Congratulations to Marcela Strane on passing her environmental engineering PhD Qualifying Exam! 🥳#CoogEngineers #UHEngineering #GoCoogs #UHEngineers

Reflecting on a great week Gordon Research Conferences Chemical Separations with inspiring talks and discussions. Congrats to Dana Flores, @Pari3a_Taheri, Siddhartha Paul Paul, and Erin S. Picton for your excellent poster presentations. 📊 UH Cullen College of Engineering #GoCoogs

Graduate student Siddhartha Paul Siddhartha Paul presents his poster about chlorine-resistant covalent organic framework membranes at the Society of Plastics Engineers SPE International Polyolefins Conference. Nice work! #UHEngineering

Congratulations Pablo Bribiesca Pablo on your ACS Energy & Fuels paper! 👨‍🔬Pablo shows that tuning waterflood chemistry enhances oil recovery during waterflooding in a radial Hele-Shaw cell. 💧Thanks ACSPRF for funding Pablo's research! UH Cullen College of Engineering doi.org/10.1021/acs.en…

We are excited to partner with Dr. Dimitrios Kalliontzis at #UHEngineering to develop a wave-powered desalination system for coastal communities 🌊🌊💧 with funding from Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Water Power Technologies Office and MSI STEM Research & Development Consortium! #GoCoogs energy.gov/eere/water/art…

Excellent pitch today from LiQuidium co-founders Erin S. Picton and @Pari3a_Taheri at the Rice Business Plan Competition RBPC! 👏👏 Thank you to our neighbors Rice University for hosting a world-class competition! 🦉🤝🐈 UH Cullen College of Engineering #GoCoogs

Congratulations LiQuidium for advancing to the semifinal round of the RBPC ! Co-founders Erin S. Picton and @Pari3a_Taheri wowed the judges with their business pitch for membrane-based direct lithium extraction. 🤩 Best of luck to all of the teams! UH Cullen College of Engineering UH Energy

LiQuidium wins the NOV Energy Technology Innovation Prize RBPC!! 🏆Congrats to the team Erin S. Picton @Pari3a_Taheri Pranjal Sheth for your excellent plan and pitch 👏👏 Many thanks to Rice Alliance for hosting a great competition! UH Cullen College of Engineering UH Energy #GoCoogs

Congratulations Tristan on your selection as a University of Houston Energy Scholar! 🎉Tristan will research membranes for direct lithium extraction, a continuation of their work as a teachHOUSTON researcher. Great job Tristan! 👏UH Energy #UHEngineering uh.edu/honors/undergr…

Incroyable! Erin S. Picton has been named a ChateaubriandProgram Fellow! She will spend the fall researching supported ionic liquid membranes (SILMs) for lithium extraction with jannick Duchet at INSA Lyon. Congrats Erin! Thank you @FranceintheUS for your sponsorship. 🇫🇷🇺🇸

Congratulations Dr. Parisa Taheri on earning your Ph.D.! 🎓@Pari3a_Taheri successfully defended her dissertation "Scalable Synthesis and Separation Performance of Covalent Organic Framework and Contorted Polyamide Membranes." Great work from a great researcher! 👏UH Cullen College of Engineering

Introducing Dr. Dana R. Flores! 👏👏Congratulations Dana on the successful defense of your Ph.D. dissertation "Modeling Nanofiltration Separation Mechanisms in Covalent Organic Framework Membranes." 🍾🥳 We are so proud of your accomplishments! Congrats! UH Cullen College of Engineering #PhDone

Congrats Dana R. Flores on your Journal of Membrane Science publication! 👏Dana quantifies the contributions of different solute rejection mechanisms in nanofiltration using covalent organic frameworks (COFs) as model materials. 👩‍🔬Thank you sponsors U.S. National Science Foundation and American Membrane Technology Association. doi.org/10.1016/j.mems…

Congratulations Marcela Strane on your Best Graduate Poster award at the Society of Wetland Scientists Society of Wetland Scientists Student Section Virtual International Conference!! 🏆 Marcela presented her research characterizing microplastics at the land-water interface. 👩‍🔬 UH Cullen College of Engineering

Incorporating contorted monomers in polyamide membranes increases free volume and improves their permselectivity. 💧🌊 Check out our Bureau of Reclamation-funded work by Sayali Shaligram, Rahul, and Siddhartha Paul published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. UH Cullen College of Engineering pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Great work by Sayali Shaligram, Rahul, and Siddhartha Paul with funding from Bureau of Reclamation! UH Cullen College of Engineering

Welcome Rutesh Gaikwad Rutesh to UH Cullen College of Engineering! Rutesh is a PhD student with Rahul at NCL-Pune. We look forward to working with him to advance contorted polyamide desalination membrane technology. Welcome to Houston! 🤠

Congratulations to PhD candidate Erin Schroeder Erin S. Picton on successfully defending her dissertation proposal! 🎉🥳Erin is engineering supported ionic liquid membranes (SILMs) for direct lithium extraction. Thank you committee and collaborators UH Cullen College of Engineering INSA Lyon

Great presentation by Rutesh at the 2025 Texas Soft Matter Conference held Rice University! 👏👏Rutesh presented his work with Rahul at NCL-Pune on roll-to-roll fabrication of proton exchange membranes (PEMs) for fuel cell technology. Excellent work! UH Cullen College of Engineering

Congratulations Rutesh on your third prize student poster award at the Texas Desalination Association conference! 💧💧Rutesh presented our lab's work on contorted polyamide desalination membranes. Many thanks to Texas Desalination Association for hosting a great event!