Potential applicants to the Bren School interested in working with
Dr. Keller should email keller@bren.ucsb.edu
to explore research ideas. Make SURE you have read my research interests
and are clear about what YOU want to work on, which should be novel
and exciting.
I am particularly interested in working with people with a strong
background in environmental engineering or chemistry who want to address
practical solutions; work experience is a major plus. Students working
with me do experimental work in the lab or field, as well as numerical
modeling analysis. Read below about some of the work my PhD students
and postdocs are involved in.
Ph.D. Student
Research Interest
Samuel Bennett
Photoactivitity of nanoparticles in natural
aqueous media
Sam began his PhD in Sept. 2008
Erin Bray
Determining minimum in-stream flows to protect
aquatic organisms
Erin began her PhD in Sept.
2008
Dr. Victoria Broje
Develop advanced techniques to respond to
oil spills in coastal/artic waters
Victoria graduated in Sept. 2006.
She currently works as a
Spill Response Specialist / Environmental Scientist
Shell Global Solutions (US) INC.
Her thesis is published in the papers shown in Publications.
Dr. Mingjie Chen
Stochastic multiphase flow modeling to understand
uncertainty and variation in natural attenuation of NAPL spills.
Mingjie graduated in June 2005.
He currently is a Research Associate at Tufts University.
His thesis is published in the papers shown in Publications.
Xiaoli Chen
Numerical methods for contaminant transport
and transformation in rivers and coastal regions
Xiaoli began his PhD in April
2010
Kristin Clark
Removal of hydrophobic organic compounds using
Mag-PCMAs
