






Li Li, PhD
Professor, CV
Kayalvizhi Sadayappan
Postdoc
Matt Berzonsky
PhD student
Colin Conway
Undergraduate researcher
Amanda Anticole
MS student
Grace Deng
Undergraduate Schreyer honors researcher







Abigail Knapp
PhD student
Huilin Luo
PhD student
(mostly prof. Antonia Hadjimichael)
Valerie Smykalov
PhD student
Andrew Vierbicher
PhD student
Mariana De Moraes Teixeira, PhD student
Fiona Liu
PhD student
Yuanyuan Luo
PhD student
Group Alumni:
Undergraduate researchers: ​
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Luke Chang, 2026, (Climate Science REU, undergraduate at Cornell University, co-advise with Fiona Liu, Raymond Najjar)
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Riley Westman, 2023, Climate Science REU (now a PhD student at U Florida, co-advise with Raymond Najjar, Ted Stets, Devon Kerins, Bryn Stewart)
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Shreya Ramesh, 2019 - 2022, Millenium scholar (now PhD student at University of Southern California)
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Immanuel Bissell, summer 2021 (Climate Science REU, undergraduate at Yale, now medical doctoral student at John Hopkins)
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Cissy Ming, Spring 2021 (Virginia Tech, now at Bluestone Environmental Group)
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Juan Pablo Speer 2020 (Climate Science REU, The University of Alabama at Birmingha)
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Xiaoqing Ye 2020 (summer undergraduate researcher, Penn State, now PhD student at Stanford)
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Hayden Carpenter 2020 (summer undergraduate researcher, Penn State)
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Daniel Kozar 2019 (Schreyer honors student, PhD student from UC Davis)
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Sarah Ticker 2018 (WISER|MURE|FURP)
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Jaime Burdette 2018 (WISER|MURE|FURP)
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Bryn Stewart 2017 - 2018 (undergraduate researcher)
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Sruthi Kakuturu 2017 (Schreyer honors thesis, PhD student UT Austin)
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Christian Alvarado 2017 (Undergraduate researcher, Penn State, WISER|MURE|FURP)
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Megan Smajda 2017 (Undergraduate researcher, Penn State, WISER|MURE|FURP)
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Kriston Ramdass 2017 (Undergraduate researcher, Penn State, WISER|MURE|FURP)
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Michael Cavazza 2014 - 2016 (Schreyer honors student, now at engineer, Shell)
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Robert Follet 2011 - 2012 (Schreyer honors student, now at engineer, Chevron)
Msc:
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Jancoba Dorley 2018 (PhD student, University of New Mexico, co-advised with Chris Duffy)
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Rebecca Fogarty 2014 (engineer, Baker Hughes)
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Mariya Skocik 2014 (engineer, Chevron)
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Jessie Tse-Hua Chao 2014 (Graduate student, University of British Columbia)
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Evan Frye 2011 (U.S. Energy Information Administration)
PhD:
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Kayalvizhi Sadayappan, 2024 (now postdoc at Penn State)
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Devon Kerins, 2024 (assistant professor at University College Dublin)
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Bryn Stewart, 2023 (postdoc at Caltech)
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Dacheng Xiao 2020
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Wei Zhi 2019 (professor at Hohai University, China)
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Zhang Cai 2018
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Hang Wen 2017 (associate professor, Tianjin University, China)
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Chen Bao 2015 (engineer, Shell)
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Fatemeh Salehikhoo 2015 (researcher, University of Wyoming)
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Li Wang 2015 (associate professor, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China)
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Changhe Qiao 2015 (quantitative research associate, Susquehanna International Group)
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Peyman Heidari 2014 (assistant professor, Missouri University of Science & Technology)
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Peilin Cao 2014 (engineer, Chevron)
Postdocs:
1. Thanh Duoug (Kaycie), August - December 2024, visiting scholar from GFZ
2. Kayalvizhi Sadayappan, 2024 -
3. Wei Zhi 2020 - 2023 (professor at Hohai University, China)
4. Hang Wen 2017 - 2020 (associate professor, Tianjin University, China)
5. Vikranth K. Surasani 2013 (professor, Birla Institute of Science and Technology, India)
6. Hongfei Wu 2012 (engineer at Halliburton, Houston)
7. Nitin Gawande 2011 (research scientist, Pacific Northwestern National Laboratory)
8. Javier Vilcáez 2011 (Professor, Oklahoma State University)​​