Faculty Mentors and Research Projects

Faculty mentors are listed below. Note that all projects are subject to change and not all may be offered upon finalization of the summer program.

Faculty Mentors

John D. Atkinson, PhD
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
233 Jarvis Hall
Phone: (716) 645-4001
atkjdw@buffalo.edu
Scott and Coleen Stevens Chair in Engineering Sustainability
Associate Professor
Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Director, Graduate studies, Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
Director, Engineering Science MS: Focus on Engineering Sustainability
Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Research Topics: Waste Management; Recycling; Plastics and Polymers; Environmental Engineering; Sustainability; Porous Materials; Carbon, Aerosol Science and Technology; Hazardous Materials
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233 Jarvis Hall
Phone: (716) 645-4001
atkjdw@buffalo.edu
Ian Bradley, PhD
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
220 Jarvis Hall
Phone: (716) 645-4004
ianbradl@buffalo.edu
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Research Topics: Creating sustainable biological processes to address needs in engineered and natural systems for water and wastewater treatment and resource recovery.
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220 Jarvis Hall
Phone: (716) 645-4004
ianbradl@buffalo.edu
Ning Dai, PhD
PhD, Yale University
231 Jarvis Hall
Phone: (716) 645-4015
ningdai@buffalo.edu
Associate Professor
Director, Undergraduate Studies, Environmental Engineering
Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Research Topics: Organic nitrogen chemistry in both engineered and natural environmental systems.
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231 Jarvis Hall
Phone: (716) 645-4015
ningdai@buffalo.edu
James N. Jensen, PhD
PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
207B Jarvis Hall/140C Capen Hall
Phone: (716) 645-4007
jjensen@buffalo.edu
Professor
Chair
Department of Engineering Education
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Professor
Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Research Topics: Wastewater Treatment; Measurement and monitoring of pollutants
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207B Jarvis Hall/140C Capen Hall
Phone: (716) 645-4007
jjensen@buffalo.edu
Eleni A. Kyriakidou, PhD
PhD, The University of South Carolina, 2014
613 Furnas Hall
Phone: (716) 645-1629
elenikyr@buffalo.edu
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Research Topics: Heterogeneous catalysis; nanoparticle synthesis and surface science, and the application of such catalysts to environmental processes
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613 Furnas Hall
Phone: (716) 645-1629
elenikyr@buffalo.edu
Blaine Pfeifer, PhD
PhD, Stanford University, 2002
904 Furnas Hall
Phone: (716) 645-1198
blainepf@buffalo.edu
Professor
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Research Topics: Metabolic Engineering; Heterologous Natural Product Biosynthesis; Vaccine Design and Delivery
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904 Furnas Hall
Phone: (716) 645-1198
blainepf@buffalo.edu

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