Meet the Team

Team Roberts is a multidisciplinary research group comprising over 35 researchers including graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and scientists the team conducts both fundamental and applied research with a clear emphasis on scalability and industrial relevance.

 

Team Roberts group photo

Faculty

William L. Roberts, Ph.D.

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Research Group Staff

Abdullah Almusahba

Research Specialist

Ammad Alvi

Research Engineer

Estefany H. Sarabia

Research Engineer

Research Interests: Stress-Corrosion Cracking (SCC), Nitriding, Advanced Steel Alloys, High Temperature Materials, High pressure environments, Alloy Development

Juan Cano

Research Specialist

Khalid Alkhayat

Research Engineer

Naydu Zambrano Urrutia

Research Specialist

Research Interests: Analytical Chemistry, Complex Mixtures, Petroleomics

Umit Gorcum

Research Specialist

Research Interests: Fuel Oil Testing, Lab Analysis, Test Protocol Development, Refinery Scale Trials, Lab to Pilot Scale, Data Analysis

Research Scientists

Deoras Prabhudharwadkar, Ph.D.

Senior Research Scientist

Research Interests: Carbon capture, Thermal Storage, Advanced Power Cycles, Multi-phase Flows, Waste Heat Recovery

Elia Colleoni

Research Scientist

Felipe Campuzano-Diosa, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Renewable Energy, Thermochemical Processes, Chemical kinetics, Lab to Pilot Scale, End of life products to resources, Catalytic Conversion of Ammonia into Hydrogen, Chemical Kinetics

Paolo Guida, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Sai S. Sreedharan, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Cryogenic Carbon Capture, Aeromechanics, Rotordynamics, Gas Turbine Aerodynamics, Product Development

Santiago Vargus

Research Scientist

Shekhar Kulkarni

Research Scientist

Sylvain Michaux

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Cryogenics, Hydrogen, Multiphase Mixtures, Gas Liquid Interactions

Varaha Prasad Sarvothaman

Research Scientist

Postdoctoral Fellows

Bin Wu

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Advanced Laser Diagnostics, Raman spectroscopy, High-speed imaging, H2-ICE, Ozone-assisted combustion, Low-temperature fuel oxidation,, Laminar and Turbulent Flame Speed

Chiara Canciani

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Multiphase CFD, VOF

Erica Quadarella

Postdoctoral Fellow

Fahad Almatrafi

Postdoctoral Fellow

Gianmaria Viciconte

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Heavy Fuel (HFO) Valorization, Oxidative Desulfurization of HFO, Sonochemistry

Hao Wu

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Engineering, Energy, Hydrogen, Sprays, Combustion

Marcelo David Benitez Guerra

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Cryogenic Carbon Capture, Petroleum Engineering, Co2 Eor - Ccus, Drilling And Production, Experimental Work

Mohamed Ahmed

Postdoctoral Fellow

Tirthankar Mitra

Postdoctoral Fellow

Varaha Prasad Sarvothaman, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Water Treatment, Hydrodynamic Cativation, Process Intensification

PhD Students

Ahmed Hamidaddeen

PhD Student

Alzubar Hassan

PhD Student

Elena Trouchè

PhD Student

Faisal Al Madhoon

PhD Student

Michael A. Oyinloye

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Desublimation, Fluid-flow Modelling, Carbon capture, Cryogenics, Heat Transfer, Mass Transfer, Energy

Rukaiyat Suleiman

PhD Student

Zainab Alayesh

PhD Student