Faculty

Faculty members affiliated with CEPSE are listed below along with their current position(s), home department and a brief description of their research interests. More information on individual faculty can be found at their web sites.

Hamid Arastoopour: Professor of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Dean, Armour College of Engineering- computational fluid dynamics, multi-phase flow, pulverization and agglomeration, particle and material processing and characterization

Barry Bernstein: Professor of Mathematics and Chemical Engineering - mechanical and thermodynamic behavior of materials, rheology, computational fluid mechanics

Mike Caracotsios: Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering and Senior Modeling and Optimization Specialist, UOP LLC - mathematical modeling, numerical methods, process optimization

Ali Cinar: Professor of Chemical Engineering and Associate Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate College - process modeling, monitoring and control

Don Duvall: Adjunct Professor of Materials Engineering and Senior Consultant, Engineering Systems Inc. - structure/property relations, mechanical and environmental testing

Michael Gosz: Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering - computational solid mechanics, fracture mechanics, interface effects in composite materials, modeling of nanoscale composite structures subjected to thermal cycling, modeling fatigue crack growth, nonlinear dynamic finite element analysis of submerged flexible structures.

George Ivanov: Research Professor of Chemical Engineering - Processing of thermoplastic and thermoset resins and process optimization; Structure-properties relationship; Polymer composites, alloys and blends; Plastics pulverization and Recycling.

Braja Mandal: Associate Professor of Chemistry - electro-optical materials including conducting and photoluminescent polymers, solid polymer electrolytes, fuel cell membranes

Victor Perez-Luna: Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering - surface analysis and modification of materials, self-assembled monolayers, biosensors, biomaterials, tissue engineering

George Sadler: Research Professor of Food Packaging, National Center for Food Safety and Technology - food packaging, polymer science

Jay Schieber: Professor of Chemical Engineering - rheology, kinetic theory, thermodynamic and thermal behavior of polymers, Brownian dynamics and stochastic simulation, process modeling

Fouad Teymour: S.C. Johnson Polymer Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chairman, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering - polymer reaction engineering, mathematical modeling, and nonlinear dynamics

David Venerus: Professor of Chemical Engineering and Associate Chairman, Department of Chemical Engineering- rheology, thermal and mass transport in polymers, process modeling

Darsh Wasan: Professor of Chemical Engineering, Vice President for International Affairs and Motorola Chair - interfacial and colloidal phenomena, foams, emulsions and dispersions, and food and environmental technologies