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Gerard Capellades
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Rowan University
Rowan Hall 334, 600 North Campus Drive, Glassboro, NJ 08028
E-mail: capellades@rowan.edu
Phone: 856-256-5366
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Postdoctoral Scientists

Peerapon (“Chuey”) Rapeenun
Postdoctoral Associate
Research Areas: Impurity Retention, Solid Solutions, CryArc
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Graduate Students

Maryam Habeeb
PhD Student
Chemical Engineering
Research Areas: Drug Solubility, Dissolution, Solid Solutions
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Jason Neagle
MS Student
Chemical Engineering
Research Area: Custom Flow Devices, Interferometry
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Lukas Shelton
PhD Student
Chemical Engineering
Research Area: Kinetics of Impurity Retention, Microgravity
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Undergraduate Students

Benjamin Chivers
Chemical Engineering
Graduation Year: 2026
Research Area: Solid Solutions
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Jacob Mason
Chemical Engineering
Graduation Year: 2026
Research Area: Impurity Rejection, Image Analysis
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Mathew Michnowski
Chemical Engineering
Graduation Year: 2027
Research Area: Solid Solutions
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Adam Peru
Chemical Engineering
Graduation Year: 2026
Research Area: Solid Solutions
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Brian Ramirez
Chemical Engineering
Graduation Year: 2026
Research Area: Kinetics (Data-Rich Methods)
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Carlo Ramos
Chemical Engineering
Graduation Year: 2026
Research Area: Image Analysis
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Connor Smith
Chemical Engineering
Graduation Year: 2027
Research Area: Solubility
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Graduate Alumni

Mitchell Paolello

PhD in Chemical Engineering (graduated October 2025). Became a Senior Scientist at Merck’s crystallization R&D group (X-Labs, Rahway, NJ), upon graduation from CSPE.

Ibrahim Joel

MS in Chemical Engineering (graduated May 2025). Became a contractor (Pharmaceutical Crystallization Specialist) at Parexel (Raleigh, NC), upon graduation from CSPE.

Parul Sahu

Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar (Aug 2022 – Feb 2023). Returned to work as a Crystallization Scientist at the Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute (India).

Griffin Fountain

MS in Chemical Engineering (Graduated May 2022). Became a PhD student in Industrial Crystallization at Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA) upon graduation from CSPE.

Undergraduate Alumni

Chemical Engineering Program:
Lily Rhoads (2023-2025), Jessica Lee (2025), Jennifer Skwarlo (2024-2025), Elvis Mwesigwa (2024-2025), Ciara Cummiskey (2024-2025), Anne Nong (2022-2025), Ricardo Otake (2022-2025), Jason Neagle (2024-2025), Steven Roth (2024), Kennedy Tomlinson (2022-2024), Joshua Zaharof (2022-2024), Abigail Martin (2023-2024), Claire Schleper (2023-2024), Sean Curtis (2023-2024), Zachary Kazelskis (2024), Ethan Shumaker (2023), Layane Neves (2022-2023), Brendan Jaggard (2022-2023), Joseph Kratz (2021-2023), Ryan Arruda (2021-2023), Preston McNamara (2021-2023), Alejandra Santos (2022-2023), Michael Toresco (2021-2023), Alexander Clark (2021-2023), James Nicholson (2023), Zachary Leff (2021-2023), Kayla Bensley (2021-2022), Thomas Boyle (2021-2022), Paul Cally (2020-2022), James Geier (2021-2022), Evan Harper (2021-2022), Eunice Nepomuceno (2021-2022), Nisha Shah (2021-2022), Anthony Wylie (2021-2022), Gurpreet Singh (2021-2022), Bradley Smith (2021-2022), Natalie Ogden (2020-2021), Diana Martinez (2020), Adam Griefer (2020), Margot Clarke (2020-2021).

Mechanical Engineering Program:
Evan Bretz (2023), Anthony Garavento (2022-2023), Alexander Stieglitz (2021-2022).

Electrical & Computer Engineering Program:
Gavin Trutzenbach (2023-2024), Isabella Marshall (2021-2022), Aidan Kayes (2020-2021).

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