Chemical and Biomedical Engineering

Ph.D. (California at Berkeley, 1986)

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

Professor of Practice. Long distance medicine, rural medicine, remote search and rescue, UAVs and sensor use in assessing and finding lost and missing persons, telemedicine in search and rescue, cold injury frostbite and hypothermia.

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.

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

Professor. Computational biomedicine, cancer microenvironment, breast cancer, multiscale analyses.

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

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

Professor and J. Larcom Ober Chair. Pulp and paper manufacturing, lignocellulose materials, nanocellulose, value-added lignocellulosic products.

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

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

Assistant Professor. Extracellular matrix remodeling, cellular metabolism, non-linear microscopy techniques: second harmonic generation (SHG) imaging microscopy, multiphoton microscopy, STEM education.

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

Lecturer.

Lecturer. Biomedical engineering, transport phenomena.

Professor. Biofuels, catalysis.

Assistant Professor. Polymers, composites, advanced materials, stretchable electronics, conductive polymers, organic mixed ionic-electronic conductors, self-healing polymers, electrospinning, electrohydrodynamics, green engineering, environmental engineering, water quality.

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

Professor Emeritus. 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.

Professor Emeritus. Process information systems, heat transfer.