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

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 optimization techniques for electrochemical systems and devices.

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.

Casey Bloomquist
Casey is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. He obtained his M.Sc. in Physics from the University of British Columbia (2012) and his B.S. in Physics and Math from Hamilton College (2010). He is currently studying plasma-enhanced electrochemical reactions.

M.S. Students

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.

Janice Lok
Janice is a third year Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering student at Tandon School of Engineering. She is currently working on electrochemical reactor optimization and automation.

Adeola Akin
Adeola is a fourth year Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering student at Tandon School of Engineering. She is currently working on the optimization of organic electrosynthesis devices.