Meet the Principal Investigator
Dr. Shilva Shrestha
Dr. Shilva Shrestha is an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering. She joined Johns Hopkins University in July 2023. Before that, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she focused on studying environmental bacterial isolates through metabolic engineering and systems biology 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.
Outside of work, she enjoys reading, drawing, photography, and hiking.
Meet the Team
Meet the Team
Nuhu Mujaheed
PhD Student
Xuejiao Lyu
PhD Student
Jinci Li
Master's Student
Kaimana Lum
PhD Student
Abdulmajeed Hawsawi
Master's Student
Boya Shi
Master's Student
Serena Birdinc
Master's Student
Omara Rosenfeld
Undergraduate Student
Undergraduate Student
Sumanth Mahalingam
Diana Phan
Undergraduate Student
Julia Perkins
Undergraduate Student
Raifah Sheikh
Undergraduate Student
Kaimana Lum
PhD Student
Nuhu Mujaheed
PhD Student
Xuejiao Lyu
PhD Student
Research Interests:
Designing hydrogels to encapsulate microbial consortia to optimize resource recovery. Working on computational models to design synthetic microbial consortia and predict the waste recovery output.
Research Interests:
Medium chain carboxylic acid production via chain elongation technology, bioreactor optimization, and computational modeling.
Research Interests:
Resource recovery from waste streams via microbial chain elongation, biochemical methane potential and anaerobic toxicity assays by co-substrate digestion, and DEET degradation in wastewater.
Research Interests:
Micro and nano-scale interactions shaping both the toxicological risks and the environmental benefits of water systems.
Research Interests:
Harnessing microbial systems for sustainable bioenergy production and environmental remediation, with a focus on waste-to-energy conversion and carbon cycling.
Master's Student
Master's Student
Serena Birdinc
Jinci Li
Research Interests:
Environmental microbiology and microbial systems, with a focus on understanding microbial communities and their potential applications in sustainable resource recovery and environmental engineering.
Boya Shi
Master's Student
Master's Student
Abdulmajeed Hawsawi
Research Interests:
Sustainable management of low-level radioactive waste, using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), circular economy principles, and monitoring technologies to safeguard environmental and public health.
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:
Wastewater treatment and resource recovery utilizing low-cost feedstocks.
Undergraduate Student
Julia Perkins
Undergraduate Student
Raifah Sheikh
Research Interests:
Sustainable engineering solutions for environmental challenges and renewable energy systems
Lab Alumni
Marisa Thomas (Master's student)
Adalee Lynch (Undergraduate student)
Sunny Li (Undergraduate student)
Yurui Zhang (Undergraduate student, now at University of Michigan School of Dentistry)
Yitao Zong (Master's student, now a PhD student at University of Houston )
Akhil Mulpuru (Master's student)
Charles Zhao (Undergraduate student, now a Master's student at Stanford University)
Christopher Evans (Undergraduate student)
Koraly Roca-Avilés (Undergraduate student)
Juny Lee (Undergraduate student, now a Master's student at Stanford University)
Aidan da Graca (Undergraduate student)
Caleb Medina (Undergraduate student)
Junyeol Choi (Undergraduate student)
Niki Zouzoulas (Undergraduate student)
Dr. Dianna Kitt (Postdoc, now a research scientist at EPA)
Mehr Khosla (Undergraduate student)
Cassidy Woodham (Undergraduate student)
Ames Hall
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21218
Department of Environmental Health and
Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
