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Research Expertise and Interest

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Per F. Peterson

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

nuclear engineering, heat and mass transfer, reactor thermal hydraulics, nuclear reactor design, radioactive waste, nuclear materials management

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

chemical engineering, biochemical engineering, extremozymes, bioactive materials, bioprocess engineering, biofuels and bioenergy, biocatalysis

Prof. Iris D. Tommelein in Sutardja Dai Hall

Iris D. Tommelein

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

lean construction, lean production, design management, sustainability, supply-chain management, life-cycle engineering, civil infrastructure systems, adaptive project leadership, engineering project management, megaproject delivery, construction process engineering, integrated project delivery IPD, building information modeling BIM, virtual design and construction VDC

Jay D. Keasling

Jay D. Keasling

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

chemical engineering, biochemical engineering, metabolic engineering of microorganisms, environmentally friendly synthesis, biodegradable and recyclable polymers, production of biofuels and bioproducts, natural products

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

synthetic biology, plant biology, microbiology, evolutionary biology

J. W. Evans

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

production of materials, particularly fluid flow, reaction kinetics, mass transport, electrochemical, electromagnetic phenomena governing processes for producing materials, metals, storing energy

markita landry in the lab

Markita del Carpio Landry

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

nanomaterials, fluorescence microscopy, sensors, imaging, neuroscience, plant engineering

Brian Staskawicz in lab holding wheat stem

Brian Staskawicz

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

biotechnology, plant and microbial biology

Portrait on campus, 2023

Ksenia Krasileva

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

genome evolution, innate immunity, plant health, fungi

Anastasios Melis

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

photosynthesis, Metabolic Engineering, synthetic biology, bioproduction R&D

Dimitrios Konstantinidis

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

structural dynamics, earthquake engineering, nonstructural components, seismic isolation, passive control, engineering mechanics

A photo of the faculty in the paramo in Ecuador

Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

ecohydrology, remote sensing, satellite experiments, stable isotopes, plant biology, surface hydrology, wetlands, methane

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biochemistry, metabolism, photosynthetic systems, Systems and Synthetic Biology, protein engineering

N. Cecilia Martinez-Gomez

Norma Cecilia Martinez-Gomez

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

microbial physiology, one-carbon metabolism, microbial molecular biology, bacteria, enzymes, enzyme activity, enzymology, enzyme kinetics, protein biochemistry, protein characterization

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

bacterial envelope properties, biogenesis, stress responses

Guanyu Su

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

energy systems and technology, wireless sensor networks, machine learning, thermal hydraulics, heat and mass transfer in molten salt, high temperature thermal energy storage

Daniel Siefman in outside setting

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

neutronics, criticality safety, nuclear data validation, machine learning, neutron noise, reactor dosimetry

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

Rachel Brem

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

molecular evolution, ecological genetics, genetics and genomics, fungal genetics

Francesco Borrelli

Francesco Borrelli

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

automotive control systems, distributed and robust constrained control, manufacturing control systems, energy efficient buildings, model predictive control

Kai Vetter

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

nuclear physics, radiation detection, nuclear instrumentation, nuclear measurements, multi-sensor systems and data fusion, radiological resilience

Dept of Chemistry

chemistry, bio-organic chemistry, diabetes, protein phosphorylation, fundamental signal transduction pathways in cells and whole organisms, kinase, drug development, asthma, multiple forms of cancer, neurological disorders, drug addiction