Director
Dr. Hongyan Ma
Kummer Impact Professor, Francisco Benavides Scholar, and Associate Professor
Email: mahon@mst.edu
Phone: (573)341-6250 | Mobile: (573)612-9568
Office: 323 Butler-Carlton Hall, 1401 N. Pine St., Rolla, MO 65409.
Senior Researchers
Dr. Wenyu Liao
Assistant Research Professor
Email: wlwt7@mst.edu
Office: 330 Butler-Carlton Hall, 1401 N. Pine St., Rolla, MO 65409.
Research: Carbon-negative mining; Carbon-negative cementitious materials; thermal energy storage; sensing; etc.
Dr. Jihui Qin
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: jqin@mst.edu
Office: 330 Butler-Carlton Hall, 1401 N. Pine St., Rolla, MO 65409.
Research: Self-healing concrete and acid-base cement
Dr. Yuyan Huang
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: yh4nb@mst.edu
Office: 130 Butler-Carlton Hall, 1401 N. Pine St., Rolla, MO 65409.
Research: Carbon-negative cementitious materials
Dr. Zeyad Zeitoun
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: zazmbf@mst.edu
Office: 130 Butler-Carlton Hall, 1401 N. Pine St., Rolla, MO 65409.
Research: Design and optimization of carbon-negative processes and reactors
Dr. Rui Zhong
Senior Research Scientist
Email: rui.zhong@mst.edu
Office: 132 Butler-Carlton Hall, 1401 N. Pine St., Rolla, MO 65409.
Research: 3D printing, UHPC, and future construction method.
Dr. Ruiguang Pan
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: panr@mst.edu
Office: 132 Butler-Carlton Hall, 1401 N. Pine St., Rolla, MO 65409.
Research: Geochemistry, geophysics, and geologic hydrogen.
Dr. Pengfei Ma
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: pm7m8@mst.edu
Office: 103 Butler-Carlton Hall, 1401 N. Pine St., Rolla, MO 65409.
Research: Low carbon and carbon removal measurement, reporting and verification.
Dr. Yue Zhang
Senior Research Scientist
Email: yzc73@mst.edu
Office: 130 Butler-Carlton Hall, 1401 N. Pine St., Rolla, MO 65409.
Research: DFT, molecular dynamics, and AI.
Dr. Cuirong Yan
Research Scientist
Email: yzc73@mst.edu
Office: 305 Butler-Carlton Hall, 1401 N. Pine St., Rolla, MO 65409.
Research: Pollution mitigation using chemical engineering principles.
Graduate Students
Maryam Khanjani
PhD Candidate
Email: mkmb2@mst.edu
Office: 219 Butler-Carlton Hall, 1401 N. Pine St., Rolla, MO 65409.
Research: Biomaterials and bio-technology in construction
Rezwana Binte Hafiz
PhD Candidate
Email: rh2qb@mst.edu
Office: 209 Pine Street Building, 1304 N Pine St, Rolla, MO 65409.
Research: NDE and durability of concrete
Kangyi Cai
PhD Candidate
Email: kc3kr@mst.edu
Office: 305 Butler-Carlton Hall, 1401 N. Pine St., Rolla, MO 65409.
Research: Molecular dynamics simulation and artificial intelligence.
Bowen Tan
PhD Student
Email: btmmb@mst.edu
Office: 209 Pine Street Building, 1304 N Pine St, Rolla, MO 65409.
Research: Carbon-negative processes.
M. Haris Javed
PhD Candidate
Email: mj97y@mst.edu
Office: 219 Butler-Carlton Hall, 1401 N. Pine St., Rolla, MO 65409.
Research: Alternative supplementary cementitious materials.
Nannan Zhang
PhD Student
Email: nz2kz@mst.edu
Office: 231 Butler-Carlton Hall, 1401 N. Pine St., Rolla, MO 65409.
Research: Carbon-negative processes.
Gao Deng
PhD Student
Email: gddz4@mst.edu
Office: 231 Butler-Carlton Hall, 1401 N. Pine St., Rolla, MO 65409.
Research: Sulfate attack of cement-based materials: mechanisms and mitigation.
Syed Haroon Ali Shah
PhD Student
Email: ssff6@mst.edu
Office: 219 Butler-Carlton Hall, 1401 N. Pine St., Rolla, MO 65409.
Research: Ultralow-carbon cementitious materials.
Xing Cheng
PhD Student
Email: xchv9@mst.edu
Office: 305 Butler-Carlton Hall, 1401 N. Pine St., Rolla, MO 65409.
Research: Carbon-negative alternative cement.
Mohammad Azimi Pour
PhD Student
Email: m.azimipour@mst.edu
Office: 219 Butler-Carlton Hall, 1401 N. Pine St., Rolla, MO 65409.
Research: Carbon removal measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV).
Jie Shi
PhD Student, Kummer Innovation and Entrepreneurship Doctoral Fellow
Email:
Office: 326 Butler-Carlton Hall, 1401 N. Pine St., Rolla, MO 65409.
Research: Carbon-negative alternative cement.
Ehsan Asheghianamiri
PhD Student, Kummer Innovation and Entrepreneurship Doctoral Fellow
Email: ea8w6@mst.edu
Office: 326 Butler-Carlton Hall, 1401 N. Pine St., Rolla, MO 65409.
Research: Lifecycle analysis and techno-economica analysis.
Smita Bhowmick Shithi
Master Student
Email: sshbh@mst.edu
Office: 305 Butler-Carlton Hall, 1401 N. Pine St., Rolla, MO 65409.
Research: Carbon-negative seeds and fillers.
Nouhaila Filali
Master Student, Chemical Engineering
Email: nfmcw@mst.edu
Office: 326 Butler-Carlton Hall, 1401 N. Pine St., Rolla, MO 65409.
Research: Separation of critical minerals and hydrogen production
Elizabeth Rozhanskiy
Undergraduate Researcher, Civil Engineering
Email: emr2d8@mst.edu
Office: 304 Butler-Carlton Hall, 1401 N. Pine St., Rolla, MO 65409.
Research: Carbon-negative processes.
Charlye Rowland
Undergraduate Researcher, Civil and Architectural Engineering
Email: cnrh5q@mst.edu
Office: 304 Butler-Carlton Hall, 1401 N. Pine St., Rolla, MO 65409.
Research: Carbon-efficient cementitious materials
Previous members
Zeyad Zeitoun (2025), Postdoctoral Fellow; commenced as an Assistant Professor at McNeese State University in 01/2025
Linlin Zhou (2024), visiting PhD student
Rezwana Binte Hafiz (2024), PhD in Civil Engineering
Farshad Saberi Kerahroudi (2023), PhD in Civil Engineering (co-advised in Civil Engineering)
Keyu Wang (2023), Undergraduate Researcher, Environmental Engineering
Fan Zhang (2022), Postdoctoral Fellow
Wenyu Liao (2021), PhD in Civil Engineering
Dalton Brown (2021), Undergraduate Researcher, Civil Engineering
Bowen Tan (2021), MSc in Civil Engineering
Tatianna Reinbolt (2021), Undergraduate Researcher, Biochemical Engineering
Hao Lu (2020), visiting PhD student
Ming Zhang (2020), visiting scholar
Jonathan Lapeyre (2019), PhD (co-advised in Materials Science and Engineering)
Rachel Cook (2019), PhD (co-advised in Materials Science and Engineering)
Xintao Zhou (2019), visiting scholar
Rong Cai (2019), visiting scholar
Ping Zhang (2019), visiting scholar
Elizabeth Popoola (2019), Undergraduate Researcher, Engineering Management
Yufang Han (2019), visiting scholar
Siyu Zhang (2019), visiting scholar
Benjamin G. Krause (2018), Undergraduate Researcher, Civil Engineering
Qiao Yang (2018), visiting scholar
Xiao Sun (2017), Postdoctoral Associate; faculty at Hohai University
Yijing Li (2017), visiting scholar; faculty at Central South University