Department Chair
Eric V. Shusta
Howard Curler Distinguished Professor and R. Byron Bird Department Chair
Contact: eshusta@wisc.edu, (608) 262-1092
Also: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Brain drug delivery, blood-brain barrier modeling, biopharmaceutical design, protein engineering
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Other affiliations: Neurological Surgery
Faculty
Styliani Avraamidou
Assistant Professor
Contact: avraamidou@wisc.edu
Research interests: Mathematical Optimization and Control, Energy Systems Engineering, Circular Economy Systems Engineering,
William Banholzer
Research Professor, 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 ...
Courses: Click to see my courses
Other affiliations: Chemistry
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: Engineering Physics
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
Courses: Click to see my courses
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
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
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:
- Polymers and soft materials, Surfaces and interfaces, Biomaterials and biotechnology, Gene and drug delivery, Synthesis and characterization, Controlled Release
Courses: Click to see my courses
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, surface science, nanoscience, computational chemistry, electronic materials, fuel cells applications, environmental chemical engineering, sensors and chemoresponsive syst...
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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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
Courses: Click to see my courses
Brian Pfleger
Jay and Cynthia Ihlenfeld Professor
Contact: brian.pfleger@wisc.edu, (608) 890-1940
Research interests: Metabolic Engineering, Biotechnology, Synthetic Biology, Natural Products, Protein Engineering, Cyanobacteria, Sustainability
Courses: Click to see my courses
Other affiliations: Microbiology Doctoral Training Program
Thatcher Root
Professor
Contact: twroot@wisc.edu
Also: Environmental Chemistry and Technology
Research interests: Surface chemistry, catalysis, diffusion in porous media, solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Courses: Click to see my courses
Marcel Schreier
Richard H. Soit Assistant Professor
Contact: mschreier2@wisc.edu
Research interests: Electrocatalysis, Electrified interfaces, Electrochemical energy storage, Interfacial charge transfer, Electrocatalysis provides a fascinating opportunity to interconvert electrical and chemical energy. In this...
Courses: Click to see my courses
Other affiliations: Chemistry
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.
Courses: Click to see my courses
Reid Van Lehn
Conway Assistant Professor
Contact: vanlehn@wisc.edu, (608) 263-9487
Research interests: Molecular simulation, Nanomaterials, Soft materials, Nano-bio interactions, Cell membranes, Solvent effects
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
Research interests: Statistics, Control, Optimization, Data Science, Energy and Environmental Systems
Other affiliations: Industrial and Systems Engineering
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
Professor
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
Courses: Click to see my courses
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
Courses: Click to see my courses
Other affiliations: Chemistry
Vatsan Raman
Assistant 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
Philip Romero
Assistant Professor
Contact: promero2@wisc.edu, (608) 262-5943
Research interests: Protein engineering, synthetic biology, computational biology, machine learning, high-throughput technology
Other affiliations: Biochemistry
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 desgined to address the impacts of air p...
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Other affiliations: Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene
Saverio E. Spagnolie
Assistant Professor
Contact: spagnolie@math.wisc.edu, (608) 262-3852
Research interests: Fluid Mechanics, Soft Matter, Biophysics, Applied Mathematics, Numerical Methods
Other affiliations: Mathematics
Ophelia Venturelli
Assistant Professor
Contact: venturelli@wisc.edu, (608) 263-7017
Research interests: Synthetic & systems biology, Computational modeling, Microbial communities, Microbiome engineering for bioprocessing, human health and agriculture applications, High-throughput experiments
Other affiliations: Biochemistry
Emeritus Faculty
Thomas W. Chapman
Professor Emeritus
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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
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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W. Harmon Ray
Professor Emeritus
Contact: whray@wisc.edu, (608) 263-4732
Research interests: Polymerization processes, process optimization, dynamics and control, chemical reactor engineering
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Instructional Staff
James B. Miller
Faculty Associate
Contact: james.miller@wisc.edu, (608) 265-8171
Also: College of Engineering
Administrative Staff
Susann Eva S. Ely
Senior Communications Specialist
Contact: sely@wisc.edu, (608) 262-7775
Also: College of Engineering
Kate Fanis
Student Services Coordinator
Contact: kfanis@wisc.edu, (608) 263-3138
Also: College of Engineering
Oscar Garcia-Romero
Accountant
Contact: garciaromero@wisc.edu, (608) 265-2378
Also: College of Engineering
Andrew Greenberg
Distinguished Faculty Associate
Contact: andrew.greenberg@wisc.edu, (608) 890-1534
Other affiliations: Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
Shane Michaelson
Senior Financial Specialist
Contact: smichaelson@wisc.edu, (608) 262-7330
Also: College of Engineering
Michael Morris
Department Administrator
Contact: mwmorris@wisc.edu, (608) 262-1094
Also: College of Engineering
Jill Mullen
Administrative Assistant
Contact: jill.mullen@wisc.edu, (608) 262-1092
Also: College of Engineering
Steven S. Schumacher
Instrument Maker Adv.
Contact: ssschuma@wisc.edu, (608) 262-7396
Also: College of Engineering
