Faculty and Staff Directory

Mansoor Amiji
University Distinguished Professor,
jointly appointed in
Pharmaceutical Sciences & Chemical Engineering
Polymeric biomaterials, drug delivery systems, nanomedical technologies
- m.amiji@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3137

Anand Asthagiri
Associate Professor,
Bioengineering cell and tissue engineering, quantitative principles of cancer cell biology and developmental biology
- a.asthagiri@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2996

Debra Auguste
Professor,
Chemical Engineering Bioresponsive drug delivery; cell and tissue engineering; tissue architecture; targeted therapeutics
- d.auguste@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6243

Ambika Bajpayee
Associate Professor,
Bioengineering drug delivery; bio-electrostatics; transport phenomena in biological systems; biomechanics; osteoarthritis
- a.bajpayee@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7018

Magda Barecka
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Chemical Engineering & Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Electrochemical methods for transformation of CO2 into the next generation of chemical building blocks.

Sumner Barenberg
Professor of the Practice,
Bioengineering Design Medical Implants; Medical Implant Due Diligence; Biomaterials, Biopolymers, Biomemetics, Polymer Physics; Biodegradation; Interfacial Phenomena, Chemotaxis, Accelerated Aging
- s.barenberg@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7805

Sidi A. Bencherif
Assistant Research Professor,
Chemical Engineering polymer chemistry and engineering; biomaterials; biomedical engineering; drug delivery; tissue engineering; regenerative medicine; immunotherapy; immunoengineering; vaccines
- s.bencherif@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7103

Rebecca L. Carrier
Professor & Associate Chair of Research,
Chemical Engineering Intestinal tissue engineering, retinal regenerative medicine, oral drug delivery
- r.carrier@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7126

Srirupa Chakraborty
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Chemical Engineering & Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Theoretical biology and biophysics;
Computational modeling and simulations;
Structure-dynamics of complex bio-systems;
Rational design of glycoprotein-based therapeutic strategies
- s.chakraborty@northeastern.edu
- (617) 373-8258

Sally Conant
Senior Co-op Coordinator, Global Engineering & Associate Director, Global, Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, and Civil & Environmental Engineering,
Global Engineering Co-op - s.conant@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6373

Arthur J. Coury
University Distinguished Professor,
Chemical Engineering Polymeric biomaterials for medical products such as implantable electronic devices, hydrogel-based devices and drug delivery systems
- a.coury@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2525

Damilola Daramola
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Chemical Engineering & Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Electrochemical Engineering, Resource Recovery, Wastewater Remediation, Atomic and Process Simulations, Thermosetting Composites, Polymer Upcycling, Food-Energy-Water Nexus

Allison Dennis
Associate Professor,
Chemical Engineering Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) for biomedical imaging and biosensing

Sijia Dong
Affiliated Faculty,
Chemical Engineering Theoretical Chemistry, Biophysics, Materials Chemistry
- s.dong@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7134

Eno E. Ebong
Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in
Chemical Engineering & Bioengineering
Studying the means by which endothelial cell mechanotransduction occurs in order to prevent or promote diseases related to blood vessel dysfunction
- e.ebong@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8744

Matthew J. Eckelman
Associate Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Environmental engineering and sustainability; life cycle assessment; energy efficiency and emissions modeling; environmental assessment of bio and nanomaterials; material and energy use in urban buildings and infrastructure
- m.eckelman@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4256

Adam Ekenseair
Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Director of MS Programs,
Chemical Engineering synthesis and application of novel polymeric biomaterials for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
- a.ekenseair@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8742

Randall Erb
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Structure/property relationships in composites and ceramics, magnetic manipulation, colloidal physics
- r.erb@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4649

Joshua Gallaway
DiPietro Assistant Professor,
Chemical Engineering Electrochemical engineering, batteries and energy storage, and energy sustainability
- j.gallaway@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3769

Vincent G. Harris
University Distinguished Professor and William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Functional materials used in high frequency applications such as sensors, radar, and communication platforms, and nanotechnology, power electronics, and medical diagnostics and therapeutics
- harris@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7603

Sara M. Hashmi
Assistant Professor,
Chemical Engineering Complex fluids, biomaterials & soft materials: manipulation of nanoscale and single-particle properties to control macroscale transport & assembly; microfluidics for biomedical, pharmaceutical & energy applications
- s.hashmi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6985

Francisco Hung
Associate Professor,
Chemical Engineering Molecular modeling and process simulation of interfacial/nanoconfined systems and mixtures relevant to separations, development of nano/bio-materials, energy and the environment
- f.hung@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8619

Safa Jamali
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Microstructure-macroscopic properties relationship in complex fluids; rheology and physics of complex and structured fluids; colloidal suspensions; mesoscale computational science; computational fluid dynamics; physics of living systems; hemorheology and hemodynamics
- s.jamali@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5782

Alison Joyce
Associate Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - a.joyce@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7182

Abigail N. Koppes
Associate Professor,
Chemical Engineering Bioelectric medicine, development of novel interventions and tissue engineered platforms for nerve regeneration and repair, body-on-a-chip for enteric-gut interactions
- a.koppes@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6221

Ryan Koppes
Associate Professor,
Chemical Engineering Neural interface technology, tissue engineering, and musculoskeletal biomechanics
- r.koppes@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8547

Manish Kothakonda
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Chemical Engineering - m.kothakonda@northeastern.edu
- 504-535-8853

Kristina Kutsukos
Assistant Co-op Coordinator,
Global Engineering Co-op - k.kutsukos@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3808

Luke Landherr
COE Distinguished Teaching Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies,
Chemical Engineering Development of comics, visualization, and modules for novel STEM teaching tools for all-ages education
- l.landherr@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8646

Carolyn W.T. Lee-Parsons
Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in
Chemical Engineering & Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Production of valuable pharmaceutical compounds from plant cell cultures, specifically the production of important anti-cancer drug molecules from cell cultures of Catharanthus roseus
- ca.lee@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3634

Brian Lejeune
Lab Operations & Safety Manager,
Chemical Engineering - b.lejeune@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3603

Erel Levine
Associate Professor,
Bioengineering Systems and synthetic biology of the Brain-Immune-Gut super-system; Interactions among hosts and microbes; Deep learning approaches to interpreting biological data and designing biomedical solutions