Dr. John Pisciotta
Post-Doctoral Researcher (2010-2012)
John Pisciotta's primary research focus was developing ways to synthesize biofuels using anaerobic bacteria.
Dr. Pisciotta obtained his PhD from Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Pisciotta is now Faculty in the Department of Biology at the West Chester University. |
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Dr. Douglas Call
Post-Doctoral Researcher (2011-2012)
Douglas Call's primary research focus was examining methane production in microbial fuel cells.
Dr. Call obtained his PhD and MS from Penn State University.
Dr. Call is now an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Syracuse University. |
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Dr. Younggy Kim
Post-Doctoral Researcher (2010-2012)
Younggy Kim is an environmental engineer with a background in ionic transport in ion-exchange membrance systems. Dr. Kim's research was on microbial desalination cells.
Dr. Kim obtained his PhD from The University of Texas at Austin in 2010. Dr. Kim is now with the McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |
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Dr. Justin Tokash
Post-Doctoral Research (2010-2012)
Justin Tokash's background is in electrochemical hydrogen storage and mathematical modeling. Dr. Tokash's research was on microbial electrolysis cells and developing new hydrogen evolution catalysis.
Dr. Tokash obtained his PhD in Engineering Sciences and Mechanics from Penn State University in 2010. Dr. Tokash will begin his work at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in May 2012.
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Dr. Yiying Hong
Post-Doctoral Researcher/Technician (2010-2011)
Yiying's work was with catalyic colloidal motors. |
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Dr. Shaoan
Cheng
Post-Doctoral Researcher/Senior Research
Associate (2004-2010)
Shaoan's work was on the design and analysis of microbial
fuel cells. |
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Dr.
Patrick Kiely
Post-Doctoral Researcher (2008-2010)
Patrick worked on genomic expression by microorganisms.
He obtained his PhD in 2008 from the National University of
Ireland, Cork. |
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Dr. Maha
Mehanna
Post-Doctoral Researcher (2009-2010)
Maha worked on microbial desalination cell and her
background was in microbially influenced corrosion of
steels. She obtained her PhD from the Institut
National Polytechnique de Toulouse, France |
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Dr.
Tomonori Saito
Post-Doctoral Researcher
(2008-2010)
Tomonori worked on a material development in MFC and his
background was in polymer synthesis. He obtained his
PhD from Virginia Tech in 2008. |
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Dr. Defeng
Xing
Post-Doctoral Researcher (2006-2009)
Defeng worked on the AFOSR project on obtaining
exoelectrogenic isolates from MFCs. He obtained his PhD in
2006 from Harbin Institute of Technology in China.
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Dr. Huilian Ma
Post-Doctoral Researcher (2005)
Huilian worked on bacterial adhesion to metal oxide and other
chemically-modified surfaces, and developing new methods for probing
bacterial adhesion at the nanoscale.
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Dr. Sang-Eun Oh
Post-Doctoral Researcher (2002-2006)
(Visiting Researcher, September to October 2001)
Sangeun worked on biological hydrogen and microbial fuel cells. He
currently is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Biological
Environment at Kangwon National University in Korea.
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Dr. Hong Liu
Post-Doctoral Researcher (2003-2005)
Hong worked
on microbial fuel cells and hydrogen production using modified microbial
fuel cells. She is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Bioengineering at Oregon State University.
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Dr. Lichong Xu
Post-Doctoral Researcher (2004-2005)
Lichong worked on the
NSF CRAEMS bioahesion project. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University
of Hong Kong. Lichong is now a post-doctoral student at Penn State Hershey.
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Dr. Virginia Vadillo-Rodriguez
Post-Doctoral Researcher (2004-2005)
Virginia worked on the NSF CRAEMS bioadhesion project. She obtained her
degree from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She is
currently a post-doctoral researcher at the University Guelph. |
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Dr. John Trimble
Visiting Associate Professor
(Summers since 2001)
John is a Professor of microbiology at St. Francis University. His
work at Penn State includes respiratory enzymes used for perchlorate
reduction and biological hydrogen production.
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Dr. Baikun Li
Post-Doctoral Researcher (Since May 2002)
Baikun worked on the PPG project on bacterial adhesion and biofouling
of different surfaces. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the
Penn State Harrisburg campus
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Dr. Jianlin Xu
Post-Doctoral Researcher (2001-2003)
Jianlin worked on perchlorate and denitrifying respiratory pathways in
perchlorate and chlorate-respiring bacteria. He obtained his Ph.D. at
the Ghent University in Belgium. He currently works for Nereus
Pharmaceuticals in San Diego, CA
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Dr. Stephanie Velegol
Post-Doctoral Researcher (2001)
Dr. Velegol (Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon, 2000) worked on the NSF CRAEMS
project and used the AFM to image surface polymers on bacteria. |
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Dr. Glenn Burks
Post-Doctoral Researcher (2001)
Dr. Burks (Ph.D. UCLA, 2000) worked on the NSF CRAEMS project
correlating bioadhesion measurements in minicolumns with AFM
measurements in order to better understand and predict bacterial
adhesion to surfaces.
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