People

Dr. Bryan Beckingham

Mary and John H. Sanders Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering

Director, Center for Polymers and Advanced Composites

Graduate Program Officer, Polymer & Fiber Engineering

Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, Auburn University

Postdoctoral Fellows   

Dr. Adam Bachmann – Polymer Patterning/ Fabrication

Current Graduate Students

                                               

John Stockdale (PFEN) – Porous polymers for phosphate adsorption

Syed Readwan Ahmed (CHEN) – Biomimetic Membranes

Nicolas Ulrich (CHEN) – Bio-inspired Fluids

Logan Hikes (PFEN) – Anionic Polymerization

Dhrumil Hirpara (PFEN) – Polymer Membranes

Aliya Puryear (PFEN) – Polyurethanes  

Drew Seller (PFEN) – Continuous Fiber 3D printing 

Philip Darko (CHEN) – Phenolic extraction from pecan shells

Undergraduate Students 

Current students: 

  1. Madelyn Torrance (CHEN)
  2. Annie Wingate (BMSC)

Past Students:

  1. Josh Deutschendorf (BMSC)
  2. Chase Morgese (CHEN)
  3. Savannah Chai (BSEN)
  4. Nailah Braziel 
  5. Ryan Wozniak ’24 (Currently at UPenn, PhD)
  6. Jessica Brouillette ’24 (Currently at Heersink School of Medicine, MD)
  7. Tymirrah Brown
  8. Sean Gannon
  9. Harrison Edwards
  10. Matthew Hajazin
  11. Camylle Lollar
  12. Mae Baird
  13. Barbara Allen
  14. Samantha Lawson
  15. Garret Taylor
  16. Jacob Johnson
  17. Christopher Nuckels ’21 (AL Department of Environmental Management)
  18. Brock Hunter ’22 (Currently at U. Delaware, PhD)
  19. Lingyu Zhou
  20. Minjae Jung,
  21. Krish Patel,
  22. Lily Gong ’21 (Currently at Rice University, PhD)
  23. Tina Huang ’21
  24. Sean Baxter ’21
  25. Tucker Sparks ‘20
  26. Alisa Mobley ’20
  27. Jihyuk Kim ‘19 (Currently at U. Delaware, PhD)
  28. Claudia Hu ‘19 (Currently at RPI, PhD)
  29. Xinyu Hou ‘19 
  30. Avery Bush ‘18

Please contact me to talk further about potential opportunities in the Group.

PAST GROUP MEMBERS

  1. Sarah Gaston (PhD, PFEN 2026)
  2. Harish Kumar Senthil Kumar (PhD, CHEN 2026) – Senior Scientist, Axalta Coating Systems in Huntsville, AL
  3. Pravin Aravindhan (PhD, CHEN 2025)
  4. Riana Rivera (MS, CHEN 2025) – Pursing CIVL PhD at Auburn
  5. Yi-hung Lin (PhD, CHEN 2025), Research Scientist, Samsung SDI America Inc.
  6. Antara Mazumder (PhD CHEN, 2024) Post-doc, Georgia Tech University
  7. Yoorae Noh (Post Doc, 2023) Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
  8. Vinita Vinod Shinde (PhD, CHEN 2022) Polymer Scientist, Eastman
  9. Yuyang Wang (PhD, PFEN 2022)
  10. Jung Min Kim (Luca) (PhD, CHEN 2021) Research Scientist, Samsung SDI America Inc
  11. Breanna M. Dobyns (PhD, CHEN 2020) Post-doc, U. of South Alabama
  12. Michael J. Minkler Jr. (PhD, CHEN 2020) Engineer, Milliken & Company
  13. Vimal Thakkur (MS-NT, PFEN 2020) Engineer, Reliance Composites Polymers
  14. Shreyas Shelke (MS, PFEN 2019) Materials Technology Engineer, Victaulic
  15. Sneha B. Chakrapani (MS, CHEN 2019) now at Syngene International