec Spine
Steven Pohler (MS Chemical Engineering, 2014), now at Aurorium
Joseph Wokpetah (MS Chemical Engineering, 2014), now at EQRx
Honors thesis students:
Zachary Vaneman (2021-2024), now a PhD student at Vanderbilt University starting Fall 2024
Olutomilola Adetayo (2022-2024), now at Air Products
Angelica Pirog (2023-2024), now at Proctor & Gamble
Benjamin Martin, now at Mondelez
Davon Chen (2021-2022)
Ava Self (2018-2021), now a PhD student at MIT
Steven Phan (2019-2021), now a PhD student in Chemical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania
Joshua Pezzulo (2019-2020), now in medical school at Thomas Jefferson University
Melissa Ling (2019-2020), now a PhD student in Molecular Engineering at the University of Washington, 2022 NSF graduate research fellowship
Paul Blanchard (2015-2018), PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Minnesota, 2018 NSF graduate research fellowship; now at Aktis Oncology
Apoorva Annamraju (2016-2018), now at Pall Corporation
Joelle Khouri (2014-2017), now at Boehringer Ingelheim
Gage Virgi (2015-2017), now at Tetra Pak
Maria Poluch (2013-2015), GlaxoSmithKline, now in medical school at Thomas Jefferson University
Kaitlyn Johnson (2011-2013), now at Air Liquide
John Hewertson (2013-2015), now at Citibank
Parth Ashar (2011-2013), MS in Bioengineering at UCLA, now at Merck