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 three 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
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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 |
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Christopher N. Bowman - Patten Professor, Professor of Dentistry, and Co-Director I/UCRC (PhD, Purdue, 1991) Biomaterials, photopolymerization, reaction kinetics, polymer chemistry |
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Stephanie J. Bryant - Associate Professor (PhD, University of Colorado, 2002) Functional tissue engineering, photopolymerization, biomaterials |
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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 |
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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 |
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Janet deGrazia - Senior Instructor (PhD, University of Colorado, 1998) |
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John L. Falconer - Mel and Virginia Clark Professor, President's Teaching Scholar, and Co-Director NSF REU (PhD, Stanford, 1974) Inorganic membranes, heterogeneous catalysis, solar cells, and applications of atomic and molecular layer deposition to catalysts and membranes |
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H. Scott Fogler
- Adjunct Faculty from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. (PhD,
University of Colorado, 1965) |
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Hans Funke - Associate Professor Adjunct (Ph.D. University of Heidelberg) Separations, inorganic membranes, nanoporous materials, thermochemical cycles |
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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 |
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Ryan T. Gill - Associate Professor, Patten Fellow, and C2B2 Managing Director (PhD, University of Maryland, 1999) Evolutionary and inverse metabolic engineering, genomics, synthetic biology |
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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 |
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Christine M. Hrenya - Professor (PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, 1996) Gas-particle fluidization, granular flow mechanics, turbulent flows, computational fluid mechanics |
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Arthi Jayaraman - Patten Assistant Professor (PhD, North Carolina State University, 2006) Polymers, nanomaterials, biomolecular recognition, molecular simulations, statistical thermodynamics |
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Joel L. Kaar - Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., at the University of Pittsburgh) Non-aqueous enzymology, protein structure and function at material interfaces, protein engineering, biofuels, tissue engineering, and bioremediation |
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Dhinakar S. Kompala - Associate Professor (PhD, Purdue, 1984) Recombinant mammalian and microbial cell cultures, high cell density bioreactors design, bioprocess engineering |
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Melissa J. Mahoney - Assistant Professor (PhD, Cornell University, 2000), Novel drug delivery and tissue engineering strategies to promote regeneration in the central nervous system |
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J. Will Medlin - Associate Professor,
ConocoPhillips Faculty Fellow, and C2B2 Site Director (PhD, University of Delaware, 2001) Surface chemistry, heterogeneous catalysis, solid-state chemical sensors, computational chemistry |
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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 |
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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 |
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Charlie Nuttelman - Instructor (PhD, University of Colorado, 2005) Focused on undergraduate education and searching for novel techniques to improve engineering student comprehension and learning |
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Theodore W. Randolph - Professor and Gillespie Professor (PhD, University of California at Berkeley, 1987) Thermodynamics of protein solutions, lyophilization, supercritical fluid reaction engineering |
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Sai T. Reddy - Assistant Professor (PhD, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology – Institute of Bioengineering, Lausanne, Switzerland, Oct 2008) |
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Robert L. Sani - Professor and Associate Chair (PhD, University of Minnesota, 1963) Fluid dynamics, interfacial dynamics, atmospheric dynamics, applied mathematics, numerical fluid dynamics |
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Daniel K. Schwartz - Professor (PhD, Harvard, 1991) Senior Editor of Langmuir, Interfacial phenomena, Biomolecules at interfaces, Surface modification via molecular self-assembly, Single-molecule microscopy methods, Nanoscale surface structures. |
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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 |
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Mark P. Stoykovich - Assistant Professor (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007) Block copolymers, polymer self-assembly, nanostructured materials, advanced lithography and nanofabrication |
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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 |
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Alan W. Weimer - H.T. Sears Memorial Professor and C2B2 Executive Director (PhD, University of Colorado, 1980) Particle surface modification, solar-thermal processing; nano-energy |
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Wendy Young - Instructor and Co-Department Manager (PhD, University of Colorado, 2002) |
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Miao Yu - Assistant Research Professor (PhD, University of Colorado, 2007) Solar cells, advanced nanostructures for separations, and aligned carbon nanotube synthesis and novel applications |
