Faculty Research
ChE Department Faculty | Research | |
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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 |
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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 |
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Mark E.
Davis (626) 395-4251 |
Synthesis
of zeolites and molecular sieves; Synthesis of catalytic materials |
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Richard
C. Flagan (626) 395-4383 |
Control of air pollutants, combustion, aerosol processes |
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George
R. Gavalas Professor of Chemical Engineering (Emeritus) (626) 395-4152 |
Inorganic Membranes; Separations; Clean Fuel Technology; Materials Processing; Catalysis |
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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 |
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Rustem
F. Ismagilov (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 |
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Julia
A. Kornfield Professor of Chemical Engineering (626) 395-4138 |
Polymeric and Supramolecular Liquids: Physics and Rheology |
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John
H. Seinfeld (626) 395-4635 |
Atmospheric chemistry and physics, Aerosols |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 | |
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Harry
A. Atwater, Jr. (626) 395-2197 |
Electronic materials and devices; nanostructures; growth, characterization, and modeling of thin films |
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William
A. Goddard III (626) 395-2731 |
First principles methods with applications to heterogeneous catalysis, homogeneous catalysis, nanoelectronics, fuel cells, batteries, superconductors, proteins, and pharma |
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Julia R. Greer (626) 395-4127 |
Experimental mechanics at nano-scale, nanostructures, microfabrication, and microstructural characterization of materials |
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Niles A. Pierce (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 |
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Maxwell
J. Robb (626) 395-2919 |
Synthetic organic chemistry; Polymer chemistry; Soft materials |
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Kimberly A. See (626) 395-4167 |
Materials and interfaces in electrochemical devices; Electrochemistry; Solid state chemistry; Spectroscopy |