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Molinaroli College of Engineering and Computing

Chemical Engineering

Our People

We develop high quality chemical engineers by continuously improving our undergraduate and graduate programs. We conduct world class research and innovative teaching, provide an environment for professional development, and are an effective resource for industry, government and academia.

Our Faculty

Research Professor Oleg Alexeev

Oleg S. Alexeev

Research Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including surface chemistry and catalysis, reaction kinetics, nanocatalysts, and supported metal clusters.

Research Professor Salai Ammal

Salai C. Ammal

Research Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including computational modeling of heterogeneous catalysis and electrocatalysis.

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Theodore M. Besmann

SmartState Endowed Chair in Energy and Nuclear Security, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Adjunct faculty in Chemical Engineering, with research interests including thermochemical experiments and modeling for nuclear fuel development and in-reactor behavior, and development of advanced nuclear waste forms.

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Donna Chen

Robert L. Sumwalt Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Adjunct faculty in Chemical Engineering, with research interests focusing on understanding surface chemistry on the atomic and molecular level, with application to the development of new materials for heterogeneous catalysts.

Paul Coman

Paul T. Coman

Research Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including development of mathematical modeling for improving the performance and safety in Li-ion batteries.

Research Professor Armin Ebner

Armin D. Ebner

Research Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including electro-dialysis, hydrogen production, and hydrogen storage.

Dr. Brenda Garcia-Diaz

Brenda Garcia-Diaz

Adjunct faculty in Chemical Engineering and Advisory Program Manager for Fusion Energy at Savannah River National Lab.

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Edward P. Gatzke

Undergraduate Program Director and Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including process modeling, control, and optimization, with applications involving particulate processing, bio-processes, and large scale systems.

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R. Michael Gower

Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Affiliate faculty in Chemical Engineering, with research interests involving the understanding the immune system in order to develop bio-instructive materials that stimulate specific immune responses.

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Chad Hardaway

Adjunct faculty in Chemical Engineering, he is a patent attorney and chemical engineer who brings a broad skill set to intellectual property protection and management.

Professor Andreas Heyden

Andreas Heyden

MCEC Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, with Research interests including nanomaterials, catalysis, computational chemistry, and multiscale modeling.

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Kevin Huang

SmartState Endowed Chair in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Adjunct faculty in Chemical Engineering, with research interests including solid oxide electrochemical cells, storage batteries, gas separation membranes, solid state defect chemistry and electrochemistry.

Esmaiel Jabbari

Esmaiel Jabbari

Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Affiliate faculty in Chemical Engineering, with research interests including tissue engineering, biomimetic materials, bioinspired nanocomposites, and peptide-mediated drug delivery.

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Ehsan Jabbarzadeh

Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Affiliate faculty in Chemical Engineering, with research interests in the interdisciplinary areas of biomaterials, stem cells and nano/micro-electromechanical systems with applications in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

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Golareh Jalilvand

Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests include structural materials for energy storage, and microfabrication of batteries.

Professor Jochen Lauterbach

Jochen Lauterbach

SmartState Endowed Chair for Strategic Approaches to the Generation of Electricity (SAGE) and Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including catalysis, storage and reduction technology, and hydrogen storage.

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Michael A. Matthews

Associate Vice President for Research of USC, Senior Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs of the Molinaroli College of Engineering and Computing, and Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, with research interests in the broad field of thermodynamics, including supercritical fluids, ionic liquids, green chemical engineering, and carbon dioxide technology for sterilization, disinfection, modification of tissue scaffolds, and deactivation of allergenic proteins and asthma triggers.

Dr. Benjamin Meekins

Benjamin H. Meekins

Research Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering, with research interests including photovoltaics, solar fuel conversion (water splitting and carbon dioxide remediation), and catalysis related to both.

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Melissa Ann Moss

Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs of the Molinaroli College of Engineering and Computing, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Affiliate faculty in Chemical Engineering, with research interests focused on understanding the role of amyloid-β protein (Aβ) aggregation in Alzheimer’s disease and inhibiting Aβ aggregation and its impact on cells as a therapeutic approach to this widespread and devastating illness.

Professor William Mustain

William E. Mustain

Director of the Carolina Institute for Battery Innovation (CIBI), and Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including electrochemistry, catalysis, materials design, surface chemistry, energy conversion and storage, and electrochemical synthesis.

Dr. Marjorie Nicholson

Marjorie Nicholson

Instructor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including hydrogen storage systems, and gas separation and purification.

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Ivelisse Ortiz-Hernandez

Instructor of Chemical Engineering, with background involving the study of heterogeneous catalytic systems under reaction conditions.

Zhenmeng Peng

Zhenmeng Peng

Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including electrochemical hydrogen generation/storage/utilization, new approaches for electrical energy storage, C1 chemicals conversion, electrochemical engineering for desalination and separation applications.

Professor Branko Popov

Branko N. Popov

Carolina Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including electrochemical power sources, industrial metal finishing, and corrosion.

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John R. Regalbuto

SmartState Endowed Chair in Renewable Fuels and Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including catalysis preparation and characterization, adsorption theory, and reaction kinetics.

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James A. Ritter

Carolina Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and L.M. Weisiger Professor of Engineering, with research interests including hydrogen storage systems, gas separation and purification, and targeted drug delivery.

Sanaz Sadati

Monirosadat (Sanaz) Sadati

Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including the structure, dynamics, and self-assembly of soft materials, with an emphasis on anisotropic components capable of leading to new, tunable macroscopic properties.

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Sirivatch Shimpalee

Research Professor in Chemical Engineering, with research interests including electrochemical engineering, fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, and computational fluid dynamics.

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Nader Taheri Qazvini

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Affiliate faculty in Chemical Engineering, with research interests including bio-nano hybrid and biomimetic materials, charge-driven self-assembly, structure-dynamics relations in polymer networks, hydrogels, soft glassy materials and living cells, microfabrication and 3D bioprinting and tissue engineering, and collective cell migration.

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John Meynard M. Tengco

Assistant Research Professor in Chemical Engineering, with research interests including catalyst preparation methods such as strong electrostatic adsorption, electroless deposition, and galvanic displacement, to optimize supported monometallic and multimetallic nanoparticle size, distribution, and degree of component metal interaction.

Mark Uline

Mark J. Uline

Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering and Affiliate faculty in Chemical Engineering, with research interests working toward the fundamental understanding of how the complex interactions at interfaces couple together to give the rich phenomena observed in various chemical and biological systems.

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Thomas Vogt

Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Adjunct faculty in Chemical Engineering, with research interests including crystallography, chemical synthesis, structures and properties of metal oxides, and electron, x-ray and neutron diffraction techniques and instrumentation.

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Tao Wei

Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Affiliate faculty in Chemical Engineering, with Research interests focusing on functional materials and biotechnologies using the combination of multiscale simulations, experiments and machine learning.

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Ralph E. White

Westinghouse Distinguished Scientist and Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including fuel cells, batteries, electrodeposition, corrosion, and numerical methods.

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Christopher Williams

Professor and Chair of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including heterogeneous catalysis, surface science, catalyst design, and in-situ vibrational spectroscopy.

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Yanjiao Yi

Research Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests focusing on the rational synthesis of catalysts through different methodologies, including the preparation of metal particle catalysts that range from single atoms to clusters, from 1-2 nm to larger than 2 nm particles.

 

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