Truskett Research Group

Theory of Biological and Nanoscale Materials

Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin,        1 University Station C0400, Austin, Texas 78712

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Principal Investigator

Prof. Thomas M. Truskett

Associate Professor and Paul D. and Betty Robertson Meek Centennial Fellow

Department of Chemical Engineering

and Institute for Theoretical Chemistry

CPE 5.454

Phone: 512-471-6308

Email: truskett@che.utexas.edu

 
Graduate Students
Mark Pond

Department of Chemical Engineering

CPE 5.450

Phone: 512-471-4549

Email: mjp736@che.utexas.edu

 

James Carmer

Department of Chemical Engineering

CPE 5.450

Phone: 512-471-4549

Email: jcarmer@che.utexas.edu

Avni Jain

Department of Chemical Engineering

CPE 5.450

Phone: 512-471-4549

Email: avni@che.utexas.edu

 

  Kyle Hollingshead

Department of Chemical Engineering

CPE 5.450

Phone: 512-471-4549

Email: kyleh@che.utexas.edu

 
 
Recent Group Alumni
Dr. Gaurav Goel

Ph. D., Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (2009)

Thesis:  From polymer collapse to confined fluids: Investigating the implications of interfacial structuring
 

Current Position:  Postdoctoral Fellow, Case Western Reserve University

Dr. William P. (Bill) Krekelberg

Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (2008)

Thesis:  Relationships between structure and dynamics of attractive colloidal fluids

 

Current Position:  NRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemical and Biochemical Reference Data Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Dr. Jeetain Mittal

Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (2007)

Thesis:  Structure, thermodynamics, and dynamics of confined and supercooled liquids

 

Current Position:  Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University

Dr. Jason K. Cheung

Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (2006)

Thesis:  Coarse-grained modeling of concentrated protein solutions

 

Current Position:  Senior Scientist, Schering-Plough, Kenilworth, NJ.

Dr. Pooja Shah

Postdoctoral Associate, The University of Texas at Austin (2003-2004)

 

Tanuj Kumar

M.S.E., The University of Texas at Austin (2007)

 

Current Position:  Graduate Student, Petroleum Engineering, University of Houston

 

Scott Carmichael

B.S., Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (2008)

 

Current Position: Ph.D. student, University of California, Santa Barbara

Artemis Ailianou

B.S., Chemical Engineering,The University of Texas at Austin (2008),

 

Current Position:  Ph.D. student, Caltech

Prajakta (Poonam) Raverkar

B. S., Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (2006)

Senior Honors Thesis:  Using a thermodynamic model and data from the human proteome to understand protein stability

 

Current Position:  Graduate student, Rice

Katherine Clarridge

B.S., B.A., The University of Texas at Austin (2003),

Plan II Honors Thesis:  Predicting protein behavior in a confined space

 

Current Position:  Medical school, University of Texas Southwestern

   
 

 

Recent Visiting Scientists

Dr. Nicholas Braun (summer 2006)

Institute of Medical Biology,

University of Tromso,

Tromso, Norway.