Nick J. Carroll, PhD (Principal Investigator)
Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
University of New Mexico
- Assistant Research Professor, Duke University 2014-2016
- Post Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University 2011-2014
- Ph.D. with distinction Chemical Engineering, University of New Mexico 2011
- B.S. Chemical Engineering, summa cum laude University of New Mexico 2006
Adam Quintana, PhD
Post Doc, Chemical and Biological Engineering
University of New Mexico
- PhD in Chemical Engineering (with distinction), University of New Mexico, 2025
- B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of New Mexico
Research Interests: Polymer physics, intrinsically disordered proteins, phase separation, mathematical modeling, machine learning, Lattice Boltzmann methods, fluid mechanics.
Jacob Belchak
PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering
University of New Mexico
- B.S. Chemical Engineering New Mexico Tech
- Master’s Degree Biomedical Engineering, UNM
Research Interests: Intrinsically disordered proteins, inter- and Intra-biomolecular architectures, viral nucleoprotein assemblies, light scattering.
Nikita Dougan
PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering
University of New Mexico
- B.S. Chemical Engineering
Research Interests: Uranium detection, instrumentation, portable sensing devices, biosensing
Sanjna Bhakta
Master’s Degree Student, Biomedical Engineering
University of New Mexico
- B.S. Chemical Engineering UNM 2025
Research Interests: Intrinsically disordered proteins, two phase aqueous systems, exosome capture.
Abigail Coffman
Undergraduate , Chemical Engineering
University of New Mexico
- B.S. Chemical Engineering UNM 2027
Regent’s Scholar/Honors College
Vice President UNM AIChE Chapter
Etter Scholar
Research Interests: Polymers, Micro-encapsulation, Microfluidics, Geothermal and Petroleum Well Applications
Aadi Bhandari
Undergraduate, Chemical Engineering
University of New Mexico
- B.S. Chemical Engineering UNM 2028
Regent’s Scholar
Research Interests: Intrinsically disordered proteins, two phase aqueous systems, exosome capture.
Michael Gross
Undergraduate, Chemical Engineering
University of New Mexico
- B.S. Chemical Engineering UNM 2027
Research Interests: Intrinsically disordered protein synthesis, microfluidics
Alumni
Telmo Diez Perez
PhD , Biomedical Engineering
University of New Mexico
- B.S. Biomedical Engineering, Spain
Research Interests: Intrinsically disordered proteins, phase separation, Biosensing, Viral RNA purification and detection, RNA-binding fusion proteins, synthetic cells, membraneless organelles, droplet microfluidics.
Qing Sun
Master’s Degree, Biomedical Engineering
University of New Mexico
- B.S. Chemical Engineering, China
Research Interests: Intrinsically disordered proteins, phase separation, molecular biology, elastin-like polypeptides.
Ian Larsen
PhD, Biomedical Engineering
University of New Mexico
- BS Biology, University of New Mexico 2016
Research Interests: Microfluidics, sol gel chemistry, silica microspheres, radiotracers, electron microscopy, elastin-like polypeptides, tissue constructs.
Carroll Lab Summer 2018
Carroll SynBio Lab 