Director
Dr. Hongyan Ma
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: Butler-Carlton Hall, 1401 N. Pine St., Rolla, MO 65409.
Research: Carbon-negative cementitious materials
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 Student
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: 305 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.
Linlin Zhou
PhD Student
Email: lzfgz@mst.edu
Office: 305 Butler-Carlton Hall, 1401 N. Pine St., Rolla, MO 65409.
Research: Sea sand and seawater concrete; machine learning.
Mohammad Azimi Pour
PhD Student
Email: m.azimipour@mst.edu
Office: 305 Butler-Carlton Hall, 1401 N. Pine St., Rolla, MO 65409.
Research: Carbon removal measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV).
Smita Bhowmick Shithi
PhD Student
Email: sshbh@mst.edu
Office: 305 Butler-Carlton Hall, 1401 N. Pine St., Rolla, MO 65409.
Research: Carbon-negative seeds and fillers.
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.
Keyu Wang
Undergraduate Researcher, Environmental Engineering
Email: kwdhd@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
Farshad Saberi Kerahroudi (2023), PhD in Civil Engineering (co-advised in Civil 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
Yijing Li (2017), visiting scholar