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Research Expertise and Interest

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John Coates in lab with equipment in background

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

Precision fermentation, Bioprocess scale-up, environmental microbiology, Industrial bioprocesses, sustainability, carbon sequestration, Bioremediation, alternative energy production, biogeochemistry

Gabor A. Somorjai

Gabor A. Somorjai

Dept of Chemistry

physical chemistry, catalysis, surface science, low-energy electron diffraction, solid state chemistry, macroscopic surface phenomena, adhesion, lubrication, biocompatibility, bonding, reactivity at solid surfaces, scanning tunneling

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

mechanical engineering, use of machine learning to develop high performance energy conversion and thermal management technologies, micro-to-nanoscale modeling of the thermophysics of multiphase systems, waste plastic transport in environmental watersheds, waste plastic recycling

Ting Xu in lab looking at samples

Ting Xu

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

polymer, nanocomposite, biomaterial, membrane, directed self-assembly, drug delivery, protein therapeutics, block copolymers, nanoparticles

Jonathan Rittle

Jonathan Rittle

Dept of Chemistry

inorganic chemistry, biochemistry, crystallography, spectroscopy

Dept of Bioengineering

stem cell niche engineering, tissue repair, stem cell aging and rejuvenation

Eva Harris

School of Public Health

public health, infectious diseases

Professor Gronert in Front of a Mass Spectrometer

Karsten Gronert

School of Optometry

inflammatory diseases, innate immune responses, lipid mediators, lipidomics, leukocytes, inflammatory resolution, eicosanoids, omega-3 PUFA, Dry Eye, lipxoygenase, cycloooxygenase, resolution pharmacology, neuroprotection, adaptive immunity, glaucoma

Sona Kang

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

metabolism, obesity, adipose tissue, epigenetics

Kyriakos Komvopoulos

Kyriakos Komvopoulos

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

contact mechanics, fracture and fatigue of engineering materials, finite element modeling of surface contact and machining, thin-film processing and characterization, adhesion and fatigue of MEMS devices, plasma-assisted surface functionalization of biomaterials, surface patterning for cell adhesion and growth control, mechanics & tribology of magnetic recording devices, microfibrous scaffolds for tissue engineering, tribology and mechanics of artificial joints, mechanical metamaterials

Iain Clark in outdoor setting

Iain Clark

Dept of Bioengineering

microfluidics, single cell analysis, HIV, neurologic diseases

Joseph L. Napoli

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

metabolism, nutritional biochemistry, fat-soluble vitamins, retinoids, retinoic acid, retinol, vitamin A, vitamin D, analytical biochemistry

Charles Marshall sitting between skulls of T. rex and a giant extinct marine Mesozoic monster

Charles Marshall

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

Dept of Integrative Biology

paleontology

Na Ji

Dept of Neuroscience

Dept of Physics

neuroscience, microscopy techniques, in vivo imaging, biophotonics, biophysics, adaptive optics, optics

Teresa Head-Gordon standing with hands crossed in front

Teresa Head-Gordon

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Dept of Chemistry

Computational chemistry, machine learning, chemical physics, biophysics, biomolecules, materials, catalysis, computational science

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

metabolism, obesity, adipose tissue, brown fat, thermogenesis, tissue engineering, diabetes, fatty acid transport, fatty acid, stem cells, microphysiological systems, lipid nanoparticles, liver disease

John Arnold

Dept of Chemistry

organometallic chemistry, organometallic catalysis, materials chemistry, coordination chemistry

Dept of Bioengineering

microbial metabolism

Sanjay Govindjee

Sanjay Govindjee

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

finite element analysis, Theoretical and computational solid mechanics, constitutive theory, micromechanics, polymer mechanics, elastomer modeling, battery modeling, thermomechanics, continuum mechanics, failure analysis

Dept of Chemistry

synthetic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, actinide, rare earth catalysis

Rosemarie de la Rosa

Rosemarie de la Rosa

School of Public Health

pollutant exposure

Dept of Statistics

applied statistics, functional genomics, translational bioinformatics, high dimensional and integrative genomic/genetic data analysis, network modeling, hierarchical multi-lable classification

Vincent H. Resh

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

ecology, water resources, pollution, monitoring, water-borne diseases

Clayton J. Radke

Clayton J. Radke

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

chemical engineering, surface & colloid science technology, protein/polymer/surfactant adsorption from solution, two-phase enzymatic catalysis, interfacial surfactant transport, electrokinetics, pore-level fluid mechanics, contact-lens & eye mechanics

Kevin Edward Healy

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

bioengineering, biomaterials engineering, bioinspired materials, regenerative medicine, stem cell engineering, microphysiological systems, organs on a chip, drug screening and discovery