Principal Investigator

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Peter J. Beltramo

Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, UMass-Amherst, 2018 - Present

B.S., University of Pennsylvania, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2009
Ph.D., University of Delaware, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2014
Postdoc, ETH Zürich, Soft Materials, 2017 

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Peter Beltramo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at UMass Amherst. He earned a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009 and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware in 2014, where he studied the electrokinetics and self-assembly of colloidal suspensions.  Before starting at UMass Amherst in 2018, he completed a postdoc in Soft Materials at ETH Zurich.  At UMass, his lab studies interfacial soft matter in contexts ranging from membrane biophysics and biomimetic materials to particle stabilized emulsions and ordered 2D materials. His recent recognitions include the NSF CAREER Award, ACS-PRF Doctoral New Investigator Award, and a Lilly Teaching Fellowship at UMass Amherst.

Graduate Students

Undergraduate Students

  1. Roni Coskun, ChE 2026

  2. Zaw Htet Lin, ChE 2025

Former Graduate Students

  1. Paige Liu, MS 2020, Current Affiliation: continuing in Beltramo Lab towards her PhD!

  2. Shreyas Joshi, MS 2021, Current Affiliation: Amgen

  3. Guinevere Tillinghast, MS 2021, Current Affiliation: UMass

  4. Samuel Trevenen, PhD 2023, Current Affiliation: GCP Applied Technologies (Saint-Gobain)

  5. Heather Hamilton, PhD 2023, Current Affiliation: Mount Holyoke

  6. Oscar Zabala-Ferrera, PhD 2023, Current Affiliation: Moderna

  7. Deepa Reddy Konuganti, MS 2023, Current Affiliation: Tesla

  8. Omoregie Bright, MS 2024

Former Undergraduate Students

  1. James Trottier- ChE 2021

  2. Lillian Kurina- Chem 2021

  3. Mitchell Wheeler- ChE 2020

  4. Zeynep Alptekin- ChE 2022

  5. Emma Villares- ChE 2022

  6. Peter Chiaravallo- ChE 2022

  7. Aaron-Emiliano Portillo- Holyoke CC 2022

  8. Zaw Htet Lin- ChE 2025

  9. Taina Turner- Alcorn State 2023

  10. April Haines- BME 2024

  11. Stefan Goretskiy- Holyoke CC 2023

  12. Nicholas Mancini- ChE 2023

  13. Roni Coskun- ChE 2026

  14. Juan Echeverri- UF 2025