Team

                                              

We strive for a CRISP environment:

_C reativity

_R espect

_I nvestment

_S afety

_P artnership

PI

Lea R. Winter
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
lea.winter@yale.edu

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PhD Students

Claire Butler
claire.butler@yale.edu
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Transition metal oxynitride catalysts for nitrate reduction and non-thermal plasma activation of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances

Julia Simon
julia.simon@yale.edu
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Dean’s Emerging Scholars Fellow
Electrified upgrading of waste carbon

Kelby Anderson
kelby.anderson@yale.edu
NDSEG Fellow
Plasma-activated CO₂ and N₂ reduction to value-added chemicals

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Postdocs

Ji-Yong Kim
ji-yong.kim@yale.edu
Plasma-activated CO₂ reduction to value-added chemicals

Junyue (Holden) Wang
junyue.wang@yale.edu
Advanced oxidation, greenhouse gas conversion, bacterial and viral inactivation

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Undergraduates

Eric Chen
eric.chen.ec2226@yale.edu
Electrified processes for carbon dioxide sequestration and conversion to useful hydrocarbons

Jaime Cha
jungbin.cha@yale.edu
Nitrogen conversion into ammonia using non-thermal plasma

Reid Hightower
reid.hightower@yale.edu
Electrified membranes for CO₂ reduction in surface waters

Yana Eber
reid.hightower@yale.edu
Plasma-activated electrochemical CO₂ reduction

Visiting Scholars

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Alumni

Postdocs

Yingzheng Fan
2022-2025

Electrified membranes for nitrate and carbon conversion; Water-energy-environment nexus

Current: Associate Professor, School of the Environment, Nanjing University

Undergraduates

Anna Oehlerking

Electrified  membranes for nitrate reduction and ammonia recovery, 2023-2025

Andy Park

Plasma-activated CO₂ reduction, 2023-2024

Max Saffer-Meng

Electrified membranes for organic matter degradation, 2022-2024

Saachi Grewal

Plasma for CO₂ activation and upgrading; Plasma for nitrogen reduction, 2022-2023

Current: Scientist at Air Company