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
Dr. Dianna Kitt
Nuhu Mujaheed
Postdoctoral Researcher
PhD Student
Xuejiao Lyu
PhD Student
Jinci Li
Master's Student
Serena Birdinc
Master's Student
Omara Rosenfeld
Undergraduate Student
Undergraduate Student
Sumanth Mahalingam
Diana Phan
Undergraduate Student
Julia Perkins
Undergraduate Student
Undergraduate Student
Mehr Khosla
Undergraduate Student
Cassidy Woodham
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:
Resources recovery from waste streams via microbial chain elongation, biochemical methane potential and anaerobic toxicity assay by co-substrate digestions, and degradation of DEET 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:
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
Undergraduate Student
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.
Cassidy Woodham
Undergraduate Student
Research Interests:
Utilizing microbial consortia to develop sustainable technologies.
Lab Alumni
Marisa Thomas (Master's student)
Adalee Lynch (Undergraduate student)
Sunny Li (Undergraduate student)
Yurui Zhang (Undergraduate student)
Yitao Zong (Master's student)
Akhil Mulpuru (Master's student)
Charles Zhao (Undergraduate student)
Christopher Evans (Undergraduate student)
Koraly Roca-Avilés (Undergraduate student)
Juny Lee (Undergraduate student)
Aidan da Graca (Undergraduate student)
Caleb Medina (Undergraduate student)
Junyeol Choi (Undergraduate student)
Niki Zouzoulas (Undergraduate student)
Ames Hall
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21218
Department of Environmental Health and
Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
