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
Electrified  membranes for nitrate reduction and ammonia recovery

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 CO₂ reduction to value-added chemicals

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

Eric Chen
eric.chen.ec2226@yale.edu
Electrified membranes for nitrate reduction

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

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

Andy Park
andy.park@yale.edu
Plasma-activated CO₂ reduction 

Max Saffer-Meng
max.saffer-meng@yale.edu
Electrified membranes for organic matter degradation

Visiting Scholars

Alumni

Saachi Grewal
Undergraduate researcher, 2022-2023

Plasma for CO₂ activation and upgrading; Plasma for nitrogen reduction

Current: Scientist at Air Company