YALE UNIVERSITY - Key Persons


Amanda Lounsbury

PhD Environmental Engineering, 2017 Postdoctoral Associate, 2019 amandalo@mail.tau.ac.il Currently: AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the Department of Energy

Andreas Backhaus


Avery Long

Research Area: Continuous Solvothermal Synthesis of Glutathione-Functionalized Anisotropic Gold Nanoparticles for Lead Detection in Water

Chun-Chi Chen

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist, 2012 - 2014

Eva Albalghiti

BA Environmental Engineering, 2017 MESc Environmental Science, 2020 ealbalghiti@outlook.com Currently: PhD Student at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Michigan

Evelyn "Sale" Rhodes


Fuzhan Nasiri

Job Titles:
  • Associate

George Gachumi

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Hess Postdoctoral

Job Titles:
  • Associate, 2019
  • Fellow at the Department of Geoscience
  • Postdoctoral Associate, 2013 - 2014
Postdoctoral Associate, 2013-2014 jonathan.mellor@uconn.edu Currently: Teaching faculty member at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth

Holly Rudel

Research Area: Sustainable materials as selective adsorbents in water treatment

Isabella Hay

Research Area: Transition metal cross-linked chitosan beads for use as selective adsorbents for selenium in water

Jamila Saifee Yamani


Jaye Wilson

Job Titles:
  • Student School of the Environment
PhD Student School of the Environment NSF Graduate Research Fellow GEM Fellow jaye.wilson@yale.edu Research Area: intersection of Green chemistry, Environmental Justice, and Policy; Bio-based polymers; Biodegradation

Jonathan Mellor

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate, 2013 - 2014

Julie Zimmerman

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate
  • Principle Investigator
  • Professor
  • Professor in School
Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, School of the Environment; Professor in School of Engineering and Applied Science; Professor in School of the Environment; Deputy Director of the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering Editor-in-Chief Environmental Science and Technology julie.zimmerman@yale.edu

Kira Matus

Job Titles:
  • Senior Policy Analyst, 2010

Laura Brentner

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate, 2009 - 2011
Postdoctoral Associate, 2009-2011 lbrentner@luc.edu Currently: Lecturer at the Insitute of Environmental Sustainability at Loyola University of Chicago

Lauren Pincus

PhD School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 2020 Lpincus@princeton.edu Currently: Hess Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Geoscience at Princeton University

Leanne Gilbertson


Lindsay Soh


Mark Falinski


Mary Kate Mitchell Lane

Research Area: Utilizing supercritical fluids as green solvents for biorefinery and nanoparticle synthesis applications

Matthew Eckelman

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate, 2010 - 2011

Melissa Ahrens-Viquez

Research Area: Characterization of nanoparticles synthesized with supercritical fluids

Patrick Foley


Ranran Wang


Sarah Miller


Thomas Kwan


Tong Wang


Troy Savage


Valerie Fuchs

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate, 2010 - 2011

Weiwei Mo

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate, 2012 - 2014

Yan Du