Team - Modestino Group

Miguel A. Modestino
Miguel is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering of New York University. He obtained his B.S in Chemical Engineering (2007), M.S. in Chemical Engineering Practice (2008) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley (2013). Between 2013-2016 he was a postdoctoral fellow and project manager of the SHINE project at École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne.

Postdocs

Debdyuti Mukherjee
Debdyuti is a Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. She obtained her Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. She is currently working towards developing perfluorinated ionomer materials for electrochemical energy systems.

Ph.D. Students

Daniel Frey
Daniel is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. He obtained his B.S. in Biomolecular Engineering (2016) from the Milwaukee School of Engineering. He is currently working towards developing electrochemical energy storage devices for grid flexibility.

Andrea Angulo
Andrea is a Ph.D. student in the department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. She obtained her M.S. in Chemical Engineering from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and her B.S from Universidad Simon Bolívar in Caracas, Venezuela. She is currently studying the electrochemical and engineering analysis of multiphase electrochemical reactors.

Toshihiro Akashige
Toshi is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. He obtained his A.S. in Engineering Science (2014) and earned the Valedictorian Title (2014) from State University of New York, Westchester Community College in Valhalla, NY. He then obtained his B.S. in Chemical Engineering (2017) from Manhattan College in Riverdale, NY. He is a coauthor in an upcoming heat transfer textbook, Kern's Process Heat Transfer 2nd Edition. He is currently working in a joint collaborative research project in attempting to design new polymer membranes and films that can separate olefins from paraffins in gaseous mixtures.

Ricardo Mathison
Ricardo is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. He obtained his B.S. in Chemical Engineering (2020) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is currently developing methods to understand multiscale transport and kinetic phenomena in organic electrosynthesis.

M.S. Students

Lankun Yang
Lankun is a second year MS student majoring in Chemical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. She is currently studying the combination of FTIR spectroscopy with machine learning as an in-line quantitative analysis tool.

B.S. Students

Juhee Shin
Juhee is a third year in the 3+2 Dual Degree Program studying Chemistry and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at NYU CAS and Tandon School of Engineering. She is currently working on the optimization of electrochemical processes through active learning.