Faculty expertise

Our faculty conducts research that tackles grand challenges of chemical engineering and materials science.

  • Biomolecular engineering and biomaterials
  • Energy production and storage
  • Process systems engineering and control
  • Soft matter and complex fluids
  • Sustainability and manufacturing 

Biomolecular engineering and biomaterials

  • Zhiqiang Cao

    Zhiqiang Cao

    Faculty profile

    • Medical implants
    • Drug delivery to treat diabetes
    • Antimicrobial materials
       
  • Haipeng Liu

    Haipeng Liu

    Faculty profile

    • Chemical immunology
    • Vaccine formulation
    • Biomaterials
       
  • Howard Matthew

    Howard Matthew

    Faculty profile

    • Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
    • Stem cells
    • 3D tissue models
       
  • Carolyn Harris

    Carolyn Harris

    Faculty profile

    • Development of improved devices and materials for the treatment of hydrocephalus
    • Neuroinflammation and cell-biomaterial interactions
    • Development of novel benchtop models for fluid flow in biological systems using 3D printing

Energy production and storage

  • Da Deng

    Da Deng

    Faculty profile

    • Rechargeable batteries
    • Environmental technology
    • Functional nanomaterials
       
  • Ka (Simon) Ng

    Ka (Simon) Ng

    Faculty profile

    • Catalysts
    • Biodiesel
    • Sensors
       

Process systems engineering and control

  • Helen Durand

    Helen Durand

    Faculty profile

    • Plant-wide control of nonlinear systems
    • Centralized and distributed economic model predictive control
    • Operational safety of closed-loop processes
    • Reduced-order modeling in predictive control
       

Soft matter and complex fluids

  • Charles Manke

    Charles Manke

    Faculty profile

    • Rheology of complex fluids and biopolymers
    • Molecular and mesoscopic simulations
    • Biomembrane
       
  • Jeffrey Potoff

    Jeffrey Potoff

    Faculty profile

    • Biomolecular structure and function
    • Membrane fusion
    • Computational materials design
       
  • Yingxi Elaine Zhu

    Yingxi Elaine Zhu

    Faculty profile

    • Macromolecular structural dynamics and assembly
    • Rheology and (bio)tribology
    • AC-electrokinetics and micro fluids
       
  • Alex Albaugh

    Alex Albaugh

    Faculty profile

    • Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics
    • Molecular simulation
    • Molecular motors
  • Camille Bishop

    Camille Bishop

    Faculty profile

    • Glasses
    • Soft X-ray scattering
    • Thin film deposition

Sustainability and manufacturing

  • Yinlun Huang

    Yinlun Huang

    Faculty profile

    • Multiscale sustainability science
    • Integrated material-product-process design and decision making
    • Sustainable and smart manufacturing 
       
  • Gina Shreve

    Gina Shreve

    Faculty profile

    • Surface coatings
    • Landfill remediation
    • Leachate