Degree Programs Offered: Master of Engineering, Master of Science, Doctor of Philosophy

Director of Graduate Program: Professor Yee C. Chiew, Engineering Building C150B, Busch Campus (732-445-0315)

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Ioannis P. Androulakis, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Purdue
Systems biology; bioinformatics; data mining; complex reaction modeling; optimization; systems analysis

Tewodros (Teddy) Asefa, Associate Professor of Chemistry, SAS/SE; Ph.D., Toronto
Development of novel multifunctional nanostructured and nanoporous materials for catalysis; biocatalysis, sensors, and biosensors; solar cells and renewable energy; nanomedicine for cancer treatment

Fred R. Bernath, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Rutgers
Biomedical engineering; transport phenomena

Helen M. Buettner, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Neurobiology; cell motility; biomedical engineeriing

Yee C. Chiew, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Statistical mechanics of complex fluids; thermodynamics of pharmaceutical and nanoscale materials; molecular simulations; interfacial phenomena

Alkis Constantinides, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; D.E.Sc., Columbia
Biochemical engineering; modeling of fermentation processes

William Craelius, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Northwestern
Cardiac and neural electrophysiology

Alberto M. Cuitiño,Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Brown
Powder mechanics; micromechanics; computer methods

Panos G. Georgopoulos, Associate Professor of Environmental and Community Medicine, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Environmental chemical engineering; turbulent transport; reactive flows

Benjamin J. Glasser, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Princeton
Multiphase flows and reactors; granular materials and particulate suspensions; nonlinear dynamics of transport processes

Masanori Hara, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Kyoto (Japan)
Polymer physics; structure-property relationships of ion-containing polymers in solid and solution

Marianthi G. Ierapetritou, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Imperial College (UK)
Process systems engineering; process design, planning, and scheduling; uncertainty and environmental considerations; nonlinear and mixed integer optimization

Sastry S. Isukapalli, Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Computational modeling for health risk analysis and uncertainty reduction

Sobin Kim, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Columbia
Genotyping; DNA sequencing; MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry; DNA tagging; gene expression analysis; DNA pooling

Joachim B. Kohn, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)
Biotechnology; bioorganic chemistry; new methods for drug delivery

Bozena Michniak-Kohn, Professor of Pharmaceutics, EMSP; Ph.D., Leicester (UK)
Topical and transdermal drug delivery

Prabhas V. Moghe, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Minnesota
Bioengineering and microarchitecture of polymeric tissue analogs; cell-biomaterial interactions; tissue engineering of liver, skin, and blood vessels; fluid flow and "cellular stress engineering"; quantitative 3-D reconstructive confocal microscopy

Gaetano T. Montelione, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell
Nuclear magnetic resonance studies of proteins; protein molecular design; mechanisms of protein folding

Fernando J. Muzzio, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Massachusetts (Amherst)
Mixing; chaos and randomness; transport phenomena; pharmaceutical engineering

Alexander V. Neimark, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., D.Sc., Moscow State
Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics; molecular simulations of nanophases and nanostructured materials; characterization of porous materials; adsorption; micro- and nanofluids of biofluids

Wilma Olson, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Stanford
Theoretical and computational studies of nucleic acid structure and properties

Henrik Pedersen, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Yale
Biochemical engineering; bioreactor design; plant cell culture and metabolism

Rohit Ramachandran, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Imperial College (UK)
Mathematical modelling; process control; process optimization; experimental validation studies in relation to chemical and pharmaceutical processes

Richard E. Riman, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hydrothermal synthesis; microencapsulation; solid-state synthesis; mixedness; reactive sol-gel halide synthesis; solution thermodynamics; crystallization; granulation

Charles M. Roth, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Delaware
Molecular bioengineering; gene-based technologies; cell systems engineering

Alvin J. Salkind, Professor of Surgery, UMDNJ-RWJMS; D.Ch.E., Polytechnic Institute of New York
Electrochemical engineering; energy; metal recovery

Jerry I. Scheinbeim, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Pittsburgh
Polymer electroprocessing; structure-electroactive properties relationships in electroactive polymeric materials

Nina Shapley, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Multiphase fluid mechanics and rheology; imaging (nuclear magnetic resonance imaging); micro- and nanoencapsulation; biopolymer colloids; health and environmental applications

Troy Shinbrot, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Maryland
Nonlinear dynamics; mixing, control, and granular flow

David I. Shreiber, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Mechanotransduction; injury biomechanics; tissue and cellular engineering; nerve regeneration

Stavroula Sofou, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Columbia
Biomedical engineering; membranes; self-assembly of biological materials; drug delivery; intermolecular and interfacial interactions

Paul Takhistov, Associate Professor of Food Engineering, SEBS; Ph.D., Ukraine National Academy of Sciences
Colloid and interface science; biosensors; functional materials; nanotechnology

M. Silvina Tomassone, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Northeastern
Molecular dynamics; thermodynamics and statistical mechanics of fluids; nanoparticles; nanotribology; self assembly and dynamics of surfactants; spreading of fluids

Kathryn E. Uhrich, Professor of Chemistry, SAS/SE; Ph.D., Cornell
Polymer design, synthesis, and characterization; microlithography

Aleksey Vishnyakov, Assistant Research Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SOE; Ph.D., St. Petersburg
Computation chemistry and molecular simulation techniques

Martin L. Yarmush, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Rockefeller; M.D., Yale
Applied immunology; bioseparations; artificial organs and tissue engineering