SEERC
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY EDUCATION & RESEARCH CENTER

LEADERSHIP

Director

Bamin Khomami
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
bkhomami@utk.edu
(865) 974-2035 Office
419 Dougherty Engineering Bldg.
1512 Middle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
Webpage


Associate Director

Barry Bruce
BCMB
bbruce@utk.edu
(865) 974-4082 Office
226 Hesler Biology Bldg.
1406 Circle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996


Research Thrust Leader: Advanced Materials

Mark Dadmun
Chemistry
dad@utk.edu
(865) 974-3141 Office
522 Dabney-Buehler Hall
1416 Circle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
Webpage


Research Thrust Leader: Bio-Fuels

Paul Frymier
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
pdf@utk.edu
(865) 974-4961 Office
311 Dougherty Engineering Bldg.
1512 Middle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
Webpage


Research Thrust Leader: Energy Conversion and Storage

Stephen Paddison
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
spaddison@utk.edu
(256) 564-7419
321 Dougherty Engineering Bldg.
1512 Middle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
Webpage


Education and Outreach Coordinator

David Keffer
Materials Science & Engineering
dkeffer@utk.edu
(865) 974-5322 Office
301 Ferris Hall
1508 Middle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
Webpage


Science Advisors


Jimmy Mays
Chemistry
jimmymays@utk.edu
(865) 974-0747 Office
655 Dabney-Buehler Hall
1416 Circle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996


Tom Zawodzinski
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
tzawodzi@utk.edu
(865) 974-5137 Office
516 Dougherty Engineering Bldg.
1512 Middle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996

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STAFF

Amy Brewer
Business Manager
abrewe16@utk.edu
(865) 974-2696 Office
434 Dougherty Engineering Bldg.
1512 Middle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996


Jane Breder
Program Coordinator
STAIR (Sustainable Technology through Advanced Interdisciplinary Research)
jbreder@utk.edu
(865) 974-2736 Office
411-C Science and Engineering Research Facility Bldg.
1414 Circle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996

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INVESTIGATORS

Craig Barnes
Chemistry
cebarnes @utk.edu
(865) 974-3141 Office
552 Buehler Hall.
Knoxville, TN 37996
Webpage

Eric Boder
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
boder@utk.edu
(865) 974-6362 Office
437 Dougherty Engineering Bldg.
1512 Middle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
Webpage


Joseph Bozell
Forestry, Wildlife & Fisheries
jbozell@utk.edu
(865) 946-1129 Office
2506 Jacob Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
Webpage


Barry Bruce
BCMB
bbruce@utk.edu
(865) 974-4082 Office
226 Hesler Biology Bldg.
1406 Circle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996


Robert Compton
Chemistry
compton@ion.chem.utk.edu
(865) 974-1069 Office
317 Buehler Hall
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996
Webpage


Robert Counce
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
counce@utk.edu
(865) 974-5318 Office
509 Dougherty Engineering Bldg.
1512 Middle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
Webpage


Mark Dadmun
Chemistry
dad@utk.edu
(865) 974-3141 Office
522 Dabney-Buehler Hall
1416 Circle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
Webpage


Paul Dalhaimer
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
pdalhaim@utk.edu
(865) 974-5317 Office
436 Dougherty Engineering Bldg.
1512 Middle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
Webpage


Gerd Duscher
Materials Science and Engineering
gduscher @utk.edu
(865) 974-2808 Office
421 Ferris Hall
1508 Middle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
Webpage


Brian Edwards
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
bedward1@utk.edu
(865) 974-9596 Office
320 Dougherty Engineering Bldg.
1512 Middle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
Webpage


Paul Frymier
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
pdf@utk.edu
(865) 974-4961 Office
311 Dougherty Engineering Bldg.
1512 Middle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
Webpage


Frank Hagelberg
Physics and Astronomy
hagelber@etsu.edu
(423) 439-6725 Office
East Tennessee State University
279 Brown Hall
Johnson City, TN 37614


Bin Hu
Materials Science & Engineering
bhu@utk.edu
(865) 974-3946 Office
403 Ferris Hall
1508 Middle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
Webpage


David Joy
Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology
djoy@utk.edu
(865) 974-3642 Office
232 Science and Engineering Research Facility Bldg.
Knoxville, TN 37996


Ramki Kalyanaraman
Materials Science & Engineering
ramki@utk.edu
(865) 974-5335 Office
316 Ferris Hall
1508 Middle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
Webpage


David Keffer
Materials Science & Engineering
dkeffer@utk.edu
(865) 974-5322 Office
301 Ferris Hall
1508 Middle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
Webpage


Bamin Khomami
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
bkhomami@utk.edu
(865) 974-2035 Office
419 Dougherty Engineering Bldg.
1512 Middle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
Webpage


Michael Kilbey
Chemistry
mkilbey@ion.chem.utk.edu
(865) 974-3403 Office
322 Buehler Hall
Knoxville, TN 37996
Webpage


Nicole Labbé
Forestry, Wildlife & Fisheries
nlabbe@mail.ag.utk.edu
(865) 946-1126 Office
2506 Jacob Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
Webpage


Brian Long
Chemistry
blong20@utk.edu
(865) 974-6534 Office
320 Dabney-Buehler Hall
1416 Circle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
Webpage


Jimmy Mays
Chemistry
jimmymays@utk.edu
(865) 974-0747 Office
655 Dabney-Buehler Hall
1416 Circle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996


Matthew Mench
Mechanical, Aerospace & Biomedical Engineering
mmench@utk.edu
(865) 974-6751 Office
234 Dougherty Engineering Bldg.
1512 Middle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
Webpage


Dibyendu Mukherjee
Mechanical, Aerospace & Biomedical Engineering
dmukherj@utk.edu
(865) 974-5309 Office
502 Dougherty Engineering Bldg.
1512 Middle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
Webpage


Don Nicholson
Computer Science & Mathematics Division
nicholsondm@ornl.gov
(865) 574-5873
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
P.O. Box 2008
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6164


Stephen Paddison
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
spaddison@utk.edu
(256) 564-7419
321 Dougherty Engineering Bldg.
1512 Middle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
Webpage


Alexander Papandrew
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
apapandrew@utk.edu
(865) 974-9699
117 Science and Engineering Research Facility Bldg.
1414 Circle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
Webpage


Dayakar Penumadu
Chair of Excellence and Professor
dpenumad@utk.edu
(865) 974-2503 Office
223 Perkins Hall
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996
Webpage


Susan Pfiffner
Microbiology
pfiffner@utk.edu
(865) 974-8031 Office
10515 Research Drive, Suite 300
Knoxville, TN 37996
Webpage


Philip Rack
Materials Science and Engineering
prack @utk.edu
(865) 974-5344
320 Ferris Hall
1508 Middle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
Webpage


Claudia Rawn
Materials Science & Engineering
crawn@utk.edu
(865) 974-5340 Office
331 Ferris Hall
1508 Middle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
Webpage


Cong Trinh
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
ctrinh@utk.edu
(865) 974-8121 Office
432 Dougherty Engineering Bldg.
1512 Middle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
Webpage


Ahmet Turhan
Mechanical, Aerospace & Biomedical Engineering
aturhan@utk.edu
(865) 974-5288 Office
201 Dougherty Engineering Bldg.
1512 Middle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
Webpage


Tom Zawodzinski
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
tzawodzi@utk.edu
(865) 974-5137 Office
516 Dougherty Engineering Bldg.
1512 Middle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
Webpage


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POSTDOC FELLOWSHIP

Ashesh Belapure
(department)
(email)
Status: Postdoctoral Fellow
Education: information not available
Advisor: information not available
Project: information not available


Doug Aaron
(department)
(email)
Status: Postdoctoral Fellow
Education: information not available
Advisor: information not available
Project: information not available


Jun He
(department)
(email)
Status: Postdoctoral Fellow
Education: information not available
Advisor: information not available
Project: information not available


Lei He
(department)
(email)
Status: Postdoctoral Fellow
Education: information not available
Advisor: information not available
Project: information not available


Dehua Hu
(department)
(email)
Status: Postdoctoral Fellow
Education: information not available
Advisor: information not available
Project: information not available


Jaime Lawton
(department)
(email)
Status: Postdoctoral Fellow
Education: information not available
Advisor: information not available
Project: information not available


Qinghua Liu
(department)
(email)
Status: Postdoctoral Fellow
Education: information not available
Advisor: information not available
Project: information not available


Sheng Liu Nan
(department)
(email)
Status: Postdoctoral Fellow
Education: information not available
Advisor: information not available
Project: information not available


Narayan Niraula
(department)
(email)
Status: Postdoctoral Fellow
Education: information not available
Advisor: information not available
Project: information not available


Seunghyun Ryu
(department)
(email)
Status: Postdoctoral Fellow
Education: information not available
Advisor: information not available
Project: information not available


Xianggui Ye
(department)
(email)
Status: Postdoctoral Fellow
Education: information not available
Advisor: information not available
Project: information not available


Hongjuan Zhu
(department)
(email)
Status: Postdoctoral Fellow
Education: information not available
Advisor: information not available
Project: information not available


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GRAD STUDENTS

Austin Albert
Status: information not available
Education: information not available
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Project: information not available



Yujia Bai
Status: information not available
Education: information not available
Advisor: information not available
Project: information not available



Tyler Bennett
Status: information not available
Education: information not available
Advisor: information not available
Project: information not available



Jeff Bunn
Status: Graduate Student, M.S.
Education: B.S. Civil Engineering, University of Tennessee Martin
Advisor: Dr. Dayakar Penumadu
Project: Characterizing the Morphology of Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cells Using Neutron Imaging



Andrew Burch
Status: information not available
Education: information not available
Advisor: information not available
Project: information not available



Prakitchai Chotewutmontri
Status: information not available
Education: information not available
Advisor: information not available
Project: information not available



Jeffery Clark
Status: Graduate Student, Ph.D.
Education: B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Advisor: Dr. Stephen Paddison
Project: Hybrid Photovoltaic Material



Samantha Clark
Status: information not available
Education: information not available
Advisor: information not available
Project: information not available



Jason Clement
Status: information not available
Education: information not available
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Chinmay Dabke
Status: information not available
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Ondrej Dyck
Status: information not available
Education: information not available
Advisor: information not available
Project: information not available



Michelle Minton Everett
Status: Graduate Student, M.S.
Education: B.S. Mathematics and B.A. Latin, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Advisor: Dr. Claudia Rawn
Project: Synthesis of Hydrogen Storage Materials



Shaofang Fu
Status: information not available
Education: information not available
Advisor: information not available
Project: information not available



Brad Harris
Status: information not available
Education: information not available
Advisor: information not available
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Qianping He
Status: Graduate Student, Ph.D.
Education: Masters Candidate Chemical Engineering, North Carolina A&T State University / B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, P.R. China
Advisor:Dr. David Keffer / Dr. David Joy
Project: Hydrogen Conversion to Energy: Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (PEM) H2 Fuel Cells



Yu-Che Hsiao
Status: information not available
Education: information not available
Advisor: information not available
Project: information not available



Sheng Hu
Status: information not available
Education: information not available
Advisor: information not available
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Rosemary Le
Status: Graduate Student, Ph.D.
Education:
B.S. Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University
Advisor: Dr. Paul Frymier / Dr. Eric Boder
Project: Production of Hydrogen via Water Photolysis in Algae and Cyanobacteria



Cameron Lee
Status: information not available
Education: information not available
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Mingxing Li
Status: information not available
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Qiu Liu
Status: information not available
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Marshall McDonnell
Status: information not available
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Nicholas McNutt
Status: information not available
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Alex Meyers
Status: information not available
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Mouge Mohagheghi
Status: information not available
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Mark Moore
Status: information not available
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Brian Morgan
Status: information not available
Education: information not available
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Khoa Nguyen
Status: Graduate Student, Ph.D.
Education: B.S. Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Advisor: Dr. Barry Bruce
Project: Cloning and Mutagenesis of Photosystem 1 Subunits from Thermophilic Cyanobacterium



Alan Pezeshki
Status: information not available
Education: information not available
Advisor: information not available
Project: information not available



Justin Roop
Status: Graduate Student, Ph.D.
Education: B.S. Chemistry, University of Tennessee Knoxville
Advisor: Dr. Jimmy Mays
Project: Thin-film photovoltaics: Understanding and controlling the morphology of conjugated block copolymers in miktoarm stars.



Travis Russell
Status: Graduate Student, Ph.D.
Education: B.S. Communications, East Tennessee State University
Advisor: Dr. Brian Edwards / Dr. Bamin Khomami
Project: Morphology of Hydrated Polymer Electrolyte Membranes (PEM)



Kyle Sander
Status: information not available
Education: information not available
Advisor: information not available
Project: information not available



Cathy Scott
Status: information not available
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Zach Siebers
Status: information not available
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Richard Simmerman
Status: information not available
Education: information not available
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Nethika Suraweera
Status: Graduate Student, Ph.D.
Education: B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Advisor: Dr. Don Nicholson / Dr. David Keffer
Project: Synthesis of Hydrogen Storage Materials



Zhijiang Tang
Status: information not available
Education: information not available
Advisor: information not available
Project: information not available



Chen Wang
Status: information not available
Education: information not available
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Xiaojun Wang
Status: information not available
Education: information not available
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Patrick Ward
Status: Graduate Student, Ph.D.
Education: B.S. Chemistry, University of West Florida
Advisor: Dr. Robert Compton
Project: Synthesis of Hydrogen Storage Materials



Rick Wheeler
Status: information not available
Education: information not available
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Michael Wierzbicki
Status: information not available
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Sarah Williamson
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Bo Zhang
Status: information not available
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Mengqi Zhang
Status: information not available
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UNDERGRADUATES

Abdullah Alzubai
(department)
(e-mail)
Status: information not available
Advisor: information not available
Project: information not available



Melissa Bigler
(department)
(e-mail)
Status: information not available
Advisor: information not available
Project: information not available



Michael Bright
(department)
(e-mail)
Status: information not available
Advisor: information not available
Project: information not available



Jeremy Brooksbank
(department)
(e-mail)
Status: information not available
Advisor: information not available
Project: information not available



Neil Brown
(department)
(e-mail)
Status: information not available
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Project: information not available



Jordan Bryner
(department)
(e-mail)
Status: information not available
Advisor: information not available
Project: information not available



Chris Burneau
(department)
(e-mail)
Status: information not available
Advisor: information not available
Project: information not available



Kelli Byrne
(department)
(e-mail)
Status: information not available
Advisor: information not available
Project: information not available



Yi Ying Chin
(department)
(e-mail)
Status: information not available
Advisor: information not available
Project: information not available



Hannah Haines
(department)
hhaines@tennessee.edu
Status: information not available
Advisor: information not available
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William "Ray" Henson
(department)
(e-mail)
Status: information not available
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Bonnie Herrell
(department)
(e-mail)
Status: information not available
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Amanda Jones
(department)
(e-mail)
Status: information not available
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David Morse
(department)
(e-mail)
Status: information not available
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Candice Patton
(department)
(e-mail)
Status: information not available
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Rebekah Patton
(department)
(e-mail)
Status: information not available
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Ashley Schnyder
(department)
(e-mail)
Status: information not available
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Chris Stanfield
(department)
(e-mail)
Status: information not available
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Michael Stanford
(department)
(e-mail)
Status: information not available
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David Wilson
(department)
(e-mail)
Status: information not available
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Akshitha Yarrabothula
(department)
(e-mail)
Status: information not available
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VISITORS

Michael Vaughn
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
mdvaughn@asu.edu

Status: Graduate student
Arizona State University,
Tempe, AZ 85287-1604



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