Ava Mauser

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Contact

  • mausera@umich.edu

Education

  • PhD in Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2023 (Expected)

  • BS in Chemical Engineering, University of New Mexico, 2018

Research

  • Ava conducts research focused on developing protein-based nanoparticles for the delivery of therapeutic cargo in diffuse astrocytoma and glioblastoma.

Experience

  • Graduate Research Assistant, Inorganic Isotope and Actinide Chemistry, Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Undergraduate Student Intern, Inorganic Isotope and Actinide Chemistry, Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Biomedical Engineering Research Assistant, Orthopedics Biomechanics and Biomaterials, University of New Mexico

  • Mass Transfer Teaching Assistant, Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of New Mexico

  • Transport Phenomena Teaching Assistant, Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of New Mexico

Awards

  • Graduate Research Fellow, National Science Foundation

  • Rackham Merit Fellow, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan

  • Tau Beta Pi Fellow

  • Tau Beta Pi Scholar

  • Honda Scholar, Hispanic Scholarship Fund

  • Pioneers Scholar, SWE Central New Mexico Section

  • CITGO Scholar, UNM School of Engineering

Publications

  • L.M. Colletti, R. Copping, K. Garduno, E.J.W. Lujan, A.K. Mauser, A. Mechler-Hickson, I. May, S.D. Reilly, D. Rios, J. Rowley, A.B. Schroeder. ; The application of visible absorption spectroscopy to the analysis of uranium in aqueous solutions. Talanta 2017, 175, 390-405

Presentations

  • Alternate Technology for Sour Water Stripping, Engineering Poster Expo, Albuquerque, NM, 2018

  • Uranium Concentration Analysis for Visible Absorption Spectroscopy and Solution Matrix Control

    • AIChE Poster Presentation, San Francisco, CA, 2016

    • LANL Student Symposium, Los Alamos, NM, 2016