Research Interests

• Design of materials and processes for dilute environmental separations

• Advanced characterization of transport and degradation in adsorptive and membrane materials

• Optimization and assessment of integrated circular (pollutant-to-product) economies 

Biography   

Hannah is a postdoctoral researcher in chemical engineering at Stanford University, where she focuses on developing electrochemically driven separations for wastewater treatment. She is broadly interested in environmental separation technologies, and she has expertise in recovering dilute contaminants from complex gas and aqueous mixtures, including carbon capture from air and resource recovery from wastewater. Hannah particularly enjoys studying materials across multiple engineering length scales, from molecular-level spectroscopy to systems-level process analyses. She earned her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Georgia Tech, supported by NSF Graduate Research and ARCS Scholar fellowships. She is originally from a rural community in southern Illinois and has a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Outside of the lab, she enjoys hiking, camping, and playing with her cats. Hannah's CV is available here.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Chemical Engineering, Stanford University (2024 - ) 

Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (2024)

B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2019)

Honors and Awards

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2021 – 2024)

Joe Wong Outstanding Poster Award, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (2024)

AIChE Education Division Future Faculty Mentoring Program Selected Participant (2024 - 2025)

Next Prof Nexus Selected Participant (2023)

ARCS Scholar Award Fellowship (2020 – 2023)

Mentoring for the Professoriate Selected Participant, GT (2022)

Outstanding PhD Proposal, GT (2021)

International Adsorption Society Travel Award (2020)

Best Chemical Engineering PhD Qualifying Exam, GT (2020)

High Distinction in the Curriculum, UIUC (2019)

Dean’s List, UIUC (2017 – 2019)

Chancellor's Scholar (Campus Honors Program), UIUC (2015 – 2019)

Marathon Petroleum Scholar (2015 – 2019)

James Newton Matthews Scholar, UIUC (2015 – 2019)

President's Award Honors, UIUC (2015 – 2019)

Elks Most Valuable Student Scholarship (2015)