Research By Faculty Member
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
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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, Associate Dean of Research, Professor of Dentistry, and Co-Director I/UCRC (PhD, Purdue, 1991) Biomaterials, photopolymerization, reaction kinetics, polymer chemistry |
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Stephanie J. Bryant - Assistant 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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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 |
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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 |
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Ryan T. Gill - Assistant Professor, Patten Fellow, and C2B2 Managing Director (PhD, University of Maryland, 1999) Evolutionary and inverse metabolic engineering, genomics |
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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 |
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Christine M. Hrenya - Associate Professor (PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, 1996) Gas-particle fluidization, granular flow mechanics, turbulent flows, computational fluid mechanics |
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Arthi Jayaraman - Assistant Professor (PhD, North Carolina State University, 2006) Polymers, nanomaterials, biophysics, molecular simulations, statistical thermodynamics |
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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 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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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 |
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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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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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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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Aaron E. Saunders - Assistant Professor (PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 2005) Nanocrystal and colloidal nanomaterials |
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Daniel K. Schwartz - Professor (PhD, Harvard, 1991) Senior Editor of Langmuir, Interfacial phenomena, biomolecules at interfaces, surface modification, and nanoscale materials |
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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 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 - Sears Professor and C2B2 Executive Director (PhD, University of Colorado, 1980) Reactor engineering, advanced ceramic materials, fluidization, environmental resource recovery |
