2024 Warsinger Lab
Current Lab Members
Faculty

David M. Warsinger
dwarsing@purdue.edu
Assistant Professor
School of Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015
Nanomaterials and thermodynamics for water treatment
Postdoctoral Researchers
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Topic:
Membrane distillation
Education:
Ph.D., Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea.
M.Sc., Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea.
B.Sc., Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea.
Links:
LinkedIn, Google Scholar, ResearchGate
sy.cheon06@gmail.com
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Topic:
Education:
Links:
LinkedIn, Google Scholar, ResearchGate
Postdoctoral researcher
Research Topic:
Membrane Dehumidification/Drying and Thermal Desalination
Education:
Ph.D., Vellore Institute of Technology, Tamil Nadu, India.
B.Sc., Anna University, Tamil Nadu, India.
Links:
oh313@purdue.edu
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Topic:
Membrane dehumidification, HVAC, electrochemical heat pump
Education:
Ph.D., Korea University, Seoul, South Korea.
B.Sc., Korea University, Seoul, South Korea.
Links:
LinkedIn, Google Scholar, ResearchGate
Graduate Students
fattahij@purdue.edu
Ph.D. student
Research Topic:
Engineering and Characterization of Membrane and Surface for Energy-Efficient Membrane Technology
Links:
LinkedIn, ResearchGate, Google Scholar
pronobdasruet@gmail.com
Ph.D. Student
Research Topic:
Reverse osmosis, Membrane dehumidification
Links:
LinkedIn, Google Scholar
thomp998@purdue.edu
Ph.D. student
Research Topic:
Membrane Dehumidification System Applications
Education:
B.Sc., Trine University
Links:
LinkedIn, ResearchGate
kyungkeun0921@gmail.com
Ph.D. student co-advided by Dr. Linda Lee and Dr. David Warsinger
Research Topic:
PFAS removal
Education:
Military professor, Korea Army Academy
mroldanc@purdue.edu
Ph.D. student
Research Topic:
Electrochemical Heat Pumps, Ionocaloric refrigeration cycle and Reverse osmosis
Education:
M.Sc. at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia
B.Sc. at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia
Links:
LinkedIn, Google Scholar, ResearchGate
Ande1574@purdue.edu
M.Sc. Student
Research Topic:
Reverse Osmosis
Education:
B.Sc. Purdue University
Links:
LinkedIn, ResearchGate
jaboderi@purdue.edu
Ph.D. Student
Research Topic:
RO Systems
Education:
M.Sc., Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
M.Sc., IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire.
B.Sc., Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State.
Links:
LinkedIn, ResearchGate
sheidari@purdue.edu
Ph.D. Student
Research Topic:
Membrane dehumidification
Education:
M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering (2022), Auburn University, U.S.A
M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering (2015), Sahand University of Technology, Tabriz, Iran.
B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, Kermanshah University of Technology, Kermanshah, Iran.
Links:
LinkedIn, Google Scholar, ResearchGate
Ph.D. Student
Research Topic:
MemDry, Heat Transfer & Materials
Education:
M.Sc., University Of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Texas, United States.
B.Sc., Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Links:
LinkedIn, ResearchGate, Google Scholar
ren102@purdue.edu
Ph.D. Student, co-mentored with Davide Ziviani
Research Topic:
Dehumdification and Drying Systems
Education:
B.Sc., Purdue University.
Links:
LinkedIn, ResearchGate
debralizisaac@knights.ucf.edu
Ph.D. Student, co-mentored with Justin Weibel
Research Topic:
2-phase flows, Environmental systems, and Water in Space
Education:
B.Sc., Aerospace Engineering, University of Central Florida.
Links:
LinkedIn, Google Scholar, ResearchGate
fang231@purdue.edu
Ph.D. Student
Research Topic:
Self-pumping membranes, catalysis, novel membrane physics
Education:
B.Sc., Building Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
M.Sc., Building Services Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong.
Links:
LinkedIn, Google Scholar, ResearchGate
scordoba@purdue.edu
Ph.D. Student
Education:
B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Industrial University of Santander, Santander, Colombia.
M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University.
Links:
LinkedIn, ResearchGate
anaderib@purdue.edu
Ph.D. Student, co-mentored with Jose Garcia
Research Topic:
Reverse osmosis desalination
Education:
M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran.
Links:
LinkedIn, Google Scholar, ResearchGate
xmorganl@purdue.edu
Ph.D. Student, GEM fellow
Research Topic:
Water in space, ISRU, magnetocaloric refrigeration
Education:
B.Sc. University of Nevada, Las Vegas
alamw@purdue.edu
Ph.D. Student, HEC Knowledge Corridor Fellow, co-mentored with Tian Li
Research Topic:
Thermal Desalination and Atmospheric water harvesting
Education:
M.Sc., Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
B.Sc., University of Engineering & Technology Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Links:
LinkedIn, Google Scholar, ResearchGate
salnajdi@purdue.edu
Ph.D. Student
Research Topic:
Reverse osmosis desalination
Education:
M.Sc., University of Southern California.
B.Sc., Pennsylvania State University.
Links:
Google Scholar, ResearchGate
wu1117@purdue.edu
M.Sc. Student
Research Topic:
Vapor Selective Membranes
Education:
B.S. Purdue University
Links:
LinkedIn
Ph.D. Student
Research Topic:
MD
Education:
M.Sc., Kuwait University
B.Sc., Kuwait University
Visiting Graduate Students
sathishraja34.sr@gmail.com
Visiting Scholar
Research Topic:
Water treatment, sorption processes
Education:
Ph.D., VIT university, Tamil Nadu, India
Links:
LinkedIn, ResearchGate
zarei@purdue.edu
Visiting Scholar
Research Topic:
Thermal desalination and atmospheric water harvesting
Links:
LinkedIn, ResearchGate
Undergraduate Students
nair150@purdue.edu
Undergraduate Researcher, Mechanical Engineering, 2025
Research Topic:
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Links:
LinkedIn
adeetya@purdue.edu
Undergraduate Researcher
Research Topic:
Ocean thermal energy conversion
Links:
LinkedIn
ezubb@purdue.edu
Undergraduate Researcher
Research Topic:
Pulse Flow Reverse Osmosis and Vertical Farming
Links:
LinkedIn
mohamm94@purdue.edu
Undergraduate Researcher
Research Topic:
3D printed membranes
Links:
LinkedIn, ResesarchGate
nsam@purdue.edu
Undergraduate Researcher, Mechanical Engineering, 2025
Research Topic:
MECC
Links:
LinkedIn
szakeris@purdue.edu
Postdoctoral researcher
Research Topic:
Membrane Dehumidification (Heat and Mass Transfer Modeling)
Education:
Ph.D., Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, Ohio State University
Links:
Google Scholar