Principal Investigator – Wenjie Xia, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Affiliated Faculty, Materials and Nanotechnology
Affiliated Faculty, Biomedical Engineering
North Dakota State University
Ph.D., Northwestern University (2016)
Email: wenjie.xia [at] ndsu.edu Tel: +1 (701)-231-5648
Postdoc Fellows
Dawei Zhang, Ph.D.
Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Graduate Students
Amir Alesadi – Ph.D. candidate
Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Zhaofan Li – Ph.D. student
Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Anas Karuth – Ph.D. candidate (co-advised with Prof. B. Rasulev)
Coatings and Polymeric Materials
Yangchao Liao – Ph.D. student
Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Sarah Ghazanfari – Ph.D. student
Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Kamrun Keya – Ph.D. student
Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Wenjian Nie – Ph.D. student
Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Sara Tolba – Ph.D. student
Materials and Nanotechnology
Amara Arshad – Ph.D. student
Materials and Nanotechnology
Masoumeh Nazem Salimi – Ph.D. student
Materials and Nanotechnology
Long Chen – Ph.D. student
Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Lan Xu – Ph.D. student
Environmental and Conservation Sciences
Undergrad Students
Group Alumni
Dr. F. Fatima – Postdoc (2019-2021); now Assistant Prof. at Roanoke College
Mr. Qian Zhang – Visiting Ph.D. student, Southeast University (2019)
Mr. Ali Ghamlouch – Undergrad researcher (2020)
Ms. Ori Molares – Undergrad researcher (2021)
Ms. Katie Liberman – Undergrad researcher (2021)
Mr. Caleb Patrick – Undergrad researcher (2022)
Xia Research Group 