Faculty Research

ChE Department Faculty		Research
	Frances H. Arnold Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry; Director, Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center (626) 395-4162	Protein engineering, directed evolution, machine learning, biocatalysis, synthetic biology
	John F. Brady Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering (626) 395-4183	Fluid mechanics and transport processes; Complex and multiphase fluids; Soft and active matter
	Mark E. Davis Warren and Katharine Schlinger Professor of Chemical Engineering (626) 395-4251	Synthesis of zeolites and molecular sieves; Synthesis of catalytic materials
	Richard C. Flagan Irma and Ross McCollum-William H. Corcoran Professor of Chemical Engineering and Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering (626) 395-4383	Control of air pollutants, combustion, aerosol processes
	George R. Gavalas Professor of Chemical Engineering (Emeritus) (626) 395-4152	Inorganic Membranes; Separations; Clean Fuel Technology; Materials Processing; Catalysis
	Konstantinos P. Giapis Professor of Chemical Engineering Option Representative for Chemical Engineering (626) 395-4180	Ion-surface interaction dynamics, plasma processing, materials in nanoscale confinement, nanotechnology
	Rustem F. Ismagilov Ethel Wilson Bowles and Robert Bowles Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Director of the Jacobs Institute for Molecular Engineering for Medicine (626) 395-8130	Global Health; Microbial communities and biophysics of the gut microbiome; Diagnostics and antimicrobial susceptibility testing; Microfluidics and single molecule and single cell analysis; Complex Networks of reactions, cells and organisms
	Julia A. Kornfield Professor of Chemical Engineering (626) 395-4138	Polymeric and Supramolecular Liquids: Physics and Rheology
	John H. Seinfeld Louis E. Nohl Professor of Chemical Engineering (626) 395-4635	Atmospheric chemistry and physics, Aerosols
	Mikhail G. Shapiro Professor of Chemical Engineering; Heritage Principal Investigator, Schlinger Scholar Affiliated Faculty of Bioengineering and Medical Engineering (626) 395-2515	Molecular and cellular engineering; Non-invasive imaging and control of biological function; Neuroscience; Nanotechnology; Synthetic biology
	David A. Tirrell Provost; Carl and Shirley Larson Provostial Chair; Ross McCollum-William H. Corcoran Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (626) 395-3140	Biocatalysis; Biomaterials; Polymer Science; Protein Engineering; Macromolecular Chemistry
	Zhen-Gang Wang Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering; Executive officer for Chemical Engineering (626) 395-4647	Statistical mechanics of structures, phase transitions and dynamics in complex fluids, including polymers, liquid-crystals, and gels; statistical mechanics of surfaces and interfaces; nucleation; biophysics of DNA; evolutionary protein design, cell adhesion

Related Department Faculty		Research
	Harry A. Atwater, Jr. Howard Hughes Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science; Director, Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (626) 395-2197	Electronic materials and devices; nanostructures; growth, characterization, and modeling of thin films
	William A. Goddard III Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science, and Applied Physics; Director of Materials and Process Simulation Center (626) 395-2731	First principles methods with applications to heterogeneous catalysis, homogeneous catalysis, nanoelectronics, fuel cells, batteries, superconductors, proteins, and pharma
	Julia R. Greer Professor of Materials Science and Mechanics (626) 395-4127	Experimental mechanics at nano-scale, nanostructures, microfabrication, and microstructural characterization of materials
	Niles A. Pierce Professor of Applied & Computational Mathematics and Bioengineering, Executive Officer and Option Representative for Bioengineering (626) 395-8086	Programming biomolecular function. Biomolecular mechanisms for detection, transduction, amplification and locomotion. Computational algorithms for analyzing and designing nucleic acid systems. Biomolecular technologies for therapeutics, bioimaging, biosensing, and active transport
	Maxwell J. Robb Assistant Professor of Chemistry (626) 395-2919	Synthetic organic chemistry; Polymer chemistry; Soft materials
	Kimberly A. See Assistant Professor of Chemistry (626) 395-4167	Materials and interfaces in electrochemical devices; Electrochemistry; Solid state chemistry; Spectroscopy