Department Personnel
Andrew Zydney
Chemical Engineering
Department Head
Office: 160 Fenske Laboratory
Phone: (814) 863-7113
Fax: (814) 865-7846
Membrane separations, protein separations.
Mohammad Reza Abidian
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering
Office: W342 Millennium Science Complex
Phone: (814) 865-8093
Biomaterials and electronic devices to develop next-generation neural interfaces.
Harry R. Allcock
Evan Pugh Professor of Chemistry and Courtesy Appointment Professor in Chemical Engineering
Office: 118 Chemistry Building
Phone: (814) 865-3527
Inorganic, Materials and Nanoscience, Organic, Biomaterials, Polymer, Synthesis, and, Biomedical.
Antonios Armaou
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Office: 170 Fenske Laboratory
Phone: (814) 865-5316
Process Dynamics and Control; Computational Modeling and Applied Mathematics; Process Design and Analysis.
Kyle Bishop
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Office: 132C Fenske Laboratory
Phone: (814) 867-4399
Complex Systems - flames, chemical networks, reaction-diffusion systems, self-assembly, nanotechnology, nonequilibrium phenomena.
Ali Borhan
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Office: 122 Fenske Laboratory
Phone: (814) 865-7847
Fluid dynamics and transport phenomena in multiphase systems; complex fluids; capillary and wetting phenomena; interfacial transport phenomena; applied mathematics and numerical methods .
Ralph Colby
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Professor of Chemical Engineering
Office: 309 Steidle Building
Phone: (814) 863-3457
Proteins, Polyelectrolytes, Ionomers, Liquid crystalline polymers, Block copolymers, Miscible polymer blends, Branched polymers, Networks, Glass-forming liquids, and Surfactants and colloidal suspensions.
Wayne Curtis
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Office: 226B Fenske Laboratory
Phone: (814) 863-4805
Algae, electrofuels, environmental, geobacter, mushrooms, rhodobacter, and plant biotech.
Ronald Danner
Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering
Office: 163 Fenske Laboratory
Phone: (814) 863-4814
Study of phase equilibria and diffusion characteristics in polymer-solvent systems.
Kristen Fichthorn
Merrell R. Fenske Professor of Chemical Engineering
Office: 164 Fenske Laboratory
Phone: (814) 863-4807
Fax: (814) 865-7846
Thin-film epitaxy, colloidal nanoparticle forces and dispersion, and multi-scale simulation of materials and interfacial phenomena.
Henry C. Foley
Vice President for Research at Penn State and Professor of Chemical Engineering
Dean of The Graduate School
Office: 304 Old Main
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 865-6332
Use of nanoporous carbon in separations of small molecule mixtures and for shape selective catalysis.
Enrique D. Gomez
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Office: 106 Fenske Laboratory
Phone: (814) 867-3428
Polymers, flexible electronics, organic photovoltaics, and soft matter electron microscopy.
Esther Gomez
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering &
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
Office: 204 Fenske Laboratory
Phone: (814) 867-4732
Cell and tissue mechanics, biosensors.
Mechteld Hillsley
Instructor in the Department Chemical Engineering
Office: 111 Fenske Laboratory
Phone: (814) 863-9356
Tony Huang
Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics
and Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
N330 Millennium Science Complex
Phone: (814) 863-4209
Multiphysics of Microfluidics and Nanostructures for Medical Diagnostics and Therapeutics.
Michael Janik
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering & John J. and Jean M. Brennan Clean Energy
Early Career Professor in the College of Engineering
Office: 104 Fenske Laboratory
Phone: (814) 863-9366
Fax: (814) 865-7846
Atomistic modeling techniques, catalytic processes of relevance to alternative energy conversion technologies, and fuel cell electrodes.
Seong Kim
Professor of Chemical Engineering and Associate Professor of
Materials Science and Engineering
Office: N323 Millennium Science Complex
Phone: (814) 863-4809
Nanotribology, interfacial water, surface chemical imaging, biocatalytic nanofibers, atmospheric rf plasma, and nanomanufacturing.
Manish Kumar
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Office: 155 Fenske Laboratory
Phone: (814) 865-7519
Biomimetic Membranes, Membrane Technology, Desalination, Block copolymers, Membrane Proteins, Structural Biology, Electron Microscopy, and Cystallography.
Angela Lueking
Professor of Energy and Mineral Engineering and Professor of Chemical Engineering
Office: 120 Hosler Building
Phone: (814) 863-6256
Novel material design for alternative energy applications, including gas storage, catalysis, and gas separations.
Bruce Logan
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Professor of Chemical Engineering
Office: 231Q Sackett Building
Phone: (814) 863-7908
Bioenergy Production, environmental transport processes, and bioremediation and Treatment.
Costas Maranas
Donald B. Broughton Professor of Chemical Engineering
Office: 112 Fenske Laboratory
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 863-9958
Algorithmic and optimization techniques to support the analysis and redesign of biological systems at different scales.
Janna Maranas
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Office: 107 Fenske Laboratory
Phone: (814) 863-6228
Fax: (814) 865-7846
Nanoscale structure and dynamics of materials for energy applications and biology.
Themis Matsoukas
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Office: 150 Fenske Laboratory
Phone: (814) 863-2002
Colloid Chemistry of Sol-Gel Nanoparticles; Plasma Colloids; Population Balances by Monte Carlo.
Scott T. Milner
Joyce Chair and Professor of Chemical Engineering
Office: 120 Fenske Laboratory
Phone: (814) 863-9355
Fax: (814) 865-7846
Microscopic, physical understanding of the origin of the unique material properties of polymers and complex fluids.
Robert Nedwick
Instructor in the Department Chemical Engineering
Office: 132A Fenske Laboratory
Phone: (814) 863-6229
Joan Redwing
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Professor of Chemical Engineering
Office: 101 Steidle Building
Phone: (814) 865-8665
Semiconductor thin film and nanostructure fabrication with a special emphasis on the development of chemical vapor deposition-based techniques.
Robert Rioux
Friedrich G. Helfferich Assistant Professor
Office: 165 Fenske Laboratory
Phone: (814) 867-2503
Heterogeneous catalysis, catalyst design and synthesis, time-resolved FTIR spectroscopy of condensed systems, x-ray absorption spectroscopy (EXAFS, XANES), reaction mechanisms in nanoscale systems, photocatalysis.
Howard M. Salis
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering &
Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Office: 210 Agricultural Engineering Building
Phone: (814) 865-1931
Engineering synthetic biological systems - metabolic pathways, genetic circuits, and genomes.
Chunshan Song
Professor of Energy & Mineral Engineering
Director, Earth and Mineral Sciences Energy Institute
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Office: C211 Coal Utilization Laboratory / 206 Hosler Building
Phone: (814) 863-4466
Catalytic fuel processing for ultra clean fuels, hydrogen and synthesis gas production, and fuel cell applications, carbon dioxide CO2 capture and utilization.
Darrell Velegol
Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering
Office: 108 Fenske Laboratory
Phone: (814) 865-8739
Colloidal assembly, colloidal forces, electrokinetic flows.
James S. Vrentas
Dow Professor
of Chemical Engineering
Office: 119 Fenske Laboratory
Phone: (814) 863-4808
Theoretical studies in transport phenomena, applied mathematics, fluid mechanics, diffusion, polymer science.
Chao-Yang Wang
Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering and Professor of Chemical Engineering
Office: 301C Reber Building
Phone: (814) 863-4762
Multiphase Transport, Batteries and Fuel Cells.
Thomas K. Wood
Endowed Biotechnology Chair
Professor of Chemical Engineering & Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Office: 161 Fenske Laboratory
Phone: (814) 863-4811
Understanding the genetic basis of biofilm formation to prevent disease and to utilize biofilms for beneficial biotransformations.