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VT SuN Faculty

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Michael Hochella

Michael F. Hochella, Jr.

VTSuN Co-Director
University Distinguished Professor Geosciences

Research Interests: Elucidating the role that nanoscience and mineral surface geochemistry/ biogeochemistry plays in major aspects of the earth sciences, including especially environmental issues and biogeochemical cycling of the elements.

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Peter Vikesland

Peter Vikesland

VTSuN Co-Director
VTSuN IGEP Director
Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research interests:
Nanomaterials in the environment, Improved sensors for drinking water treatment.

 

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Johan Foster

Johan Foster

Associate Professor
Materials Science and Engineering

Research Interests: Johan’s main interests focus on design, synthesis, processing and investigation of functional nanocomposites, biomaterials, supramolecular materials and polymers: materials which exploit both covalent and non-covalent interactions.

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Tijana Grove

Tijana Grove

Assistant Professor
Chemistry

Research Interests: Nanobiotechnology; Plasmonic biocomposites for sensing and catalysis.

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Matt Hull

Matthew Hull

Business Development Manager
ICTAS

Research Interests: Risks of emerging nanotechnologies; Biological fate and partitioning of metallic nanostructures; Multifunctional metallic nanoparticles; Sustainable nanomanufacturing; Nano-bio interactions; Nanoinformatics.

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Linsey Marr

Guoliang (Greg) Liu

Assistant Professor
Chemistry

Research Interests: Design, synthesis, and integration of polymers and plasmonic nanoparticles to create engineered nanocomposites and nanostructures for addressing challenges in the areas of energy, catalysis, and environmental science and engineering.

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Linsey Marr

Linsey Marr

Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests: Transformation and fate of pollutants in the atmosphere; environmental impacts of engineered nanoparticles; airborne transmission of infectious disease.

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Mark Michel

F. Marc Michel

Assistant Professor
Geosciences

Research Interests: Understanding how the atomic structure of nanosized and nanostructured materials, both natural and synthetic, relate to their physicochemical properties, reactivity, stability, and transformations and how these factors influence their roles in environmental systems.

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Mitsuhiro Murayama

Mitsuhiro Murayama

Professor
Materials Science and Engineering

Research Interests: Nanoscale materials characterization using analytical transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) techniques.

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Sean McGinnis

Sean McGinnis

Director, VT Green Engineering Program
Associate Research Professor
Materials Science and Engineering

Research Interests: Green engineering, life cycle assessment, sustainable manufacturing processes, design for environment, carbon footprint analysis, renewable energy, interdisciplinary education.

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Amy Pruden

Amy Pruden

W. Thomas Rice Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests: Applied environmental microbiology, antibiotic resistance genes as emerging contaminants, opportunistic pathogens in premise plumbing, environmental implications of nanotechnology, biomolecular tools, sustainable water infrastructure, microbiome of the built environment.

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Maren Roman

Maren Roman

Associate Professor
Sustainable Biomaterials

Research interests: Research program is centered around the properties and applications of cellulose nanocrystals. The program spans both fundamental and applied projects in wood and materials science.

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Liqing Zhang

Liqing Zhang

Associate Professor
Computer Science

Research interests: Develop computational and statistical tools for processing/analyzing big bio-data, e.g., genomic/metagenomic data, nanopore sequence data, environmental microbiome and virome data, deep learning for antibiotic resistance gene recognition.

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VTSuN Researchers

Weinan Leng

Weinan Leng

Laboratory Manager, VTSuN Lab
Research Scientist
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research interests: Nanoparticle-based sensors for environmental applications. Laser-based techniques (Raman and surface enhanced Raman scattering) for nanoparticle tracking.

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External collaborators

Deborah M. Aruguete, Assistant Professor, Environmental Science, Penn State Erie, the Behrend College

Ali Boehm, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University

Matthew Eckelman, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University

Duncan Graham, Professor, Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, UK

Amara Holder, Combustion Engineer, US EPA

Tamar Kohn, Associate Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering Section, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Todd Kuiken, Senior Program Associate, Science and Technology Innovation Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Catherine Murphy, Peter C. and Gretchen Miller Markunas Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois

Scott Renneckar, Associate Professor, University of British Columbia

Navid Saleh, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of South Carolina

Nicolle Tulve, Research Physical Scientist, US EPA

Jason Unrine, Assistant Professor, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky

Marina Vance, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado

Krista Wigginton, Borchardt and Glysson Water Treatment Faculty Scholar, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan

Jie "Gail" Xu, Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso

Yi Yang, Professor, East China Normal University

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