Team Members

Principal Investigator

Burcu BeykalBurcu Beykal, Ph.D.
Eversource Energy Assistant Professor in Environmental and Sustainability Education
Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Center for Clean Energy Engineering
Institute of Material Science
University of Connecticut
Email: beykal@uconn.edu
191 Auditorium Rd Unit 3222, Storrs CT, 06269-3222
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Current Members

Graduate Students


Zahir Aghayev

Ph.D. Candidate

Ben Cohen
Benjamin Cohen
Ph.D. Candidate
Co-advised with Prof. George Bollas

Hasan Nikkhah

Ph.D. Candidate


Amir Shahbazi

Third-Year Ph.D. Student

Undergraduate Students

Husna Ibas
3rd Year
Evan Piotrowski
4th Year

Alumni

Former Undergraduate Students

Name Degree Awarded Current Position
Bradley Stutzman 2022 Senior Control Systems Engineer at Continua, Allendale, NJ.
Daniel Kloyzner 2022 Ph.D. Student at University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
George F. Walker 2022 J.D. Candidate at the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law, Concord, NH.
Katherine Pettersen 2023
Ph.D. Student at University of Southern California, CA.
Richa Balamurugan 2024 iPSC Process Development Co-Op at BlueRock Therapeutics, New York, NY.
Dev Barochia 2025 Manufacturing Sales Engineer at Burt Process Equipment, Inc., Hamden, CT.
Jonathan Zilberman 2025 Product Development Technician at bp, New York, NY.

Former Research Technicians

Name Appointment Current Position
Jake Dobrucky 2024 Recent Graduate
Cameron Hubbard 2024-2025 Ph.D. Student at Georgia Institute of Technology, GA.

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