This joint fellowship with the National Water Research Institute advances AMTA’s mission to promote and advance the understanding and application of membrane technology to create safe, affordable, and reliable water treatment solutions. Read more about the fellowship…
2021
Weiliang Bai, University of Texas at Austin
Bai is a second-year Ph.D. student in Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering whose research, Setting up a comprehensive Omics platform for detecting biofouling in reverse osmosis (RO) seawater desalination plants, is being conducted under the guidance of Dr. Manish Kumar and Dr. Navid Saleh. Bai earned an MS in Environmental Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh and a BS in Environmental Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
José Diaz, University of Michigan
Diaz is a Ph.D. student Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan studying Ion sorption and transport in novel highly charged and tunable ion exchange membranes contacted with non-ideal electrolyte solutions under the guidance of Dr. Jovan Kamcev. Diaz earned a BS in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Materials and Interfaces Track. His research focuses on two primary goals aimed at developing a fundamental understanding of ion sorption and transport in highly charged IEMs with record-breaking permselectivity behavior when contacted with highly non-ideal solutions: 1. synthesis and characterization of highly charged IEMs with systematic and independent control of membrane equilibrium properties, and 2. characterization and modeling of ion sorption and transport in highly charged IEMs in the presence of highly non-ideal salt solutions.
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