Department Chair
Brian Pfleger
Karen and William Monfre Professor and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor
Contact: brian.pfleger@wisc.edu, (608) 890-1940
Research interests: Metabolic Engineering, Biotechnology, Synthetic Biology, Natural Products, Protein Engineering, Cyanobacteria, Sustainability
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Other affiliations: Biotechnology Training Program, Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program, Genome Sciences Training Program, Microbiology Doctoral Training Program
Faculty
Styliani Avraamidou
Duane H. and Dorothy M. Bluemke Assistant Professor
Contact: avraamidou@wisc.edu
Research interests: Mathematical Optimization and Control, Energy Systems Engineering, Circular Economy Systems Engineering,
William Banholzer
Professor of Practice,, Honorary Fellow Chemistry Department,
Sr. Advisor Wisconsin Energy Institute
Contact: wbanholzer@wisc.edu, (608) 265-3413
Also: College of Engineering
Research interests: My interest centers on the commercialization of technology. For society to benefit from a discovery it must be commercialized, typically through a company. There is a fundamental difference between ...
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Other affiliations: Chemistry
Rose Cersonsky
Conway Assistant Professor
Contact: rose.cersonsky@wisc.edu
Also: Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests:
Quentin Dudley
Assistant Professor
Contact: qdudley@wisc.edu
Research interests: Plant synthetic biology; metabolic engineering; cell-free systems; genome editing. Synthetic biology endeavors to apply principles of abstraction, modularity, and standardization to engi...
Matthew Allen Gebbie
Conway Assistant Professor
Contact: gebbie@wisc.edu
Research interests: Achieving the sustainable interconversion of chemical and electrical energy is a defining challenge of our time. To accomplish this vision, we will develop creative new approaches for tuning molecular interacti...
Michael David Graham
Steenbock Professor of Engineering and Harvey D. Spangler Professor
Contact: mdgraham@wisc.edu, (608) 265-3780
Also: Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: Fluid dynamics, Locomotion of microorganisms, Blood flow at the cellular level, Dynamics of mechanically and geometrically complex objects suspended in a flowing fluid, Polymer, surfactant and suspension rholog...
George Huber
Richard L. Antoine Professor
Contact: gwhuber@wisc.edu, (608) 263-0346
Research interests: Biofuels and Biochemicals, Heterogeneous Catalysis, Pyrolysis, Plastic Recycling, Biodegradable Polymers
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Daniel J. Klingenberg
Professor
Contact: dan.klingenberg@wisc.edu, (608) 262-8932
Also: Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: Colloid science, Complex fluids, Suspension rheology
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Siddarth Krishna
Duane and Dorothy Bluemke Assistant Professor
Contact: krishna3@wisc.edu
Also: College of Engineering
Research interests: Catalytic technologies that accelerate desired chemical transformations will play a central role in addressing urgent sustainability challenges of the 21st century, such as produ...
Whitney Loo
Conway Assistant Professor
Contact: wloo@wisc.edu
Research interests: Polymers, soft materials, nanoscience, sustainability, energy storage
David Lynn
Duane H. and Dorothy M. Bluemke Professor and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor
Contact: david.lynn@wisc.edu, (608) 262-1086
Also: Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests:
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Polymers and soft materials, Surfaces and interfaces, Biomaterials and biotechnology, Gene and drug delivery, Synthesis and characterization, Controlled Release
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Other affiliations: Chemistry
Manos Mavrikakis
Ernest Micek Distinguished Chair, James A. Dumesic Professor,
and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor
Contact: emavrikakis@wisc.edu, (608) 262-9053
Research interests: Thermodynamics, kinetics and catalysis, electrocatalysis, surface science, nanoscience, computational chemistry, electronic materials, fuel cells applications, environmental chemical engineering, sensors and ch...
Mai Ngo
Assistant Professor
Contact: mtngo2@wisc.edu
Research interests: Tissue engineering, cell engineering, mammalian synthetic biology, cell-cell communication, regeneration, vascularized tissues, stem cells, cancer
Other affiliations: Biotechnology Training Program, UW Carbone Cancer Center
Sean P. Palecek
Milton J. and A. Maude Shoemaker Professor
Contact: sppalecek@wisc.edu, (608) 262-8931
Also: Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: Cellular engineering, tissue engineering, stem cells, cell and protein biosensors
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Thatcher Root
Kreuz-Bascom Professor
Contact: twroot@wisc.edu
Also: Environmental Chemistry and Technology
Research interests: Reaction engineering for sustainability, renewable feedstocks , reactor design for novel conditions, catalysis, diffusion in porous media, solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
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Marcel Schreier
Richard H. Soit Assistant Professor
Contact: mschreier2@wisc.edu
Research interests: Electrochemistry provides fascinating opportunities to interconvert electrical and chemical energy. Our group aims to understand and manipulate the molecular-level processes that take place at electrochemical i...
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Other affiliations: Chemistry
Eric Shusta
Howard Curler Distinguished Professor
Contact: eshusta@wisc.edu, (608) 265-5103
Also: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Brain drug delivery, blood-brain barrier modeling, biopharmaceutical design, protein engineering
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Other affiliations: Neurological Surgery
Ross E. Swaney
Associate Professor
Contact: ross.swaney@wisc.edu, (608) 262-3641
Research interests: Process systems design, modeling, and optimization. Process modeling with guaranteed convergence. Flowsheet synthesis of separation processes.
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Reid Van Lehn
Hunt-Hougen Associate Professor
Contact: vanlehn@wisc.edu, (608) 263-9487
Research interests: Molecular simulation, Nanomaterials, Soft materials, Nano-bio interactions, Cell membranes, Solvent effects, Plastics recycling
Other affiliations: Chemistry
John Yin
Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor,
Theme Leader of Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
Contact: john.yin@wisc.edu, (608) 316-4323
Also: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: systems biology - virus-host interactions, systems chemistry - molecular replicators
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Victor M. Zavala
Baldovin-DaPra Professor
Contact: victor.zavala@wisc.edu
Also: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Research interests: Control, Optimization, Data Science, Energy and Environmental Systems
Affiliates
AJ Boydston
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Contact: aboydston@wisc.edu
Research interests: Additive manufacturing (3D printing), photoredox-catalyzed polymerizations, polymerizations in continuous flow, mechanochemistry
Other affiliations: Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering
Padma Gopalan
Associate Chair of Graduate Studies
Contact: pgopalan@wisc.edu, (608) 265-4258
Also: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Polymer Synthesis and Characterization, Electro-optic and Photonic Materials, Self-assembly of Block Copolymers, Photonic Devices, Liquid Crystalline Polymers
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Other affiliations: Chemistry
Ive Hermans
John and Dorothy Vozza & Evan P. and Marion Helfaer Professor
Contact: hermans@chem.wisc.edu
Research interests: Sustainable chemistry and catalysis engineering
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Other affiliations: Chemistry
Fang Liu
Assistant Professor
Contact: fang.liu3@wisc.edu, (608) 265-6141
Research interests: Materials and devices for energy storage and conversion, batteries, solid electrolytes, high-throughput experimentation, advanced material characterizations, CO2 capture and utilization, sustainabili...
Vatsan Raman
Associate Professor
Contact: sraman4@wisc.edu, (608) 890-1036
Research interests: Systems and synthetic biology, protein design, biosensors, synthetic bacteriophages, high-throughput functional assays, sequence-function landscapes
James Jay Schauer
Professor
Contact: jjschauer@wisc.edu, (608) 262-4495
Also: Environmental Chemistry and Technology, Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: I am interested in developing measurement and chemical characterization tools to quantitatively understand the origin and impacts of air pollution. These tools are designed to address the impacts of air p...
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Other affiliations: Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene
Saverio E. Spagnolie
Professor
Contact: spagnolie@math.wisc.edu, (608) 262-3852
Research interests: Fluid Mechanics, Soft Matter, Biophysics, Applied Mathematics, Numerical Methods
Other affiliations: Mathematics
Emeritus Faculty
Nicholas Abbott
Professor Emeritus
Research interests: Interfacial phenomena, colloid science, soft materials, biomolecular interfaces, polymers, liquid crystals and surfactant, hydrophobic effect
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Thomas W. Chapman
Professor Emeritus
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Other affiliations: Rheology Research Center
James A. Dumesic
Professor Emeritus
Contact: jdumesic@wisc.edu, (608) 262-1095
Research interests: Kinetics and catalysis, surface and solid-state chemistry, in situ catalyst studies
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Thomas F. Kuech
Professor Emeritus
Contact: tfkuech@wisc.edu, (608) 263-2922
Also: Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: Solid-state materials synthesis and characterization, electronic and semiconductor materials, solar energy and photovoltaics, oxide materials, nanostructure formation
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Other affiliations: Chemistry
Regina M. Murphy
Kreuz-Bascom Professor
Contact: regina.murphy@wisc.edu, (608) 262-1587
Also: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Physical chemistry of protein-protein interactions, amyloid protein aggregation
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James B. Rawlings
Professor Emeritus
Contact: james.rawlings@wisc.edu, (608) 263-5859
Research interests: Chemical process control, nonlinear model predictive control., State estimation and monitoring., Chemical reaction engineering., Virus modeling and stochastic chemical kinetics
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W. Harmon Ray
Professor Emeritus
Contact: whray@wisc.edu, (608) 263-4732
Research interests: Polymerization processes, process optimization, dynamics and control, chemical reactor engineering
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