Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Faculty

	Rizia Bardhan Research Focus: Solar energy conversion, nanomedicine and biosensing, active plasmonic/photonic metamaterials. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics,Nano Science and Technology,Energy and Natural Resources,Regenerative Medicine	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Peter Cummings Research Focus: Molecular modeling of fluids, computational nanoscience, molecular rheology of lubricants, mathematical modeling of biological systems Intellectual Neighborhoods: Big Data Science and Engineering,Nano Science and Technology,Energy and Natural Resources	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Scott Guelcher Research Focus: Design, synthesis, and characterization of polymeric biomaterials for bone tissue engineering Intellectual Neighborhoods: Regenerative Medicine	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Kane Jennings Research Focus: Surface chemistry, self-assembly, films, coatings, biohybrid materials, bioinspired materials, and bioreplica materials. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology,Energy and Natural Resources	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Piran Kidambi Research Focus: In-situ metrology, process engineering, material science	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Paul Laibinis Research Focus: Chemical sensors, antifouling coatings, responsive interfaces, and nanoparticle dispersions Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Matthew Lang Research Focus: Biological motors, cell signaling and immunology Intellectual Neighborhoods: Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics,Nano Science and Technology,Energy and Natural Resources	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Ethan Lippmann Research Focus: Human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC) differentiation, genetic engineering, microscale fabrication and surface modification, and molecular selection/directed evolution Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology,Regenerative Medicine	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Clare M^cCabe Research Focus: Molecular modeling of nanoscale systems, development and application of molecular theories, improving efficiency of biofuel conversion, computational studies of skin lipid self-assembly Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology,Energy and Natural Resources	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Peter Pintauro Research Focus: New proton-exchange membranes for fuel cells, development of space-charge models for ion uptake and transport in ion-exchange membranes, organic electrochemical synthesis Intellectual Neighborhoods: Regenerative Medicine,Nano Science and Technology,Energy and Natural Resources	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Marjan Rafat Research Focus: Tumor microenvironment, biomimetic materials, tissue biomechanics, tumor-stromal interactions, tumor immunology Intellectual Neighborhoods: Regenerative Medicine	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Bridget Rogers Research Focus: Surfaces, interfaces, and films of technically important materials Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology,Energy and Natural Resources	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Carlos Silvera Batista Research Focus: Colloids and interfacial phenomena, interparticle forces, self- and directed assembly, colloidal crystals, active motion, reconfigurable materials. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	John Wilson Research Focus: Molecularly engineered materials, intracellular delivery of antigens and molecular adjuvants, engineering vaccine colloids and surfaces, cancer immunotherapy, diabetes and islet transplantation Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology,Regenerative Medicine	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Jamey Young Research Focus: Metabolic engineering; systems biology; diabetes, obesity and metabolic disorders; tumor metabolism; autotrophic metabolism; cell culture engineering Intellectual Neighborhoods: Regenerative Medicine,Energy and Natural Resources,Big Data Science and Engineering	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Russell Dunn Research Focus: Polymer and chemical technologies, plant-wide design and optimization strategies, chemical product and process safety, polymer product characterization and failure analysis, and process integration Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources,Risk and Reliability	02Teaching
	Julie Sharp Research Focus: Job search communication, learning style theory, and integrating communication in engineering courses	02Teaching
	Christopher Iacovella Research Focus: Structure and tribological properties of nano confined fluids, structure-conductance relationships in atomic and molecular junctions, the phase behavior of polymer-grafted nanoparticles, and the self-assembly of lipids and biomembranes.	03Research
	Julianne Vernon Research Focus: Engineering education, inclusion of underrepresented students in STEM, instructional design, first year programs	03Research
	Ryszard Wycisk Research Focus: Energy conversion and storage; membranes and separators from functional polymers and composites. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology,Energy and Natural Resources	03Research
	Ales Prokop Research Focus: Interface between biology/medicine and engineering: gene, antigen, drug and protein delivery polymeric systems; systems analysis of signalling pathways, particularly of cancer (p53)	04Adjunct/Adjoint
	Todd Giorgio Research Focus: Protease-responsive biosensors for siRNA and drug delivery in vitro and in vivo, advanced materials for immunomodulation devices for sepsis treatment. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology,Regenerative Medicine	05Affiliated
	Kelsey Hatzell Intellectual Neighborhoods: Energy and Natural Resources,Nano Science and Technology	05Affiliated
	David Kosson Research Focus: Nuclear waste management, environmental remediation, leaching assessment and methods, management of residuals from energy production, contaminant mass transfer applied to groundwater, soil, sediment and waste systems. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology,Energy and Natural Resources,Risk and Reliability	05Affiliated
	Shihong Lin Research Focus: Membrane processes, water-energy-environment nexus, environmental surface science, environmental application and implication of nanotechnology Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology,Energy and Natural Resources	05Affiliated
	Sandra Rosenthal Research Focus: Semiconductor nanocrystals Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology	05Affiliated
	Marija Zanic Research Focus: in vitro reconstitution, computation, and theory, to further illuminate the complexities of the microtubule cytoskeleton	05Affiliated
	Kenneth Debelak Research Focus: Automotive catalyst coating, plant-wide modeling, simulation, and control, polymer processing.	06Emeritus
	M. Douglas LeVan Research Focus: Fixed-bed adsorption, adsorption from the vapor phase, adsorption equilibria Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology,Energy and Natural Resources	06Emeritus
	John Roth Research Focus: Chemical oxidation of pollutants, emissions of volatile organic carbons (VOCs) from surface impoundments, efficient production of oxygen by the reduction of ilmenite	06Emeritus
	Karl Schnelle, Jr. Research Focus: Destruction of illicit drugs, reduction of sulfur oxide and nitrogen oxide emissions in coal fired boilers	06Emeritus
	Robert Tanner Research Focus: Fermentation process development of air fluidized bed reactors, protein recovery by bubble and foam fractionation and enzyme kinectics and fermentation modeling	06Emeritus