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Nils Averesch
Life Science Research Professional, Resource Recovery Center
BioNils is a Staff Scientist in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Criddle-Lab), supported by the Stanford Natural Gas Initiative. As member of the Center for the Utilization of Biological Engineering in Space (CUBES) he focuses on engineering gas-fermenting microbes towards production of high-performance polyesters as sustainable alternative to petrochemistry-derived plastics.
Before joining Stanford, Nils was task lead of Synthetic Biology with Universities Space Research Association as an Associate Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center. He received his PhD from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, in Metabolic Engineering working at the Australian Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology. Nils holds an engineer’s degree (Dipl. Ing.) in Biochemical Engineering, from the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany. -
Yun Zhang
Research Assistant, Civil and Environmental Engineering
BioLucy Zhang Bencharit is a doctoral candidate in Affective Science in the Department of Psychology. Lucy completed her B.A. and M.A. in psychology at New York University. Her research focuses on how to leverage cultural values around emotion to promote positive outcomes in employment, work, and classroom settings. Specifically, she examines how individuals from Western cultural contexts, which value excitement, and East Asian cultural contexts, which value calm, express themselves and are perceived by others in work and classroom settings.
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Kate Borden
Research Asst - Graduate, Program-Davis, J.
BioKate Borden is an MS candidate in Environmental Engineering with a focus in Modeling and Simulation. She obtained her B.S. in Mathematics and Arab Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2015. Before her time at Stanford, she worked in Washington D.C. doing quantitative risk modeling and management consulting for federal clients such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. At Stanford, Kate is interested in leveraging remote sensing technologies and data science to improve drinking water delivery infrastructure for underserved groups. She's immensely enjoyed working on the IoT Approaches to Rural Water Infrastructure Maintenance in Uganda project with the Davis group. In addition to working with the Poop Group, Kate has also worked with with Stanford’s innovative the Codiga Resource Recovery Center and is currently Stanford ASCE's Corporate Relations & Professional Development co-chair.
