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Shaffer Lab

​The Shaffer Lab at the University of Houston studies membrane materials and processes for water purification and resource production. Our goal is to promote resilient communities and ecosystems through membrane separations.

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Congratulations to PhD candidate Marcela Strane on the successful defense of her dissertation proposal! 👩‍🔬👏Marcela's research is focused on microplastic pollution from land-applied biosolids. Thank you to an excellent and engaged committee! @UHEngineering

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Congratulations @Rutesh_L_G on your third prize student poster award at the @txdesal conference! 💧💧Rutesh presented our lab's work on contorted polyamide desalination membranes. Many thanks to @txdesal for hosting a great event!

Great presentation by @Rutesh_L_G at the 2025 Texas Soft Matter Conference held @RiceUniversity! 👏👏Rutesh presented his work with @RahulShevate1 at NCL-Pune on roll-to-roll fabrication of proton exchange membranes (PEMs) for fuel cell technology. Excellent work! @UHEngineering

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Contact

​UH Civil and Environmental Engineering 
4226 Martin Luther King Blvd N107
Houston, TX, 77204

dshaffer@uh.edu
713-743-7612