Orlando Coronell, Ph.D.
Group Director

Ph.D. and M.S. in Environmental Engineering in Civil Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

B.S. in Civil Engineering
Universidad del Norte, Colombia

Email: coronell@unc.edu

Panitan (Wan) Jutaporn
Doctoral Student

M.S. in Environmental and Hazardous Waste Management
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
B.S. in Environmental Engineering
Prince of Songkla University, Thailand

Control of fouling in low-pressure membrane processes

Email: panitan@live.unc.edu

Lin Lin
Doctoral Student

B.S. in Environmental Science and Engineering
Tsinghua University, China

Characterization of physical and chemical properties of thin-film composite membranes

Email: lynnlin@live.unc.edu

Tony Perry
Doctoral Student

B.S. in Chemistry
California State University at Fresno

Characterization of the interactions between thin-film (nano)composite membranes and ionic solutes

Email: lamarp@email.unc.edu

Alex Gorzalski
Master’s Student

B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Wisconsin at Madison

Control of fouling during nanofiltration of waters from North Carolina aquifers

Email: agorzals@live.unc.edu

Joshua Powell
Master’s Student

B.S. in Civil Engineering
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Characterization of the degradation of polyamide membranes by free chlorine

Email: jpowella@live.unc.edu

Jingbo Wang
Master’s Student

B.S. in Water and Sewarage Engineering
Wuhan University, China

Characterization of transport phenomena in thin-film composite and thin-film nanocomposite membranes

Email: jingbo16@live.unc.edu

Arianna Catenacci
Visiting Doctoral Student

M.S. in Environmental Engineering
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
B.S. in Environmental Engineering
Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Use of reductive media for the point of use removal of contaminants

Email: ariannac@live.unc.edu

David Holcomb
Research Assistant

B.S. in Public Health
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Use of reductive media for the removal of contaminants from water at the point of use

Email: dholcomb27@gmail.com

Alumni

Post-doctoral researchers

Seokjong Byun, Ph.D. (2010)
UNC Project: Monitoring of trace ions in process waters of fossil power plants
Current Employer: ECOEYE Inc., Korea

Visiting Ph.D. Students

Chuan Wang, Ph.D. (2010-2011)
UNC Project: Removal of copper and lead from aqueous solution using zero valent media
Current Employer: Chinese Academy of Science, China

Masters Students

Eliot S. Meyer (2010-2012)
UNC Project: Degradation of the supports of thin-film composite and thin-film nanocomposite membranes during Rutherford backscattering spectrometry (RBS) analysis
Current Employer: UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, NC, USA

Brad N. Bennett (2011-2012)
UNC Project: Removal of nitrate from aqueous solution using zero-valent metals
Current Employer: Blue Ridge Engineering, PLLC, NC, USA

Undergraduate Researchers

Mindy Feng (2011-2012)
UNC Project: Characterization of active layers of thin-film composite membranes by spectroscopic methods
Current Employer: Merck, NC, USA

Teresa Long (2011)
UNC Project: Forward osmosis membrane filtration for water desalination and reuse
Current Employer: University of Chicago, Department of Chemistry, IL, USA

Peter J. Attayek (2010-2011)
UNC Project: Development of a remotely-controlled, semi-automatic target system for the study of organic membranes using high-energy ion beam analyses
Current Employer: UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of Biomedical Engineering, NC, USA