Faculty: The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
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Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
2113 Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building (#090)
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-2115
For affiliate and adjunct professors, please refer to their home departments for contact information or to the address given.
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Chair
Ehrman, Sheryl
Professor
Keystone Professor
Ph.D., UCLA, 1997
Room 2113D Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: sehrman@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1917
Research Interests: Aerosol and nanoparticle technology.
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Faculty
Adomaitis, Raymond A.
Professor
AICHE Fellow
Associate Chair and Undergraduate Program Director
Joint appointment: Institute for Systems Research
Ph.D., Illinois Institute of Technology, 1988
Room 2255 A.V. Williams Building
E-mail: adomaiti@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-2969
Anisimov, Mikhail
Professor
Member, New York Academy of Sciences
Fellow, AIChE
Fellow, APS
Fellow, AAAS
Fellow, International Academy of Refrigeration
Fellow, Newtonian Society
Joint appointment: Institute for Physical Science & Technology
Ph.D., Moscow State University, 1969
Room 2115 IPST Building
E-mail: anisimov@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-8049
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Calabrese, Richard V.
Professor
Fellow, AIChE
Ph.D., University of Massechusetts, 1976
Room 1208C Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: rvc@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1908
Choi, Kyu Yong
Professor
Member, National Academy of Engineering of Korea
Member, Korean National Academy of Science and Technology
Fellow, Korean Academy of Science and Technology
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin—Madison, 1984
Room 1208B Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: choi@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1907
Research Interests: Polymer reaction engineering.
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Dimitrakopoulos, Panagiotis (Panos)
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998
Room 1227B Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: dimitrak@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-8166
Research Interests: Computational fluid dynamics, bio/micro-fluidics, biophysics and numerical analysis. Homepage »
Karlsson, Amy J.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin—Madison, 2009
Room 1223 Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: ajkarl@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-2610
Research Interests: Protein engineering, biomolecular recognition, fungal disease. Homepage »
Klauda, Jeffery
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Delaware, 2003
Room 1227A Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: jbklauda@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1320
Research Interests: Cell membrane biophysics, thermodynamics, and molecular simulations. Profile » | Web Site »
Liu, Dongxia
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Rochester, 2009
Room 1208A Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: liud@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-3522
Research Interests: Materials synthesis and engineering, reaction engineering, heterogeneous catalysis, fuel cells, biofuels, energy. Web Site »
Raghavan, Srinivasa R.
Professor and Patrick and Marquerite Sung Chair of Chemical Engineering
Associate Chair and Graduate Program Director
Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 1998
Room 1227C Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: sraghava@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-8164
Research Interests: Self-assembled systems, containers for drug delivery, "smart" fluids, polymer and colloidal gels, polymer-CNT nanocomposites, scattering techniques/rheology. Homepage » | Web Site »
Sriram, Ganesh
Assistant Professor
Keystone Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Iowa State University, 2004
Room 1208D Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: gsriram@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1261
Research Interests: Systems biology and metabolic engineering, including metabolic networks, regulatory networks, and fuel production from biorenewable resources, genetically inherited metabolic disorders. Profile » | Lab Web Site » | Web Site »
Wachsman, Eric
Professor and William L. Crentz Centennial Chair in Energy Research
Joint appointment with Materials Science and Engineering
Director, University of Maryland Energy Research Center
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1990
Room 3232 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: ewach@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-8193
Research Interests: Development of solid oxide fuel cells, gas separation membranes, solid-state gas sensors, electrocatalytic conversion of CH4, post-combustion reduction of NOx using advanced ion conducting materials. Homepage »
Wang, Chunsheng
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Zhejiang University, 1995
Room 1223A Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: cswang@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-0352
Research Interests: Li-ion batteries, electric energy storage, fuel cells, electroanalytical technologies, nanostructured materials. Profile » | Web Site »
Wang, Nam Sun
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Caltech, 1989
Room 1210 Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: nsw@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1910
Research Interests: Biochemical/bioprocess engineering, biotechnology/bioengineering, on-line chemical/biochemical process monitoring, biosensors, alternative fuels. Web Site »
Weigand, William A.
Professor
Ph.D., Illinois Institute of Technology, 1968
Room 1223B Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: weigand@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1916
Research Interests: Biochemical engineering, bioprocess control and optimization. Homepage »
TopDr. Aldo Ponce
Lecturer/Laboratory Coordinator
Ph.D., Kansas State University, 2002
1223B Chemical & Nuclear Engineering Building
E-Mail: aldop@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1074
Fax: (301) 405-6327
Al-Sheikhly, Mohamad
Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Ph.D., University of Newcastle Upon Tyne (UK), 1981
Room 2309F Chemical and Nuclear
Engineering Building
E-mail: mohamad@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-5214
Research Interests: Polymers, radiation engineering, electronic packaging materials, environmental effects. Homepage »
Bentley, William E.
Robert E. Fischell Distinguished Professor
Chair, Fischell Department of Bioengineering
Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, 1989
Room 2330 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: bentley@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-4321
Fax: (301) 405-9953
Research Interests: Biomolecular and metabolic engineering; cell-to-cell communication; heterologous protein expression; device/bio interfaces. Homepage » | Web Site »
DeVoe, Don
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1997
Room 3125, Building 088, Glenn L. Martin Hall
E-mail: ddev@eng.umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-8125
Research Interests: Microfluidic systems for bioanalysis, MEMS. Home Page »
Fisher, John
Professor
Fischell Department of Bioengineering
Ph.D., Rice University, 2003
Room 3238 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: jpfisher@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-7475
Research Interests: Biomedical engineering; synthesis of novel hydrolytically degradable, implantable polymers; study and use of biomaterials for the delivery of therapeutics, scaffolds for orthopaedic tissue engineering applications; interaction of biomaterials and tissues. Web Site »
Gregory Jackson
Professor
Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Colorado Fuel Cell Center
Colorado School of Mines
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1994
E-mail: gsjackso@mines.edu
Research Interests: Solid oxide fuel cells (anode materials and chemistry, hydrocarbon tolerance, system integration), PEM fuel cells (system integration with fuel reformers, CO tolerant electrocatalysts), H2 production (production from hydrocarbons, membrane separators and reactors), catalytic oxidation (catalytic combustion, computational model development), combustion (premixed flame stability/extinction behavior, gas turbines), thermoelectric waste heat recovery. Homepage »
Kofinas, Peter
Professor and Associate Chair
Fischell Department of Bioengineering
Director, Graduate Program in Bioengineering
Ph.D., M.I.T., 1994
Room 1120 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: kofinas@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-7335
Fax: (301) 405-0523
Research Interests: Biomimetic recognition of viruses using molecularly imprinted polymers, protein and virus recognition using block copolymer patterns, self-assembled nanoarchitectures for flexible, high energy density supercapacitors and batteries, and functional nano-structured polymers. Web Site »
Lee, Sang Bok
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Ph.D., Seoul National University, 1997
Room 0107 Chemistry Building
E-mail: slee@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-7906
Research Interests: Electrochemical synthesis of nanotube-structured materials for ultrafast electrochromics, supercapacitors, and solar cells; magnetic nanotubes for targeted drug delivery and chemical & biochemical separation; shape-coded nanotubes for dispersible nanosensors; wetting and de-wetting, transport, and diffusion properties of pseudo-one-dimensional silica nanotubes; nanoscale single-channel for chemical and biochemical sensors. Homepage »
Seog, Joonil
Assistant Professor
Fischell Department of Bioengineering and
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003
Room 1140 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: jseog@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1885
Fax: (301) 314-2029
Research Interests: Structure-function relationships of biological molecules using single molecule force spectroscopy; nanomechanics of biopolymers and synthetic macromolecules. Lab Description » | Homepage »
Zachariah, Michael
Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
and Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), 1986
Room 2125 Martin Hall
E-mail:mrz@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-4311
Research Interests: Nanoparticle science, manufacturing and measurements. Homepage » | Web Site »
Peters, Cornelis J.
Program Chairman & Distinguished Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Petroleum Institute, UAE
Ph.D., Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, 1986
Bu Hasa Building, Room 2207A
The Petroleum Institute
P.O. Box 2533
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Phone: +971 2 607 5492
E-mail: cpeters@pi.ac.ae
Research Interests: Thermodynamics, phase equilibria, ionic liquids, hydrogen storage, gas hydrates and CO2-sequestration. Homepage »
Klapa, Maria
Adjunct Professor
Foundation for Research and Technology—Hellas, Institute of Chemical Engineering and High-Temperature Chemical Processes
(FORTH/ICE-HT, Greece)
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001
E-mail: mklapa@umd.edu, mklapa@iceht.forth.gr
Phone: (301) 405-1935
Research Interests: Metabolic engineering, metabolic flux analysis and metabolic profiling, functional genomics, mathematical modeling of biological networks, quantitative systems biology. Homepage »
Burka, Maria
Visiting Senior Research Scientist
2265 A.V. Williams Building
E-mail: mburka@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-8736
Greer, Sandra C.
Professor Emerita
Provost and Dean of Faculty,
Mills College
Ph.D., The University of Chicago, 1969
Research Interests: Physical chemistry, polymer science, biomacromolecules, phase equilibria, ethics in science and engineering. Homepage »
McAvoy, Thomas J.
Professor Emeritus
Joint appointment: Institute for Systems Research
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1964
E-mail: mcavoy@umd.edu
Research Interests: Process control, fault detection. Homepage »
Regan, Thomas M.
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Tulane University, 1967
E-mail: tregan@umd.edu
Research Interests: Transport phenomena, engineering education engineering. Homepage »
Sengers, Jan V.
Distinguished University Professor Emeritus
Fellow, AAAS
Fellow, AIChE
Fellow, APS
Fellow, ASME
Fellow, IAPWS
Fellow, World Innovation Foundation
Fellow, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
Correspondent, Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences
Joint Appointment: Institute for Physical Science & Technology
Ph.D., University of Amsterdam, 1962
Room 2117 IPST Building
E-mail: sengers@ipst.umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-4805
Fax: (301) 314-9404
Research Interests: Critical phenomena, thermophysical properties of fluids and fluid mixtures. Homepage » | Web Site »
Smith, Theodore G.
Professor Emeritus
D.Sc., Washington University (St. Louis), 1960
E-mail: tgsmith@umd.edu
Research Interests: Polymer science and engineering. Homepage »
