Bamin Khomami

Granger and Beaman Distinguished University Professor, Department Head

Ph.D., University of Illinois- Urbana: Dynamics of complex fluids, renewable energy, composite materials, rheology, and multiscale modeling and simulation.

Brian J. Edwards

Professor,
Associate Head

Ph.D., University of Delaware: Thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, molecular modeling and sustainable energy.

Steven M. Abel

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Stanford University: Statistical mechanics applied to cell biology and immunology; multiscale modeling of cell signaling networks, the cytoskeleton, and membranes

Eric T. Boder

Career Development
Associate Professor

Ph.D., University of Illinois: Molecular biotechnology and bioengineering, protein engineering and directed evolution.

Robert M. (Pete) Counce

Professor

Ph.D., University of Tennessee: Green engineering, process design, separations and sustainable energy.

Paul Dalhaimer

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania: Drug delivery vehicles; lipid droplet biology.

Paul D. Frymier

Associate Professor

Ph.D., University of Virginia: Engineering and optimization of photosynthetic routes to biohydrogen; development and implementation of biosensors and sustainable energy.

Ramki Kalyanaraman

Associate Professor

Ph.D., North Carolina State University, Raleigh:
Advanced materials for energy, thin films, nanomaterials, nanomanufacturing, sensing and electronics, self-organization, laser processing, plasmonics.

Siris O. Laursen

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Michigan: Heterogeneous Catalyst Design; Fundamentals of Surface Chemical Reactivity; Non-precious Metal Catalysts; Electronic Structure of Materials; Photo- and Electro-catalysis.

Stephen J. Paddison

Professor

Ph.D., University of Calgary, Canada: Computational materials science as applied to fuel cell electrolytes and electrocatalysts and sustainable energy.

Cong T. Trinh

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities: (Bio)chemical engineering; Systems and synthetic biology; Metabolic engineering; Development of modular microbial cell factories; Biofuels and Bioenergy.

Thomas A. Zawodzinski

Governor's Chair Professor

Ph.D., SUNY/Buffalo: Electrochemical Energy, batteries and fuel cells; NMR methods for studying transport, structure in materials; electrolytes; multi-functional materials; molecular device concepts.

Shengting Cui

Research Associate Professor

Ph.D., University of Virginia: Atomistic Modeling and Simulation with Applications to Biological systems and Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing.

Alexander B. Papandrew

Research Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Caltech: Solid acid fuel cells; Catalyst synthesis; Advanced materials for energy storage and conversion.

Paul R. Bienkowski

Duane D. Bruns

John R. Collier

Charles F. Moore

Simioan Petrovan

John W. Prados

Carl O. Thomas

Tsewei Wang

Frederick E. Weber

Valmor de Almeida
Professor

Abhijeet Borole
Professor

David DePaoli
Professor

Michael Hu
Professor

Chaitanya Narula

Ali Passian
Associate Professor

Barry Bruce
Professor

Wei-Ren Chen
Assistant Professor

Chris Cox
Professor

Mark Dadmun
Professor

Brian Davison
Professor

Stuart Daw
Professor

Mitch Doktycz
Professor

James Downs
Professor

Doug Hayes
Associate Professor

David Joy
Professor

Mike Kilbey
Associate Professor

Dibyendu Mukherjee
Assistant Professor

Timothy Rials
Professor

Barry Spencer
Professor

William V. Steele
Professor

J. S. Watson
Professor

Rita Gray
Administrative Specialist

Lori Houser
Administrative Specialist

Amy Brewer
Business Manager

Jennifer Wolfenbarger
Accounting Specialist

Amber Tipton
Accounting Specialist

Frank Holiway
Accounting Specialist

Randy Stooksbury
Administrative Support Assistant

Mechanical Systems Group

Doug Fielden
Technical Supervisor

Larry Smith
Technical Specialist

Danny Hackworth
Technical Specialist

Stephen Stiner
Technical Supervisor

Gregory Jones
Senior Technical Specialist

Carol Winn
Senior Technical Specialist