Chemical and Biological Engineering

Faculty

• Douglas W. Bousfield
  Ph.D. (California at Berkeley, 1986)

Professor. Fluid mechanics, rheology, numerical methods, coating processes.

• Caitlin Howell
  Ph.D. Physical Chemistry (University of Heidelberg, Germany, 2011)

Assistant Professor. Biological interfaces, bacterial biofilm growth and control, surface-mediated tissue engineering, dynamic materials design.

• Albert Co
  Ph.D. (Wisconsin, 1979)

Associate Professor. Polymer processing, non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, rheology, transport phenomena, applied numerical methods.

• William J. DeSisto
  Ph.D. (Brown University, 1989)

Professor. 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.

• Adriaan R. P. van Heiningen
  Ph.D. (McGill, 1982)

J. Larcom Ober Professor of Chemical Engineering. Fundamental chemical engineering aspects of wood pulping, pulp bleaching, and recovery of waste pulping chemicals. “Integrated Forest Products BioRefinery” which produces bio-energy and biomaterials besides pulp, paper and wood products.

• John J. Hwalek
  Ph.D. (Illinois, 1982)

Associate Professor. Process information systems, heat transfer.

• Michael D. Mason
  Ph.D. (California at Santa Barbara, 2000)

Associate Professor.  Photophysics of nanoparticles and molecular nanoprobes, single molecule imaging, time-resolved single photon spectroscopic imaging techniques.

• Paul J. Millard
  Ph.D. (University of Maryland, 1984)

Associate Professor. Microbial biosensors, physiological genomics of the zebrafish, fluorescence technology.

• David J. Neivandt
  Ph.D. (University of Melbourne, 1999)

Professor. Determination of the orientation and conformation of interfacial species, surface spectroscopies/microscopies.

• Hemant P. Pendse
  Ph.D. (Syracuse, 1980)

Professor and Department Chair. Sensor development, colloid systems, particulate and multiphase processes, pulp and paper manufacture.

• Thomas J. Schwartz
  Ph.D. (Wisconsin, 2015)

Assistant Professor. Heterogeneous catalysis, reaction kinetics, in situ spectroscopy, biomass conversion to fuels and chemicals.

• Karissa Tilbury
  Ph.D. (Wisconsin, 2015)

Assistant Professor. 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. (Dartmouth College, 1998)

Associate Professor. Biomass processing, biorefining, renewable energy, fuels and chemicals, process engineering.

• Sara L. Walton
  Ph.D. (University of Maine, 2011)

Lecturer.

• M. Clayton Wheeler
  Ph.D. (University of Texas – Austin, 1997)

Professor. Biofuels, catalysis.

Faculty Emeriti

• Joseph M. Genco
  Ph.D. (Ohio State, 1965)

Professor Emeritus. Oxygen delignification, refining, pulping, pulp bleaching.

• Douglas M. Ruthven
  Ph.D., Sc.D. (University of Cambridge, 1966, 1988)

Professor Emeritus. Fundamentals of adsorption and adsorption processes.

Cooperating Faculty

• Barbara J. W. Cole
  Ph.D. (Washington, 1986)

Professor of Chemistry.

• Douglas J. Gardner
  Ph.D. (Mississippi State, 1985)

Associate Professor of Wood Science and Technology.

• Balunkeswar (Balu) Nayak
  Ph.D. (Washington State University, 2011)

Assistant Professor of Food Processing.

• Stephen M. Shaler
  Ph.D. (Penn State, 1986)

Professor of Wood Science and Technology and Forest Engineering.

• Rosemary Smith
  Ph.D. Bioengineering (University of Utah, 1981)

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Adjunct Faculty

• Ian D. Dickey
  M.D., F.R.C.S.C.

Eastern Maine Medical Center

• Sean Ireland

Verso Paper Corporation

• Nancy Kravit
  Ph.D.

Tethys Research

• Nick Triantafillopollous
  Ph.D. (IPST, 1988)

Omnova Corp.