Members

Principal Investigator

Dino Villagrán

dino@utep.edu

Graduate Students

Neidy Ocuane

ndocuane@miners.utep.edu

Alexandria Castillo

acastillo27@miners.utep.edu

Nasim Jafari

njafari@miners.utep.edu

Diego Puerto Diaz

dcpuertodia@miners.utep.edu

Gopi Dontireddy

dmreddy@miners.utep.edu

Jose Merino Gardea

jlmerinogar@miners.utep.edu

Rebeca Favela

rrfavelarob@miners.utep.edu

Zicong He

zhe2@miners.utep.edu

Hector Gonzalez

hjgonzlez@miners.utep.edu

Paulo Dos Santos Correira

prdossantos@miners.utep.edu

Undergraduate Research Assistants

Guillermo Urquidi

Former Graduate Students

Jonathan J. Calvillo Solís, 2025, Ph.D. - Postdoctoral Associate at HKUST
Christian Sandoval Pauker, 2024, Ph.D. - Postdoctoral Associate at Rice University
Satya Prakesh Suman, 2024, M.S. - Ph.D. Student at Rice University
Sheng Yin, 2024, Ph.D - Postdoctoral Associate at Stony Brook University
Yulu Ge, 2022, Ph.D - Postdoctoral Associate at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Mariana Marcos Hernández, 2022, Ph.D - Postdoctoral Associate at Arizona State University
Nancy Rodríguez, 2019, Ph.D - Instructor at UTEP
Iván Cervantes, 2019, M.S.
Yanyu Wu, 2018, Ph.D - Chemist at Nabors Industries
José M. Veleta, 2017, M.S. - Postdoctoral Associate at National Security Administration
Karen Ventura, 2017, Ph.D - Project leader; The Aerospace Corporation
Vahid Jabbari, 2015, M.S.
Nathalie Valdez, 2015, M.S. - Chemist at BP

Former Undergraduate & Visiting Students

Yashira Rolon Ocasio (Visiting Student from UPR)
Brooke A. Dorsey - Ph.D. Student at UC Irvine
Jacqueline B. Guzman James
Juan Lopez
Roy Arrieta - Graduate Student at University of Houston
Isabel Barraza - Graduate Student at UCSB
Edgar Aldama - Graduate Student at Georgia Tech
Jacob R. Prat - Graduate Student at University of Minnesota
Luis M. Aguirre Quintana - Postdoctoral Associate at UC Berkeley
Sandra Villalobos
Gael Solis - Halliburton
Indranil Chakraborty
Maripaz Calderón
Javier Grajeda

The University of Texas at El Paso