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Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Faculty

  • Nancy Da Silva, Ph.D., Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Biomedical Engineering
    Research Interests:  Molecular biotechnology
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    Email    : ndasilva @ uci . edu
  • James Earthman, Ph.D., Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Biomedical Engineering
    Research Interests:  Biomaterials, dental and orthopaedic implants, green materials, nanocrystalline alloys, and deformation and damage processes
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    Email: earthman @ uci . edu
  • Stanley Grant, Ph.D., Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
    Research Interests:  Environmental engineering, coastal water quality, coagulation and filtration of colloidal contaminants; environmental microbiology
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    Email: sbgrant @ uci . edu
  • Juan Hong, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
    Research Interests:  Bioseparation processes, including membrane, chromatographic, and supercritical fluid separation; bioreactor optimization for biopolymer production; process of protein crystallization
    Email:  jhong @ uci . edu
  • Young Jik Kwon, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Biomedical Engineering
    Research Interests:  Gene therapy, drug delivery, cancer-targeted therapeutics, nanobiotechnology, tissue engineering
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    Email:  kwonyj @ uci . edu
  • Henry Lim, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
    Research Interests:  Bioreaction and bioreactor engineering, modeling, optimization and control of bioreactors, cellular regulation, recombinant DNA technology, and bioremediation
    Email: hclim @ uci . edu
  • Martha Mecartney, Ph.D., Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
    Research Interests:  Sol-gel processing of oxide ceramics, including thin films, grain boundaries in ceramics, interfacial engineering of superplastic ceramics, and analytical transmission electron microscopy
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    Email: martham @ uci . edu
  • Farghalli Mohamed, Ph.D., Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Civil and Environmental Engineering
    Research Interests:  Mechanical behavior of engineering materials such as metals, composites, and ceramics; the correlation between behavior and microstructure; creep and superplasticity; and the mechanisms responsible for strengthening and fracture
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    Email: famohame @ uci . edu
  • Ali Mohraz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
    Research Interests:  Understand and exploit colloidal interactions, chemistry, assembly, and response to external fields to design microstructured materials with enhanced functionality for composites, biomimetic applications, alternative energy, and environmental remediation
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    Email: mohraz @ uci . edu
  • Daniel Mumm, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
    Research Interests:  Development of materials for power generation systems, propulsion, integrated sensing, advanced vehicle concepts and platform protection
    Email: mumm @ uci . edu
  • Hung Nguyen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
    Research Interests:  Self-assembly of biological and biomimetic nanoscale materials based on amino acids and on nucleic acids
    Email:  hdn @ uci . edu
  • Mikael Nilsson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
    Research Interests:      Actinide chemistry, solvent extraction fundamental chemistry and process development, extraction and detection equipment development, radiolysis and phase composition of organic solvent
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    Email:      nilssonm @ uci . edu  
  • Regina Ragan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
    Research Interests:  Exploration and development of novel material systems for nanoscale electronic and optoelectronic devices
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    Email: rragan @ uci . edu
  • Frank Shi, Ph.D., Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    Research Interests:  Optoelectronic Devices and Materials, Optoelectronic device packaging materials, optoelectronic medical devices and packaging, white LED technologies, high power LED packaging
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    Email: fgshi @ uci . edu
  • Vasan Venugopalan, Sc.D., Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Biomedical Engineering
    Research Interests:  Laser-induced thermal, mechanical and radiative transport processes for application in medical diagnostics, therapeutics, biotechnology, and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)
    Email: vvenugop @ uci . edu
  • Szu-Wen Wang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Biomedical Engineering
    Research Interests:  Combining principles of self-assembly with nature-inspired macromolecular systems to engineer new materials and therapeutic strategies
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    Email: wangsw @ uci . edu
  • Albert Yee, Ph.D., Chair and Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Biomedical Engineering, and Chemistry
    Research Interests:  Materials science aspects of polymers and soft materials, particularly on how they are used to impact nanotechnology
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    Email: afyee @ uci . edu
     
  • Zhongping Chen, Ph.D., Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Beckman Laser Institute
    Research Interests:  Biomedical photonics, microfabrication, biomaterials, and biosensors. Fiber-optic based biomedical imaging systems development
    Email: z2chen @ uci . edu
  • William Cooper, Ph.D., Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
    Research Interests:  Carbon cycling in natural waters, the treatment and, fate and transport, of pharmaceuticals in water, and, the development of ozone as a treatment process in ballast water of ships to prevent the spread of invasive species
    Email: wcooper @ uci . edu
     
  • Steven George, M.D., Ph.D., William J. Link Professor and Chair, Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
    Research Interests:  Physiological modeling, computational methods, tissue engineering
    Email: scgeorge @ uci . edu

  • G. Wesley Hatfield, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
    Research Interests:  Computationally optimized DNA assembly (CODA) and translational engineering technologies for the self-assembly of synthetic genes for optimal protein expression in non-native organism
    Email:  wes.hatfield @ uci . edu
     
  • Noo Li Jeon, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
    Research Interests:  Developing microfluidic devices for biological research (i.e. cell migration, axon guidance, axon regeneration, and stem cell differentiation), microfluidics, BioMEMS, and soft lithography
    Email: njeon @ uci . edu
  • G.P. Li, Ph.D., Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, and Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
    Research Interests:  High-speed semiconductor technology, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology, opto-electronic devices, and the design, fabrication and testing of integrated circuits
    Email:  gpli @ uci . edu
  • John Lowengrub, Ph.D., Professor, Mathematics, Biomedical Engineering, and Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
    Research Interests:  Microstructured materials, such as emulsions and polymer blends, crystals, thin films and metallic alloys, blood and biological tissues
    Email: jlowengr @ uci . edu
  • Marc Madou, Ph.D., Chancellor's Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
    Research Interests:  Miniaturization science (MEMS and NEMS) with emphasis on chemical and biological applications
    Email: mmadou @ uci . edu
  • Roger Rangel, Ph.D., Chair and Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
    Research Interests:  Heat transfer, fluid mechanics, spray combustion, two-phase flows, fluid instability and atomizatio
    Email: rhrangel @ uci . edu
  • Peter Rentzepis, Ph.D., Presidential Chair and Professor, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    Research Interests:  Picosecond time-resolved x-ray diffraction and EXFAS to determine the structures of ultrashortlived intermediates in chemical and biological reactions in liquids; subpicosecond kinetics to probe non-linear phenomena of molecules used for 3D optical storage and electronic switching
    Email: pmrentze @ uci . edu
  • Diego Rosso, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
    Research Interests:  Environmental process engineering, carbon footprint analysis, wastewater treatment, water and energy nexus, energy efficiency
    Email: bidui @ uci . edu
  • Kenneth Shea, Ph.D., Professor, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
    Research Interests:  Developing new methods and strategies for synthesizing carbon-carbon bonds
    Email: kjshea @ uci . edu
  • Lizhi Sun, Ph.D., Vice Chair and Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
    Research Interests:  Micro/nano-mechanics of heterogeneous composite materials, with applications for civil, mechanical, aerospace, electronic, and biomedical engineering
    Email: lsun @ uci . edu
  • Lorenzo Valdevit, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
    Research Interests:  Mechanics of materials and structures
    Email: valdevit @ uci . edu
  • H. Kumar Wickramasinghe, Ph.D., The Henry Samueli Endowed Chair and Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, and Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
    Research Interests: DNA sequencing techniques, nanotechnology
    Email: hkwick @ uci . edu
 
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