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CHR Faculty

Prof. Carolyn A. Koh
Director, Professor
Chemical and Biological Engineering

Prof. E. Dendy Sloan
Professor Emeritus
Chemical and Biological Engineering

Prof. David T. Wu
Professor
Chemistry, Chemical and Biological Engineering

Prof. Luis Zerpa
Associate Professor
Petroleum Engineering

Prof. Jose Delgado
Research Associate Professor
Chemical and Biological Engineering

Prof. Dinesh Mehta
Professor
Computer Science
CHR Clathrate Team Faculty
Colorado School of Mines Department of Physics
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Prof. Rueben Collins
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Prof. Craig Taylor
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Prof. Tom Furtak
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Prof. Meenakshi Singh
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Prof. Lakshmi Krishna
Collaborating Faculty
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Prof. C. Manika Prasad (Mines Geophysics)
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Prof. Tim Collett (USGS)
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Prof. Moises Carreon (Mines Chemical and Biological Engineering)
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Prof. Yuan Yang (Mines Chemistry)
Affiliate Faculty
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Jose Delgado – Clariant
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Jefferson Creek (Deceased) – Chevron
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Phaneendra Kondapi – Founder and CEO of DigiTide.ai
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Ahmad Majid – SPL (Southern Petroleum Laboratories)
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Zachary Aman – University of Western Australia, Perth
Postdoctoral associates

Josh worley
Postdoctoral Researcher

Kelechi Ndukwe-Ajala
Postdoctoral Researcher
Hydrate Busters

Taylor Adkins
PhD Candidate

Ramón Castrejón Miranda
PhD Candidate

Oliver Greener
PhD Candidate

Sander Schott
PhD Student

Amjad Bahutair
PhD Student

Matthew Beck
PhD Student

Ridhwan Lawal
PhD Student

Jason Balke
PhD Student

Nathan Goff
PhD Student
undergraduate Students
- Addy Kraus
- Helena Haas
- Caden Crisp
- Helena Borshom
Visiting SCHolars
Jyoti Pandey
Danish Technical University
Hydrate Paws-ters

Otis
Lab Assistant

Bill
Lab Assistant

Stark
Lab Assistant
Past CHR Members
PhD Students
Shamseddin S. Mohammadi (1980)
Richard A. Perkins (1983)
Majeed H. Yousif (1987)
Gregory B. Asher (1987)
Basil H. Al-Ubaidi (1988)
Sanggono Adisasmito (1991)
Ronald M. Pratt (1994)
Jinping Long (1994)
Ajay P. Mehta (1996)
Sivajumar Subramanian (2000)
Timothy S. Collett (2000)
Mark D. Jager (2001)
Ramesh Kini (2002)
Adam L. Ballard (2002)
Douwe Bruinsma (2005)
Keith C. Hester (2007)
Arvind Gupta (2007)
Timothy Stroebel (2008)
Joseph W. Nicholas (2008)
John Boxall (2009)
Simon R. Davies (2009)
Patrick Rensing (2010)
Matthew Walsh (2011)
Sanjeev Joshi (2012)
Zachary Aman (2012)
Ishan Rao (2013)
Luis Zerpa (2013)
Eric Webb (2014)
Patrick Langford (2014)
Gary Grim (2014)
Marisa Rydzy (2014)
Prithvi Vijayamohan (2015)
Zachary Ward (2015)
Naveed Khan (2015)
Piyush Chaudhari (2015)
Giovanny Grasso (2015)
Ahmad Afif Abdul Majid (2015)
Erika Brown (2016)
Vishal Srivastava (2018)
Davi Costa Salmin (2019)
Yan Wang (2019)
Sijia Hu (2019)
Jose Alejandro Dapena (2019)
Hao Qin (2020)
Shurraya Denning (2021)
Jon Wells (2022)
Marshall Pickarts (2022)
Nur ‘Mimi’ Ismail (2022)
Yinan Liu (2022)
Hannah Stoner (2023)
Seetharaman Navaneetha Kannan (2024)
Christopher Brock (2025)
Joshua Worley (2025)
Joseph Briggs (2025)
Anqi Qu (2025)
Luiz Fernando Rambalducci Dalla (2026)
Lindsey Wadsworth (2026)
Seth Dale (2026)
MS Students
Margarita de las Nieves Gallego (1977)
Abraham J. Suniaga Goite (1977)
Paul T. Treece (1978)
Paula D. Menten (1979)
Jeffery J. Johnson (1981)
Mohamed M. Amer (1981)
Alberto Giussani (1981)
Kevin A. Sparks (1983)
Bruec E. Weiler (1983)
Dale D. Erickson (1983)
David Pinkerton (1985)
Jeffery W. Ullerich (1985)
Gary McFaddin (1985)
John M. Persichetti (1985)
Gregory A. Graham (1985)
Tien H. Nguyen (1986)
Richard A. Edrich (1986)
Louise M. Zimmerman (1987)
Joseph G. Ceurvorst (1987)
Stephen F. Voss (1988)
Susan L. Mann (1988)
Suk-Bae Cha (1988)
Senol Yamanlar (1989)
Thomas Kotkoskie (1989)
Abdelhamid Ouar (1989)
Betina Müller-Bongartz (1990)
Xiaoping Long (1993)
James S. Kalbus (1994)
Charles F. Koske (1994)
Michael J. Mangan (1994)
Vibha Bansal (1994)
Eric L. Maase (1995)
Richard A. Sturgeon-Berg (1996)
Amadeu K. Sum (1996)
Ya-He Du (1996)
Patrick N. Matthews (1997)
David J. Peters (1999)
Kevin T. Rider (1999)
Erik M. Freer (2000)
Michael W. Eaton (2003)
Jason Ivanic (2005)
Derek M. Kleehammer (2005)
Craig J. Taylor (2006)
Jason W. Lachance (2008)
David P. Greaves (2008)
Alexander Hughson (2009)
James Mulligan (2009)
Justin Panter (2009)
Laura Dieker (2009)
Alfredo Guariguata (2009)
Hongfei Xu (2013)
Martin J. Braniff (2013)
Christopher J. Cabusao (2013)
Matthew W. Gilmer (2013)
M. S. Bourrie (deceased) (2015)
Wiwin Febrianto (2023)
Gill Brewer (2025)
Alina Shresther (2025)
MS/PhD Students
Douglas J. Turner (2003, 2005)
Carlos O. Zerpa (1977, 1980)
Zhongxin Huo (2000, 2002)
Joseph P. Lederhos (1993, 1996)
Taras Y Makogon (1996, 1997)
Phaneendra Bollavaram (1999, 2002)
Trent S. Brown (1987, 1990)
B. Dharmawardhana (1978, 1980)
Roger M. Rueff (1983, 1985)
POst-Docs
V. Panchalingham (1994-95)
Surya Devarakonda (1997-98)
Laura Rovetto (2006-08)
Scott Wierzchowski (2006-08)
Hiroshi Ohno (2006-08)
Takeshi Sugahara (2008-09)
S. R. Prasad (2008-09)
Minjun Cha (2012-14)
Govind Hedge (2013-15)
Litao Chen (2013-15)
Pramod Warrier (2014-16)
Wonhee Lee (2014-15)
Jianwei Du (2014-15)
Myles Moore (2020)
Daniel Croce (2020-22)
Sriram Ravichandran (2019-22)
Nur ‘Mimi’ Ismail (2022-)
Faculty
Joanna Lachwa-Langa (Research Professor/Lab Manager) (2008-09)
Vahid Taghikhani (Sabbatical) (2008-09)
King's College London Alums
Brar (MS), (1995)
Nooney (MS), (1995)
Hirachand (MS), (1996)
Onurguda (MS), (1997)
Zhang (PhD), (1997)
R.I. Nooney (PhD), (1998)
R.E. Motie (PhD), (1998, deceased)
Boissel (MS), (1999)
Zugik (PhD), (2001)
Carstensen (PhD), (2002)
Aldiwan (MS), (2002)
Boissel (PhD), (2003)
Klironomou (PhD), (2004)
Lui (PhD), (2006)
Aldiwan (PhD), (2006)
Nooney (Postdoc)
Buchanan (Postdoc)
Tahir (Postdoc)
Thompson (Postdoc)
R.E. Westacott (Postdoc)
Zhang (Postdoc)
Undergraduates
A. Berger (2026)
R. Alexander (2026)
J. Balke (2026)
J. Cacciavillani (2025)
B. Chase (2024)
Q. Reyes (2024)
S. Schott (2024)
C. Burns (2024)
M. Phillips (2024)
C. Chun (2023)
M. Phillips (2023)
M. Dawson (2023)
J. Moak (2023)
C. Ross (2023)
E. Siekkinen (2022)
K. Ellis (2021)
M. Chun (2021)
Z. Kelly (2021)
A. Bervig (2020)
H. Stoner (2019)
S. Denning (2018)
J. Wells (2016)
M. Gilmer (2013)
W. Leith (2013)
K. Olcott (2013)
K. Pfeiffer (2013)
A. Maul (2012)
N. Welch (2012)
M. Arias (2012)
K. Springer (2012)
T. Braun (2011)
N. George (2009)
A. Warntjes (2009)
J. Haag (2009)
Y. Kim (2008)
A. Papineau (2008)
N. Shult (2008)
X. Zhou
K. Zek
J. Young
C. Wahrmund
M. Wager
M. Shabowich
S. Bowdish
S. Hawkins
P. Weisgerber
C. Timm
B. Sterling
J. Richman
S. Meyers
M. Gonzalez
J. Gallardo
J. DiFulvio
C. Cox
L. Collins
C. Chun
K. Chinn
R. Casebolt
J. Bower
G. Blanchard
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