People: Faculty

ChE Department Faculty

Research Area

Ilhan A. Aksay
Professor of Chemical Engineering

(609) 258-4690
iaksay@princeton.edu

Ceramics and Glasses; Colloidal Dispersions; Nanoscience and Nanotechnology


Jay B. Benziger
Professor of Chemical Engineering and
Undergraduate Department Representative

(609) 258-5416
benziger@princeton.edu

Fuel Cell Engineering; Chemical Reactor Design, Stability, and Dynamics; Heterogeneous Catalysis


Emily A. Carter
Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Applied and Computational Mathematics

(609) 258-5391
eac@princeton.edu

Computational Materials Science and Theoretical Chemistry


Pablo G. Debenedetti
Class of 1950 Professor of Engineering and Applied Science; Professor of Chemical Engineering, and Director of Graduate Studies

Acting Chair

(609) 258-5480
pdebene@princeton.edu

Liquid state theory; Glass Transition; Nucleation Theory; Protein Thermodynamics; Molecular Simulation; Biopreservation


Christodoulos A. Floudas

Stephen C. Macaleer ’63 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science,
Professor of Chemical Engineering

(609) 258-4595
floudas@titan.princeton.edu

Computational Chemistry, Biology, and Material Science; Systems Modeling and Optimization; Mathematical Biology; Metabolic, Protein and Enzyme Engineering; Process Control and Operations; Process Synthesis and Design; Molecular Simulation


Yannis G. Kevrekidis

Pomeroy and Betty Perry Smith Professor of Engineering and Professor of Chemical Engineering

(609) 258-2818
yannis@princeton.edu

Systems Modeling and Optimization; Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation; Fuel Cell Engineering; Chemical Reactor Design, Stability, and Dynamics; Process Control and Operations


Morton D. Kostin
Professor of Chemical Engineering

(609) 258-4586
kostin@princeton.edu

Kinetic and Nucleation Theory


A. James Link
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering

(609) 258-7191
ajlink@princeton.edu

Protein Engineering and Expression; Bio-organic Chemistry; Directed Evolution; Bacterial Flow Cytometry


Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering

(609) 258-9091
lloo@princeton.edu

Organic and Polymer Electronics; Self-Assembled Monolayers; Soft Lithography; Block Copolymers


Celeste M. Nelson
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering

(609) 258-8851
celesten@princeton.edu

Mammalian Tissue Morphogenesis/Morphodynamics; Microfabrication/bioMEMS for Tissue Engineering; Cell Adhesion and Mechanics


Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos

Susan Dod Brown Professor of Chemical Engineering

(609) 258-4591
azp@princeton.edu

Computational Chemistry, Biology, and Material Science; Liquid State Theory; Molecular Simulation


Robert K. Prud'homme
Professor of Chemical Engineering and
Director, Program in Engineering Biology

(609) 258-4577
prudhomm@princeton.edu

Flow in Porous Media; Micro and Nanofluidic Phenomena; Rheology; Colloidal Dispersions; Polymer Engineering


Richard A. Register
Professor of Chemical Engineering and
Director, Princeton Center for Complex Materials

(609) 258-4691
register@princeton.edu

Polymer Chemistry, Physics, and Engineering; Nanoscience and Nanotechnology; Rheology


William B. Russel
Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Chemical Engineering and
Dean of the Graduate School

(609) 258-4590
wbrussel@princeton.edu

Micro and Nanofluidic Phenomena; Rheology; Adhesion and Interfacial Phenomena; Colloidal Dispersions; Nanoscience and Nanotechnology; Polymer Engineering



George W. Scherer
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

(609) 258-5680
scherer@princeton.edu

Biopreservations; Art and Monument Conservation; Flow in Porous Media; Ceramics and Glasses


Stanislav Y. Shvartsman
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering

(609) 258-4694
stas@princeton.edu

Systems Modeling and Optimization; Mathematical Biology; Metabolic, Protein and Enzyme Engineering; Biological Transport


Sankaran Sundaresan
Professor of Chemical Engineering

(609) 258-4583
sundar@princeton.edu

Granular and Multiphase Flow; Chemical Reactor Design, Stability, and Dynamics


Salvatore Torquato
Professor of Chemistry

(609) 258-3341
torquato@electron.princeton.edu

Computational Chemistry, Biology, and Material Science; Systems Modeling and Optimization; Mathematical Biology; Glasses; Liquid State Theory; Molecular Simulation


James Wei
Professor of Chemical Engineering

(609) 258-5618
jameswei@princeton.edu

Heterogeneous Catalysis


David W. Wood
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering

(609) 258-5721
dwood@princeton.edu

Metabolic, Protein and Enzyme Engineering