Research By Faculty Member

The Chemical and Biological Engineering faculty have been recognized nationally and internationally for their research and their teaching. Nine of the 18 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 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

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 Assistant Professor (PhD, University of Colorado, 2002) Functional tissue engineering, photopolymerization, biomaterials

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 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, Associate Chair Senior Instructor (PhD, University of Colorado, 1998)

John L. Falconer, Department Chair Mel and Virginia Clark Professor, President's Teaching Scholar, and Co-Director NSF REU (PhD, Stanford, 1974) Heterogeneous catalysis, environmental catalysis, photocatalysis, zeolite membranes

Steven 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 Assistant Professor, Patten Fellow, and C2B2 Managing Director (PhD, University of Maryland, 1999) Evolutionary and inverse metabolic engineering, genomics

Douglas L. Gin Associate 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 Associate Professor (PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, 1996) Gas-particle fluidization, granular flow mechanics, turbulent flows, computational fluid mechanics

Arthi Jayaraman Assistant Professor (PhD, North Carolina State, 2006) Nanomaterials, Biophysics, Molecular Simulations and Theory, Statistical Thermodynamics

Dhinakar S. Kompala Associate Professor (PhD, Purdue, 1984) Recombinant mammalian and microbial cell cultures, high cell density bioreactors design, bioprocess engineering

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 Assistant Professor (PhD, Cornell University, 2000), Novel drug delivery and tissue engineering strategies to promote regeneration in the central nervous system

Will Medlin Assistant Professor, Graduate Director, and C2B2 Site Director (PhD, University of Delaware, 2001) Surface chemistry, heterogeneous catalysis, solid-state chemical sensors, computational chemistry

Charles B. Musgrave Associate Professor (PhD, California Institute of Technology, 1994) Catalysts for energy conversion and storage, photovoltaics, batteries, atomic and molecular layer deposition, nanotechnology

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 Instructor (PhD, University of Colorado, 2005)

Amy Poshusta Instructor (PhD, University of Colorado, 2000)

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 Professor and Associate Chair (PhD, University of Minnesota, 1963) Fluid dynamics, interfacial dynamics, atmospheric dynamics, applied mathematics, numerical fluid dynamics

Aaron E. Saunders Assistant Professor (PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 2005) Nanocrystal and colloidal nanomaterials

Daniel K. Schwartz Professor (PhD, Harvard, 1991) Senior Editor of Langmuir, Interfacial phenomena, biomolecules at interfaces, surface modification, and nanoscale materials

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 Assistant Professor (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007) Block copolymers, polymer self-assembly, nanostructured materials, advanced lithography and nanofabrication.

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 Sears Professor and C2B2 Executive Director (PhD, University of Colorado, 1980) Reactor engineering, advanced ceramic materials, fluidization, environmental resource recovery

Retired Faculty