Students | Golisano Institute for Sustainability

Current Students and Alumni

Chelsea Bailey
Program: Ph.D.
Co-Advisors: Dr. Callie Babbitt, Dr. Gabrielle Gaustad

Research Area: Hydrometallurgical recycling of waste lithium-ion batteries using environmentally benign acid alternatives.
Daniel Bruton
Program: M.S.
Advisor: Dr. Thomas Trabold

Research Area: Waste to energy specifically on home heating biofuel, including economic and life cycle assessment on waste to energy production.
Michele L. Bustamante
Program: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Gabrielle Gaustad

Research area: Critical materials and clean energy supply chains.
Josh Dranoff
Program: M.S.
Advisor: Dr. Thomas Trabold

Research Area: Assessing the use of microbial fuel cell systems for food processing wastewater treatment and renewable energy production.
Jacqueline Ebner
Program: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Anahita Williamson

Research Area: Waste to energy, forecasting technological progress; and electrical vehicles implementation and the smart grid.
David Frank
Program: M.S.
Advisor: Dr. Thomas Trabold

Research area: Waste to Energy Research Group, Sustainable Mobility, and Biodiesel.
Therese Garvey
Program: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Gabrielle Gaustad
Michele Goe
Program: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Gabrielle Gaustad

Research Area: Environmental impacts of material flows, policy, and economic value for Gen-II solar photovoltaics at end-of-life.
Cam Hebda
Program: M.S.
Advisor: Dr. Anahita Williamson

Research Area: Waste to energy systems.
Barbara Kasulaitis
Program: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Callie Babbitt
Research area: Developing and applying tools to understand and manage the life cycle implications of consumer electronics.
Mona Komeijani
Program: M.S.
Advisor: Dr. Callie Babbitt
Matthew Koskinen
Program: M.S.
Advisor: Paul Stiebitz
Ana Maria Leal Yepes
Program: M.S.
Advisor: Dr. Callie Babbitt

Research Area: Design for the Environment tools and strategies to meet sustainability and design goals.
Dmitry Liapitch
Program: M.S.
Advisor: Dr. Thomas Trabold

Research Area: Micro-Grid Renewable Energy Systems in LEED Certified Buildings.
Xuan Liu
Program: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Thomas Trabold

Research Area: Water management in proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells, with particular focus on economic trade-offs among strategies for mitigating water accumulation at the channel-to-manifold interface.
Schuyler Matteson
Program: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Eric Williams

Research area: Technological Progress and Policy, Electric Vehicles, Energy Storage, Microgrids.
Matthew Rankin
Program: M.S.
Advisor: Dr. Thomas Trabold
Research area: Anaerobic Codigestion of Dairy and Food Manufacturing Feedstocks
Kirti Richa
Program: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Callie Babbitt

Research Area: Material flow analysis of lithium ion batteries, specifically for emerging EV technologies, including industrial ecology (material flow analysis, life cycle assessment) and technology forecasting, with an emphasis on energy, material and waste management implications.
Erinn Ryen
Program: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Callie Babbitt

Research Area: Developing new sustainability models based on community ecology principles and optimal foraging theory to more effectively characterize and manage lifecycle impacts of a group of rapidly evolving products (i.e., consumer electronics) owned by a household.
Darren M. Smith
Program: M.S.
Advisor: Dr. Thomas Trabold

Research area: Ionic liquid extraction of algal lipid oil for biodiesel production.
Scott Vadney
Program: M.S.
Advisor: Dr. Callie Babbitt

Research area: Sustainability as it applies to commercial foodservice.
Chandramouli Venkatesan
Program: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Michael Thurston

Research Area: Service Life Cycle Decision Framework, and True savings of Remanufacturing.
Xue Wang
Program: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Gabrielle Gaustad

Research Area: Exploring the environmental risk and opportunities associated with end-of-life lithium-ion batteries, by quantifying nano-particle exposure risks during recycling processes and applying life cycle assessment methodology to evaluate the environmental impacts.
GIS Alumni
Dr. Annick Anctil
Graduated: 2011
Program: Ph.D.
Thesis: Fabrication and Life Cycle Assessment of Organic Photovoltaics
Advisor: Dr. Ryne Raffaelle
Currently Assistant Professor, Rich Lab, College of Engineering and Science, Clemson University, Clemson, SC. Dr. Anctil's major research interest is in sustainable energy, in particular photovoltaics, where she uses life cycle assessment to identify the main issues of current technologies and propose alternative solutions. A primary focus of her work is in the environmental impact of nanomaterials and fine chemicals for energy applications, in particular as it relates to reducing the impact of industrial production.

Kim Bawden
Graduated: 2013
Program: M.S.
Thesis: Hybrid Life Cycle Assessment of Low, Mid and High-Rise Multi-Family Dwellings with Development of Knowledge-Based Uncertainty Bounds.
Advisor: Dr. Eric Williams
Matt Ganter
Graduated: 2013
Program: Ph.D.
Thesis: Sustainability Impact of Nanomaterial Enhanced Lithium Ion Batteries.
Advisor: Dr. Brian Landi
Rosa Mitsumasu Heredia
Graduated: 2011
Program: M.S.
Thesis: Characterizing Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change in Developing Countries: a Case Study on Peru.
Advisor: Dr. Callie Babbitt
Currently working for the Nature Conservancy in Seattle assisting the Latin American policy group in making recommendations for sustainability practices in that region.
Mark Krystofik
Program: Ph.D.
Thesis: Product System Implications at End-of-Life: an Economic and Environmental Assessment.
Advisor: Dr. Gabrielle Gaustad
Currently Adjunct Professor, RIT-GIS.
Jiefeng Lin
Graduated: 2013
Program: Ph.D.
Thesis: Assessment of Bio-Fuel Options for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Applications.
Advisor: Dr. Thomas Trabold
Christopher Schauerman
Graduated: 2013
Program: Ph.D.
Thesis: Functional Carbon Nanotubes for Electrical Conductors.
Advisor: Dr. Brian Landi