Degree Programs Offered: Master of Engineering, Master of Science, Doctor of Philosophy
Director of Graduate Program: Professor Charles Roth, Engineering Building C2226B, Busch Campus (848-445-6686)
Members of the Graduate Faculty
Ioannis P. Androulakis, 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 engineering
Fuat Celik, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biochemical
Engineering, SE; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Heterogeneous catalysis for energy applications
Yee C. Chiew, Associate Dean for International Programs and 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 electrophysiologyAlberto M. Cuiti�o, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Brown
Powder mechanics; micromechanics; computer methods
German Drazer, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Cuyo and Instituto Balseiro (Argentina)
Transport phenomena; fluid mechanics and statistical physics; stochastic processes
Meenakshi Dutt, Assistant Professor of Chemical and
Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Duke
Particle technology; multifunctional biohybrid materials;
nanoparticle-cell membrane interactions; molecular simulations
Panos G. Georgopoulos, Professor of Environmental
and Occupational Medicine, 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, Chair and 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, RWJMS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Computational modeling for health risk analysis and
uncertainty reductionJoachim B. Kohn, Director, NJ Biomaterials and Devices Center and Distinguished 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
Tamara Minko, Chair and Professor of Pharmaceutics, EMSP; Ph.D., Ukrainian Academy of Science
Drug delivery; biopharmaceutics; cancer pharmacology
Prabhas V. Moghe, Distinguished Professor of Biomedical
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, Jerome and Lorraine Aresty Chair in Cancer Biology and Distinguished 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, Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biochemical
Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Massachusetts (Amherst)
Mixing; chaos and randomness; transport phenomena;
pharmaceutical engineering
Alexander V. Neimark, Distinguished 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 nanofluidics of biofluids
Wilma Olson, Mary I. Bunting Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Stanford
Theoretical
and computational studies of nucleic acid structure and properties
Henrik Pedersen, Associate Dean for Lifelong Learning and Professional Education and 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 modeling; process control; process
optimization; experimental validation studies in relation to chemical and
pharmaceutical processes
Richard E. Riman, Distinguished 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, Professor of Chemical and
Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Delaware
Molecular bioengineering; gene-based technologies; cell
systems engineering
Jerry I. Scheinbeim, Distinguished 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, Professor of Biomedical
Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Mechanotransduction; injury biomechanics; tissue and
cellular engineering; nerve regeneration
Stavroula Sofou, Associate 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, Associate Research Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; 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
Associate Member of the Graduate Faculty
Xue Liu, Assistant Research Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Rutgers
Heterogeneous catalyst preparation; continuous manufacturing of pharmaceutical products; powder technology and multiphase flows
