Principal Investigator

Joaquin Resasco

Assistant Professor

B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Oklahoma, 2012

Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2018

Postdoctoral Fellow University of California, Santa Barbara 2018-2020

Joaquin Resasco was born in Mar del Plata, Argentina. He completed his B.S. at the University of Oklahoma, and his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley under the guidance of Prof. Alex Bell. At Berkeley, he was an NSF and UC Chancellor’s Fellow. Following his Ph.D. Joaquin was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara with Prof. Phil Christopher. As of January 2021, Joaquin is an Assistant Professor in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Joaquin is the recipient of the DOE Early Career Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Young Investigator Award, the ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator Award, ACS Materials Au Rising Star in Materials Science, the Forbes 30 Under 30, and AIChE’s 35 under 35.

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Postdoctoral Scholars

RAUL mArquez

Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, 2025

M.S. Chemistry, Autonomous University of Chihuahua, 2020

B.S. Chemical Engineering, Autonomous University of Chihuahua, 2017
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Graduate Students

Cecelia Barr

Graduate Research Assistant

B.S. Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2025

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Debanjan Das

Graduate Research Assistant

Co-advised with Buddie Mullins

M.S. Chemistry IIT Bombay, 2025
B.S.
Chemistry University of Calcutta, 2023
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JIWON KIM

PhD Candidate

B.S. Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, 2023

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Harrison Lippie

Phd Candidate

B.S. Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 2021

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Jon-Marc McGregor

ExxonMobil PhD Scholar and UT McNair Fellow

Co-advised with Prof. Joan Brennecke

B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Connecticut, 2021

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MENG-hSIU sHIH

Graduate Research Assistant

B.S. Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, 2024

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Akshat Singh

PhD Candidate

Co-advised with Prof. Delia Milliron

B.Tech. Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, 2021

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Undergraduate Students

Arya balasubramanian

B.S. Chemical Engineering, 2026

ZACH HAMMER

B.S. Chemical Engineering, 2026

ALYSSA UVODICH

B.S. Chemical Engineering, 2027


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