Former Members

Jan 11, 2023

Dr. Chengcheng Feng

Chengcheng earned her master degree from NC State and bachelor degree from Donghua University both on Textile Engineering. Her undergraduate research projects included wool fabric finishing treatments, as well as receiving a patent related to inwrought fluff flexible electrocardio-electrode. Her master research focused on blood pattern analysis with textile materials and the pore size distribution/ porosity… 

Jan 11, 2023

Ciera Cipriani

Ciera is a master’s student studying Textile Chemistry, having graduated from NC State with a bachelor’s degree in Polymer and Color Chemistry in 2018. She has been researching azo dye photodegradation since 2015, starting with density functional theory studies in Dr. Melissa Pasquinelli’s lab. Ciera combines her theoretical work with high-resolution tandem mass spectrometry experiments in… 

Jan 11, 2023

Cody Zane

Jan 11, 2023

Dr. Xinyi Sui

Xinyi graduated with his Ph.D. in Fiber and Polymer Science at the College of Textiles, NCSU in November 2020. Xinyi spent 3 years at Jiangnan University studying textile chemistry. After this, he joined the 3 + X program from Jiangnan University and North Carolina State University. After completing his Masters’s in 2017, he joined Dr.… 

Jan 11, 2023

Dr. Nadia Sultana

Nadia completed her undergrad at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2013 with a degree in Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. Her undergraduate research focused on organic chemistry. Interested in organic chemistry from childhood, she completed her PhD in Fiber and Polymer Sciences under Dr. Nelson Vinueza with a focus on dye analysis. Different colors… 

Jan 11, 2023

Dr. Kelsey (Boes) Williams

Kelsey graduated with a B.S. degree in Chemistry and a B.A. in Studio Art–Textiles from Wheaton College, IL in May 2014. She completed her PhD in Fiber and Polymer Sciences from North Carolina State University under Dr. Nelson Vinueza guidance in 2018. Kelsey began polymer research as an undergraduate, exploring functionalization of polyelectrolyte multilayer thin… 

Jan 11, 2023

Dr. Emily Lichtenberger

Emily graduated with her B.S. in Polymer and Color Chemistry in May 2014 from North Carolina State University. She completed her PhD in Fiber and Polymer Science under Dr. Nelson Vinueza guidance. She has a keen interest in forensic science and how mass spectrometry can be utilized as a technique to improve evidence analysis. Her… 

Jan 11, 2023

Dr. Yufei Chen

Yufei graduated with a degree in Polymer Materials and Engineering from Zhejiang University, China in 2011, where he worked extensively on organic chemistry and polymer science. Yufei‘s undergraduate research project involved design, synthesis and characterization on Aggregation-Induced-Emission polymers. This project under Dr Anjun Qin and Dr. Jingzhi Sun improved his knowledge and experience in 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition utilizing…