Previous Degrees: B.S., University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Dissertation: Crosslinked Polyimide Hollow Fiber Membranes for Aggressive Natural Gas Feed Streams
Employer: ConocoPhillips, Bartlesville, OK

Previous Degrees: B.S., University of Texas - Austin
Dissertation: Thickness Dependent Physical Aging and Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Conditioning Effects on Crosslinkable Polyimide Membranes for Natural Gas Purification
Employer: Air Products, St. Louis, MO

Previous Degrees:
Dissertation: Engineering the Performance of Mixed Matrix Membranes for Gas Separations
Employer: Shell, Houston, TX

Previous Degrees: B.S., Lafayette College
Dissertation: Functionalized Co-Polypyrrolone-Imide Membrane for Propylene/Propane Separations
Employer: BP, Chicago, IL

Previous Degrees: B.S., Clemson University
Dissertation: Formation and Characterization of Hybrid Membranes Utilizing High-Performance Polyimides and Carbon Molecular Sieves
Employer: MeadWestvaco

Previous Degrees: B.S., West Virginia University
Dissertation: Torlon and Silicalite Mixed Matrix Membranes for Xylene Isomer Purfication
Employer: Shell, Houston, TX

Previous Degrees: B.S., IIT Kanpur, India
Dissertation: Multi-Component Transport of Gases and Vapors in Poly(Ethylene Terephthalate)
Employer: Praxair, Inc., Tonawanda, NY

Previous Degrees: B.S., University of Texas - Austin
Dissertation: Formation of Non-Crosslinked Asymmetric Hollow Fiber Mixed Matrix Polymer/Molecular Sieve Membranes
Employer: Chevron, Richmond, CA

Previous Degrees: B.S., M.S., Tennessee Technological University
Dissertation: Synthesis and Study of Homogeneous Carbon Molecular Sieve Membranes
Employer: Shell, Houston, TX

Previous Degrees: B.S., University of Texas - Austin
Dissertation: The Performance of Hollow Fiber Gas Separation Membranes in the Presence of an Aggressive Feed Stream
Employer: Solvay Advanced Polymers, Alpharetta, GA

Previous Degrees: B.S., University of Maryland - Baltimore County
Dissertation: Homogeneous Crosslinkable Mixed Matrix Membranes for Natural Gas Purifications
Employer: Praxair, Inc., Tonawanda, NY

Dissertation: Novel Membrane Materials and Structures for Water-Organic Mixtures
Employer: Hercules, Wilmington, DE

Dissertation: Pervaporative Separation Processes for Aromatic-Saturate Separations
Employer: Hoffman-La Roche, Nutley, NJ

Previous Degrees: B.S., Iowa State University
Dissertation: Effects of Materials, Processing, and Operating Conditions on the Morphology and Gas Transport Properties of Mixed Matrix Membranes
Employer: Solvay Advanced Polymers, Alpharetta, GA

Previous Degrees: M.S., University of Notre Dame
Dissertation: Characterization And Modeling Of Practical Asymmetric Hollow Fiber Membranes And Membrane Modules Used For High-Pressure Natural Gas Purification In The Presence Of Trace Heavy Hydrocarbon Impurities
Employer: Saudi AARAMCO, Saudi Arabia

Previous Degrees: B.S., Texas A&M University
Dissertation: Membrane Based Separations of Organic Solutes from Supercritical Carbon Dioxide
Employer: Shell Chemicals, Houston, TX

Previous Degrees: B.S., Rose Hulman Institute of Technology
Dissertation: Hollow Fiber Membranes for Natural Gas Purification
Employer: Shell Chemicals, Houston, TX

Previous Degrees: B.S., Purdue University
Dissertation: Improving Polyimide Membrane Resistance to Carbon Dioxide Plasticization in Natural Gas Separations
Employer: ChevronTexaco, Richmond, CA

Previous Degrees: B.S., Georgia Institue of Technology
Dissertation: Investigation of Poly(pyrrolone-imide) Materials for the Olefin / Paraffin Separation
Employer: Post Doctoral Researcher at University of Texas - Austin (Advisor: Dr. C. Grant Willson)

Previous Degrees: B.S., North Carolina State University
Dissertation: Integral Skin Formation in Hollow Fiber Membranes for Gas Separations
Employer: Intel Corp., Portland, OR

Previous Degrees: B.S., University of Oklahoma; M.S., University of Texas - Austin
Dissertation: Formation and Characterization of Asymmetric Carbon Molecular Sieve and Mixed Matrix Membranes for Natural Gas Purification
Employer: ChevronTexaco, Richmond, CA

Previous Degrees: B.S., Tulane University; M.S., University of Texas - Austin
Dissertation: A Sorption and Dilation Investigation of Amorphous Glassy Polymers and Physical Aging
Employer: TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc., Hillsboro, OR

Previous Degrees: B.S., University of Texas - Austin
Thesis: Utilization of Membrane Dialysis for Solvent Exchange in a Polymeric Solution
Employer: Rudolph Technologies

Previous Degrees: B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology; M.S., University of Texas - Austin
Dissertation: Formation, Characterization and Modeling of Mixed Matrix Membrane Materials
Employer: Merck, West Point, PA

Previous Degrees: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.S., University of Texas - Austin
Dissertation: Carbon Membranes for Challenging Separations
Employer: BP Amoco, Naperville, IL

Previous Degrees: B.S., University of Texas - Austin
Thesis: Characterization and Analysis of Asymmetric Hollow Fiber Membranes for Natural Gas Purification in the Presence of Hydrocarbons
Employer: LSI Logic, San Francisco, CA

Previous Degrees: B.S., East China University of Science and Technology
Thesis: Explorations of Forming and Characterizing Mixed Matrix Gas Separation Membranes

Previous Degrees: B.S., University of Minnesota; M.S., University of Texas - Austin
Dissertation: Advanced Gas Separation Membrane Materials: Hyper Rigid Polymers and Molecular Sieve-Polymer Mixed Matrices
Employer: BP Amoco, Naperville, IL

Previous Degrees: B.S., North Carolina State University; M.S., University of Texas - Austin
Dissertation: Ladder Polymers: Formation and Characterization of Asymmetric Polyimide Hollow Fiber Membranes for Gas Separations
Employer: Exxon Chemicals, Baton Rouge, LA

Previous Degrees: B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology
Dissertation: Characterization, Analysis and Modeling of Non-Ideal Effects in Polymerix Membrane-Based Natural Gas Processing (Membrane Permeation)
Employer: Porous Media, Ltd., Conroe, TX

Previous Degrees: B.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute; M.S., University of Texas - Austin
Dissertation: Polyimide Precursors for Carbon Molecular Sieve Membranes
Employer: Motorola, Austin, TX

Previous Degrees: B.S., Oregon State University; M.S., University of Texas - Austin
Dissertation: Analysis of Methanol/Methyl Tert-Butyl Ether (MTBE) Separations Using Pervaporation (Membrane, Permeability, Sorption, Diffusion)
Employer: Medal, L.P., Newport, DE

Previous Degrees: B.S., University of Roorke; M.S., University of Texas - Austin
Dissertation: Membrane Materials with Enhanced Selectivity: An Entropic Interpretation (Gas Separation, Carbon Molecular Sieves)
Employer: Singh Plasticizers and Resins (I) Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi

Previous Degrees: B.S., M.S., University of Texas - Austin
Dissertation: Application and Analysis of Membranes for Membrane-Assisted Reactors (Hollow Fiber Membranes, Polyimide, Polyaramide, Polyetherimide)
Employer: Exxon Chemicals, Baton Rouge, LA

Dissertation: Formation and Characterization of Hollow Fiber Membranes for Gas Separation (Fiber Breaks, Macrovoids)
Employer: Permea Inc., St. Louis, MO

Employer: Los Alamos National Laboratory

Dissertation: Modification and Characterization of Mass-Transfer Properties of Gamma-Alumina Membranes (Ultrafiltration, Ceramic Membranes, Sieving)
Employer: Proctor & Gamble, Belgium

Dissertation: Removal of Volatile Organic Compounds From Aqueous and Vapor Streams Using Polymeric Sorbents: Friedel-Crafts Modified Polystyrene (Sorption)
Employer: Shell Development Company, Houston, TX

Dissertation: Formation of Composite Membranes Based on Silica Occlusion of Surface Pores (Permeability)
Employer: Merial Limited, Iselin, NJ

Dissertation: Solubilization of aromatic solutes in surfactant aggregates: application to micellar-enhanced ultrafiltration (volatile organic compounds)
Employer: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA

Dissertation: Gas transport properties and aging of thin and thick films made from amorphous glassy polymers
Employer: Institute of Paper Science & Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

Dissertation: Temperature dependence of gas sorption and transport properties in glassy polymers
Employer: 3M, Austin, TX

Dissertation: Aqueous quenched asymmetric polysulfone flat sheet and hollow fiber membranes prepared by dry/wet phase separation
Employer: DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers, Orange, TX

Dissertation: Polymer-ceramic composite membranes in reactor applications (polyimide)
Employer: School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

Dissertation: Synthesis and gas transport properties of aromatic polyester membrane materials
Employer: Departamento de Engenharia de Materiais, Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos, San Carlos, Brazil

Dissertation: Synthesis and characterization of polypyrrolones for gas separation membranes (membranes, plasticization)
Employer: Westvaco, Charleston, SC

Dissertation: Isomers of fluorine-containing polyimides for gas separation membranes (glassy polymers)
Employer: Chemical & Environmental Engr. Dept., University of Toledo, Toledo, OH

Dissertation: Transport properties of native and chemically modified gamma-alumina membranes
Employer: Westvaco, Covington, VA

Thesis: The use of bench-scale and pilot-scale testing systems to investigate the effects of carbon dioxide conditioning on the permeation properties of assymetric membranes
Employer: Department of Chemical Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

Dissertation: The effects of conditioning on sorption and volume dilation in rubbery and glassy polymers (rubbery polymers, penetrant sorption)
Employer: CONDEA Vista Co., Austin, TX

Dissertation: Skin formation of integral-asymmetric gas separation membranes made by dry/wet phase inversion (gas separation)
Employer: Membrane Technology & Research, Menlo Park, CA

Dissertation: Gas permeation and sorption in a series of aromatic polycarbonates
Employer: Sachem, Inc., Austin, TX

Dissertation: Sorption and transport of carbon-dioxide and methane in chemically modified poly(phenylene oxide)
Employer: Calcitek, Carlsbad, CA

Dissertation: The effects of carbon-dioxide exposure on permeation behavior in silicone rubber and glassy polycarbonates
Employer: Ray Chem, Menlo Park, CA

Thesis: Characterization of equilibria and kinetic factors controlling the spinning of Lycra
Employer: IT Corporation, Austin, TX

Dissertation: Dilation of silicone rubber and glassy polycarbonates due to high pressure gas sorption
Employer: MEDAL, E.I. duPont de Nemours & Co., Newport, DE

Dissertation: Gas sorption and permeation in a series of aromatic polyimides
Employer: Samsung Total Petrochem Co.

Thesis: Development of a gas permeation membrane minimodule testing system

Thesis: Vapor sorption and blend miscibility studies of alkyd resin and poly(vinyl chloride)
Employer: Intel K.K., Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken, Japan

Thesis: Aromatic glassy polymers

Dissertation: Characterization of physical aging of poly(methyl methacrylate) powders by a novel high pressure soprtion technique

Thesis: Sorption of low molecular weight organic penetrants in protective polymeric coatings

Thesis: Anhydrous ammonia sorption and transport in Kapton polyimide

Dissertation: Sorption and transport studies of water in Kapton polyimide

Thesis: Sorption and transport of various gases in Kapton polyimide

Dissertation: High-pressure sorption of pure and mixed gases in glassy polymers (polymethyl methacrylate)

Dissertation: Measurement and modeling of mixed gas permeation in glassy polymers

Dissertation: Fundamentals of small molecule migration in glassy polymers

Thesis: Penetrant permeation through fluorinated and untreated polyethylene films

Thesis: High pressure carbon dioxide sorption in a series of methacrylate polymers and kapton polyimide

Thesis: Evaluation of processing alternatives in the production of kappa-carrageenan

Thesis: Diffusion and relaxation in glassy polymer powders

Thesis: Characterization of phase equilibria and properties of kappa-carrageenan precipitated from aqueous solutions using isopropanol as a nonsolvent

Thesis: Dual mode sorption and transport of condensable penetrants in glassy polymers

Thesis: Dual mode sorption of CO₂ in poly(methyl methacrylate) and poly(ethyl methacrylate)

Dissertation: Sorption, transport, and dilatometric studies in glassy polymers