Members

Principal Investigator

Juliana Carneiro Ph.D

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Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering

Faculty Advisor, Coalition on Race and Ethnicity in Engineering (Core^2)

Education

  • B.S. Engineering Environmental, University Tiradentes, Brazil

  • Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Wayne State University

  • Postdoctoral Scholar in Chemical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

✉️ js6441@columbia.edu

📍 500 W. 120th St., Mudd 820 (Faculty Office) or Mudd 391 (Lab),
New York, NY 10027.

Abbey Piatt Price

PhD Student, Class of 2029 (she/her/hers)

Graduate Students

Education:

B.S. Molecular Engineering 2023 University of Chicago

Favorite Hobbies:

Baking

✉️ ap4633@columbia.edu

Nicolas Raffaele

PhD Student, Class of 2029 (he/him/his)

Undergraduate Students

Alexandra Nath

Undergraduate Student, Class of 2026 (she/her/hers)

Education

B.S. Chemical Engineering Columbia Engineering (Expected 2026) 

Favorite Hobbies:

Crossword puzzles, table tennis, and exploring with friends 

✉️  an2994@columbia.edu

Visiting Students

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Claire Walko

Summer Undergraduate Student, Class of 2025 (she/her/hers)

Education:

B.S. Chemical Engineering University of Massachusetts (Expected 2025) 

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Education:

B.S. Chemical Engineering 2023 The Ohio State University

Favorite Hobbies:

Soccer

✉️ ner2149@columbia.edu

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Ella Zheng

Undergraduate Student, Class of 2028 (she/her/hers)

Education

B.S. Mechanical Engineering Columbia Engineering (Expected 2028) 

Favorite Hobbies:

Crossword puzzles, table tennis, and exploring with friends 

✉️  esz3314@columbia.edu

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Daniel Ernesto Gonzalez

Undergraduate Student, Class of 2027 (he/him/his)

Education

B.S. Earth and Environmental Engineering with a minor in Mining and Material Science Columbia Engineering (Expected 2027).

Favorite Hobbies:

Coding, 3D printing, Art and Music

✉️  deg2183@columbia.edu

Geuris German

MS Student, Class of 2026 (he/him/his)

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Education:

B.E. Chemical Engineering, Stony Brook University (2022)

Favorite Hobbies:

Music and Art 

✉️ gg2923@columbia.edu

Alumni:

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Joshua Crawford

Education:

B.S. Chemical Engineering 2023 Georgia Institute of Technology

Favorite Hobbies:

Backpacking and playing bass

✉️ joc2125@columbia.edu

NASA graduate fellow in Chemical Engineering (he/him/his)

Daniela Fraga, Ph.D

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Education

Ph.D. Chemical Engineering 2023 Columbia University

B.S. Chemical Engineering 2019 Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Favorite Hobbies: 

Hanging out with her dog Rio, biking, and baking

✉️ dvf2106@columbia.edu

Postdoctoral Researcher (she/her/hers)

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Zijian Dong

Education

B.S. Chemistry 2023 Lanzhou University; Lanzhou, China

Favorite Hobbies:

travel, playing the piano, and table tennis

✉️zd2330@columbia.edu

Graduate Student, Master (he/him/his)

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Education

B.S. Chemical Engineering Columbia Engineering (Expected 2025) 

Favorite Hobbies:

Swimming, traveling, art

✉️ asm2319@columbia.edu

Undergraduate Student, Class of 2025 (she/her/hers)

Angelina Moncrieffe