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

 
 
 
 

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


Postdocs

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

 
 
 

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

 
 
 

Yingzheng Fan
yingzheng.fan@yale.edu
Highly-efficient and highly-selective nitrogen reduction using novel electrified membranes; Integrating water quality monitoring, electrochemistry, and systems engineering to address the grand challenges at the water-energy-environment nexus


Undergraduates

Anna Oehlerking
anna.oehlerking@yale.edu
Electrified  membranes for nitrate reduction and ammonia recovery

 
 
 

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

 
 
 

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


Alumni

Andy Park
Undergraduate researcher, 2023-2024

Plasma-activated CO2 reduction 

Current: MS Student at Yale
 

Max Saffer-Meng
Undergraduate researcher, 2022-2024

Electrified membranes for organic matter degradation

Current: PhD Student at UC Boulder
 

Saachi Grewal

Undergraduate researcher, 2022-2023

Plasma for CO2 activation and upgrading; Plasma for nitrogen reduction

Current: Scientist at Air Company