Group Members
(More photos)Shan Jiang, PhD
Associate Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
Agronomy (courtesy)
Crop Bioengineering Center (CBC)
Biomedical Engineering (BME) Program
Polymer and Food Protection Consortium (PFPC)
Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering (courtesy)
Prior Research Experience
•Project Leader, Waterborne Coating Technology, The Dow Chemical Company
•Postdoc, Drug Delivery and Gene Therapy, MIT, Langer Lab
•Ph.D., Janus Particles Synthesis and Self-assembly, UIUC, Granick Lab
Awards and Honors
•SERDP Exploratory Development (SEED) Grant, 2023
•Innovation Acceleration Fund, 2023
•Digital and Precision Agriculture Grant, 2023
•Biobased Products Technology Demonstration Fund, 2022
•VentureWell Course Program Grant Award, 2022
•NSF PFI-TT Award, 2022
•Exploratory Research Projects Grant, 2022
•NASA Flight Test Award, 2022
•Early Achievement in Teaching Award, 2021
•Dean’s Excellence in Learning and Teaching Grant, 2021
•Regents Innovation Fund Award, 2021
•Miller Faculty Fellowship, 2021
•Crop Bioengineering Center (CBC) Seed Grant Award, 2021
•NSF Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Grant Award, 2020
•NSF IUSE EHR Undergraduate Education Grant Award, 2020
•Miller Open Education Mini-Grant Program Award, 2020
•Foreign Travel Grant Award, ISU, 2020
•NASA ISGC BASE Program Award, 2020
•NASA EPSCoR Program Award, 2020
•Regents Innovation Fund Award, 2018 - 2022
•Dean’s Excellence in Learning and Teaching Grant, 2019
•NSF-USDA EAGER Grant Award, 2019
•ACS Petroleum Research Fund (PRF) Doctoral New Investigator Grant Award, 2019
•Biobased Chemical/Bioproduct Seed Grant, 2019
•College of Human Sciences Intramural Collaborative Seed Grant, ISU, 2019
•Presidential Interdisciplinary Research Seed (PIRS) Grant Award, ISU, 2019
•First-Year Honors Mentor Grant, ISU, 2017, 2018, 2019
•The Education Leadership Award, Iowa Chinese Association, 2019
•3M Non-tenured Faculty Award, 3M, 2018
•NSF conference proposal award, 2018
•Center for Bioplastics and Biocomposites (CB2) Grant Award, NSF I/UCRC, 2017
•Foreign Travel Grant Award, ISU, 2016
•YCC Leadership Development Award, ACS, 2015
• Certified Dow Six Sigma Green Belt Project Leader, 2014
• Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, R&D 100 Award (team member), 2013
• MIT Postdoc Association Travel Grant, MIT, 2012
• Conference Travel Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009
• Racheff-Intel Award for Outstanding Graduate Research, 2008
Office: Hoover 2220BD & Gilman 3111
Lab: Gilman Hall
Email:
sjiang1@iastate.edu
Mailing address:
528 Bissell Road
Ames, IA 50011-2300
Fei Liu, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Ph.D., Peking University
NSF and ACS Conference Travel Award
Postdoctoral Scholar Seed Grant Award
email: fliu@iastate.edu
Alan Eggenberger, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis
email: ale@iastate.edu
Serkan Demirci, Ph.D.
Visiting Professor
Ph.D., Gazi University
Assistant Professor: Amasya University
email: sdemirci@iastate.edu
Matthew Marander
Ph.D. Candidate
Bachelor: Iowa State University
McGee-Wagner Scholarship
ISGC Fellowship
email: marander@iastate.edu
Connor Thorpe
Ph.D. Candidate
Bachelor: University of Arizona
F. Wendell Miller Graduate Scholarship
DataFEWSion Graduate Traineeship
email: cthorpe@iastate.edu
Utsav Kumar Dey
Ph.D. Candidate
Master: Iowa State University
email: utsav@iastate.edu
Tyler Kirscht
Ph.D. Candidate
Bachelor: Iowa State University
email: tkirscht@iastate.edu
Zhengtao Yang
Ph.D. Candidate
Bachelor: University of Central Florida
email: zyang1@IASTATE.EDU
Ritinder Sandhu
Ph.D. Candidate
Bachelor: Iowa State University
email: ritinder@iastate.edu
Ricardo Ortega
Ph.D. Candidate
IINspire-LSAMP scholarship
Copper Club Scholarship
email: ortega@iastate.edu
Aneeba Chaudary
Ph.D. Candidate
email: chaudary@iastate.edu
Thamer Rawah
Ph.D. Candidate
email: trawah@iastate.edu
Bingrui Huang
Undergraduate Student
email: bingruih@iastate.edu
Jack Nolder
Undergraduate Student
NSF REU Scholarship
email: jnolder@IASTATE.EDU
Jessica Fuertes-De Arcos
Undergraduate Student
NSF REU Scholarship
email: jfuertes@IASTATE.EDU
Joseph Koenig
Undergraduate Student
email: jwkoenig@iastate.edu
Collin Grota
Undergraduate Student
Boeing Fellow Intern
email: cgrota@IASTATE.EDU
Emily Olson, Ph.D. from Jiang Lab
Brown Graduate Fellowship, NASA Fellowship
MSE Research Excellence Award
Current Position: Ecolab
email: emily.olson@ecolab.com
Ayuna Tsyrenova, Ph.D. from Jiang Lab
Master: National University of Science and Technology MISiS
Fulbright Scholar, Catron Fellowship
ISU Teaching Excellence Award
Current Position: Seigwerk USA
email: ayuna.tsyrenova@siegwerk.com
Kyle Miller, Ph.D. from Jiang Lab
Trinect Fellow Award
ISU Teaching Excellence Award
Current Position: Valent BioSciences
email: kylem167@gmail.com
Yifan Li, Ph.D. from Jiang Lab
Master: Cornell University
Presidential Scholar, Brown Graduate Fellowship
ISU Teaching Excellence Award
Current Position: AkzoNobel
email: EvanYFLi@outlook.com
Rebecca Mort, Ph.D. from Jiang Lab
Bachelor: Cornell University
Current Position: Dow Chemical
email: therjmort@gmail.com
Zihao Xu, Ph.D.
Iowa State Master
email: zihaoxu@iastate.edu
Yanhua (Conan) Huang
Iowa State Master
Iowa State PhD Candidate
email: yanhuah@iastate.edu
Dana Smith
Iowa State Bachelor
ES3, Geogia
Connor Hammons
Iowa State Bachelor
Nancy Sweeney
Summer SULI Student
Weston Laake
Iowa State Bachelor
Charles Truka
Iowa State Bachelor
Ana Miller
Iowa State Bachelor
NSF REU Award
Current Position: HID Global, Minneapolis
Riley Behan
Iowa State Bachelor
NSF REU Award
MD/PhD, University of Iowa
Carmen Wu
Summer NSF REU Student
Yasmeen Mansoorieh
Iowa State Bachelor
John Henjum
Iowa State Bachelor
ATI
Mason Kenkel
First-Year Honors Undergraduate Student
Iowa State Bachelor
email: mnkenkel@iastate.edu
Henry Thurber
Iowa State Bachelor
University of Michigan, Ph.D. Candidate
email: hthurber@iastate.edu
Devin Palm
Undergraduate Student
Honor Program
Iowa State Bachelor
email: dcpalm@iastate.edu
Madison Drent
3M
Dean’s Leadership Award
Undergraduate Research Assistantship (URA)
Iowa State Bachelor
email: mldrent@iastate.edu
Tae Hyung Kim
Undergraduate Student
Iowa State Bachelor
email: taehyung@iastate.edu
Chanhong Lee
Iowa State Bachelor
PhD Candidate Virginia Tech
email: echanlee@iastate.edu
Xilong Ke
Iowa State Bachelor
Undergraduate Student
email: xke@iastate.edu
Ally Dunnum
PhD candidate Georgia Institute of Technology
email: adunnum1@iastate.edu
Annie Huynh
APEX-E Summer Program
Undergraduate Student
email: annieh47@iastate.edu
Kristen Aebischer
IINspire-LSAMP scholarship
Undergraduate Student
email: kaebischer@dmacc.edu
Andrew Ruba
PhD Candidate University of Michigan
email: ajruba@iastate.edu
Elizabeth Griffin
PhD Candidate Northwestern
email: lizg14@iastate.edu
Adam Eichhorn
PhD Candidate University of Michigan
email: axe1@iastate.edu
Sai Maurice
Donaldson
email: smaurice@iastate.edu
Junho Lee
Undergraduate Student
email: ljh1124@iastate.edu
Erin Peters
Undergraduate Student
email: empeters@iastate.edu
Billie Alexander
Undergraduate Student
APEX-E Summer Program
email: billiea@iastate.edu