Team

Team

Azadeh Keshavarzmohammadian

Ph.D. candidate, co-advised with Professor Daven Henze

Mechanical Engineering

Azadeh is from Tehran, Iran, and received her B.S. in mechanical engineering from University of Tehran in 2001. She interned at Iran Power Development Company. She worked for two consulting companies, Monenco Iran consulting Engineers and Farab Energy and Water Consulting company, from 2002-2012. Meanwhile she received her M.S. in mechanical engineering (Energy Conversion) from Polytechnic University of Tehran (Amir Kabir) in 2005 and her M.B.A. from University of Tehran in 2009.   She joined the Environmen...

Rene Nsanzineza

Ph.D. candidate

Mechanical Engineering

Rene is from Rwanda and received his Bachelor of Arts in Physics from Hendrix College and a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from CU-Boulder. In the past, he interned at Fermi lab working on Dark Matter production with boosted W/Z bosons at the Large Hadron Collider-LHC. Currently at Cu-Boulder, Rene is a part of the AirWaterGas NSF sustainability research network, focusing on energy scenario modeling. More specifically, he is studying the impacts of oil and gas production and use on ozone formatio...

Kent Kurashima

Ph.D. candidate

Mechanical Engineering

Kent was born and raised in Hawaiʻi and received his BS degree in mechanical engineering from San Diego State University. He moved to Colorado in 2015 to begin his PhD work in mechanical engineering. During the 2016-2017 academic school year, Kent worked as a NSF Graduate STEM Fellow in K-12 Education. This fellowship afforded Kent the opportunity to teach STEM curriculum at Northglenn High School and the Denver Schools for Science and Technology Cole. While at CU-Boulder he has been conducting research to ...