Members
Principal Investigator
Peter Cummings holds the position of Bicentennial Professor in the School of Engineering and physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University oin Edinburgh, Scotland. He is also the John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering Emeritus at Vanderbilt University.
Education: B. Math (Hons I), University of Newcastle, Australia (1976); Ph.D., University of Melbourne, Australia (1980)
Research Faculty
Chris is a Research Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Vanderbilt University, working with Peter Cummings and McCabe.
Education: B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Buffalo, (2003); Ph.D., University of Michigan (2009)
Chris Iacovella’s web page and Vanderbilt University profile can be viewed by following the links. Chris works with graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the Cummings and Clare McCabe groups on multiple projects, including: nanoscale lubrication, modeling of polymer films, examination of lipid membranes, development of methods for coarse-grained model optimization, and development of MoSDeF.
Research Fellows
Arun Sridhar performs research on structure property relationships for crosslinked polymers and polymer composites (graphene, cellulose), wetting of 2D materials and polymer materials for membrane separation processes. He is co-advised by Clare McCabe.
Education: B.Tech Chemical Engineering, S.R.M Engineering College (Affiliated to Anna University) Aug 2006; M.S. in chemical Engineering., IIT Madras August 2012; PhD im Chemical Engineering, Drexel University, 2018
Lingfeng (Griffin) Gui performs research that applies molecular dynamics simulation in two distinct areas: one is centered on computer-aided solvent design for carbon capture, as part of the ECO-AI project; the other focus is on understanding the properties and functions of human skin lipid bilayers. He is co-advised by Clare McCabe.
Education: B.Eng. in Applied Chemistry (2018), East China University of Science and Technology; M.Res. in Molecular Science and Engineering (2019) and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (2023), Imperial College London.
Postdoctoral Researchers
Evangelos (Vangelis) Tsochantaris performs research on physical properties prediction related to carbon capture as part of the ECO-AI project. He is co-advised by Clare McCabe.
Education: B.S./M.S. in Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece (2019); Ph.D., Technical University of Denmark (2022)
Graduate Students
Co performs research on nanotribological systems and is a leading contributor and maintainer of MoSDeF
Education: B.S., Chemistry and Applied Mathematics, Millsaps College, (2018)
Xiaobo is performing simulation of systems relevant to capacitive energy storage devices.
Education: B.S., Chemical Engineering, Qingdao University of Science of Technology, (2017); M.S., Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University (2019)
Andres is performing simulation of systems relevant to the translational dynamics of confined ionic liquids.
Education: B.S., Chemical Engineering, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (2019).
Kieran is using novel machine learning methods to predict physical properties in complex chemical systems.
Education: B.S., Material Science, B.S. Statistics, Michigan State University, (2021).
Former Group Members (incomplete)
Recent Visiting Researchers
Yurij Kalyuzhnyi, a Leading Researcher in the Department of Theory of Solutions at the Institute for Condensed Matter Physics in Lviv, Ukraine, was a visitor to the group during fall of 2019.
Mohamad Zaman Kassaee, a faculty member from Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran, Iran, was a visitor to the group during the 2017-2018 academic year.
Kun Dong, a faculty member from the Institute of Process Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China, was a visitor to the group during the 2017-2018 academic year.
Heath Turner, a Professor from the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, AL, was a sabbatical visitor to the group during the 2015-2016 academic year.
Recent Postdoctoral Researchers
Wei performed research on systems relevant to capacitive energy storage devices.
Education: B.S., Thermal Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, (2014); M.S. Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, (2016); Ph.D., Thermal Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, (2019)
Mehdi worked on computational fluid dyanamics of charged particulate flows relevant to flow capacitors. He was co-advised by Haoxiang Luo in MuMS. He is now Senior Scientist at Aon in Chicago
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mkjeddi/
Victor worked on combining the statistical associating fluid theory (SAFT) and classical density functional theory to model the adsorption of alkanes into microporous carbon materials. He was co-advised by Clare McCabe. He is now an Assistant Professor at the Autonomous University of Hidalgo State (UAEH) in Mexico City, Mexico.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/victor-manuel-trejos-montoya-634b85b9/
Ming-Jie performed molecular simulations of flow thourgh porous carbon materials. He is now an Assistant Professor at Nanjing Tech University in Nanjing, China.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mingjie-wei-72545585/
Lucas worked on combining the statistical associating fluid theory (SAFT) and classical density functional theory to model the adsorption of alkanes into microporous carbon materials. He was co-advised by Clare McCabe. He is now a Senior Engineer at Savannah River National Laboratory.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-angelette-a9366237/
Guang used molecular dynamics simulations to model supercapacitor consisting of ionic liquid electrolytes and nanoporous carbon electrods. He is now Professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in Wuhan, China. HGis lab website is at http://itp.energy.hust.edu.cn/English.htm
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-angelette-a9366237/
Peter Cummings has mentored over 30 postdoctoral researchers in his research group.
Recent Graduate Students
Justin performed research on nanotribological systems and was a lead developer of MoSDeF.
Education: B.S., Materials Science, Clemson University, (2016); Ph.D., Materials Science, Vanderbilt University, (2022)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-b-gilmer/
Ray performed simulations of systems relevant to capacitive energy storage devices. He also contributed to the development of MoSDeF.
Education: B.S., Materials Science, Clemson University, (2015); Ph.D., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Vanderbilt University, (2021)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ray-matsumoto-251a8554/