Primary Investigator
Caroline L. Schauer, Ph.D.
Margaret C. Burns Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Department
Associate Dean for Research, College of Engineering
Email: cls52@drexel.edu
Office: CAT170C
Phone: 215.895.1821
Reva Street, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Department
Email: rs857@drexel.edu
Reva obtained her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering in June of 208 while being advised by Dr. Schauer in the NPP lab. She conducted postdoctoral research in Dr. John Rabolt’s lab in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Delaware. She returned to the NMPP lab as an assistant research professor in the fall of 2020.
Graduate Students
Emeka Chikelu
Emeka Chikelu is a fifth year PhD. Student in Biomedical Engineering. He received his BS in Electrical Engineering and MS in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Lagos (Nigeria) and University of Cincinnati respectively. His current research is focused on the fabrication of biomimetic muscle fibers for potential grafting in patients presenting with muscular dystrophy
Emily Herbert
Emily Herbert is a Materials Science and Engineering fourth year PhD student. Her research project includes studying industrial food waste and incorporating it into natural polymers using traditional processing techniques.
Divya Kamireddi
Divya is a fourth year Ph.D. Student in Material Sciences and Engineering. She completed her bachelor’s at University of Connecticut in Biomedical Engineering. Prior to starting her Ph.D., she worked at Medtronic as an Associate Manufacturing Engineer. She is a member of the Graduate Student Association and a GAANNs scholar. Her research focus is on producing functional nanoyarn for skin tissue engineering that have the capability of sensing pH.
Emma Snelling
Emma Snelling is a second year Materials Science and Engineering PhD student. She joined the lab in 2019 while pursuing a Bachelors in Chemical Engineering and a Masters in Materials Science and Engineering within Drexel University’s BS/MS program. Her current research focuses on the effects of incorporating cranberry pomace into extruded composites.
Undergraduate Students
Karli Akin
Karli Akin is a fifth year student in Materials Science and Engineering. She is primarily interested in processing biopolymers. Since joining the lab in 2021, she has been working on touchspinning natural polymers into nanofibers.
Alessandra Cabrera
Alessandra is a second year BS student in Materials Science and Engineering. She joined the NMPP lab in 2021 as a STAR Scholar and is passionate about the wide applications of nanofibers and creating sustainable products through polymer engineering.
Emma Rea
Emma Rea is a fourth year BS/MS student studying chemical engineering. Since joining the lab in 2021, she has been primarily working on touchspinning synthetic polymers. She is currently researching touchspinning antibacterial nanofibers.
Eli Werbach
Eli is a second year BS student in Materials Science and Engineering. He joined the NMPP lab in 2022 as a STAR Scholar. Eli is passionate about novel methods of mechanically drawing polymer nanofibers such as Trackspinning.
Conway Zheng
Conway is a second year Materials Science and Engineering student. He joined the lab in 2022 as a STAR Scholar. He is currently working with touchspinning and studying it’s deposition of nanofibers.