Principal Investigator:
Prof. William H. Green

Administrative Assistant:
Barbara Balkwill

Visiting Scientists:
Kevin Van Geem

Post-doctoral Associates:
Ujjal Das
Seyed-Abdolreza Seyed-Reihani
Richard West

Graduate Students:
Joshua Allen
D. Wayne Blaylock
David J. Couling
C. Franklin Goldsmith
Amrit Jalan
Michael Harper
Yuko Kida
Zan Liu
Gregory Magoon
Joshua Middaugh
Jeffrey Mo
Geoffrey Oxberry

Collaborators:
Prof. Paul Barton, MIT ChemE: Kinetic Model Reduction & Numerics
Prof. A.M. Dean, Colorado School Mines: Pressure-Dependant Rates
Prof. Wai Cheng, MIT Mech Eng: HCCI Engines
Prof. Robert W. Field, MIT Chemistry: Spectroscopy & Kinetics of Free Radicals
J.M. Grenda, Exxon Mobil Research & Engineering: Pressure-Dependant Rates
Prof. T. Alan Hatton, MIT ChemE: Ferro Fluid Separations
Dr. Henning Richter, MIT ChemE, and Nano-C, Inc.
Prof. Greg Jackson, University Maryland
Dr. Markus Kraft, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Cambridge
Prof. Greg McRae, MIT ChemE
Dr. Craig Taatjes, Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratory
Prof. Jeff Tester, MIT ChemE
Victor Wong, Principal Research Scientist, LFEE, Sloan Automotive Laboratory

Alumni:
Ashish Agarwal - Born in India and raised in Tucson, recently completed his BS at Berkeley. Ashish worked on the development and debugging of a large computer program to construct kinetic models involving thousands of different molecules. Ashish is now seeking an advanced degree at Carnegie Mellon University.

Preeti Aghalayam - Born and raised in India, Preeti went to the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India, for a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering before heading off to Rochester, NY for her Masters in Chemical Engineering. She recieved her PhD. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, beforing joining the Green Research Group as a post-doctoral student. Preeti is now a Professor of Chemical Engineering at IIT in Mumbai, India.

Bharthwaj Anantharaman - Received his undergraduate degree from IIT in India. While here Bharthwaj was co-advised by both Professor Green and Professor McRae. He is now working for Deutsche Bank in New York.

John Angelos - Successfully defended his ChemE PhD thesis on August 31, 2007 for the research portion of his degree, directly afterward, he took on the additional coursework in business and management for a dual degree, which he received in June, 2009. John now works for ExxonMobil at the Corporate Headquarters in Irving, TX. He is a financial analyst in the Affiliate Finance group, which is a part of the Treasurer’s organization within ExxonMobil. In Affiliate Finance, they manage how ExxonMobil funds its many affiliates around the world.

Robert W. Ashcraft - Successfully defended his thesis in September, 2008. He is now working at Exponent. The website is: www.exponent.com in the Thermal Science division.

Dr. Gregory Beran - Greg was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Green Group from 2005 - 2007. Greg recently accepted a position as Assistant Professor at University of California, Riverside, and is in the process of setting up his lab and accepting students in his new group.

Brian D'Andrade - From Trinidad, Brian finished his junior year at Penn State when he worked with us in the summer of 1998. Unlike the rest of the group, Brian is an EE, and his research was sponsored by the Materials Processing Center. Brian worked on the development of more accurate density functionals.

Marc Bernat - Was a visiting student completing his masters degree from Institut Quimic De Sarria in Barcelona.

Binita Bhattacharjee - Dr. Bhattacharjee works for BP Chemicals.

Charles Boatin - Was from Ghana, and was an undergraduate researcher in the Green Group. He is now working at Applied Materials.

Hans-Heinrich Carstensen - Originally from Germany, is a former post-doc. He is now a research Professor at Colorado School of Mines.

Jose Luis Chesa - was a visiting student completing his masters degree from Institut Quimic De Sarria in Barcelona.

Jose Antonio Perez Pimienta - was a visiting scientist during the summer of 2008 working with the Green Group on cleaning up gas streams, removing mercury from syngas, and oxidizing hydrocarbons in diesel engine exhaust, through a combination of experiments and computer models. His stay with us was paid for by a grant from the Autonomous University of Nayarit in Mexico where Prof. Pimienta is on the faculty.

Jaimee Lee Dong - Has earned her M.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering measuring partition coefficients relevant to ultra-low-sulfur fuel production, and received her PhD. in Industrial Ecology at Yale. She is now working at the Environmental Protection Agency.

Gerhard Ehlker - Was a visiting graduate student in the Green Group from Aachen, Germany. Dr. Ehlker has returned to Germany.

Kevin Van Geem - Dr. Van Geem joined the group in the spring of 2004 and again in 2008 as a visiting researcher from Ghent, Belgium. Dr. Van Geem was supervised for his PhD by a collaborator, Professor Guy Marin of the University of Ghent and is now employed with Prof. Marin.

Devika Gupta - Born in India and raised in New Jersey, Devika worked as a UROP in the Green Group for several years before graduating with a BS in Chemical Engineering in Spring 2000. She set up amine oxidation experiments and worked out the complexities of the necessary chemical analysis. Devika was also the Associate Advisor for Prof. Green's 10.200 seminar in Fall 98. Devika started working at Applied Materials in 2000.

Peter Hlavaty - Peter came to MIT by way of Slovakia, Wales, Woods Hole and Lafayette College, and graduated with his MSCEP in June 1999. He did experimental work and and some modeling of amine oxidation in the Green group in 1998.

Huzeifa Ismail successfully defended his thesis and is now residing in Houston, Texas with his wife, Hani, and their daughter, Sakina. He is working at Baker Petrolite (www.bakerpetrolite.com) as a Senior Chemist/Combustion Engineer, and is working on the method development/commercialization of various diesel and marine diesel additives.

Tom Lada - From Toledo, Ohio, Tom was an undergraduate researcher in the lab who worked with David Matheu on methods for computing pressure-dependent reaction rates. After completing his bachelor's degree, Tom stayed on at MIT for his M.S. in Chemical Engineering Practice.

Panayiotis Lemonidis - Is enrolled in a special degree program in Chemical Engineering and Sloan School of Management which provides training in chemical engineering research as well as in business and management. Now that he has successfully completed the research portion of his degree, he is taking additional coursework in business and management for a dual degree.

Pisi Lu - Pisi was a visiting graduate student from the University of Lisbon. He continued on in the group as a postdoctoral associate working on Adaptive Chemistry Reacting Flow Simulations. He now leads a research and design group at RMT Alliance in Madison, Wisconsin.

Dennis Lun - Dennis hails from Hong Kong and Toronto, had finished his junior year at the University of Michigan when he worked with us in the summer of 1998. Dennis did a mix of computational thermochemistry and experiments on amine oxidation kinetics.

Ugo Martin - Dr. Martin resides in Milan.

David Matheu - Dr. Matheu came to MIT for his PhD when Professor Green first started at the Institute. David is now working at Cabot Corp. in Billerica.

Oleg Mazyar - Born in the Ukraine and educated in Moscow and North Carolina, Oleg worked as a Postdoctoral Assoiciate at MIT from January 1999 through July 2001. He is now working with Professor Trout.

Federico M. San Martini - From Italy and Germany via Brown U. and Cambridge U., Federico did experimental work on amine oxidation in the summer of 1998, before beginning graduate school at MIT in Fall 1998.

Geoff Moeser - Dr. Moeser now works for the Cabot Corp.

Teppei Ogura - Teppei was a postdoctoral associate with the Green Group from July 2007 until March 2009. Her returned to Japan to accept a position at Kyushu University, INAMORI Frontier Research Center, Energy Science and Technologies Laboratory.

Oluwayemisi Oluwole - Luwi received his PhD from MIT within the Green Group and is now working at Aerodyne, Corp. in Billerica, MA.

Sally Petway - Completed her Masters degree and is now residing in Georgia.

Kshitij Prakash - received his Masters degree through the Center for Computation and Design Optimization having worked with the Green Group. He is now working as research analyst at Quantitative Research in CT.

Marcel Puignou - Marcel was a visiting student from Spain.

Douglas Schwer - Received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Penn State. Doug worked as a Postdoctoral Associate under William Green and Paul Barton. He is now on the research staff of the Naval Research Laboratory.

Sandeep Sharma - successfully defended his thesis on September 2, 2009 and was accepted as a postdoctoral associate in Prof. Garnet Chan's lab at Cornell University. He is working on developing methods to solve problems with strongly correlated electrons.

Michael Singer - Dr. Singer received his PhD in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University. As a Postdoctoral Associate in the Green Group, he worked on model reduction for reacting flows and on developing a simulator for HCCI engines. He is now a Postdoctoral Associate in the Center for Applied Scientific Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Jing Song - Dr. Song received her PhD from MIT in 2004 and continued to work as a Postdoctoral Associatewith the Green Group until the fall of 2005. Dr. Song gave birth to a beautiful and healthy baby girl, April, on September 10, 2005 weighing in at 10 lbs. 8 oz.

Yee San Su - Dr. Su resides in Chicago and is a combustion and chemical explosions expert.

James Taylor - Dr. Taylor is now a Postdoctoral Associate at Washington University in St. Louis. James was a graduate of NC State.

Aaron Vandeputte - Came to the Green Group for a three month visit to working on using the Reaction Mechanism Generator (RMG) to try to derive reaction networks for the thermal decomposition of the sulfur additives. Aaron has returned to the Univeristy of Gent, Belgium to finish up his studies toward his PhD.

John Z. Wen - Dr. Wen is presently working with the Vander Sande Group in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT as a Visiting Research Scientist.

Markus Wolf - Is a former Postdoctoral Associate who earned his doctorate from the University of Heidelberg. He now works for Alstom Power.

Caterina Wijaya - Dr. Wijaya came to MIT from Indonesia with a stop in Toyko for her undergraduate degree. While at MIT, Caterina obtained both her PhD in chemical engineering and her MBA from the Sloan School. Dr. Wijaya was part of the first class to be eligible to obtain the joint degree, and finished the second year at the Sloan school to receive a full MBA. While here at MIT Dr. Wijaya added to her very busy and demanding schedule by adding a new member to her family, Queena, her little girl was born at the end of her first year as a PhD candidate.

Andy Wong - Andy was a visiting undergraduate from Cambridge University and upon completing his undergraduate studies returned to MIT in the fall of 2004 as part of the master's exchange program.

Hsi-Wu Wong - Dr. Wong joined the group as a Postdoctoral Associate in 2003 from Northwestern University. He received his undergraduate degree from the National Taiwan University. Dr. Wong is now working for Aerodyne Corp. in Billerica.

Paul Yelvington - Dr. Yelvington came to MIT from NC State. He worked previously with Aerodyne Corp. in Billerica, and just accepted a position with Mainstream Engineering Corporation in Rockledge, Florida.

Joanna Yu - Dr. Yu received a joint degree, PhD/CEP from the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Sloan School. She was the second class to enter this program. Joanna received her undergraduate degree in Brazil and is now working for BASF in Germany.