
Nancy and Clint Carlson Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nancy and Clint Carlson Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Membrane-based processes at the water-energy nexus
- Advanced materials for next-generation membranes
- Membrane technologies for desalination and wastewater reuse

Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Separation science and technology for resource sustainability
- Water treatment and desalination
- Critical mineral extraction and recovery
- Brine management

Assistant Professor in Environmental Engineering Research Faculty, NSF NEWT Center
- Self-healing Materials for Environmental Applications (including membranes)
- Electrochemical Fouling and Scaling Removal from Membranes
- Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Membrane Materials

Norman Hackerman Welch Young Investigator, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
- Bottom-up polymer construction for PFAS capture
- Anion recognition platforms for environmental remediation
- Supramolecular architectures advancing host:guest chemistry

Karl F. Hasselmann Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Department of Materials Science and Nanoengineering
- Advanced materials and novel processes for desalination and water purification
- Resource recovery from municipal and industrial wastewater
- Decentralized water treatment and reuse systems

Professor, Materials Science and NanoEngineering and Rice Advanced Materials Institute
- Nanomaterials for energy, environmental and sustainability applications
- Development of in situ small-scale mechanical, electromechanical, chemo-mechanical and biomechanical testing methods
- Additive manufacturing of advanced material systems

Associate Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, NSF NEWT Center
- Multi-scale modeling (electronic and atomistic scales)
- Heterogeneous catalysis
- Energy and environmental applications

Professor and Associate Chair, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Professor, Rice Advanced Materials Institute
- Polymeric Membranes for Recovery and Decontamination
- Organic Nanoporous Materials
- Complex polymers for sustainability and energy applications

Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Materials Science & NanoEngineering, and Chemistry
Dean Fellow for Sustainability, George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing
- Electrochemical separation
- Electrocatalysis
- Electrolyzer engineering
