Team Members

Principal Investigator

Christopher M. Lew

Assistant Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering

Ph.D., Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of California - Riverside (2008)

M.S., Chemical Engineering, Stanford University (2003)

B.S., Chemical Engineering, Stanford University (2002)

Chris joined the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at San José State University in the fall of 2023. Prior to his appointment at SJSU, he was a research engineer at Chevron Technology Company for eleven years studying zeolite synthesis and catalysis. Chris completed his postdoc in the group of Professor Michael Tsapatsis at the University of Minnesota and received his Ph.D. in the group of Professor Yushan Yan.

Graduate Students

Hans Bachhuber

B.S., Chemical Engineering

San Jose State University (2023)

John Buckley

B.S., Chemistry

UC Santa Cruz (2022)

Josserand de Monts de Savasse

B.S., Chemistry

The Pennsylvania State University (2022)

Nathan Doi

B.S., Chemical Engineering

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (2018)

Francisco Gloria

B.S., Chemistry

San Jose State University (2024)

Sidney Hsu

B.S., Chemical Engineering

UC Davis (2025)

Aaron Liu

B.S., Chemical Engineering

UC Berkeley (2023)

Henry Maala

B.S., Chemical Engineering

UC Santa Barbara (2017)

William Matthews

B.S., Chemical Engineering

San Jose State University (2025)

Thomas Moran

B.S., Chemical Engineering

Rochester Institute of Technology (2017)

Dominic Pham

B.S., Biochemical Engineering

UC Davis (2025)

Jordan Romero

B.S., Materials Engineering

San Jose State University (2020)

Nathaniel Wong

B.S., Materials Engineering

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (2024)

Undergraduate Students

Sai Doddapaneni

Brian Gomes

Branden Lum

Helen Mai

Ethan Nguyen

Daniel O'Rourke

Elias Rodriguez Vega

James Tower

Rachel Tran

Caden Waln

Research Assistants

Gabriel Serenil

Alumni

Graduate Students

Christina Lum, 2025 (Sanmina)
Khanh Nguyen, 2025 (Kuprion, Inc.)
Ohood Elbasheer, 2025 (Membrane Technology and Research, Inc.)
Aasim Sadath Mohammed, 2025
Thao Vo, 2024 (Applied Materials)

Undergraduate Students

Reangsey Dalton (UC Irvine)
Nathan Huynh (UCLA)
Ayman Suliman
Jonathan Baudin

High School Students

Dvita Vivek (Irvington High School)
Leah Nguyen (Lincoln High School)
Liam Antonissen (Sequoia High School)
Sashank Iyer (University of Chicago)

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