Oleg S. Alexeev
Research Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including surface chemistry and catalysis, reaction kinetics, nanocatalysts, and supported metal clusters.
Our Faculty
Salai C. Ammal
Research Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including computational modeling of heterogeneous catalysis and electrocatalysis.
Theodore M. Besmann
SmartState Endowed Chair in Energy and Nuclear Security, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Adjunct faculty in Chemical Engineering, with research interests including thermochemical experiments and modeling for nuclear fuel development and in-reactor behavior, and development of advanced nuclear waste forms.
Madan Bhasin
Adjunct Faculty in Chemical Engineering and Member of the National Academy of Engineering, with research interests in Heterogeneous catalysis and surface science, applied and fundamental, including: selective oxidations of olefins and paraffins; selective oxidative synthesis of ethylene via methane coupling; selective hydrogenations of diolefins and dehydrogenation of paraffins; direct conversion of synthesis gas to two-carbon chemicals, hydrodesulfurization, hydrocracking; early development of the applications of Auger, ESCA, ISS, SIMS, etc. to solution of heterogeneous catalysis problems and development of physical/chemical catalyst characterization techniques, including ESR, infrared and Raman spectroscopes (also in-situ Raman).
Donna Chen
Robert L. Sumwalt Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Adjunct faculty in Chemical Engineering, with research interests focusing on understanding surface chemistry on the atomic and molecular level, with application to the development of new materials for heterogeneous catalysts.
Paul T. Coman
Research Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including development of mathematical modeling for improving the performance and safety in Li-ion batteries.
Melis Duyar
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including heterogeneous catalysis, rational catalyst design, carbon capture and utilisation, plastics upcycling
Armin D. Ebner
Research Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including electro-dialysis, hydrogen production, and hydrogen storage.
Brenda Garcia-Diaz
Adjunct faculty in Chemical Engineering and Advisory Program Manager for Fusion Energy at Savannah River National Lab.
Edward P. Gatzke
Undergraduate Program Director and Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including process modeling, control, and optimization, with applications involving particulate processing, bio-processes, and large scale systems.
R. Michael Gower
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Affiliate faculty in Chemical Engineering, with research interests involving the understanding the immune system in order to develop bio-instructive materials that stimulate specific immune responses.
Chad Hardaway
Adjunct faculty in Chemical Engineering, he is a patent attorney and chemical engineer who brings a broad skill set to intellectual property protection and management.
Andreas Heyden
MCEC Distinguished Professor and Graduate Program Director of Chemical Engineering with research interests including nanomaterials, catalysis, computational chemistry, and multiscale modeling.
Kevin Huang
SmartState Endowed Chair in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Adjunct faculty in Chemical Engineering, with research interests including solid oxide electrochemical cells, storage batteries, gas separation membranes, solid state defect chemistry and electrochemistry.
Esmaiel Jabbari
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Affiliate faculty in Chemical Engineering, with research interests including tissue engineering, biomimetic materials, bioinspired nanocomposites, and peptide-mediated drug delivery.
Ehsan Jabbarzadeh
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Affiliate faculty in Chemical Engineering, with research interests in the interdisciplinary areas of biomaterials, stem cells and nano/micro-electromechanical systems with applications in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
Golareh Jalilvand
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests include structural materials for energy storage, and microfabrication of batteries.
Jochen Lauterbach
SmartState Endowed Chair for Strategic Approaches to the Generation of Electricity (SAGE) and Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including catalysis, storage and reduction technology, and hydrogen storage.
Michael A. Matthews
Associate Vice President for Research of USC, Senior Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs of the Molinaroli College of Engineering and Computing, and Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, with research interests in the broad field of thermodynamics, including supercritical fluids, ionic liquids, green chemical engineering, and carbon dioxide technology for sterilization, disinfection, modification of tissue scaffolds, and deactivation of allergenic proteins and asthma triggers.
Benjamin H. Meekins
Research Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering, with research interests including photovoltaics, solar fuel conversion (water splitting and carbon dioxide remediation), and catalysis related to both.
Melissa Ann Moss
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs of the Molinaroli College of Engineering and Computing, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Affiliate faculty in Chemical Engineering, with research interests focused on understanding the role of amyloid-β protein (Aβ) aggregation in Alzheimer’s disease and inhibiting Aβ aggregation and its impact on cells as a therapeutic approach to this widespread and devastating illness.
William E. Mustain
Director of the Carolina Institute for Battery Innovation (CIBI), and Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including electrochemistry, catalysis, materials design, surface chemistry, energy conversion and storage, and electrochemical synthesis.
Marjorie Nicholson
Instructor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including hydrogen storage systems, and gas separation and purification.
Ivelisse Ortiz-Hernandez
Instructor of Chemical Engineering, with background involving the study of heterogeneous catalytic systems under reaction conditions.
Zhenmeng Peng
Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including electrochemical hydrogen generation/storage/utilization, new approaches for electrical energy storage, C1 chemicals conversion, electrochemical engineering for desalination and separation applications.
Branko N. Popov
Carolina Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including electrochemical power sources, industrial metal finishing, and corrosion.
John R. Regalbuto
SmartState Endowed Chair in Renewable Fuels and Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including catalysis preparation and characterization, adsorption theory, and reaction kinetics.
James A. Ritter
Carolina Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and L.M. Weisiger Professor of Engineering, with research interests including hydrogen storage systems, gas separation and purification, and targeted drug delivery.
Monirosadat (Sanaz) Sadati
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including the structure, dynamics, and self-assembly of soft materials, with an emphasis on anisotropic components capable of leading to new, tunable macroscopic properties.
Sirivatch Shimpalee
Research Professor in Chemical Engineering, with research interests including electrochemical engineering, fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, and computational fluid dynamics.
Nader Taheri Qazvini
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Affiliate faculty in Chemical Engineering, with research interests including bio-nano hybrid and biomimetic materials, charge-driven self-assembly, structure-dynamics relations in polymer networks, hydrogels, soft glassy materials and living cells, microfabrication and 3D bioprinting and tissue engineering, and collective cell migration.
John Meynard M. Tengco
Assistant Research Professor in Chemical Engineering, with research interests including catalyst preparation methods such as strong electrostatic adsorption, electroless deposition, and galvanic displacement, to optimize supported monometallic and multimetallic nanoparticle size, distribution, and degree of component metal interaction.
Mark J. Uline
Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering and Affiliate faculty in Chemical Engineering, with research interests working toward the fundamental understanding of how the complex interactions at interfaces couple together to give the rich phenomena observed in various chemical and biological systems.
Thomas Vogt
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Adjunct faculty in Chemical Engineering, with research interests including crystallography, chemical synthesis, structures and properties of metal oxides, and electron, x-ray and neutron diffraction techniques and instrumentation.
Tao Wei
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Affiliate faculty in Chemical Engineering, with Research interests focusing on functional materials and biotechnologies using the combination of multiscale simulations, experiments and machine learning.
Ralph E. White
Westinghouse Distinguished Scientist and Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including fuel cells, batteries, electrodeposition, corrosion, and numerical methods.
Christopher Williams
Professor and Chair of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including heterogeneous catalysis, surface science, catalyst design, and in-situ vibrational spectroscopy.
Hui Yang
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including materials design, electrochemical energy storage, sustainability/photocatalysis/CO2 capture and utilization, and charge transfer mechanisms and kinetics.
Wenqiang Yang
Research Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering, with research interests including catalysis, computational chemistry, and multiscale modeling.
Yanjiao Yi
Research Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests focusing on the rational synthesis of catalysts through different methodologies, including the preparation of metal particle catalysts that range from single atoms to clusters, from 1-2 nm to larger than 2 nm particles.
Emeritus Faculty
Francis Gadala-Maria
Research interests include rheology of suspensions, polymer processing, and composite materials.
Thomas G. Stanford
Research interests include chemical process systems and advanced professional engineering education.
Vincent Van Brunt
Research interests include separations modeling and chemistry, filtration, and extraction chemistry.
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