People

Geyou Ao

Associate Professor

Research Interests: Liquid Phase Processing of Nanomaterials, Liquid Crystals of Nanorods, Fluorescent Quantum Defects, Glyconanomaterials, Carbohydrate-Protein Interactions, Biosensors, Aligned Films and Fibers, Phase Behavior and Rheology of Nanomaterials

Joanne M. Belovich

Professor

Research Interests: transport properties of bone, algae, biodiesel, biofuel

George P. Chatzimavroudis

Associate Dean and Associate Professor

Research Interests: Biofluid mechanics, Cardiovascular imaging, Magnetic resonance imaging, Heart valve disease, Congenital heart disease, Experimental and computational fluid dynamics

Jorge E. Gatica

Professor

Research Interests: Reaction Engineering, Transport Phenomena and Chemical Kinetics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Tribology, Combustion and Process Control

Nolan B. Holland

Chair and Professor

Research Interests: Biosynthesis of responsive polymers, Elastin like polypeptides, Atomic Force Microscopy AFM, Circular dichroism spectroscopy, Surface pressure isotherms, Surface modification, Antifreeze proteins, Biomaterials, Protein design & expression, High performance liquid chromatography HPLC, Ice crystal growth, Biologically based materials, Tissue Engineering Scaffolds, Drug delivery hydrogel particles, Protein Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy, Polymer micelles, Theranostics

Chandra Kothapalli

Professor

Research Interests: Biomechanics and mechanobiology, Stem Cells (mesenchymal, embryonic, human/rat/mice), Regenerative medicine, Tissue engineering, Microfluidics, Nanotechnology, Biomedicine, Soft materials, Toxicology, Produce safety and food chemistry

Chelsea Monty-Bromer

Associate Professor

Research Interests: The study, design, and fabrication of electrochemical sensors, biofuel cells, biomaterials, and self-powered biosensors.

Richard Schoephoerster

Dean and Professor

Marvin E. Thrash 

Associate Professor of Practice

Research Interests: Adsorption, biofuels, biological modeling and stochastic simulation

Sridhar Ungarala

Associate Professor

Research Interests: The analysis of qualitative behavior of nonlinear processes, state and parameter estimation, and detection and diagnosis of process abnormalities

Metin Uz

Assistant Professor

Research Interests: Biomaterials, Flexible Electronics, Tissue Engineering, Drug and Gene Delivery, Polymeric Membranes

Shaowei Yang

Assistant Professor

Research Interests: Developing microporous materials and membranes for energy and environment related applications