Faculty Research Interests

Faculty members of the Otto H. York Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering are conducting research on some of the most pressing problems today as defined by the National Academy of Engineering’s 14 Grand Challenges. 

Research

OUR FACULTY

DISTINGUISHED PROFESSORS

  • Piero Armenante: Single and multiphase fluid mixing, pharmaceutical engineering, dissolution testing of drug products
  • Rajesh Dave: Particle engineering, granular materials and composites, pharmaceutical processing
  • Edward Dreizin: Mechanochemistry, metal combustion, energetic materials
  • Kamalesh Sirkar: Membrane separations, membrane fabrications, separation processes

PROFESSORS

  • Lisa Axe: Physiochemical processes in environmental systems
  • Basil Baltzis: Pollution prevention and control, production of pharmaceuticals
  • Ecevit Bilgili: Pharmaceutical nanotechnology, particle engineering, process modeling
  • Boris Khusid: Electro-hydrodynamics, colloids, microfluidics
  • ​Laurent Simon: Controlled release; process control; mathematical modeling.
  • David Venerus: Transport in soft matter, rheology of complex fluids, polymer science
  • Xianqin Wang: Catalysis, energy production, environment protection

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS

  • Sagnik Basuray: Lab-on-a-chip platforms for pharmaceutical engineering; brain-on-chip- platform; sensors for water, food, and disease diagnostics
  • Gennady Gor: Porous materials, adsorption, molecular modeling
  • Murat Guvendiren: Biomaterials, 3D-printing, tissue-engineering
  • Roman Voronov: Microfludics cell migration, super-resolution microscopy, supercomputer biotransport modeling
  • Xiaoyang Xu: Biomaterials, drug delivery, nanomedicine

ASSISTANT PROFESSORS

  • Kerri -lee Chintersingh: Surface reactions and catalysis, energetic materials, combustion, computational modeling
  • Kathleen McEnnis: Polymers, nanoparticles, drug-delivery
  • ​Joshua Young: Energy storage and production, materials design, computational modeling
  • ​Mengqiang Zhao: Low-dimensional materials, energy storage and conversion, electronics, sensors for disease diagnostics.​

DISTINGUISHED RESEARCH PROFESSOR

  • Costas Gogos: Polymer processing, energetic polymers, polymer composites

RESEARCH PROFESSOR

SENIOR UNIVERSITY LECTURERS

  • Richard Cimino: Engineering ethics, process safety, diversity & inclusion, LGBTQ+ visibility and retention in STEM  
  • Irina Molodetsky: Physical chemistry, materials engineering
  • Nellone Reid: Kinetics of biological and chemical systems