In the Christie Research Group, we seek to advance water treatment and desalination technologies to enable more efficient resource recovery and to improve our understanding of fundamental nanoscale phenomena. In my past work, I particularly focused on expanding our understanding of membrane distillation through 1) developing new metrics to characterize waste heat integration, 2) uncovering the mechanism for scaling-induced wetting using novel characterization methods, and 3) deconvoluting the independent influences of vapor flux and feed solution temperature on gypsum scaling.
