Kuech, Thomas F. - Milton J. and A. Maude Shoemaker and Beckwith-Bascom Professor and Chair solid-state materials synthesis and characterization -- electronic and semiconductor materials -- solar energy and photovoltaics -- oxide materials -- nanostructure formation Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Materials Science and Engineering, Materials Science Program, Wisconsin Center for Applied Microelectronics

Chair Thomas F. Kuech

Abbott, Nicholas L. - John T. and Magdalen L. Sobota Professor; Director, Materials Research and Engineering Center

interfacial phenomena -- colloid chemistry -- soft materials -- biotechnology -- nano-scale science and engineering -- polymers, liquid crystals and surfactants
Materials Chemistry Program, Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Materials Science Program, University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center

Dumesic, James A. - Steenbock Professor and Michel Boudart Professor

kinetics and catalysis -- surface and solid-state chemistry -- in situ catalyst studies
Center for Catalytic Reaction Synthesis, The Center for Enabling New Technologies through Catalysis

Graham, Michael D. - Harvey D. Spangler Professor

Also Mechanical Engineering
Viscoelastic and Newtonian fluid mechanics, especially stability and nonlinear dynamics -- Microstructural and multiscale simulations of complex fluids; applications to microfluidics, nanotechnology and biology -- Applied and computational mathematics
Computation and Informatics in Biology and Medicine, Rheology Research Center

Huber, George W. - Professor

Renewable Energy -- Biofuels and Biochemicals -- Heterogeneous Catalysis -- Pyrolysis -- Zeolites -- Conceptual Process Design

Klingenberg, Daniel J. - Professor

colloid science -- suspension rheology -- electromagnetic phenomena in materials
Materials Science Program, Rheology Research Center

Lynn, David M. - Professor

Also Chemistry
Biomaterials and biotechnology -- Functional materials -- Polymer synthesis -- Surfaces and Interfaces -- Gene and drug delivery -- Controlled release
Biotechnology Training Program, Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Materials Science Program

Maravelias, Christos T. - Associate Professor

Also Industrial and Systems Engineering
Scheduling and production planning -- Supply chain management -- Pharmaceutical research and development -- Mixed-integer Programming -- Optimization methods for process synthesis

Mavrikakis, Manos - Paul A. Elfers Professor

thermodynamics -- kinetics and catalysis -- surface science -- computational chemistry -- electronic materials -- fuel cells applications -- environmental chemical engineering
Computational Surface Science and Catalysis Group, Institute for Atom-Efficient Chemical Transformations Energy Frontier Research Center

Murphy, Regina M. - Smith-Bascom Professor

Also Biomedical Engineering
targeted drug design -- physical chemistry of protein-protein interactions
Biomedical Engineering Center for Translational Research, Biophysics Program, Center for Neuroscience

Palecek, Sean P. - Professor

Also Biomedical Engineering
cellular engineering -- tissue engineering -- stem cells -- cell and protein biosensors
Biotechnology Training Program, Materials Science Program, Microbiology Doctoral Training Program, Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center, Wisconsin Stem Cell Research Program

Pfleger, Brian F. - Assistant Professor

Also Biomedical Engineering
Synthetic Biology -- Metabolic Engineering -- Biotechnology -- Protein Engineering -- Natural Products
Biotechnology Training Program, Cellular and Molecular Biology Program, Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program, Genome Sciences Training Program, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Microbiology Doctoral Training Program

Rawlings, James B. - Paul A. Elfers Professor and W. Harmon Ray Professor

Chemical process control, nonlinear model predictive control. -- State estimation and monitoring. -- Chemical reaction engineering. -- Virus modeling and stochastic chemical kinetics

Reed, Jennifer L. - Assistant Professor

Also Biomedical Engineering
Systems biology -- Metabolic model development & analysis -- Metabolic engineering -- Biofuels, bioremediation, & biotechnology
Biotechnology Training Program, Bringing Advanced Computational Techniques to Energy Research, Computation and Informatics in Biology and Medicine, Genome Sciences Training Program, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Microbiology Doctoral Training Program

Root, Thatcher W. - Professor

surface chemistry -- catalysis -- diffusion in porous media -- solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Biotechnology Center, Environmental Chemistry and Technology Program, Materials Science Program

Shusta, Eric V. - Professor

Also Biomedical Engineering
brain drug delivery -- blood-brain barrier engineering -- biopharmaceutical design -- protein engineering
Biotechnology Training Program, Blood-Brain Barrier Group, Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program, Clinical Neuroengineering Training Program, University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center

Swaney, Ross E. - Associate Professor

process systems modeling and optimization

Yin, John - Professor and Theme Leader, Systems Biology, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Also Biomedical Engineering
virus-host interactions -- systems biology -- microfluidics -- pre-biotic chemistry
Biotechnology Training Program, Cellular and Molecular Biology Program, Computation and Informatics in Biology and Medicine, Madison Virology Program, Microbiology Doctoral Training Program, University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

Faculty Affiliates

Etzel, Mark R. - Associate Professor

Also Food Science
bioseparation processes -- bioprocessing and food engineering -- mass transfer
Biotechnology Center, Center for Dairy Research

Schauer, James Jay - Professor

Also Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Atmospheric chemistry -- Source Apportionment -- Measurement of atmospheric pollutants -- Measurement of air pollution source emissions -- Atmospheric Aerosols -- Atmospheric Mercury -- Trace metals in the environment and redox cycling of metals -- Air quality in developing and underdeveloped nations
Air Resources Management Program, Environmental Chemistry and Technology Program, Molecular and Environmental Toxicology Center, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene

Emeritus Faculty

Bird, R. Byron - Professor Emeritus

transport phenomena -- polymer fluid dynamics -- polymer kinetic theory -- rheology
Rheology Research Center

Chapman, Thomas W. - Professor Emeritus

electrochemical reaction engineering -- mass transfer
International Engineering Studies and Programs

Hill, Charles G., Jr. - John T. and Magdalen L. Sobota Professor Emeritus

Also Food Science
immobilized enzyme technology -- kinetics and catalysis -- membrane separations -- photocatalysis -- wood adhesives -- new bleaching technology
Biotechnology Center, Center for Dairy Research

Lightfoot, Edwin N. - Hilldale Professor Emeritus

mass-transport reaction modeling -- biological mass-transfer processes -- separations processes
Biotechnology Center

Ray, W. Harmon - Vilas Research Professor Emeritus

polymerization processes -- process optimization, dynamics and control -- chemical reactor engineering

Rudd, Dale F. - Professor Emeritus

After retirement in 1994 Sandy and I moved to Seattle. Our home has a wide view of Puget Sound and the snow-capped mountains of Olympic National Park. Our children Karen and David both live within walking distance. The Pacific Northwest is great.

Sather, Glenn A. - Professor Emeritus

stoichiometry -- thermodynamics