People

David Nielsen

Full ASU Profile

  • Professor
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Postdoc, MIT, 2006-2009
  • Ph.D., Queen’s University at Kingston, 2006
  • B.Sc., University of Colorado at Boulder, 2001

Ph.D. Students

Kartik Baghat

Environmental Engineering

Co-Advised w/ Prof. Bruce Rittmann

Kenton Chung

Microbiology

Co-Advised w/ Prof. Xuan Wang

Isaiah Woodson

Chemical Engineering

Presidential Graduate Fellow

Anshuman Yadav

Chemical Engineering

Co-Advised w/ Prof. Brent Nannenga

M.S. Students

Michael Ong

Chemical Engineering

Konner Ong

Chemical Engineering

Baylen Cusick

Biological Design

Undergraduate Students

Lydia Knowles

Pranav Bhavaraju

Grayson Young

Collin Travis

Francesca Cristobal

Alumni

Ph.D.

Dr. Amanda Godar, (Ph.D. 2025)

Dr. Cody Kamoku, (Ph.D. 2024)

Dr. Arren Liu, (Ph.D. 2024)

Dr. Zachary Dookeran, (Ph.D. 2022)

Dr. Andrew Flores (Ph.D., 2021)

Dr. Michael Machas (Ph.D., 2019)

Dr. Kyle Staggs (Ph.D., 2017)

Dr. Brian Thompson (Ph.D., 2017)

Dr. Shawn Pugh (Ph.D., 2016)

Dr. Becky McKenna (Ph.D., 2014)

M.S. Thesis

Brendan Brookhouser (M.S., 2022)

Alex Fenner (M.S., 2022)

Sean Innes (M.S., 2022)

Omar Abed (M.S., 2021)

Karthika Madathil (M.S., 2016)

Daniel Herschel (M.S., 2016)

Yuchen Wang (M.S., 2012)

Jake Adkins (M.S., 2012)

Anirudh Vasudevan (M.S., 2014)

Michael Wiehn (M.S., 2013)

Thomas Levario (M.S., 2011)

M.S. Applied Project

Pedro Gonzalez-Ochoa (M.S., 2024)

Alexa Sanchez (M.S., 2023)

Rakshith Chandra (M.S., 2021)

Raj Hariharan (M.S., 2021)

Gavin Steeber (M.S., 2020)

John Tindell (M.S., 2018)

Alex Mayhob (M.S., 2018)

John Hagstrom (M.S., 2017)

Vikas Patil (M.S., 2015)

Ramoni Oluwi (M.S., 2015)

Justin Jordan (M.S., 2014)

Mengling Li (M.S., 2014)

Marwan Osman (M.S., 2014)

Mason Oelschlager (M.S., 2013)

Ting Wu (M.S., 2013)

W. Phusitkanchana (M.S., 2012)

Nathan Wong (M.S., 2012)

Toby Johnson-Bates (M.S., 2012)

Luis Moya (M.S., 2011)

Matt Robbins (M.S., 2011)

Postdocs, Visiting Researchers, Research Scientists & Technicians

Dr. Chris Jones (Res. Sci., 2016-2023)

Prof. Yuji Aso (Visiting Prof., 2017)

Lizbeth Nieves (2018)

Dr. Wei Yuan (Postdoc, 2010-2012)

Group Photos

Socially distanced lunch for Thanksgiving 2020!
Some of the Group at our 2019 Christmas Party!
Aloha! Summer 2019
Group photo with the Wang and Varman labs, 2017.

Group Events & Outings

Graduation & Graduate Student Defenses

FURI Poster Sessions

Conference Happenings