PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Brian Belardi

Assistant Professor,
McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
Graduate Studies Committee, Interdisciplinary Life Sciences
Graduate Studies Committee, Department of Chemistry
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NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley (mentor: Prof. Daniel Fletcher)
Ph.D., Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley (mentor: Prof. Carolyn Bertozzi)
B.S., Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University (mentor: Prof. Krzysztof Matyjaszewski)
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Email: bdb [at] che.utexas.edu
(he/him/his)

Muthuraj Balakrishan
Senior Research Fellow
Ph.D., Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (2016)
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Email: bvmuthuraj [at] utexas.edu
(he/him/his)


Hyebin Yoo
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (2024)
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Email: hyebin.yoo [at] austin.utexas.edu
(she/her/hers)
GRADUATE STUDENTS

Vinya Bhuvan
B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles (2021)
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Email: bhuvanv [at] utexas.edu
(she/her/hers)

Unyime Effiong
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Prairie View A&M University (2020)
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Email: ueffiong [at] utexas.edu
(she/her/hers)

Yun-Fei Huang
M.S., Biotechnology and Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (2021)
Email: yh24792 [at] utexas.edu
(he/him/his)

Alex Lin
B.S., Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2021)
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Email: alexanderlin [at] utexas.edu
(he/him/his)

Isabela Ramirez
B.S., Chemical Engineering and Neuroscience, Syracuse University (2020)
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Email: isramire [at] utexas.edu
(she/her/hers)

Finn Reil
B.S., Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Hilo (2023)
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Email: finn [at] utexas.edu
(he/him/his)

Ahmed Sihorwala
B.Tech., Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (2021)
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Email: asihorwala [at] utexas.edu
(he/him/his)

Eva Wang
B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan (2022)
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Email: evawa [at] utexas.edu
(she/her/hers)
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Owen Ferriola
Biochemistry
(he/him/his)

Joshua Lee
Human Biology
(he/him/his)

Adithya Karthik
Biomedical Engineering
(he/him/his)

Anh Le
Biochemistry
(she/her/hers)

Aditya Namjoshi
Chemical Engineering
(he/him/his)
