Members of the Graduate Faculty



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Helen M. Buettner, Associate Professor and Associate Dean, School of Engineering; Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1987. Applied neurobiology, cell motility, cell-substrate interactions, crystallization.  

Yee C. Chiew, Professor; Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1984. Effective transport properties of multiphase materials, diffusion-controlled reaction in heterogeneous media, statistical thermodynamics of food and biological systems; microscopic structures of fluids and particulate systems.  

Alkis Constantinides, Professor and Chairman, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering; D.E.Sc., Columbia, 1970. Biochemical engineering, optimization and control of fermentation processes; applied numerical analysis, artificial intelligence.  

Robert Cowan, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., SUNY at Buffalo, 1994. Environmental engineering, biochemical treatment of air, wastewater and groundwater; biodegradation of xenobiotic compounds, bioremediation, respirometry, stoichiometry and kinetics; parameter estimation, bioregenerative life support.  

Peter Couchman, Professor; Ph.D., Virginia, 1976. Thermodynamics, transition, and equation of state behavior of single and multicomponent systems; particularly polymers, surface phenomena.  

Alberto M. Cuitiņo, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Brown, 1993. Powder mechanics, micromechanics, computer methods.  

Burton Z. Davidson, Professor ; Ph.D. Northwestern, 1963. Systems simulation and optimization; environmental engineering, health and safety engineering management.  

Benjamin J. Glasser, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. Princeton, 1996. Multiphase flows and reactors; granular materials and particulate suspensions; nonlinear dynamics of transport processes.  

Panos G. Georgopoulos, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Cal. Tech., 1986. Atmospheric/environmental chemical engineering, turbulent transport, reactive flows, integrated biochemodynamic modeling of exposure to environmental chemicals.  

Masanori Hara, Professor; Ph.D., Kyoto, 1981. Polymer physics, polymer chemistry, polymer blends and composites; ionic polymers.  

Marianthi G. Ierapetritou, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Imperial College of Science, 1995. Process systems engineering, process design, planning and scheduling; uncertainty and environmental considerations; nonlinear and mixed integer optimization.  

Johannes Khinast, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Graz University of Technology, 1995. Reaction and environmental engineering; reactive flows, numerical analysis of large dynamical systems.  

Michael T. Klein, Dean and Board of Governors Professor of Engineering; Sc. D., MIT, 1981. Kinetics, catalysis and reaction engineering; automated kinetic modeling, hydrocarbon conversion, reactions in supercritical fluids.  

Joachim B. Kohn, Professor; Ph.D., Weizmann Institute of Science, 1986. Biotechnology, synthesis of biodegradable polymers, new models of drug delivery.    

Prabhas V. Moghe, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., U. of Minnesota (1993). Tissue engineering (skin,   liver), cell-biomaterials interactions, biodegradable polymers in medicine, cardiovascular materials.  

Gaetano T. Montelione, Professor of Chemistry; Ph.D., Cornell, 1987. Nuclear magnetic resonance studies of proteins, protein molecular design.  

Fernando Muzzio, Professor; Ph.D., U.Mass, 1991. Transport phenomena, mixing, chaotic flows, powder technology.

Henrik Pedersen, Professor; Ph.D., Yale, 1978. Biochemical engineering, immobilized enzymes, plant cell biotechnology, fiber-optic sensors.  

Silvina Tomassone, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Northeastern University, 1998.  Molecular dynamics, interfacial anaysis, phase transitions.  

Richard R. Riman, Professor; Ph.D., MIT, 1987. Hydrothermal synthesis, micro-encapsulation, sol-gel fluoride glass synthesis, pyrolysis, carbothermally-derived non-oxides, powder characterization, granulation, colloid chemisty, surface chemistry, thermodynamic and kinetic process modeling.  

Carlos B. Rosas, Visiting Professor and Administrative Director, Pharmaceutical Engineering Program; M.E., Stevens Institute of Technology, 1968. Fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals and biologicals.  

Charles Roth, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Delaware, 1994.  Molecular bioengineering, gene-based technologies, cell systems engineering.  

Alvin J. Salkind, Professor and Chief, Bioengineering Division, Surgery Department, UMDNJ-RWJMS, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Associate Dean of the School of Engineering; D.Ch.E., Polytechnic Institute of New York, 1958. Electrochemical engineering; energy conversion and storage; batteries.  

Jerry I. Scheinbeim, Professor; Ph.D., Pittsburg, 1975. Structure-electrical properties of polymers; dielectric, piezoelectric, pyroelectric, and ferroelectric properties of electroactive polymers.  

K. Venkatasubramanian, Visiting Professor; Ph.D., Rutgers, 1977. Enzyme engineering, fermentation processes, applied molecular biology, biochemical engineering and process economics.  

Kathryn E. Uhrich, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Cornell, 1992. Polymer design, synthesis, and characterization.  

Shaw S. Wang, Professor; Ph.D., Rutgers, 1970. Kinetics and thermodynamics of food process engineering, studies of biochemical and biological processes.  

Martin L. Yarmush, Visiting Professor; Ph.D., Rockefeller, 1979; MD, Yale, 1984. Applied immunology, artificial organs, bioseparations, protein engineering, biotechnology, biomedical engineering.

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