Meet the Principal Investigator
Dr. Shilva Shrestha
Dr. Shilva Shrestha is an environmental engineer and microbiome scientist passionate about harnessing microbial systems for sustainable biomanufacturing. She joined the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University as an Assistant Professor in July 2023. Before that, she conducted postdoctoral research at the Joint BioEnergy Institute at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, where she focused on microbial community engineering for bioenergy applications.
Dr. Shrestha earned her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Michigan, her M.S. in Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering from the University of Hawaii, and her B.Tech in Biotechnology from Kathmandu University in Nepal.
When she’s not in the lab, she enjoys reading, drawing, and exploring the outdoors through hiking.
Meet the Team
Meet the Team
Dr. Dianna Kitt
Nuhu Mujaheed
Postdoctoral Researcher
PhD Student
Xuejiao Lyu
Niki Zouzolas
Undergraduate Student
PhD Student
Juny Lee
Undergraduate Student
Undergraduate Student
Koraly Roca-Avilés
Omara Rosenfeld
Undergraduate Student
Undergraduate Student
Sumanth Mahalingam
Diana Phan
Undergraduate Student
Undergraduate Student
Junyeol Choi
Julia Perkins
Undergraduate Student
Undergraduate Student
Mehr Khosla
Dr. Dianna Kitt
Postdoctoral Researcher
Nuhu Mujaheed
PhD Student
Xuejiao Lyu
PhD Student
Research Interests:
Utilizing metabolic and microbiome engineering techniques to improve bioproduct recovery from organic waste streams and developing anaerobic bioreactor systems for carboxylic acid production and recovery from organic waste streams.
Research Interests:
Medium chain carboxylic production via chain elongation technology, bioreactor optimization and computational modeling.
Research Interests:
Utilizing metabolic and microbiome engineering techniques to improve bioproduct recovery from organic waste streams and developing anaerobic bioreactor systems for carboxylic acid production and recovery from organic waste streams.
Research Interests:
Engineering for environmental exposure and health risk reduction, microbiome engineering for waste-to-value conversion, and watershed hydrology and land–water interface biogeochemistry.
Research Interests:
Master's Student
Master's Student
Serena Birdinc
Jinci Li
Research Interests:
Application of synthetic microbial consortia towards environmental remediation and resource recovery.
Research Interests:
Bioenergy & Wastewater treatment
Research Interests:
Repurposing waste into renewable energy sources, applications of tissue engineering and 3D bioprinting, and optimization of bioreactor designs.
Niki Zouzoulas
Undergraduate Student
Juny Lee
Undergraduate Student
Koraly Roca-Avilés
Undergraduate Student
Research Interests:
Economically efficient wastewater treatment methods and computational research methods to solve common environmental problems.
Research Interests:
Computational analysis of biofilm dynamics in mixed microbial consortia.
Research Interests:
Sustainable development and renewable energy production and technology.
Undergraduate Student
Undergraduate Student
Undergraduate Student
Omara Rosenfeld
Sumanth Mahalingam
Diana Phan
Research Interests:
Computational chemical dynamics, waste degrading material production and computational methods for renewable energy processes.
Research Interests:
Wastewater treatment and resource recovery utilizing low-cost feedstocks.
Undergraduate Student
Undergraduate Student
Undergraduate Student
Junyeol Choi
Julia Perkins
Mehr Khosla
Research Interests:
Engineering for environmental exposure and health risk reduction, microbiome engineering for waste-to-value conversion, and watershed hydrology and land–water interface biogeochemistry.
Research Interests:
Engineering for environmental exposure and health risk reduction, microbiome engineering for waste-to-value conversion, and watershed hydrology and land–water interface biogeochemistry.
Undergraduate Student
Aidan da Graca
Lab Alumni
Marisa Tomas
Former Master's Student
Former Undergraduate Student
Adalee Lynch
Former Undergraduate Student
Sunny Li
Former Undergraduate Student
Yurui Zhang
Yitao Zong
Former Master's Student
Akhil Mulpuru
Former Master's Student
Charles Zhao
Former Undergraduate Student
Christopher Evans
Former Undergraduate Student
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Department of Environmental Health and
Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
