Principal Investigator
Wheaton L. Schroeder
Assistant Professor in the Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering
Contact: wheaton.schroeder[at]wsu.edu
Education and Research Experience:
Postdoctoral Scholar in Chemical Engineering, the Pennsylvania State University (PI: Costas D. Maranas, 2021 to 2024)
Ph. D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln (PI: Rajib Saha, defended June 21, 2021)
B. S. in Chemical Engineering and Mathematics (minor: Biology) from Iowa State University (Graduated May 2015)
Undergraduate Research Assistant at Iowa State University (PI: Jackie Shanks, 2013 to 2015)
Teaching Interests: Introduction to Bioengineering (BIOENG 140), Quantitative Physiology (BIO_ENG 360), and a future development of optimization methods in metabolic networks course.
Graduate Students
Samuel Hayford Ayensu
Graduate Student in Engineering Science with an emphasis in Bioengineering
Contact: samuel.ayensu[at]wsu.edu
B. S. in Biomedical Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (graduated Nov. 2021)
Joined Aug. 2024
Sinem Özcan
Graduate Student in Chemical Engineering
Contact: sinem.ozcan[at]wsu.edu
M.S. in Chemical Engineering, Hacettepe University (graduated June 2022)
B. S. in Chemical Engineering, Hacettepe University (graduated Sep. 2019)
Joining Aug. 2025
Undergraduate Researchers
Gavin C. Heater
Student in Bioengineering
Cellular and Molecular Option
A.S. in Pre-Engineering, Everett Community College (graduated Dec. 2022)
Joined Aug. 2024
Abdul Wadood Khan
Student in Bioengineering
Joined in Aug. 2024
Ananya Saravana
Student in Bioengineering
A.S. in Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering (graduated Jun. 2024)
Joined in Feb. 2025
Anthony Esquivias
Student in Bioengineering
Joined in Mar. 2025
Joshua Van Tuyl
Student in Bioengineering
Joined in Apr. 2025