Faculty/Staff

Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Faculty

Prof. Douglas W. Bousfield

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

Prof. Robert M. Bowie

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

Prof. William J. DeSisto

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)

Prof. Caitlin Howell

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

Prof. Andre Khalil

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

Prof. Michael D. Mason

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

Prof. David J. Neivandt

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

Prof. Thomas J. Schwartz

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

Prof. Karissa Tilbury

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

Prof. G. Peter van Walsum

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

Prof. Sara L. Walton

Sara L. Walton, Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer
Email: sara.walton@maine.edu
Office: 319 Jenness Hall
Phone: 207.581.2283

Prof. Lisa Weeks

Lisa Weeks, Ph.D.

Lecturer
Email: lisa.weeks@maine.edu
Office: 355 Ferland Engineering Education and Design Center
Phone: 207.581.2296

Prof. M. Clayton Wheeler

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

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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

Prof. Hemant P. Pendse

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.

Prof. Albert Co

Albert Co

Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1979
Polymer processing, non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, rheology, transport phenomena, applied numerical methods.

Prof. John J. Hwalek

John J. Hwalek

Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1982
Process information systems, heat transfer.

Prof. Adriaan R. P. van Heiningen

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.

Prof. Joseph M Genco

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

Cathy Dunn

Administrative Associate
cdunn@maine.edu
207.581.2277

Angel Hildreth

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