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ChBE Faculty Members

The Chemical and Biological Engineering faculty have been recognized nationally and internationally for their research and their teaching. Many of our faculty have received one or more university or national teaching awards. Fifteen of the faculty have received one or more national research awards and they have received national research awards given to no more than one person per year. The department also has two faculty members whose primary appointment is in another department, and two senior instructors.

The ChBE faculty, when compared to chemical engineering faculty nationwide, are ranked:
    •     Eighth in research publication citation per faculty
    •     Fourth in publications per faculty
    •     Seventh in ASEE research funding per faculty
    •     Eighth in citations per publication

Kristi Anseth
Kristi S. Anseth - Distinguished Professor, Tisone Professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Professor of Surgery (PhD, University of Colorado, 1994) Biomaterials, photopolymerization, tissue engineering, and drug delivery
Chris Bowman
Christopher N. Bowman - Patten Professor, Associate Dean of Research, Professor of Dentistry, and Co-Director I/UCRC (PhD, Purdue, 1991) Biomaterials, photopolymerization, reaction kinetics, polymer chemistry
Stephanie J. Bryant
Stephanie J. Bryant - Assistant Professor (PhD, University of Colorado, 2002) Functional tissue engineering, photopolymerization, biomaterials
David E. Clough
David E. Clough - Professor (PhD, University of Colorado, 1975) Dynamics and control of fluidized-bed process, adaptive control of chemical processes, expert systems in process control, real-time computing
Robert H. Davis
Robert H. Davis - Tisone Professor and Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science (PhD, Stanford, 1983) Fluid mechanics of suspensions, sedimentation, coagulation, filtration, particle collisions in fluids, microbial suspensions, biotechnology, membrane fouling
Janet deGrazia
Janet deGrazia - Senior Instructor (PhD, University of Colorado, 1998)
John L. Falconer
John L. Falconer - Mel and Virginia Clark Professor, President's Teaching Scholar, and Co-Director NSF REU (PhD, Stanford, 1974) Heterogeneous catalysis, environmental catalysis, photocatalysis, zeolite membranes
Scott Fogler
H. Scott Fogler - Adjunct Faculty from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. (PhD, University of Colorado, 1965)
Steven George
Steven M. George - Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Chemistry and Biochemistry (PhD, University of California at Berkeley, 1983) Surface chemistry and thin films, materials processing and environmental interfaces
Ryan T. Gill
Ryan T. Gill - Assistant Professor, Patten Fellow, and C2B2 Managing Director (PhD, University of Maryland, 1999) Evolutionary and inverse metabolic engineering, genomics
Douglas L. Gin
Douglas L. Gin - Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Chemistry and Biochemistry (PhD, California Institute of Technology, 1993) Polymer science, liquid crystal engineering, and nanomaterials chemistry
Christine M. Hrenya
Christine M. Hrenya - Associate Professor (PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, 1996) Gas-particle fluidization, granular flow mechanics, turbulent flows, computational fluid mechanics
Arthi Jayaraman
Arthi Jayaraman - Assistant Professor (PhD, North Carolina State University, 2006) Polymers, nanomaterials, biophysics, molecular simulations, statistical thermodynamics
Dhinakar S. Kompala
Dhinakar S. Kompala - Associate Professor (PhD, Purdue, 1984) Recombinant mammalian and microbial cell cultures, high cell density bioreactors design, bioprocess engineering
Beverly Louie
Beverly Louie - Director of Women in Engineering, Senior Instructor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and ITLL, GEEN 1400 Course Coordinator (ITLL), and Departmental Director of Cooperative Education (PhD, University of Oxford, 1993) Vapor-liquid equilibria, cryogenic separations and heat transfer
Melissa Mahoney
Melissa J. Mahoney - Assistant Professor (PhD, Cornell University, 2000), Novel drug delivery and tissue engineering strategies to promote regeneration in the central nervous system
Will Medlin
J. Will Medlin - Assistant Professor, ConocoPhillips Faculty Fellow, and C2B2 Site Director (PhD, University of Delaware, 2001) Surface chemistry, heterogeneous catalysis, solid-state chemical sensors, computational chemistry
Charles B. Musgrave
Charles B. Musgrave - Associate Professor (PhD, California Institute of Technology, 1994) Catalysis for energy conversion and storage, photovoltaic, batteries, atomic and molecular layer deposition, nanotechnology
Richard D. Noble
Richard D. Noble - Professor and Alfred T. and Betty E. Look Professor (PhD, University of California at Davis, 1976) Co-director MAST, Reversible chemical complexation for separations, mass transfer, mathematical modeling, membranes, thin films
Charlie Nuttelman
Charlie Nuttelman - Instructor (PhD, University of Colorado, 2005) Focused on undergraduate education and searching for novel techniques to improve engineering student comprehension and learning
Theodore W. Randolph
Theodore W. Randolph - Professor and Gillespie Professor (PhD, University of California at Berkeley, 1987) Thermodynamics of protein solutions, lyophilization, supercritical fluid reaction engineering
Robert L. Sani
Robert L. Sani - Professor and Associate Chair (PhD, University of Minnesota, 1963) Fluid dynamics, interfacial dynamics, atmospheric dynamics, applied mathematics, numerical fluid dynamics
Aaron E. Saunders
Aaron E. Saunders - Assistant Professor (PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 2005) Nanocrystal and colloidal nanomaterials
Daniel K. Schwartz
Daniel K. Schwartz - Professor (PhD, Harvard, 1991) Senior Editor of Langmuir, Interfacial phenomena, biomolecules at interfaces, surface modification, and nanoscale materials
Jeffrey W. Stansbury
Jeffrey W. Stansbury - Professor of Dentistry and Chemical and Biological Engineering (PhD, University of Maryland, 1988) Dental and biomedical polymeric materials, photopolymerization processes, network polymers, hydrogels, low shrinkage/expanding polymerizations
Mark Stoykovich
Mark Stoykovich - Assistant Professor (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007) Block copolymers, polymer self-assembly, nanostructured materials, advanced lithography and nanofabrication.
David M. Walba
David M. Walba -Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Associate Director of the FLCMRC (PhD, California Institute of Technology, 1975) Organic stereochemistry, photonic materials and ferroelectric liquid crystals
Alan W. Weimer
Alan W. Weimer - Sears Professor and C2B2 Executive Director (PhD, University of Colorado, 1980) Reactor engineering, advanced ceramic materials, fluidization, environmental resource recovery
Wendy Young 
Wendy Young - Instructor and Co-Department Manager (PhD, University of Colorado, 2002)