Department Chair
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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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
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: Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
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 D. 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...
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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...
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Other affiliations: Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center
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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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 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
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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
Richard H. Soit Assistant Professor
Contact: victor.zavala@wisc.edu, (608) 262-6934
Also: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Research interests: Large-Scale Computational Optimization, Stochastic and Multiobjective Optimization, Optimal Control, Estimation, and System Design
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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
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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
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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
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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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