Center for Electrochemical Science and Engineering:
Faculty

Core Faculty

Said Al-Hallaj
Research Associate Professor and Coordinator, Renewable Energy Programs, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering. Energy storage and conversion.

Donald Chmielewski
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering. Advanced Process Control, Fuel Cell System Design and Control.

Ali Emadi
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Director, Electric Power and Power Electronics Center

 

Henry Linden
Max McGraw Professor of Energy and Power Engineering and Management. Professor, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering. Energy economics and policy, energy R&D. Past president of Institute of Gas Technology and Gas Research Institute. Member of the National Academy of Engineering. Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Satish Parulekar
Professor, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering. Biochemical engineering, chemical reaction engineering, fuel cell catalysis, electrodialysis.

Jai Prakash
Director
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering. Electrochemistry, solid state chemistry, materials synthesis and characterization for energy conversion and storage applications.

 

Giselle Sandi
Research professor. Synthesis and characterization of carbon anodes for rechargeable lithium batteries, in-situ small angle neutron and x-ray scattering studies, polymer nanocomposites for lithium batteries and fuel cells

 

Robert Selman
Distinguished University Professor, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering. Electrochemistry and electrochemical engineering, particularly of energy conversion devices, lithium battery materials, molten salt and high-temperature technology.

Joseph Stetter
Associate Professor, Department of Biological, Chemical and Physical Sciences. Mechanisms of chemical sensors and electroanalytical systems, with extensive experience in the design and manufacture of practical electrochemical sensors and electroanalytical systems.

Vijay Ramani
Assitant Professor, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering. Hybrid materials for sustainable chemical and electrochemical energy conversion; Hydrogen and liquid fueled polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs); Degradation mitigation strategies in PEFCs; Development of educational modules to demonstrate sustainable energy economy concepts.

Hamid Arastoopour
Max McGraw Professor and dean, Armour College of Engineering. Computational multiphase flow, porous material modeling, agglomeration of particles, fluidizaton and material processing.

Ali Cinar
Professor, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering. Chemical and electrochemical process control, nonlinear system modeling, statistical process monitoring, fault diagnosis and AI applications.
Dimitri Gidaspow
IIT Distinguished University Professor, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering. Application of kinetic theory to gas/solid flow systems and fluidization. An AIChE Fellow, he shared the National Science Foundation Creativity Award for 1986.
Ishaque Khan
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological, Chemical and Physical Sciences. Synthesis and characterization of inorganic and organometallic substances, including host-guest and supramolecular assemblies of materials suitable for lithium batteries.
Zoltan Nagy
Professor Nagy's current interest is in educational outreach activities. He is editing Electrochemistry Encyclopedia (http://electrochem.cwru.edu/ed/encycl) containing popular-science style articles describing many aspects of electrochemistry, and the Electrochemistry Dictionary (http://electrochem.cwru.edu/ed/dict.htm) containing simple and brief definitions of words and phrases used often in electrochemistry. These are available freely to any interested user on the internet.
Philip Nash
Professor, Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering. Director of the IIT Powder Materials Laboratory. Powder metallurgy, intermetallics, composites, alloy design, thermodynamics and magnetic materials.
Krishna Pagilla
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering. Decontamination of solid wastes by electro-osmotic technology.
Bert Plomp
Electrode materials for fuel cells.
Carlo Segre
Associate Professor of Physics and associate chair, Department of Biological, Chemical, and Physical Sciences. Associate director of the Materials Research Collaborative Access Team (MRCAT) using the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory.
Fouad Teymour
Johnson Polymer Professor, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering. Polymer reaction engineering, mathematical modeling and nonlinear dynamics of polymers, electropolymerization, polymer process design.
Rong Wang
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological, Chemical and Physical Sciences. Construction of novel nanoscale materials.

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