Kofi Christie

Assistant Professor

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
3240F Patrick F. Taylor Hall
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803

Phone: (225) 578-1523 / Fax: (225) 578-4945
Email: kchristie@lsu.edu
Twitter – https://twitter.com/cleanwaterkofi
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/kofi-christie/

Educational Background

B.S. Physics, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA, 2014
M.S. Environmental Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 2016
Ph.D. Environmental Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 2020
Post-Doc, Environmental & Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2020-2022

Employment History:

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 08/2022 to present.
Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08/2020 to 08/2022.
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 08/2014 to 05/2020

Research Interests:

Dr. Kofi Christie’s research focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to improve sustainability at the water-energy nexus. His work spans areas such as wastewater treatment and reuse, desalination, resource recovery, remediation and pollution control, and carbon capture and utilization. His research interests include:

Elucidating the complex thermodynamic stabilities of highly saline wastewater solutions
Designing and fabricating novel membrane materials and processes for resource recovery
Process optimization for membrane-based liquid separations
Thermo-responsive soft materials for water treatment
Valorization of waste materials for long-term CO2 storage

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