Meet the New BAE Faculty
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| David Hodge, assistant professor (Nov,. 2008), received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Colorado State University. He has a joint appointment with Chemical Engineering. Dr. Hodge was a post-doctoral scientist with the National Bioenegy Center in Colorado, and a Research Assistant Professor at the Lulea University in Sweden before joining MSU. His research interests are biomass conversion and biobased industrial products. |
Pouyan Nejadhashemi, assistant professor (Aug. 2008), received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. Before joining BAE, Dr. Nejadhashemi was a core member of the Kansas State University interdepartmental–interagency watershed management team providing technical support and overseeing execution of various modeling tools to track pollutant load reduction activities. His research interests are focused on the description, analysis and prevention of non-point source pollution at laboratory, field, watershed and regional scales. | Christopher Saffron, assistant professor (Aug. 2007), received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 2005 from MSU. He has a joint appointment with BAE and the Department of Forestry. Previously, Dr. Saffron was an engineer and project manager with Michigan Biotechnology Institute (MBI) in Lansing. His research interest is the thermochemical conversion of biomass to fuels and chemicals and economic model development for combined thermochemical and biochemical refineries. |
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| Dawn Reinhold, assistant professor (Jan. 2008) received her doctorate in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2007. Her research focuses on understanding the removal processes in plant-based systems, particularly with regards to trace organic pollutants like personal care products, pharmaceuticals, and pesticides. |
Yan (Susie) Liu, assistant professor (Aug. 2007), received her Ph.D. in Biological Systems Engineering from Washington State University. Her research interests are integrated agricultural waste management, anaerobic digestion systems to convert animal and food wastes to renewable energy and other value-added products. She was a research associate in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering at Washington State University. | Wei Liao, assistant professor (Aug. 2007), received his Ph.D. in Biological Systems Engineering from Washington State University. His research interests are biological pretreatment of lignocellulosic materials such as straws, corn stover, wood residues etc. to produce mono-sugars and high density enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic materials to enhance sugar yield and sugar concentration. |
