2024 AIChE Student Winners

Undergraduate

Congratulations to our two CBE undergraduate students that were national student poster competition winners at the 2024 AIChE Annual Student Conference!

Anastasiia Steksova – 2nd place Food, Pharmaceutical, and Biotechnology IX; Utilizing Supercoiled Plasmids in CRISPR-Dx for Viral Gene Detection; advised by Dr. Qingshan Wei. Her research group focuses on creating sensitive, fact, and easy-to-use disease testing kits that people can use anywhere and anytime for self-testing.

Rex Colvard – 3rd place Materials Science VI; The Future of Monovalent Energy Storage: EGaln & Red P; advised by Dr. Michael Dickey and Dr. Peter Fedkiw. The research is seeking to successfully utilize the self-healing ability of EGaln in lithium ion batteries with Red P. Rex would like to thank his Ph.D. mentor Zach Park, Dr. Michael Dickey, Dr. Peter Fedkiw, Mr. Carl Stutts, the NCSU OUR, and his fellow researchers.

Graduate

Congratulations to our two CBE graduate students that received awards at the 2024 AIChE Conference.

Abhirup Basu – Excellence in Fluid Mechanics Research and Oral Presentation Award. His talk was titled “Moonwalking: A New Mode of Dissipative Active Motion of Rotating Colloidal Particles in Complex Fluids”. His research focuses on the propulsion dynamics of microbots in complex fluids in order to deepen our understanding of the transport of autonomous particles. This research has applications in advanced biomedicine such as targeted, drug delivery, diagnostics and imaging.

Seyedamin Razavi – Best Student Award from the Particle Technology Forum. His talk was titled “Perovskite Oxides as a New Family of Tunable CO₂ Sorbents” and his research focused on tunable oxide sorbents for Direct capture of carbon dioxide from ambient air (DAC).