Principal Investigator
Myeongsub (Mike) Kim, Ph.D. (E-mail: kimm@fau.edu)
Myeongsub (Mike) Kim is an associate professor in Ocean and Mechanical Engineering at Florida Atlantic University. He received his Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2011 on the development of nonintrusive measurement techniques for fluid and wall surface temperatures at microscale using fluorescence thermometry. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin from 2012-2014 and in the Department of Industrial and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Toronto, Canada, from 2011 to 2012. His research interests reside in mainly studying catalytic CO2 separation, capture, and utilization at various spatial scales, specifically in CO2 capture from flue gas, enhanced oil recovery (EOR), accelerated microalgae production for biofuel, CO2-methane (CH4) interactions, and geologic CO2 sequestration. He is also interested in micro-sensors, particle manufacturing for drug delivery, thermal management strategies for small electronic devices and electric vehicles, and multiphase flow in oil and gas applications.
Ph.D. Students
Mazen Hafez (E-mail: mhafez2014@fau.edu)
Mazen is 
a Ph.D. student in the Department of Ocean & Mechanical Engineering. After receiving his BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Florida Atlantic University, he was enrolled in a BS to Ph.D. direct path program. During his last year of the BS program, he worked as an undergraduate researcher advised by Dr. Kim on multiple projects such as Hydrofracking-on-a-Chip: Particle-Laden Transport under High Pressure and Development of an Expiration System using Microfluidic O2 Diffusion. Mazen’s research interests are in enhanced oil recovery methods and techniques.
Mahyar Ghazivni (E-mail: mghazvini2020@fau.edu)
■ M.Sc. University of Tehran in Mechanical Engineering/Renewable Energy (2017)
■ B.Sc. Shahrood University of Technology in Mechanical Engineering/ Solid Mechanics (2013)
Currently, Mahyar is a PhD student at Florida Atlantic University in the Department of Ocean & Mechanical Engineering and a graduate research assistant under the supervision of Dr. Kim. He received his M.Sc. degree from the University of Tehran (Iran) in 2017. During his master’s studies, he was involved in a number of projects including numerical simulation of energy systems, renewable energy, thermal storage systems and subjects related to the field of energy. His current research interests lie in the fields of thermal management for microelectronic devices. Specifically, he is contributing to developing a mechanistic model for bubble growth that lessens the risk of failure in trial-and-error tests for heat transfer enhancement.
Abhishek Ratanpara (E-mail : aratanpara2020@fau.edu)
Mr. Abhishek P. Ratanpara (Abhi) has done his bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from LDRP Institute of Technology, India in 2017. He is currently pursuing his Masters in Thermal Engineering at Nirma University, India. As a part of it, he has been carrying out his research work at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) and he is likely to defend his M.Tech. Dissertation in May 2020. He is a PhD-seeking research intern working in Microfluidics and Energy lab under the esteemed guidance of Dr. Kim (Mike) at FAU. He worked as a graduate research intern on the project based on a ‘microfluidic approach of Amine scrubbing using Seawater for CO2 capture’. His research interests lie in the area of computational fluid dynamics, Nanoparticle applications and CO2 capture and storage by microfluidic approach.
M.S. Students
Mohammadhassan Kavosi (E-mail: mkavosi2015@fau.edu)
Mohammadhassan is an M.S. student in the Department of Ocean & Mechanical Engineering and a graduate research assistant. In the senior year of his B.S. program at Florida Atlantic University, he joined the Microfluidics and Energy Laboratory and worked on accelerating microalgae cultivation rate and optimizing centrifugal harvesting of microalgae through Microfluidics techniques for biofuel production.
Chas Taylor (E-mail: ctaylor2016@fau.edu)
B.S. Florida Atlantic University, 2020
Chas Taylor is an MS student in the Department of Ocean & Mechanical Engineering. While working on his BS degree in Ocean Engineering he was enrolled in the BS/MS accelerated program. After receiving his BS degree from Florida Atlantic University, he was enrolled in the MS with Major in Ocean Engineering with Thesis. During his last year of the BS program, he worked as an undergraduate researcher advised by Dr. Kim on projects such as A Review of Induced Wettability Alteration in Micromodels for Enhanced Oil Recovery: Visualization of Particle Settling during Shale Gas Operations. Chas’s research interests are in enhanced oil recovery methods and techniques.
Undergraduate Students
Tahir Farrukh (OME, Nickel Nanoparticle-based CO2 Capture)
Alexander Shaw (OME, Monoethanolamine-based CO2 Capture)
Scott Shirley (OME, A Centrifugal Separator for Microalgae Harvesting)
Mirabel Pham (OME, Enhanced Microalgae Growth for Biodiesel Production)
Roosvelt Delius (OME, Mechanisms of Bubble Growth during Pool Boiling)
Michael Romero (OME, Huff-and-Puff for Enhanced Oil Recovery)
David Navarrete (OME, Huff-and-Puff for Enhanced Oil Recovery)
Jared Mcfadden (OME, Hydraulic Fracturing)
Current High School Research Assistants
Rohan Sharma (Atlantic High School, 11th grade, A Centrifugal Separator for Microalgae Harvesting)
Jungwoo Park (Spanish River Community High School, Carbonation Kinetics for CO2 Capture: A Microfluidic Approach)
Alumni
Research Associate
Stephanie Lewkowitz
Graduate Students
Seokju Seo, Ph.D.
Mohammad Mastiani, Ph.D.
Gabriel Navarrete, M.S.
Xinghang Ma, M.S.
Undergraduate Students
Alexis Base, Jake Ray, Rashwan Hendricks, Lindsay Randolph, Keon Walters, Genevieve Kunkel, Rosa Walls, Robert Cook, Raymond Mathis, Nick Petrozzi, Seamus Byrnes, Brian Lages, George Albrecht, Ryan Kwaterski, Christian Chattas Asfour, Scott Shirley, Mazen Hafez, Mohammadhassan Kavosi, Natalia Linares, Cesar Saldana, Gabriela Alvarez, Kavita Braun, Colleen Lacava, Kevin Garcia Ocampo, Chase Baskin, Derek Peters, Heather Crawford, Nafisa Shikdar, Sofia Jimenez Melgar, Cuong Tran, Charles Nighswonger, Minh Nguyen, Fabrizio Isaacson, Pablo Diaz, Gabriel Navarette, Daniel Stepien, Joshua Griffin, Stephan Hoo-fat, Dawit Dereje, Joshua Richey, Daniel Stepien, Amine Rochd, Patrick Hawkins, Ahmed Ashfaq, Guillermo Rangel