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 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.

resasco[at]utexas.edu (he/him/his) | Google Scholar | LinkedIn  

Graduate Students

Jay Bender

NSF Graduate Research Fellow

Co-advised with Prof. Delia Milliron

B.S. Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, 2020

jay.bender[at]utexas.edu (he/him/his) | Google Scholar | CV | LinkedIn

Shashwati Da Cunha

PhD Candidate

B.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021

shashwatidc[at]utexas.edu (she/her/hers) | Google Scholar | LinkedIn

JIWON KIM

Graduate Research Assistant

B.S. Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, 2023

jiwonkim458[at]utexas.edu (she/her/hers)

 

Harrison Lippie

Phd Candidate

B.S. Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 2021

harrison.lippie[at]utexas.edu (he/him/his) | LinkedIn

Jon-Marc McGregor

ExxonMobil PhD Scholar and UT McNair Fellow

Co-advised with Prof. Joan Brennecke

B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Connecticut, 2021

jon-marc.mcgregor[at]utexas.edu (he/him/his) | LinkedIn

Akshat Singh

PhD Candidate

Co-advised with Prof. Delia Milliron

B.Tech. Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, 2021

akshat1799[at]utexas.edu (he/him/his) | LinkedIn


Undergraduate Students

PAULA ALEXANDER

B.S. Chemical Engineering, 2027

(she/her/hers)

YASEMIN DUNDAR

B.S. Chemical Engineering, 2026

(she/her/hers)

Arya balasubramanian

B.S. Chemical Engineering, 2026

(she/her/hers)

ALYSSA UVODICH

B.S. Chemical Engineering, 2027

(she/her/hers)

ANGEL VALLES

B.S. Chemical Engineering, 2026

(he/him/his)

 

Group Alumni

Postdoctoral Scholars

Dr. Tram Pham (LinkedIn)

MASTERS STUDENTS

Mikayla Wood (LinkedIn)

Undergraduate Researchers

Sean Heffernan (LinkedIn)

Nicolas Bueno Ponce (NSF PREM REU) (LinkedIn)

Zachary Reihl (LinkedIn)