{"id":1419,"date":"2026-09-28T12:58:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T16:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/soft-matter-lab\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2026-09-28T12:58:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T16:58:44","slug":"jacob-cultrera-successfully-defends-masters-thesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/soft-matter-lab\/jacob-cultrera-successfully-defends-masters-thesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Cultrera Successfully Defends Master&#8217;s Thesis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/soft-matter-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1895\/2609_JacobCultreraDefense-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/soft-matter-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1895\/2609_JacobCultreraDefense-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/soft-matter-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1895\/2609_JacobCultreraDefense-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/soft-matter-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1895\/2609_JacobCultreraDefense-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/soft-matter-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1895\/2609_JacobCultreraDefense-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/soft-matter-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1895\/2609_JacobCultreraDefense-364x485.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/soft-matter-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1895\/2609_JacobCultreraDefense-500x667.jpg 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/soft-matter-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1895\/2609_JacobCultreraDefense-1000x1333.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/soft-matter-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1895\/2609_JacobCultreraDefense-1280x1707.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/soft-matter-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1895\/2609_JacobCultreraDefense-2000x2667.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/soft-matter-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1895\/2609_JacobCultreraDefense-2560x3413.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/soft-matter-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1895\/2609_JacobCultreraDefense-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dr. RPS and Jacob Cultrera following his thesis defense.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congratulations to Jacob Cultrera on a successful defense of his MS! His thesis titled &#8220;Development and Characterization of Microbial Fuel Cells Containing a Polymer-Coated Anode&#8221; focused on a recent thrust in our group of collecting power from living biofilms on an anode surface. His work optimized the fuel cells to greatly improve their power output and identified operating conditions that could maximize this energy output. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jacob will be continuing his studies as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tu-braunschweig.de\/en\/going-abroad\/dual-degree\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dual Degree program<\/a> between URI and TU Braunschweig.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Jacob Cultrera on a successful defense of his MS! His thesis titled &#8220;Development and Characterization of Microbial Fuel Cells Containing a Polymer-Coated Anode&#8221; focused on a recent thrust in our group of collecting power from living biofilms on an anode surface. His work optimized the fuel cells to greatly improve their power output [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3845,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/soft-matter-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/soft-matter-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/soft-matter-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/soft-matter-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3845"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/soft-matter-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/soft-matter-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/soft-matter-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/soft-matter-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/soft-matter-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/soft-matter-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}