Faculty/Staff
Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Faculty
Douglas W. Bousfield, Ph.D.
Calder Professor
Director of the Paper Surface Science Program
Email: bousfld@maine.edu
Office: 317 Jenness Hall
Phone: 207.581.2300
Research Areas: Fluid Mechanics, Rheology, Numerical Methods, Coating Processes
Robert M. Bowie, M.D.
Professor of Practice
Email: robert.bowie@maine.edu
Office: 358 Ferland Engineering Education and Design Center
Phone: 207.581.2216
William DeSisto, Ph.D.
Professor
Email: william.desisto@maine.edu
Office: 305 Jenness Hall
Phone: 207.581.2291
Research Areas: Inorganic membrane synthesis and characterization, application of chemical vapor deposition and atomic layer deposition to membrane synthesis, filtration for microdevices, and selective adsorption materials synthesis and characterization
Sampath Gunukula, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Email: sampath.gunukula@maine.edu
Office: Jenness 301
Phone: 207.581.2265
Research Areas: Thermochemical Conversion, Deep Eutectic Solvent, Lignin Composites, Flow Behavior of Biomass Feedstocks, Sustainability Analysis (LCA/TEA)
Caitlin Howell, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Email: caitlin.howell@maine.edu
Office: 347 Ferland Engineering Education and Design Center
Phone: 207.581.2309
Research Areas: Biological interfaces, bacterial biofilm growth and control, surface-mediated tissue engineering, dynamic materials design
Andre Khalil, Ph.D.
Professor
Email: andre.khalil@maine.edu
Office: 357 Ferland Engineering Education and Design Center
Phone: 207.581.3911
Research Areas: Computational biomedicine, cancer microenvironment, breast cancer, multiscale analyses
Michael D. Mason, Ph.D.
Professor
Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Email: michael.mason@maine.edu
Office: 350 Ferland Engineering Education and Design Center
Phone: 207.581.2344
Research Areas: Photophysics of nanoparticles and molecular nanoprobes, single molecule imaging, time-resolved single photon spectroscopic imaging techniques
David J. Neivandt, Ph.D.
Professor
Email: david.neivandt@maine.edu
Office: 348 Ferland Engineering Education and Design Center
Phone: 207.581.2288
Research Areas: Determination of the orientation and conformation of interfacial species, surface spectroscopies/microscopies
Thomas J. Schwartz, Ph.D., P.E.
Associate Professor
Associate Director, Forest Bioproducts Research Institute
Graduate Program Coordinator
Email: thomas.schwartz@maine.edu
Office: 143 Jenness Hall
Phone: 207.581.2294
Research Areas: Heterogeneous catalysis, reaction kinetics, in situ spectroscopy, biomass conversion to fuels and chemicals
Karissa Tilbury, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Email: karissa.tilbury@maine.edu
Office: 353 Ferland Engineering Education and Design Center
Phone: 207.581.2460
Research Areas: Extracellular matrix remodeling, cellular metabolism, non-linear microscopy techniques: second harmonic generation (SHG) imaging microscopy, multiphoton microscopy, STEM education
G. Peter van Walsum, Ph.D.
Professor
Department Chair
Email: Peter.vanWalsum@Maine.edu
Office: 311 Jenness Hall
Phone: 207.581.2226
Research Areas: Biomass processing, biorefining, renewable energy, fuels and chemicals, process engineering
Sara L. Walton, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer
Email: sara.walton@maine.edu
Office: 319 Jenness Hall
Phone: 207.581.2283
Lisa Weeks, Ph.D.
Lecturer
Email: lisa.weeks@maine.edu
Office: 355 Ferland Engineering Education and Design Center
Phone: 207.581.2296
M. Clayton Wheeler, Ph.D., P.E.
Professor
Director, Forest Bioproducts Research Institute
Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Email: mcwheeler@maine.edu
Office: 148 Jenness Hall
Phone: 207.581.2280
Evan K. Wujcik, Ph.D., M.B.A.
Assistant Professor
Email: Evan.Wujcik@maine.edu
Office: 307 Jenness Hall
Phone: 207-581-2742
Research Areas: Polymers, Composites, Advanced Materials, Sensors, Stretchable Electronics, Conductive Polymers, Organic Mixed Ionic-Electronic Conductors, Self-healing Polymers, Electrospinning, Electrohydrodynamics, Environmental Engineering, Water Quality
Faculty Emeritus
Hemant P. Pendse
Professor Emeritus, Chair Emeritus of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
(Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Syracuse University, 1980)
Sensor development, colloid systems, particulate and multiphase processes, pulp and paper manufacture.
Albert Co
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1979
Polymer processing, non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, rheology, transport phenomena, applied numerical methods.
John J. Hwalek
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1982
Process information systems, heat transfer.
Adriaan R. P. van Heiningen
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., McGill University, 1982
Fundamental chemical engineering aspects of wood pulping, pulp bleaching, and recovery of waste pulping chemicals.
Joseph M. Genco
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1965
Oxygen delignification, refining, pulping, pulp bleaching.
Cooperating UMaine Faculty
- Barbara J. W. Cole – Professor of Chemistry
Ph.D. (Washington State University, 1986) - Douglas J. Gardner – Professor of Sustainable Materials & Technology
Ph.D. (Mississippi State University, 1985) - Stephen M. Shaler – Professor of Sustainable Materials & Technology
Ph.D. (Penn State University, 1986) - Siamak Shams Es-haghi – Assistant Research Professor of Rheology and Polymer Science, Advanced Structures and Composites Center
Ph.D. (The University of Akron, 2015) - Rosemary Smith – Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D. Bioengineering (University of Utah, 1981)
Adjunct Faculty
- Gregory Campbell – Ph.D. (University of Maine, 1966)
- Rod Chelberg – M.D. (University of Minneapolis, 1988)
- Ian D. Dickey – M.D., F.R.C.S.C.
- Sean Ireland – Verso Paper Corporation
- Todd O’Brien – D.P.M. (Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science)
Staff
Cathy Dunn
Administrative Associate
cdunn@maine.edu
207.581.2277
Angel Hildrith
Administrative Assistant
hildreth@maine.edu
207.581.2276
Nathan Gendreau
CHE/FBRI Chemical Engineering
Research and Teaching
Technology Support Manager
nathan.gendreau@maine.edu
207.581.2304
Ray Kennard, Ph.D.
Biomedical Engineering
Research and Teaching
Technologist / Graduate Faculty
raymond.kennard@maine.edu
207.581.6046