Department Chair
Regina M. Murphy
Smith-Bascom Professor
Contact: regina@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-1587
Also: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Physical chemistry of protein-protein interactions, amyloid protein aggregation
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Faculty
Nicholas L. Abbott
John T. and Magdalen L. Sobota Professor, Hilldale Professor, and Director,
Wisconsin Materials Research and Engineering Center
Contact: nlabbott@wisc.edu, (608) 265-5278
Also: Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: Interfacial phenomena, colloid science, soft materials, biomolecular interfaces, polymers, liquid crystals and surfactant, hydrophobic effect
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Other affiliations: University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center
William Banholzer
Research Professor, Honorary Fellow Chemistry Department, Sr. Advisor Wisconsin Energy Institute
Contact: wbanholzer@wisc.edu, (608) 265-3413
Also: College of 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
James A. Dumesic
Ernest Micek Distinguished Chair in Chemical and Biological Engineering
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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Michael David Graham
Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and Harvey D. Spangler Professor
Contact: mdgraham@wisc.edu, (608) 265-3780
Also: Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Physics
Research interests: Applied and computational mathematics, Microstructural and multiscale simulations of complex fluids, applications to microfluidics, nanotechnology and biology, Viscoelastic and Newtonian fluid mechanics, especi...
George W. Huber
Professor and Harvey D. Spangler Professor
Contact: gwhuber@wisc.edu, (608) 263-0346
Research interests: Renewable Energy, Biofuels and Biochemicals, Heterogeneous Catalysis, Pyrolysis, Zeolites, Conceptual Process Design
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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, suspension rheology, electromagnetic phenomena in materials
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Thomas F. Kuech
Milton J. and A. Maude Shoemaker and Beckwith-Bascom Professor
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
David M. 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
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Other affiliations: Chemistry
Christos T. Maravelias
Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and Paul A. Elfers Professor
Contact: christos.maravelias@wisc.edu, (608) 265-9026
Also: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Research interests: Chemical production planning and scheduling, Optimization methods for process synthesis, Supply chain management, Computational methods for novel material discovery, Assessmsent of biomass-to-fuels/chemicals st...
Other affiliations: Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center
Manos Mavrikakis
Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and Paul A. Elfers Professor, and Chair
Contact: emavrikakis@wisc.edu, (608) 262-9053
Research interests: Thermodynamics, kinetics and catalysis, surface science, computational chemistry, electronic materials, fuel cells applications, environmental chemical engineering
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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
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Brian F. 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
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Other affiliations: Biotechnology Training Program, Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program, Genome Sciences Training Program, Microbiology Doctoral Training Program
James B. Rawlings
Steenbock Professor and W. Harmon Ray Professor
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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Jennifer L. Reed
Associate Professor and Harvey D. Spangler Faculty Scholar in the College of Engineering
Contact: jennifer.reed@wisc.edu, (608) 262-0188
Also: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Systems biology, Metabolic model development & analysis, Metabolic engineering, Biofuels, bioremediation, & biotechnology
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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
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Eric V. 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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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
Assistant Professor and Jay and Cynthia Ihlenfeld Faculty Scholar
Contact: vanlehn@wisc.edu, (608) 263-9487
Research interests: Nano-bio interactions, Molecular simulation, Engineering nanomaterials, Soft materials, Multiscale modeling, Biomembranes, Virtual screening
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 Zavala
Richard H. Soit Assistant Professor
Contact: victor.zavala@wisc.edu, (608) 890-2111
Research interests: Large-Scale Computational Optimization, Stochastic and Multiobjective Optimization, Optimal Control, Estimation, and System Design
Other affiliations: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Affiliates
Mark R. Etzel
Professor
Contact: mretzel@wisc.edu, (608) 263-2083
Research interests: Bioseparation processes, bioprocessing and food engineering, mass transfer
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Other affiliations: Food Science
Ive Hermans
John and Dorothy Vozza Professor
Contact: hermans@chem.wisc.edu
Research interests: Sustainable chemistry and catalysis engineering
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Other affiliations: Chemistry
Philip A. Romero
Assistant Professor
Contact: promero2@wisc.edu, (608) 262-5943
Research interests: Protein engineering, computational biology, high-throughput technology
Other affiliations: Biochemistry
James Jay Schauer
Professor
Contact: jjschauer@wisc.edu, (608) 262-4495
Also: Environmental Chemistry and Technology, Mechanical 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 S. Venturelli
Assistant Professor
Contact: venturelli@wisc.edu, (608) 263-7017
Research interests: Synthetic & systems biology, Computational modeling, Microbiome and human health
Other affiliations: Biochemistry
Emeritus Faculty
R Byron Bird
Professor Emeritus
Contact: rbbird@wisc.edu, (608) 262-5920
Research interests: Transport phenomena, polymer fluid dynamics, polymer kinetic theory, rheology
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Thomas W. Chapman
Professor Emeritus
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Other affiliations: Rheology Research Center
Charles G. Hill
John T. and Magdalen L. Sobota Professor Emeritus
Contact: cghill@wisc.edu, (608) 263-4593
Also: Environmental Chemistry and Technology
Research interests:
- immobilized enzyme technology, kinetics and catalysis, membrane separations, photocatalysis, wood adhesives, new bleaching technology
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Other affiliations: Center for Dairy Research
Edwin N. Lightfoot
Hilldale Professor Emeritus
Contact: edwin.lightfoot@wisc.edu, (608) 262-6934
Research interests: Separations processes, biological mass-transfer processes, mass-transport reaction modeling
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W. Harmon Ray
Vilas Research 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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Dale F. Rudd
Professor Emeritus
Contact: daleandsandy@yahoo.com, (206) 923-0359
Research interests: After retirement in 1994 Sandy and I moved to Seattle. Our home has a wide view of Puget Sound and the snow-capped mountains of Olympic National Park. Our children Karen and David both live within walking dista...
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Glenn A. Sather
Professor Emeritus
Contact: gasather@facstaff.wisc.edu, (608) 262-1092
Research interests: Stoichiometry, thermodynamics
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