Faculty: The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Faculty
Adomaitis, Raymond A.
Associate Professor
Joint appointment: Institute for Systems Research
Ph.D., Illinois Institute of Technology, 1988
Room 2255 A.V. Williams Building
E-mail: adomaiti@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-2969
Anisimov, Mikhail
Professor
Joint appointment: Institute for Physical Science & Technology
Ph.D., Moscow State University, 1969
Room 2115 IPST Building
E-mail: anisimov@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-8049
Calabrese, Richard V.
Professor
Ph.D., University of Massechusetts, 1976
Room 1208C Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: rvc@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1908
Choi, Kyu Yong
Professor and Undergraduate Program Director
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin—Madison, 1984
Room 1208B Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: choi@eng.umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1907
Research Interests: Polymer reaction engineering. More »
Dimitrakopoulos, Panagiotis (Panos)
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998
Room 1227B Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: dimitrak@eng.umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-8166
Research Interests: Computational fluid dynamics, bio/micro-fluidics, biophysics and numerical analysis. More »
Ehrman, Sheryl
Associate Professor
Ph.D., UCLA, 1997
Room 1223C Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: sehrman@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1917
Research Interests: Aerosol and nanoparticle technology. More »
Greer, Sandra C.
Professor
Joint appointment: Chemistry
Ph.D., The University of Chicago, 1969
Room 4500 Biochemistry Building
E-mail: sgreer@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1895
Research Interests: Physical chemistry, polymer science, biomacromolecules, phase equilibria. More »
Klauda, Jeffery
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Delaware, 2003
Room 1227A Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: jbklauda@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1320
Research Interests: cell membrane biophysics, thermodynamics, and molecular simulations. More »
Raghavan, Srinivasa R.
Associate Professor
Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 1998
Room 1227C Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: sraghava@eng.umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-8164
Research Interests: Self-assembled systems, containers for drug delivery, "smart" fluids, polymer and colloidal gels, polymer-CNT nanocomposites, scattering techniques/rheology. More »
Schork, F. Joseph
Professor and Chair
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin—Madison, 1981
Room 2113D Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: fjschork@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1074
Research Interests: Polymer reaction engineering, mathematical modeling and control of polymerization reactors, dispersed phase polymerization.
Sriram, Ganesh
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Iowa State University, 2004
Room 1208D Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: gsriram@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1261
Research Interests: Systems biology and metabolic engineering, including metabolic networks, regulatory networks, and fuel production from biorenewable resources, genetically inherited metabolic disorders. More »
Wang, Chunsheng
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Zhejiang University, 1995
Room 1223A Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: cswang@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-0352
Research Interests: energy conversion for fuel cells, energy storage systems (rechargeable batteries, supercapacitors and hydrogen storage), sensors, electrochemistry, nanostructured materials. More »
Wang, Nam Sun
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Caltech, 1989
Room 1210 Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: nsw@eng.umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1910
Research Interests: Biochemical/bioprocess engineering, biotechnology/bioengineering, on-line chemical/biochemical process monitoring, biosensors, alternative fuels. More »
Weigand, William A.
Professor
Ph.D., Illinois Institute of Technology, 1968
Room 1223B Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: weigand@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1916
Research Interests: Biochemical engineering, bioprocess control and optimization. More »
Zafiriou, Evanghelos
Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director
Joint Appointment: Institute for Systems Research (ISR)
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1987
Room 1208A Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: zafiriou@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-6625
Research Interests: Process control, identification and optimization. More »
Al-Sheikhly, Mohamad
Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Ph.D., University of Newcastle Upon Tyne (UK), 1981
Room 2309F Chemical and Nuclear
Engineering Building
E-mail: mohamad@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-5214
Research Interests: Polymers, radiation engineering, electronic packaging materials, environmental effects.
Bentley, William E.
Robert E. Fischell Distinguished Professor
Chair, Fischell Department of Bioengineering
Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, 1989
Room 2226 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: bentley@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-4321
Fax: (301) 405-99953
Research Interests: Biomolecular and metabolic engineering; cell-to-cell communication; heterologous protein expression; device/bio interfaces. More »
Fisher, John
Assistant Professor
Fischell Department of Bioengineering
Ph.D., Rice University, 2003
Room 3238 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: jpfisher@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-7475
Research Interests: Biomedical engineering; synthesis of novel hydrolytically degradable, implantable polymers; study and use of biomaterials for the delivery of therapeutics, scaffolds for orthopaedic tissue engineering applications; interaction of biomaterials and tissues. More »
Kofinas, Peter
Professor and Associate Chair
Fischell Department of Bioengineering
Director, Graduate Program in Bioengineering
Ph.D., M.I.T., 1994
Room 1120 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: kofinas@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-7335
Fax: (301) 405-0523
Research Interests: Biomimetic recognition of viruses using molecularly imprinted polymers, protein and virus recognition using block copolymer patterns, self-assembled nanoarchitectures for flexible, high energy density supercapacitors and batteries, and functional nano-structured polymers. More »
Lee, Sang Bok
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Ph.D., Seoul National University, 1997
Room 0107 Chemistry Building
E-mail: slee@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-7906
Research Interests: Electrochemical synthesis of nanotube-structured materials for ultrafast electrochromics, supercapacitors, and solar cells; magnetic nanotubes for targeted drug delivery and chemical & biochemical separation; shape-coded nanotubes for dispersible nanosensors; wetting and de-wetting, transport, and diffusion properties of pseudo-one-dimensional silica nanotubes; nanoscale single-channel for chemical and biochemical sensors. More »
Klapa, Maria
Adjunct Professor
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2001
E-mail: mklapa@umd.edu, mklapa@iceht.forth.gr
Phone: (301) 405-1935
Research Interests: Metabolic engineering, metabolic flux analysis and metabolic profiling, functional genomics, mathematical modeling of biological networks, quantitative systems biology. More »
Van Winkle, Jon
Lecturer
P.E.
E-mail: jvanwink@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1935
Research Interests: Fuel cells for energy conversion.
Gentry, James W.
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of Texas—Austin, 1969
E-mail: gentry@umd.edu
Research Interests: Aerosol science and engineering. More »
McAvoy, Thomas J.
Professor Emeritus
Joint appointment: Institute for Systems Research
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1964
2231 A.V. Williams Building
E-mail: mcavoy@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1939
Research Interests: Process control, fault detection. More »
Regan, Thomas M.
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Tulane University, 1967
E-mail: tregan@umd.edu
Research Interests: Transport phenomena, engineering education engineering. More »
Sengers, Jan V.
Distinguished University Professor Emeritus
Joint Appointment: Institute for Physical Science & Technology
Ph.D., University of Amsterdam, 1962
Room 1113 IPST Building
E-mail: sengers@ipst.umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-4805
Fax: (301) 314-9404
Research Interests: Critical phenomena, thermophysical properties of fluids and fluid mixtures. More »
Smith, Theodore G.
Professor Emeritus
D.Sc., Washington University (St. Louis), 1960
E-mail: tgsmith@umd.edu
Research Interests: Polymer science and engineering. More »
