Prudenians
Pruden Group Meeting September 2024
Current Graduate Students
Tolulope Odimayomi
Ph.D. Student (Co-advised with Dr. Marc Edwards)
- MS Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Purdue University
- BS Chemical Engineering, Purdue University
Fernando Roman
Ph.D. Student (Co-advised with Dr. Marc Edwards)
- MS Civil Engineering, Virginia Tech
- BS Environmental Engineering University of California, Merced
Madeline Deck
M.S. Student (Co-advised with Dr. Marc Edwards)
- BS Civil Engineering, Virginia Tech
Idowu Kayode Okeshola
Ph.D. Student (Co-advised with Dr. Peter Vikesland)
- MS Environmental Engineering and Hydrogeology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
- BS Civil Engineering Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria
Gabriel Maldonado Rivera
M.S. Student
- BS Medical Microbiology, University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo
Loc Nguyen
Ph.D. Student (Co-advised with Dr. Liqing Zhang)
- BS Genetics, North Carolina State University
Vineeth Manthapuri
Ph.D. Student
- MS Civil and Environmental Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM)
- BS, University College Engineering, Osmania University
Clayton Markham
Ph.D. Student
- BS Environmental Engineering, University at Buffalo
Petra Choi
Ph.D. Student (Co-advised with Dr. Peter Vikesland)
- MS Environmental Engineering, New York University
- BS Spatial Environment Systems Engineering, Handong Global University, South Korea
Ivan Odur
Ph.D. Student
- MS Medical Microbiology, The University of Manchester, UK
- BS Biomedical Laboratory Technology, Makerere University
Krystin Kadonsky
Ph.D. Student (Co-advised with Dr. Marc Edwards)
- MS Environmental Systems, University of California, Merced
- BS Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of South Florida
Amber Amaral-Torres
Ph.D. Student
- BS Biochemistry, Christopher Newport University
Thomas Byrne
Ph.D. Student
- BS Computational Modeling & Data Analytics with a minor in Systems Biology, Virginia Tech
Mia Riddley
Ph.D. Student (Co-advised with Dr. Jingqiu Liao)
- BS Environmental Engineering, Iowa State University
Former Graduate Students and Post Docs
Matt Blair
- PhD, Virginia Tech (2023)
- MS, Virginia Tech
- BS, Mississippi State University
Connor Brown
- PhD, Virginia Tech (2023)
- MS, Virginia Tech
- BS, Virginia Tech
Katie Scott
- BS, Rutgers University
- MS, Virginia Tech (2023)
Ayella Maile-Moskowitz
- PhD, Virginia Tech (2023)
- MS, Virginia Tech
- BS, University of Maryland, College Par
Abraham Cullom
- PhD, Virginia Tech (2023)
- BS, University of Pittsburgh
Krista Liguori
- PhD, Virginia Tech (2023)
- MSPH, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- BS, Penn State
Benjamin Davis
- PhD, Virginia Tech (2022)
- MS, Virginia Tech
- BS, UC Riverside
Mariah Gnegy
- PhD, Virginia Tech (2022)
- MS, Virginia Tech
- BS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Erin Milligan
- MS, Virginia Tech (2022)
- BS, Ohio University
Rachel Finkelstein
- MS, Virginia Tech (2022)
- BS, North Carolina State University
Yang Song
- PhD, Virginia Tech (2021)
- MS, Michigan State University
- BS, Dalian University of Technology
Ishi Keenum
- PhD, Virginia Tech (2021)
- MS, Virginia Tech
- BS, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Sudeshna Ghosh
- PhD, University of Minnesota
- MS, University of Minnesota
- BS, Jadavpur University
Haniyyah Majeed
- MS, Virginia Tech (2020)
- BS, North Carolina State University
Rebekah Martin, Assistant Professor Virginia Military Institue
- PhD, Virginia Tech (2020)
- BS, Bucknell University
William Rhoads, Eawag
- PhD, Virginia Tech (2017)
- BS, Purdue University
Dongjuan Dai
- PhD, University of Michigan
- MS, Tsinghua University
- BS, Tsinghua University
Storme Spencer
- MS, Virginia Tech (2020)
- BS, Clemson University
Ni Zhu
- PhD, Virginia Tech (2019)
- MS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2013)
- BS, National University of Singapore (2012)
Emily Garner, Assistant Professor, West Virginia University
- PhD, Virginia Tech (2018)
- BS, West Virginia University
Kris Mapili
- MS, Virginia Tech
- BS, Virginia Tech
Giselle Krista Guron, USDA Beltsville,MD
- PhD, Cornell University
- BS, Cornell University
Virginia Riquelme
- PhD, Virginia Tech (2017)
- MS, Virginia Tech
- BS, Colorado State
Pan Ji
- PhD, Virginia Tech (2017)
- MS, Johns Hopkins University
- BS, Peking University
Laurel Strom
- MS, Virginia Tech (2017)
- BS, Washington State University
David Otto Schwake, Assistant Professor, Methodist University, Fayetteville, NC.
- Post Doc, Virginia Tech (2017)
- PhD, Arizona State University
- MS, Arizona State University
- BS, Arizona State University
Jake Metch
- PhD, Virginia Tech (2017)
- BS, Texas Tech
Christine Pankow
- MS, Virginia Tech (2017)
- BS, Virginia Tech
Ankit Pathak
- PhD, Virginia Tech (2017)
- MS, Virginia Tech
- BS, University of Mumbai
Robert Williams
- MS, Virginia Tech (2016)
- BS, George Mason University
Gargi Singh
- PhD, Virginia Tech (2015)
- MS, Virginia Tech
- BTech, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Mehdi Kargar
- PhD, Virginia Tech (2015)
- MS, Sharif University of Technology, Iran.
- BS, University of Yazd, Iran.
Yanjun Ma
- PhD, Virginia Tech (2014)
- BS, Tsinghua University
Hong Wang
- Post Doc, Virginia Tech
- PhD, Virginia Tech (2013)
- MS, Tongji University
- BS, Tongji University
Jen Miller
- PhD, Virginia Tech
- MS, University of Arizona
- BS, Bucknell
Nicole Fahrenfeld, Associate Professor, Rutgers University
- Post Doc, PhD Virginia Tech (2013)
- MS, Clemson University
- BS, Johns Hopkins
Heather Nicole Storteboom, Research Scientist, Colorado State University
- PhD, Colorado State University (2009)
Luciana P. Pereyra
- PhD, Colorado State University (2008)
Sage R. Hiibel, Research Scientist, U Nevada Reno
- Post Doc, Texas A&M
- PhD, Colorado State University (2008)
Ashish Sharma
- PhD, Colorado State University (2008)
Maria Elena Raynal-Gutierrez, Assistant Professor, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico
- MS, Colorado State University (2007)
Mary Elizabeth Sullivan
- PhD, Colorado State University (2007)
Ruoting Pei, Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at San Antonio
- PhD, Colorado State University (2006)
Robert Bowers
- Post Doc, Virginia Tech
- Post Doc, University of Hawaii
- PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder
- MS, California State Unviersity, San Marcos
- BS, California State University, San Marcos
Caitlin Proctor, Assistant Professor, Purdue University
- PhD, ETH Zurich
- MS, Virginia Tech
- BS, Virginia Tech
Chad McKinney
- MS, Colorado State
- BS, Colorado State
Mark Mazzochette
- MS, Virginia Tech (2013)
- BS, Boston University
Laurel Ackison, Environmental Scientist, Meryman Environmental
- MS, Virginia Tech (2012)
- BS, Marshall
Yanjuan Hong
- MS, Virginia Tech (2012)
Barbara Crimi
- MS, Universita degli Studia de Milano
- BS, Universita degli Studia de Milano
Amanda Rasmussen
- MS, Colorado State University (2008)
Rachel Elizabeth Hanson
- MS, Colorado State University (2008)
Matthew Hewitt
- MS, Colorado State University (2007)
HyunSuk Hong
- MS, Colorado State University (2006)
Former REU, undergraduate & visiting scholars
- Delaney Snead, Eldridge Hager (REU 2018-2021)
- Briana Woolfolk, Alondra Martinez, Erin Milligan (NSF REU 2018)
- Morgan Fisher, Southwest Virginia Governor’s School
- Caitlin Wilkinson, BS, Virginia Tech (REU)
- Daniel Logsdon, BS, Virginia Tech
- Meghan Laporta, BS, Virginia Tech, Scieneering Researcher (Biological Systems Engineering, Class of 2014)
- Lindsey Caudle, BS, Virginia Tech
- Daniel Logsdon, BS, Virginia Tech
- Danny Yang, BS, Virginia Tech
- Zach Bailey, Sara Gokturk, Ian Miller, Mo O’Brien, Dre Smith (REU 2012)
- Jordan Bird, Miles Ellenberg (NSF REU 2011-2012)
- Jayme Deschene (NSF REU 2010)
- Naglee Allen (NSF REU 2009)
- Rachel Kistler (Undergraduate Researcher 2010)
- Maria Mico (Visiting Scholar 2011)