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Molinaroli College of Engineering and Computing

Chemical Engineering

Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty

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Melis Duyar

Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including heterogeneous catalysis, rational catalyst design, carbon capture and utilisation, plastics upcycling

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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.

Professor Andreas Heyden

Andreas Heyden

MCEC Distinguished Professor and Graduate Program Director of Chemical Engineering with research interests including nanomaterials, catalysis, computational chemistry, and multiscale modeling.

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Golareh Jalilvand

Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering with research interests focused on the chemical, physical, and mechanical evolution of materials under electrochemical operation, advancing fundamental insights into next-generation lithium-ion batteries and beyond.

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Shengli Jiang

Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests in machine learning, multiscale simulation, and computational design of soft materials for energy and sustainability.

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.

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.

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.

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James A. Ritter

Carolina Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and L.M. Weisiger Professor of Engineering, with research interests including cyclic adsorption processes for gas separation and purification and hydrogen storage processes and materials.

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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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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Hui Yang

Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including materials design, electrochemical energy storage, sustainability/photocatalysis/CO2 capture and utilization, and charge transfer mechanisms and kinetics.


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