Principal Investigator – Wenjie Xia, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Affiliated Faculty, Materials and Nanotechnology
Affiliated Faculty, Biomedical Engineering
Affiliated Faculty, Environmental and Conservational Sciences
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
Zhaofan Li – Ph.D. candidate
Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
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
Seyedehelham Shirvanihosseini – Ph.D. student
Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Undergrad Students
Group Alumni
Dr. Amirhadi Alesadi – Ph.D. (2022)
Research Scientist @ Eastman Chemical, TN
Dr. Anas Karuth – Ph.D. (2023) (Co-advised with Dr. Rasulev)
Research Scientist @ Bridgestone, OH
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 