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Chemical and Biological Engineering

Department Chair

Brian Pfleger

Karen and William Monfre Professor and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor

Contact: brian.pfleger@wisc.edu, (608) 890-1940

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

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Other affiliations: Biotechnology Training Program, Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program, Genome Sciences Training Program, Microbiology Doctoral Training Program

Faculty

Styliani Avraamidou

Duane H. and Dorothy M. Bluemke Assistant Professor

Contact: avraamidou@wisc.edu

Research interests: Mathematical Optimization and Control, Energy Systems Engineering, Circular Economy Systems Engineering,

William Banholzer

Professor of Practice,, Honorary Fellow Chemistry Department,
Sr. Advisor Wisconsin Energy Institute

Contact: wbanholzer@wisc.edu, (608) 265-3413

Also: College of Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering

Research interests: My interest centers on the commercialization of technology. For society to benefit from a discovery it must be commercialized, typically through a company. There is a fundamental difference between ...

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Other affiliations: Chemistry

Rose Cersonsky

Conway Assistant Professor

Contact: rose.cersonsky@wisc.edu

Also: Materials Science and Engineering

Research interests:

Molecular modeling and simulation

Applied mathematics and machine learning

Self-assembly and interactions of complex building blocks

Colloids, soft matter, and nanomaterials

Quentin Dudley

Assistant Professor

Contact: qdudley@wisc.edu

Research interests: Plant synthetic biology; metabolic engineering; cell-free systems; genome editing. Synthetic biology endeavors to apply principles of abstraction, modularity, and standardization to engi...

Matthew Allen Gebbie

Conway Assistant Professor

Contact: gebbie@wisc.edu

Research interests: Achieving the sustainable interconversion of chemical and electrical energy is a defining challenge of our time. To accomplish this vision, we will develop creative new approaches for tuning molecular interacti...

Michael David Graham

Steenbock Professor of Engineering and Harvey D. Spangler Professor

Contact: mdgraham@wisc.edu, (608) 265-3780

Also: Mechanical Engineering

Research interests: Fluid dynamics, Locomotion of microorganisms, Blood flow at the cellular level, Dynamics of mechanically and geometrically complex objects suspended in a flowing fluid, Polymer, surfactant and suspension rholog...

George Huber

Richard L. Antoine Professor

Contact: gwhuber@wisc.edu, (608) 263-0346

Research interests: Biofuels and Biochemicals, Heterogeneous Catalysis, Pyrolysis, Plastic Recycling, Biodegradable Polymers

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Daniel J. Klingenberg

Professor

Contact: dan.klingenberg@wisc.edu, (608) 262-8932

Also: Materials Science and Engineering

Research interests: Colloid science, Complex fluids, Suspension rheology

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Siddarth Krishna

Duane and Dorothy Bluemke Assistant Professor

Contact: krishna3@wisc.edu

Also: College of Engineering

Research interests: Catalytic technologies that accelerate desired chemical transformations will play a central role in addressing urgent sustainability challenges of the 21st century, such as produ...

Whitney Loo

Conway Assistant Professor

Contact: wloo@wisc.edu

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

David Lynn

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

Contact: david.lynn@wisc.edu, (608) 262-1086

Also: Materials Science and Engineering

Research interests:

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Other affiliations: Chemistry

Manos Mavrikakis

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

Contact: emavrikakis@wisc.edu, (608) 262-9053

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

Mai Ngo

Assistant Professor

Contact: mtngo2@wisc.edu

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

Other affiliations: Biotechnology Training Program, UW Carbone Cancer Center

Sean P. Palecek

Milton J. and A. Maude Shoemaker Professor

Contact: sppalecek@wisc.edu, (608) 262-8931

Also: Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering

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

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Thatcher Root

Kreuz-Bascom Professor

Contact: twroot@wisc.edu

Also: Environmental Chemistry and Technology

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

Contact: mschreier2@wisc.edu

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

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Other affiliations: Chemistry

Eric Shusta

Howard Curler Distinguished Professor

Contact: eshusta@wisc.edu, (608) 265-5103

Also: Biomedical Engineering

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

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Other affiliations: Neurological Surgery

Ross E. Swaney

Associate Professor

Contact: ross.swaney@wisc.edu, (608) 262-3641

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

Contact: vanlehn@wisc.edu, (608) 263-9487

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

Other affiliations: Chemistry

John Yin

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

Contact: john.yin@wisc.edu, (608) 316-4323

Also: Biomedical Engineering

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

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Victor M. Zavala

Baldovin-DaPra Professor

Contact: victor.zavala@wisc.edu

Also: Industrial and Systems Engineering

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

Affiliates

AJ Boydston

Associate Professor of Chemistry

Contact: aboydston@wisc.edu

Also: Chemical and Biological Engineering

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

Other affiliations: Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering

Padma Gopalan

Associate Chair of Graduate Studies

Contact: pgopalan@wisc.edu, (608) 265-4258

Also: Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering

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

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Other affiliations: Chemistry

Ive Hermans

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

Contact: hermans@chem.wisc.edu

Research interests: Sustainable chemistry and catalysis engineering

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Other affiliations: Chemistry

Vatsan Raman

Associate Professor

Contact: sraman4@wisc.edu, (608) 890-1036

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

James Jay Schauer

Professor

Contact: jjschauer@wisc.edu, (608) 262-4495

Also: Environmental Chemistry and Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering

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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Other affiliations: Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene

Saverio E. Spagnolie

Professor

Contact: spagnolie@math.wisc.edu, (608) 262-3852

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

Other affiliations: Mathematics

Emeritus Faculty

Nicholas Abbott

Professor Emeritus

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

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Thomas W. Chapman

Professor Emeritus

Contact: , (202) 265-8165

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Other affiliations: Rheology Research Center

James A. Dumesic

Professor Emeritus

Contact: jdumesic@wisc.edu, (608) 262-1095

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

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Thomas F. Kuech

Professor Emeritus

Contact: tfkuech@wisc.edu, (608) 263-2922

Also: Materials Science and Engineering

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

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Other affiliations: Chemistry

Regina M. Murphy

Kreuz-Bascom Professor

Contact: regina.murphy@wisc.edu, (608) 262-1587

Also: Biomedical Engineering

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

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James B. Rawlings

Professor Emeritus

Contact: james.rawlings@wisc.edu, (608) 263-5859

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

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