Faculty and Staff Directory

Assistant Professor, 

Electrochemical methods for transformation of CO2 into the next generation of chemical building blocks.

Assistant Professor, 

Electrochemical engineering for wastewater treatment, polymer upcycling, and sustainable resource recovery

Affiliated Faculty, 

Theoretical Chemistry, Biophysics, Materials Chemistry

Professor and Associate Chair for Faculty, 

Life cycle assessment and techno-economic analysis, sustainable production and green design, energy systems and emissions modeling, climate change and health, healthcare sustainability

Associate Professor, 

Electrochemical engineering, batteries and energy storage, and energy sustainability

Assistant Professor, 

Complex fluids, biomaterials & soft materials: manipulation of nanoscale and single-particle properties to control macroscale transport & assembly; microfluidics for biomedical, pharmaceutical & energy applications

Associate Professor, 

Computer simulation of interfaces, nano-confined systems and mixtures for applications in separations, healthcare, energy and the environment

Assistant Professor, 

Using green chemistry and engineering principles to design of functional, sustainable, and benign materials, products, and processes

Associate Professor, 

Production of valuable pharmaceutical compounds from plant cell cultures, specifically the production of important anti-cancer drug molecules from cell cultures of Catharanthus roseus

Distinguished University and Cabot Professor, 

Structure-property relationships in magnetofunctional materials for energy transformations including advanced permanent magnet materials and magnetocaloric materials; strategic materials and supply chains for technological application

Associate Professor, 

Design and manipulation of molecular/materials chemistry and structure for new property discovery, new functionality and technology development by combining theoretical and experimental methods; high performance computing, quantum chemistry, statistical mechanics, polymer physics, materials and biomolecular engineering

Affiliated Faculty, 

Physical/materials chemistry

Affiliated Faculty, 

Teaching Professor, 

Engineering education with a focus on technology enhancing pedagogues; Globalization in the classroom and international educational experiences; Sustainable energy and clean water technologies.

Assistant Professor, 

Design photocatalysts to improve efficiency and reactivity. Elucidate light-activated chemical reaction mechanisms with time-resolved spectroscopy.

Assistant Professor, 

Electrochemical and biological ways to make important chemical products from gases and renewable energy

Affiliated Faculty, 

Aerospace materials, alternative and renewable energy materials and systems, energy storage and thermal management, bioinspired materials, additive manufacturing, advanced ceramics and composites

Professor, 

Biosensing, nanomedicines, nanoparticles, nano enhanced process

Assistant Professor, 

Experimental and theoretical fluid mechanics in multiphase and multiscale systems for advanced manufacturing, energy, and medical applications

Professor, 

Our group investigates biomolecules at the single-molecule level. We develop nanopore-based and other nanotechnology-based methods for probing the structure and dynamic behavior of biomolecules. We employ optical waveguides and single-molecule enzymatic approaches for RNA sequencing, and utilize engineered nanopore sensors for applications in single-molecule proteomics. We are experimentalists, but we also use advanced computational tools to perform big data analysis.

Professor, 

Plant biochemistry, agricultural biotechnology, food allergy, drug discovery

Professor and Associate Chair for Research, 

Development of detailed microkinetic models for complex reacting systems; automating the discovery and calculation of reaction pathways; heterogeneous catalysis and electrocatalysis.

Assistant Professor, 

Metabolic engineering and synthetic biology for sustainable biochemical production and human health

Assistant Professor, 

Computational modeling of heterogeneous catalysis for energy and sustainability

Associate Professor, 

Nanoscale thermal transport; Nanoengineered materials; Multifunctional composites; Microfluidics; Chemical and biological nanosensors; Renewable energy harvesting; Thermophotovoltaics; Photon-based radiative cooling; Interfacial water desalination; Battery thermal management system; Proton-exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell; Biomass hydrogel; Energy storage system; Nanophotonics; Light-matter interaction