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Chemical and Biological Engineering

Department Chair

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Brian Pfleger

Karen and William Monfre Professor and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor

Research interests: Metabolic Engineering, Biotechnology, Synthetic Biology, Natural Products, Protein Engineering, Cyanobacteria, Sustainability

Faculty

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Styliani Avraamidou

Duane H. and Dorothy M. Bluemke Assistant Professor

Research interests: Mathematical Optimization and Control, Energy Systems Engineering , Circular Economy Systems Engineering , Catalytic technologies that accelerate desired chemical transformations will play a central role in addressing urgent sustainability challenges of the 21 st century, such as produ.

Whitney Loo

Conway Assistant Professor

Research interests: Polymers, soft materials, nanoscience, sustainability, energy storage

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David Lynn

Duane H. and Dorothy M. Bluemke Professor and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor

Other affiliations: Chemistry

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Manos Mavrikakis

Ernest Micek Distinguished Chair, James A. Dumesic Professor,
and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor

Research interests: Thermodynamics, kinetics and catalysis, electrocatalysis, surface science, nanoscience, computational chemistry, electronic materials, fuel cells applications, environmental chemical engineering, sensors and ch.

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Mai Ngo

Research interests: Tissue engineering, cell engineering, mammalian synthetic biology, cell-cell communication, regeneration, vascularized tissues, stem cells, cancer

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Sean P. Palecek

Milton J. and A. Maude Shoemaker Professor

Research interests: Cellular engineering, tissue engineering, stem cells, cell and protein biosensors

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Thatcher Root

Research interests: Reaction engineering for sustainability, renewable feedstocks , reactor design for novel conditions, catalysis, diffusion in porous media, solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

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Marcel Schreier

Richard H. Soit Assistant Professor

Research interests: Electrochemical energy storage, Electrocatalysis, Electrified interfaces, Sustainable synthesis of chemicals, Interfacial charge transfer, Electrochemical scale-up, Electrocatalysis provides a fascinating oppor.

Other affiliations: Chemistry

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Eric Shusta

Howard Curler Distinguished Professor and R. Byron Bird Department Chair

Research interests: Brain drug delivery, blood-brain barrier modeling, biopharmaceutical design, protein engineering

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Ross E. Swaney

Research interests: Process systems design, modeling, and optimization. Process modeling with guaranteed convergence. Flowsheet synthesis of separation processes.

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Reid Van Lehn

Hunt-Hougen Associate Professor

Research interests: Molecular simulation, Nanomaterials, Soft materials, Nano-bio interactions, Cell membranes, Solvent effects, Plastics recycling

Other affiliations: Chemistry

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John Yin

Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor,
Theme Leader of Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

Research interests: systems biology - virus-host interactions, systems chemistry - molecular replicators

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Victor M. Zavala

Research interests: Control, Optimization, Data Science, Energy and Environmental Systems

Affiliates

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AJ Boydston

Associate Professor of Chemistry

Research interests: Additive manufacturing (3D printing), photoredox-catalyzed polymerizations, polymerizations in continuous flow, mechanochemistry

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Padma Gopalan

Associate Chair of Graduate Studies

Research interests: Polymer Synthesis and Characterization, Electro-optic and Photonic Materials, Self-assembly of Block Copolymers, Photonic Devices, Liquid Crystalline Polymers

Other affiliations: Chemistry

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Ive Hermans

John and Dorothy Vozza & Evan P. and Marion Helfaer Professor

Research interests: Sustainable chemistry and catalysis engineering

Other affiliations: Chemistry

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Vatsan Raman

Research interests: Systems and synthetic biology, protein design, biosensors, synthetic bacteriophages, high-throughput functional assays, sequence-function landscapes

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James Jay Schauer

Research interests: I am interested in developing measurement and chemical characterization tools to quantitatively understand the origin and impacts of air pollution. These tools are designed to address the impacts of air p.

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Saverio E. Spagnolie

Research interests: Fluid Mechanics, Soft Matter, Biophysics, Applied Mathematics, Numerical Methods

Other affiliations: Mathematics

Emeritus Faculty

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Nicholas Abbott

Research interests: Interfacial phenomena, colloid science, soft materials, biomolecular interfaces, polymers, liquid crystals and surfactant, hydrophobic effect

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Thomas W. Chapman

Contact: , (202) 265-8165

Other affiliations: Rheology Research Center

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James A. Dumesic

Research interests: Kinetics and catalysis, surface and solid-state chemistry, in situ catalyst studies

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Thomas F. Kuech

Research interests: Solid-state materials synthesis and characterization, electronic and semiconductor materials, solar energy and photovoltaics, oxide materials, nanostructure formation

Other affiliations: Chemistry

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Regina M. Murphy

Research interests: Physical chemistry of protein-protein interactions, amyloid protein aggregation

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James B. Rawlings

Research interests: Chemical process control, nonlinear model predictive control., State estimation and monitoring., Chemical reaction engineering., Virus modeling and stochastic chemical kinetics

W. Harmon Ray

Contact: whray@wisc.edu, (608) 263-4732

Research interests: Polymerization processes, process optimization, dynamics and control, chemical reactor engineering