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
raul.marquez[at]utexas.edu
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Graduate Students
Cecelia Barr
Graduate Research Assistant
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2025
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
Harrison Lippie
Phd Candidate
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 2021
Jon-Marc McGregor
ExxonMobil PhD Scholar and UT McNair Fellow
Co-advised with Prof. Joan Brennecke
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Connecticut, 2021
MENG-hSIU sHIH
Graduate Research Assistant
B.S. Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, 2024
Akshat Singh
PhD Candidate
Co-advised with Prof. Delia Milliron
B.Tech. Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, 2021
Undergraduate Students
Arya balasubramanian
B.S. Chemical Engineering, 2026
ZACH HAMMER
B.S. Chemical Engineering, 2026
ALYSSA UVODICH
B.S. Chemical Engineering, 2027
