Nicholas Sandoval

Nicholas R. Sandoval joined the Tulane University faculty in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in 2016. He graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 2006 from the University of Colorado Boulder. He earned his Ph.D. in 2011 at the University of Colorado Boulder with support from an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. There he investigated mechanisms of lignocellulosic hydrolysate tolerance in E. coli using genome engineering methods. Dr. Sandoval then lectured the following academic year in the Colorado Mesa University/University of Colorado Mechanical Engineering Partnership Program in Grand Junction, Colorado. Under an NIH funded National Research Service Award, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware where his work focused on genome engineering anaerobic solventogenic bacteria among other projects.