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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
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Connor Brown

  • PhD, Virginia Tech (2023)
  • MS, Virginia Tech
  • BS, Virginia Tech
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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)