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

Jessica Sacco

Chemical Engineering

e-mail: jls7903[at]psu.edu

Shelby Hall

Chemical Engineering

e-mail: slh6058[at]psu.edu

Arefeh Abbasi

Chemical Engineering

e-mail: aza6603[at]psu.edu

KM Nazmus Sakib

Chemical Engineering

e-mail: kqs6223[at]psu.edu

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


REU and Undergraduate Students