Our Team
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S.B. Reddy Karri, PhD, President & CEO
Reddy has 35 years experience at PSRI and is a world-renowned expert in particle technology and fluid-particle systems such as fluidized beds, circulating fluidized beds, cyclones, diplegs, standpipes, risers, nonmechanical valves, pneumatic conveying, solids feeding and discharge systems. PSRI’s small-to-large-scale cold flow units were built…
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Jia Chew - Technical Director
Jia is the Technical Director at PSRI and is also an Adjunct Professor at Chalmers University of Technology. Prior to this, she was a Professor in the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, with research focusses on fluidization,…
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Doug Dobben, Controller and Treasurer
Doug Dobben joined PSRI in June 2019 as Controller. Prior to that he worked with a variety of small to mid-size companies in a financial leadership position. The companies include the Chicago Climate Exchange, a one of the first carbon credit trading platforms; Anritsu, a…
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Michael Arrington, Chief Operating Officer
Michael Arrington joined Particulate Solid Research Inc. in 1980 as a lab technician. PSRI was located on the campus of Manhattan College in Bronx New York. In 1990 Michael relocated with PSRI to Chicago Illinois. Michael became the chief lab technician and helped design, fabricate…
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Allan Issangya, Project Leader
Allan Issangya is a Project Leader at PSRI. Allan joined PSRI as a research engineer in 1999 after completing his PhD and post-doctoral work in Chemical Engineering at the University of British Columbia under the supervision of the late Prof John Grace. Allan has worked…
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Yeook Arrington, Project Leader
Yeook Arrington received her Doctoral Degree in environmental engineering in 2002 from Illinois Institute of Technology. Yeook joined Particulate Solid Research, Inc (PSRI) in late 2006 as a research engineer. In early years, she started working on particle characterization, jet cup attrition, and fluidization characteristics…
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Francisco J. Sanchez Careaga, Project Leader
Francisco Sanchez joined PSRI in August 2022 after working first as a Postdoctoral Fellow and then as a Research Engineer for the Syncrude/NSERC Chair in Fluid Coking Technologies at Western University in the Institute for Chemicals and Fuels from Alterative Resources. For eight years, Francisco worked…
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Jingsi (James) Yang, Project Leader
Jingsi (James) Yang joined Particulate Solid Research Inc. (PSRI) in January 2023 as a project leader. James received his BSc. and MSc. in Chemical Engineering from Central South University (China) and his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Western University (Canada) in 2014. His doctoral…
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Katherine Ernst, Development Engineer II
Katherine Ernst joined Particulate Solid Research, Inc. (PSRI) as a full-time Development Engineer in 2021, after receiving a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan. Over the past two years, Katherine has led several industrial-scale contract research projects, following the projects from…
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Lauren Endress, Development Engineer
Lauren Endress joined PSRI in 2022 as a Development Engineer shortly after graduating from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a master’s degree in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. In her first year at PSRI she has contributed to several projects in both contract and membership research.…
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Christof Dee, Development Engineer
Christof Dee joined Particulate Solid Research, Inc. in late June of 2022 as a Development Engineer. At PSRI, Christof has performed experiments to characterize the performance of various circulating, fluidized bed systems. These experiments include fluidized bed hydrodynamic tests, solids flux calculations in risers, bubble…
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Kristin Lai, Development Engineer
Kristin Lai joined Particulate Solid Research, Inc. (PSRI) in Fall 2022 after receiving a BS in Bioengineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Throughout her undergraduate career, Kristin was involved in research as well as an active member of the Society of Women Engineers…
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Korecia Butler - Bookkeeper
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Matt Hankosky - Systems Administrator
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Ryan Ellis - Chief Technician
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