PURE Lab Team
Case van Genuchten, PI
Case van Genuchten is an environmental engineer (PhD, UC Berkeley, 2013) with over 15 years of experience designing and deploying pollutant upcycling and remediation methods. He is a Senior Researcher at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) and Laboratory Affiliate at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). Case is currently Principal Investigator of the Independent Research Fund Denmark (IRFD) Project2 Grant, Valorise, and is Consortium Coordinator for the 2026 Water4All Grant (under the Horizon Europe Programme), Contaminant to Commodity (C2C). He has over 50 scholarly outputs, including peer-reviewed publications and patents, and serves on the Early Career Editorial Board of Environmental Science & Technology. His unique approach to apply synchrotron-based techniques to improve upcycling and remediation methods has resulted in several notable awards, including the James A. Morgan Early Career Award (2025) from Environmental Science & Technology, the Lytle Award (2020) from the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource and the PSIPW Creativity Prize (2012, co-awarded).
Kaifeng Wang, Post doctoral researcher
Kaifeng Wang specializes in the valorization of As- and Sb-rich wastes, including As-laden groundwater treatment sludge, mining waste, and fly ash, as well as the redox behavior of radioactive Se and U in the presence of Fe-bearing phases such as magnetite, mackinawite, and pyrite; with expertise in atomic-level characterization using synchrotron radiation and electron microscopy, and author of 10+ publications.
Tinatin Tkesheliadze, PhD Student
Tinatin is a 2nd-year PhD student, focusing primarily on phosphate recovery and valorization from industrial waste streams, such as As-laden groundwater treatment sludge and municipal waste incinerator fly ash. Her work comprises aqueous chemistry experiments and structural characterization of solid samples using synchrotron X-ray spectroscopy and imaging techniques.