Principal Investigator
Dr. Nicole Iverson
Associate Professor of the Biomedical Engineering
Department of Biological Systems Engineering at UNL
Post Doctorate Research at MIT;
Ph.D. from Rutgers University;
B.S. from the University of Minnesota
Post Doctoral Researchers
Omer Sadak
B.S. in Chemistry, Bulent Ecevit University;
M.S. in Materials Science at the University of Wisconsin;
Ph. D. in Materials Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Graduate Students
Portia Plange
B.E. in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Ghana;
MPhil in Biomedical Engineering at the Univeristy of Ghana
Samereh Soleimani Babadi
B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Hamedan University of Technology;
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Kashan
Trisam Sapkota
B.E. in Biomedical Engineering at the College of Biomedical Engineering
and Applied Sciences (CBEAS), Nepal;
Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Nicky Naa Dede Tagoe
Bsc. Chemical Engineering at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana.
Undergraduate Students
Awards and Honors
- Elenore Gakemeier Swarts Scholarship
- Fellowship from the Molecular Mechanisms of Disease Predoctoral Training Program
- Research presentation at Medellin National Congress and Chile International Symposium
- Universidad de la Sabana Scholarship
- George Beadle Scholarship
- Regents Scholarship
- Dean's List
- UNL Honors Program
- Chancellor's Scholarship
- Student Research Days Award Winning Presentation
- Arthur Von Bergen Memorial Award
- Milton E. Mohr Research Scholarship
- Grand Challenges Scholars Program
Involvement
- ECS- Electrochemical Society
- SWE- Society of Women in Engineering
- BSE Graduate Student Association
- UNL Tutoring Program
- Engineering Student Advisory Board
- Delta Delta Delta- Kappa Chapter
- BMES
- BSE Student Ambassadors
- Tau Beta Pi Engineering Society
Lab Alumni
- Janelle (Adams) Wieskamp, Undergraduate Research Assistant- Doctor of Optometry from University of Houston College of Optometry
- Victoria Bart, Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Kyle Downey, Undergraduate Research Assistant- Lead Web Designer, Developer, and Creator at Artillery Media
- Alexandra Favazza, Undergraduate Research Assistant- Senior Human Factors Engineer at Amgen
- Becca (Francis) Muller, Undergraduate Research Assistant- Associate Clinical Account Specialist at Biosense Webster and J&J
- Jessica Glas, Undergraduate Research Assistant- M.D. Student at UNMC
- Abigail Haworth, Undergraduate Research Assistant- PhD Student at Penn State University
- Grant Jensen, Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Karleen Kolar, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Fermentation Process Engineer at Novozymes
- Kayla Ney, Undergraduate Research Assistant- M.S. Student in the UNL ONE Lab
- Caroline DeBrota, REU student- Mechanical Engineer at Cirkul, Inc.
- Irena Manukian, REU student- Senior Research Associate at Arbor Biotechnologies
- Wali Sohail, REU Student- MS Robotics Student at Georgia Institute of Technology
- Eric Hofferber, Graduate Research Assistant- Medical Writer/ Clinical Evaluation Report at Johnson & Johnson
- Joey Stapleton, Graduate Research Assistant- Ensign-Bickford Industries
- Jakob Meier, Graduate Research Assistant
- Sophia Walsh, Graduate Research Assistant