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2016-2017 Graduate Catalog 
    
2016-2017 Graduate Catalog [Not Current Academic Year. Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]

Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering


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Faculty

V. Balakotaiah. Cullen Distinguished Professor; Ph.D., University of Houston:  reaction and transport processes engineering.

P. Cirino. Associate Professor; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology:  interfaces Chemical Engineering with the Biological Sciences, with emphases in biomolecular engineering, metabolic engineering, and biocatalysis.

J.Conrad. Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Harvard University:  interaction between complex fluids (polymers, colloids, nanoparticles, bacteria, protozoa, cells) and the surfaces that confine or support them

V. M. Donnelly. Moores University Professor; Ph.D., Pittsburgh:  Plasma processing of electronic materials.

D. Economou. Cullen Distinguished Professor; Ph.D., Illinois:  electronic materials, and plasma etching and deposition.

W. Epling. Associate Professor and Associate Chair; Ph.D., University of Florida:  understanding and engineering the reaction process on and along a catalyst surface.

L. Grabow. Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin:  computational methods to understand and predict chemical processes that occur on solid-gas and solid-liquid interfaces.

Michael P. Harold. M. D. Anderson Professor and Chair; Ph.D., University of Houston:  PE: chemical reaction systems, multi-functional chemical reactors, reaction-separation materials and devices.

R. Krishnamoorti. Don Chair Professor and Chair; Ph.D., Princeton:  Polymeric Materials, Nanotechnologic and Drug Delivery.

D. Luss. Cullen Distinguished Professor; Ph.D, Minnesota:  Chemical reaction engineering.

M. Myers. Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Michigan:  rock properties, geomechanics, petrophysics.

M. Nikolaou. Professor; Ph.D., UCLA:  computer-aided process engineering, control of microelectronic processes.

J. Palmer. Professor; Ph.D., North Carolina State University: Molecular simulation, materials design, adsorption and transport, energy storage, catalysis.

J. Rimer. Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Delaware:  focuses on crystal engineering, nanomaterials self-assembly, and pathological biomineralization at both the microscopic and macroscopic levels to address challenges of material synthesis and design.

M. Robertson. Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley:  Nanostructured polymeric materials, self-assembly, thermodynamics of polymer blends, structural characterization with light, neutron and x-ray scattering, biorenewable and biodegradable materials.

G. Stein. Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara:  Polymer thin films; self-assembly; dynamics at surfaces and interfaces; diffusion in polymer films; optical and electron-beam lithography; alternative nanofabrication techniques; x-ray scattering.

N. Varadarajan. Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin:  developing high throughput screens designed to characterize a wide range of functions ranging from the properties of proteins in single cells to antigen mediated cellular cytotoxicity.

P. G. Vekilov. Professor; Ph.D., Russian Academy of Sciences:  Phase transitions in protein solutions.

R. Willson. Moores Professor; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology:  biomolecular engineering, biomolecular recognition, and its applications in separations and molecular diagnostics.

Adjunct Professors

Ananth Annapragada. Adjunct Professor; Professor of Bioinformatics, University of Texas-Houston:  Respiratory drug delivery, targeted drug delivery, delivery of imaging contrast agents, computational biology.

Micky Fleischer. Adjunct Professor:  Economics in Chemical Engineering.

F. Khoury. Adjunct Professor in Chemical Engineering.

 

Affiliated Faculty Members

Akhil Bidani. Adjunct Professor; Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering & Biomedical Engineering:  Mechanisms and kinetics of microvascular gas and ion transport, intracellular Ph and its regulation in lung cells, mechanisms of pulmonary uptake of toxic reactive gases, pathophysiology of lung function abnormalities in acute lung injury and ARDS, physiology of cardiopulmonary support, mathematical modeling of cellular transport processes.

S. Brankovic.Assistant Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering; Electrochemical Thin Film Growth, Magnetic Materials and Nanostructures, Nanofabrication, Electrocatalysis, Sensors, Physics and Thermodynamics of Electrified Interfaces.

James M. Briggs. Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Biochemistry: Computational studies of protein structure and function, inhibitor design, investigations of possible inhibitor resistance pathways, and development of methods for the above work.

Shankar Chellam. Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Civil & Environmental Engineering: Nanofiltration membranes for municipal water purification, and determination of elemental composition of urban aerosols.

George Fox. Professor of Chemical Biomolecular Engineering and Biochemistry: Structure, function and evolution of RNA.

A, Jacobson. Professor of Chemistry: synthesis and properties of transition metal oxide systems with layered or framework structures

Randall T. Lee. Cullen Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Chemistry: Design and synthesis of new types of polymeric materials including polymeric drugs and drug-delivery systems.

Dmitri Litvinov. Moores University Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate School: Nanomagnetic materials devices and systems for biosensor, integrated circuit and data storage applications.

Vincent Tam. Associate Professor of Pharmacy.

Emeritus Faculty

R.W. Flumerfelt. Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., Northwestern: PE: polymer processing and interfacial phenomena, surface science.

E. J. Henley. Professor Emeritus; D.Sc., Columbia:  PE: reliability, computer-aided design.

J.T. Richardson. Professor Emeritus; Ph.D, Rice University:  Research Interests of catalysis, fuel cells and membrane reactors.

C. Rooks. Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., University of Oklahoma; Diesel Emission Controls.