Faculty
Tobias
Baumgart, Assistant Professor
Lipid bilayer membrane phase behavior; membrane tether mechanics
and lipid/protein interactions; membrane vesicle shape analysis
and lipid/protein interactions; hybrid block-copolymer/lipid membranes
and two-dimensional netowrks
Stuart W.
Churchill, Carl V. S. Patterson Professor Emeritus
Combustion, incineration, crystal growth, turbulent flow and
convection, correlation
Russell
J. Composto, Professor
Polymer surface and interface phenomena: polymeric and polymer/nanoparticle
films; surface engineering in polymer blend films via surface
segregation, phase separation and wetting; phase separation and
wetting in confined spaces; transport in filled systems (ionomers
and nanocomposites); biomolecular engineering; cell adhesion;
nanostructured soft materials
John C. Crocker,
Associate Professor
Microrheology of biopolymers, recA searching, 3-D microscopy,
device biophysics
Scott L. Diamond,
Arthur E. Humphrey Professor
Endothelial cell mechanobiology, thrombosis and thrombolytics,
endothelial gene therapy
Dennis E.
Discher, Professor
Stem cells; drug delivery with polymersomes and worm-like
micelles (genetic & protein engineering); nanoscale systems
biology; blood cell & myocyte biophysics; computational statistical
mechanics
Eduardo D.
Glandt, Robert D. Bent Professor and Dean
Molecular simulations of gas adsorption, polymer adsorption,
barriers to mass transfer in catalysts and adsorbents
Raymond J. Gorte,
Russell Pearce and Elizabeth Crimian Heuer Professor
Automotive emissions control catalysis, anodes for solid-oxide
fuel cells, zeolite acidity
David J. Graves,
Associate Professor
Bioproduct recovery from living cells, chemical conversions
in living cells, DNA identification with immobilized hybridization
Daniel A. Hammer,
Alfred G. and Meta A. Ennis Professor
Cell adhesion, adhesion-based detection of protein and DNA,
virus/cell interactions, cellular engineering, artificial cells,
drug delivery, cell motility and mechanotransduction, self-assembly
of materials, simulations of molecular and cell behavior
Matthew J. Lazzara,
Assistant Professor
Cellular engineering, cell signaling, receptor-ligand interactions and trafficking, molecular therapeutics, transport in biological systems
Daeyeon Lee,
Assistant Professor
Surface and interface science; polymer/nanoparticle thin films; microfluidics; emulsion science; stimuli-responsive microcapsules
Alan L. Myers, Emeritus
Professor
Adsorptive separation of mixtures, gas storage by adsorption,
thermodynamics and molecular simulation of adsorption
Daniel
D. Perlmutter, Emeritus Professor
Gas-solid reactions, chemical reactor engineering, reactor stability and control
John A. Quinn,
Robert D. Bent Professor Emeritus
Membrane science and engineering, cell adhesion and surface
motility, transport behavior of motile bacteria
Ravi
Radhakrishnan, Assistant Professor
Computational biomolecular science and engineering, high
performance computing, systems biology, carcinogenesis, RNA catalysis
Casim A. Sarkar,
Assistant Professor
Molecular cell engineering: rational design and directed
evolution of proteins; cytokine/receptor binding and trafficking;
cell signaling and decision-making; computational, synthetic,
and systems biology
Warren D.
Seider, Professor
Process analysis, simulation, design, and control; azeotropic
distillation; design and control integration; dynamic risk assessment; Czochralski crystallization; multi-scale modeling
Wen K. Shieh,
Professor
Bioenvironmental engineering, biological Nitrogen removal,
environmental systems modeling
Talid R. Sinno,
Associate Professor
Transport and reaction in electronic materials processing,
computational and statistical mechanical modeling
John M. Vohs,
Carl V. S. Patterson Professor and Chair
Reactivity of metal oxide surfaces, surface organometallic
chemistry
Karen I.
Winey, Professor
Structure-property relationships in polymers, block copolymers, ion-containing polymers, polymer nanocomposites
Shu
Yang, Skirkanich Assistant Professor
New methodologies for controlled synthesis, patterning and
engineering of polymer-based materials with new strategies inspired
by biological assembly. These materials could potentially revolutionize
the next generation’s communication networks, robotics,
and biomedical devices
Associated Faculty
Eric T. Boder,
Adjunct Associate Professor
Biomolecular engineering, combinatorial libraries and directed
evolution, immunological receptor-ligand interactions, physical
biochemistry of proteins
Leonard A.
Fabiano, Adjunct Professor
Detailed equipment design, application of flowsheet simulation
for real plant design and optimization, distillation system synthesis,
heat exchanger design, plant start-up, and in-plant troubleshooting
Sean P. Holleran,
Lecturer
Undergraduate engineering instruction
Marylin A. Huff, Adjunct Associate Professor
Catalytic partial oxidation of hydrocarbons over supported
metal catalysts; high temperature, non-equilibrium, catalytic
processes in millisecond reactors; novel catalyst supports and
effects of support on reaction behavior; methods of improving
the selectivity by the manipulation of the catalyst surface; involvement
of homogeneous reactions in catalytic systems; deposition of Si
by CVD techniques for photovoltaic applications
Trikur A. Ramanarayanan, Adjunct Professor
Ceramic electrochemistry for electricity and chemicals production,
ceramic membranes for reactive separation of molecules, nanostructures
for modifying reactivity and transport in solids, corrosion-resistant
materials
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