Our Team

Current Members

Sabbie A. Miller
PI
B.S., 2005-2008, Washington University in St. Louis
M.S., 2009-2010, Stanford University
Ph.D., 2010-2014, Stanford University
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2014-2016, University of California Berkeley
Research: Environmental impact assessment methods to mitigate ecological burdens of materials production, cementitious and polymeric composites, the valorization of biological and industrial byproduct streams in engineering alternative materials, and performance-driven materials discovery. (more information)

 

Seth Kane
Postdoctoral fellow
B.S., 2012-2018, Montana State University
Ph.D., 2018-2022, Montana State University
Research: Experimental mechanics and environmental impact assessments of alternative cementitious materials focusing on binder systems that can valorize underutilized and waste mineral flows.

 

Patrick Cunningham
PhD student
B.S., 2014-2018, University of California Davis
M.S., 2018-2019, University of California Davis
Research: Experimental mechanics and environmental impact assessments of alternative cementitious materials focusing on binder systems that can valorize underutilized and waste mineral flows.

 

Elisabeth Van Roijen
PhD student
B.S., 2016-2020, Stony Brook University
Research: Environmental impact mitigation strategies for industrial materials production, material flow analysis of plastics, carbonation potential of materials.

 

 

Alyson Kim
PhD student
B.S., 2014-2018, University of California Los Angeles
M.S., 2020-2022, University of California Davis
Research: Environmental impact mitigation strategies for cementitious materials to support policy-driven climate goals, infrastructure materials resource efficiency.

 

Kelli Franza
PhD student
B.S., 2015-2019, United States Coast Guard Academy
M.S., 2021-2022, University of California Davis
Research: Analysis of multi-objective optimization of concrete production and design in relation to their environmental impacts.

 

 

Josefine Olson
PhD student
B.S., 2015-2018, Chalmers University of Technology
M.S., 2019-2020, University of California Davis
Research: mitigation of greenhouse gas emission in structural design of reinforced concrete.

 

 

Andrés Martinez
MS student
B.S., 2016-2021, Universidad Technológica de Panamá (UTP)
Research: Factors that influence the implementation of novel cements in decarbonization efforts.

 

 

 

Gavin Choboya
undergraduate student
Research: Disproportionate impacts of industrial production on populations considering climate and environmental justice factors.

 

 

 

Cameron Schultz
undergraduate student
Research: The environmental impacts of producing ultra-high performance fiber reinforced concrete.

 

 

 

Paikea Melcher
undergraduate student
Research: The social costs of emissions from industrial processes.

 

 

 

 

Simon
Scholarly Pup
Research: Squirrel behavior analysis

 

 

 

Past Members

Sonoko Ichimaru Watanabe (Postdoc)

Kanotha Kamau-Devers (PhD student)

Dan Tran (MS student)

Leah Brinkman (MS student)

Chao Fan (MS student)

Audrey Florman (undergraduate student)

Justin Caverly (undergraduate student)

Jacob Newman (undergraduate student)

Zachary Kortum (undergraduate student)

Darren Easterling (undergraduate student)

Haoting Pan (undergraduate student)

Bill Peralta (undergraduate student)

Angani Vigneswaran (undergraduate student)

Valerie Yanez (undergraduate student)