Department of

Chemical Engineering

Designing molecular technology for the 21st century with biology and chemistry


Faculty Research Areas

Faculty Research Areas > Computational Chemical Engineering

  • Ali Borhan
    Transport phenomena, interfacial flows, computational fluid dynamics, complex fluids.
  • Patrick Cirino
    Biocatalysis, metabolic engineering, protein engineering and directed evolution.
  • Kristen Fichthorn
    Atomic Scale Modeling and Simulation of Materials and Interfacial Phenomena.
  • Michael Janik
    Current research in our lab utilizes atomistic modeling techniques, mainly first principles based electronic structure methods, to probe the relationship between the structure/composition of catalytic materials and their activity and selectivity.
  • Costas Maranas
    Use of algorithmic and computational techniques to solve problems in supply chain logistics, bioinformatics, and protein engineering.
  • Janna Maranas
    Molecular Simulation, Neutron Scattering, Polymers, Glasses and the Glass Transition.
  • Scott Milner
    Using microscopic and mesoscopic physics-based theory and simulation techniques to understand the behavior of polymers and complex fluids, in a wide variety of settings.
  • James Vrentas
    Transport phenomena, applied mathematics, fluid mechanics, diffusion, polymer science.

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