Meet the Team

Shelley D. Minteer

Director of the Kummer Institute Center for Resource Sustainability

Specialization: Analytical chemistry, materials science and engineering, energy, sustainability.

 

Dr. Shelley Minteer is a Professor of Chemistry and the Director of the Kummer Institute Center for Resource Sustainability at Missouri University of Science and Technology. She is also the Director of the NSF Center for Synthetic Organic Electrochemistry. She received her PhD in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Iowa in 2000 under the direction of Professor Johna Leddy. After receiving her PhD, she spent 11 years as a faculty in the Department of Chemistry at Saint Louis University before moving to the University of Utah in 2011 to lead the USTAR Alternative Energy Cluster. She was a Technical Editor for the Journal of the Electrochemical Society (2013-2016) and also an Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Chemical Society (2016-2020) before becoming the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of the ACS Au Journals. She has published greater than 450 publications and greater than 550 presentations at national and international conferences and universities. She has won several awards including the Luigi Galvani Prize of the Bioelectrochemical Society,  International Society of Electrochemistry Tajima Prize and Bioelectrochemistry Prize, Grahame Award of the Electrochemical Society, Fellow of the Electrochemical Society and the International Society of Electrochemistry, American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Electrochemistry, and the Society of Electroanalytical Chemists’ Young Investigator Award and Reilley Award. Her research interests are focused on electrocatalysis and bioanalytical electrochemistry. She has expertise in biosensors, biofuel cells, electrosynthesis, and bioelectronics.

Staff

Cherise T. Fung

Office Support Associate

Kevin H. Boyko

Part Time Lab Manager

Dedie Wilson

Director of Program Operations

Post Doctoral Fellows

Monica Brachi

Post Doctoral Fellow

Specialization

Works on promoting biocatalytic reactions via electrochemical cofactor regeneration and electrode modification for the green synthesis of chemicals and energy generation. Joined KICRS, February 2024.

Rohit Jadhav

Post Doctoral Fellow

Vamshi Krishna Kamaja

Post Doctoral Fellow

Wassim El Housseini

Post Doctoral Fellow

Nathan Ricks

Post Doctoral Fellow

Specialization

Engineering new redox-active enzymes and protein to enable catalysis and sustainable chemical synthesis

Michael Pence

Post Doctoral Fellow

Graduate Researchers

Ashwini Dantanarayana

Graduate Researcher

Specialization

Works on microbial electrochemical systems for electrosynthesis and bioremediation as a sustainable strategy towards bio production, and environmental remediation.  Joined KICRS, March 2024.

Heath St. Dennis

Graduate Researcher

Huaijun Guan

Graduate Researcher

Linda Ifediora

Graduate Researcher

Maryam Karimi

Graduate Researcher

Sa'adat Usman

Graduate Researcher

Trevor Larkin

Graduate Researcher

Visiting Researchers

Laura Wey

Visiting Researcher

Undergraduate Researchers

Hossein Libre

Undergraduate Researcher