| Faculty Member | Research |
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| Interim Department Head and UT-ORNL Governor's Chair for Biorefining | Biorefining; Nanolignocellulosics; Green Chemistry; BioFuels; Bio-Based Materials & Chemicals; BioComposites; BioPower; Fiber Modification; Pulping/Bleaching; Chemistry of Natural Biopolymers including Cellulose, Hemicellulose, and Lignin; Polysaccharides; Organic/Carbohydrate Chemistry |
| Associate Head, Director of Graduate Studies, and Prados Professor | Self-Assembly in Polymeric Systems, Physics of Confined Polymers, Thermodynamics of Polymer Blends, Architectural Design of Polymers, Lithographic Materials, Coatings, Thin Film Membranes, X-Ray Scattering Methods |
| Associate Head, Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Associate Professor | Biomolecular Engineering Applications in Immune Function, Viral Membrane Fusion Proteins, Molecular Switching and Cell Adhesion Proteins, Protein Immobilizing and Modifying Enzymes |
| Associate Professor | Computational Cell Biology and Immunology, Theory and Simulation of Soft Biological Materials |
| UT-ORNL Governor's Chair of Advanced and Nanostructured Materials | Polymers, Nanoscience, Macromolecule Science and Engineering, Organic Materials, Hybrid Materials, Ultrathin Films |
| Associate Professor | Computational biomedicine, Systems physiology, Mechanistic mathematical modeling |
| Assistant Professor | Rheology, Soft Materials, Polymers, Complex Fluids, and Additive Manufacturing |
| Associate Professor | Nanomedicine in the Context of Mouse Models of Metabolic Diseases |
| Professor and Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs | Aptasensing, Targeted Drug Delivery, Bioaffinity Analysis and Simulations, Plasmid Biopharmaceutical Development, Nanoformulation of Bioactive Ingredients, Microbial Bioremediation, Biofuels Development, Natural Products Discovery |
| Associate Professor | Polymer Melts, Blends and Nanocomposites; Reaction-Diffusion in Patterning Applications; Biomolecules in Membranes; Multiscale Modeling and Characterization of Materials Coupled to Experiments |
| Professor | Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics, Polymer Dynamics, Rheology, Molecular Simulation, Statistical Mechanics |
| Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Engagement and Professor | Stability of Hydrogen Production from Photosystems of Thermophyllic Cyanobacteria, Improving the Kinetics of Electron Transport in Isolated Photosystems and Cytochromes, Protein Stabilization in Liposomes |
| Granger and Beaman Distinguished University Professor | Structure, Dynamics, and Rheology of Complex Fluids and Soft Matter; Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems; Processing Science of Micro- and Nano-Structured Materials; Nano- and Micro-Scale Interfacial Phenomenon |
| Associate Professor | Heterogeneous Catalysis, Fundamental Surface Science, High Energy Catalysis, Quantum Chemical Surface Reaction Modeling, Electronic Structure of Molecules and Materials, Fundamental Design of Chemical Kinetics, Rational Catalyst Design, Non-Noble Metal Ceramic and Intermetallic Compound Nanoparticle Catalyst Synthesis, and Renewable Fuels and Chemicals Catalysis |
| Gibson Endowed Chair in Engineering, Professor | Ion Containing Polymers, Proton and Hydroxide Ion Exchange Membranes, Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, Structure/Property Relationships |
| Eastman Professor of Practice | Engineering Pedagogy |
| Lecturer of Practice | |
| Ferguson Faculty Fellow in Chemical Engineering, Professor | Systems and Synthetic Biology; Metabolic Engineering; Biochemical Engineering; Microbiome Engineering; Computational Biology; Cell Physiology; Bioenergy, Biofuels, Biochemicals, Biomaterials; CRISPR technology; and Antimicrobials |
| UT-ORNL Governor's Chair for Electrical Energy Conversion and Storage | Electrolytes and Composite Electrodes for Fuel Cells, Fundamentals of Energy Storage Materials and Systems, Water Management in Fuel Cells, Application of NMR to Chemical Engineering Problems |