School of Engineering
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Elizabeth Sattely
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
BioPlants have an extraordinary capacity to harvest atmospheric CO2 and sunlight for the production of energy-rich biopolymers, clinically used drugs, and other biologically active small molecules. The metabolic pathways that produce these compounds are key to developing sustainable biofuel feedstocks, protecting crops from pathogens, and discovering new natural-product based therapeutics for human disease. These applications motivate us to find new ways to elucidate and engineer plant metabolism. We use a multidisciplinary approach combining chemistry, enzymology, genetics, and metabolomics to tackle problems that include new methods for delignification of lignocellulosic biomass and the engineering of plant antibiotic biosynthesis.
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Joel Schneider
Ph.D. Student in Chemical Engineering, admitted Autumn 2015
BioJoel is interested in nanotechnology research and the chemical tools and understanding we can use to leverage it, as well as education and the role of active learning engagement strategies. His research in the Bent group is focused on understanding and controlling surface chemistry in atomic layer deposition (ALD) processes and applying this knowledge to understand chemical problems in nano-electronics. Much of his research focuses on developing an atomic understanding of these systems using of a variety of sensitive reaction monitoring equipment.
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Eric S.G. Shaqfeh
Lester Levi Carter Professor of Chemical Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI have over 25 years experience in theoretical and computational research related to complex fluids following my PhD in 1986. This includes work in suspension mechanics of rigid partlcles (rods), solution mechanics of polymers and most recently suspensions of vesicles, capsules and mixtures of these with rigid particles. My research group is internationally known for pioneering work in all these areas.
