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Klavs F. Jensen Professor
Department Head
617.253.4589
kfjensen@mit.edu
processing of materials, chemical vapor deposition, microfabrication, surface and gas-phase reaction kinetics, reaction engineering, mathematical modeling
Robert C. Armstrong Professor
617.253.4581
rca@mit.edu
polymer molecular theory, polymer fluid mechanics, rheology, multiscale process modeling, transport phenomena, applied mathematics
Paul I. Barton Professor 617.253.6526
pib@mit.edu
dynamic modeling, simulation and optimization, hybrid and embedded systems, mixed-integer and global optimization theory and algorithms, design and operation of micro-scale chemical processes, systems biology, energy systems engineering
Daniel Blankschtein Professor 617.253.4594
dblank@mit.edu
colloid and interface science, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, environmental and biomedical aspects of structured fluids, bioseparations, transdermal drug delivery
Arup K. Chakraborty Professor 617.253.3890
arupc@mit.edu
cell-cell recognition in immunology, T cell biology, polymers and membranes, statistical mechanics
Robert E. Cohen Professor 617.253.3777
recohen@mit.edu
physics and chemistry of polymers, polymer surfaces/interfaces, structure-property relationships
Clark K. Colton Professor 617.253.4585
ckcolton@mit.edu
biomedical engineering, biochemical engineering, mass transfer
Charles L. Cooney Professor 617.253.3108
ccooney@mit.edu
biochemical engineering
William M. Deen Professor 617.253.4535
wmdeen@mit.edu
bioengineering, transport phenomena, membrane separations
Karen K. Gleason Associate Dean of Engineering for Research 617.253.5066
kkgleasn@mit.edu
chemical vapor deposition, nuclear magnetic resonance
William H. Green, Jr. Professor 617.253.4580
whgreen@mit.edu
chemical kinetics, molecular simulation, free radical reactions
Paula T. Hammond Professor
Executive Officer
617.258.7577
hammond@mit.edu
macromolecular design and synthesis, directed assembly using surface templates, block copolymers, asymmetric morphologies, liquid crystalline polymeric materials, nanoscale assembly and fabrication
T. Alan Hatton Professor 617.253.4588
tahatton@mit.edu
transport phenomena, separation processes, microemulsions, colloids
Robert S. Langer Institute Professor 617.253.3107
rlanger@mit.edu
drug delivery, biotechnology, immobilized enzymes, biomedical engineering, biomaterials, tissue engineering
Douglas A. Lauffenburger Professor 617.252.1629
617.253.4480
lauffen@mit.edu
cell, tissue, and biomolecular engineering; computational modeling of biological and physiological systems
Gregory J. McRae Professor 617.253.6564
mcrae@mit.edu
environmental science and engineering, process modeling, numerical analysis and optimization
Gregory Rutledge Professor
617.253.0171
rutledge@mit.edu
polymer science and engineering, statistical thermodynamics, molecular simulation
Herbert H. Sawin Professor 617.253.4570
hhsawin@mit.edu
directional plasma etching, dry wafer cleaning, kinetics, surface science, process modeling
Kenneth A. Smith Professor 617.253.1973
kas@mit.edu
fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer
George Stephanopoulos Professor 617.253.3904
geosteph@mit.edu
product and process development and design, process operations and control, integrated computer-aided environments for process systems engineering
Gregory Stephanopoulos Professor 617.253.4583
gregstep@mit.edu
metabolic engineering, biochemical engineering, biotechnology, bioinformatics
Jefferson W. Tester Professor 617.253.7090
testerel@mit.edu
environmental remediation and control technology, chemical processes in supercritical fluids, renewable and geothermal energy systems, gas hydrates in natural environments
Bernhardt L. Trout Professor 617.258.5021
trout@mit.edu
pharmaceutical manufacturing, stabilization and formulation of biopharmaceuticals, nucleation and crystallization, molecular-level design of products and processes, molecular simulations and theory of reactions in complex systems
K. Dane Wittrup Professor 617.253.4578
wittrup@mit.edu
molecular bioengineering, protein engineering, therapeutic protein biotechnology
Daniel I.C. Wang Institute Professor 617.253.2126
dicwang@mit.edu
bioreactor engineering, recombinant protein production, bioprocess monitoring and control, glycoprotein quality, protein stabilization
Patrick S. Doyle Associate Professor 617.253.4534
pdoyle@mit.edu
biophysics, microfluidics separations, microrheology, polymer physics, transport phenomena
Michael S. Strano Associate Professor 617.324-4323
strano@mit.edu
Chemical engineering of low dimensional materials, nano-electronics, sensors, nanoparticle separations, optical modulation of quantum confined systems, nanoparticle-molecule interactions, nano-particle therapeutics, vibrational spectroscopy of nano-materials
Preetinder S. Virk Associate Professor 617.253.3177
psvirk@mit.edu
turbulent drag reduction, graph-theoretic modeling of hydrocarbon pyrolysis pathways, mechanistic investigation of high-transfer hydrogen transfer pathways
J. Christopher Love Assistant Professor 617.324-2300
clove@mit.edu
micro/nanofabrication and surface chemistries, cellular immunology and infectious diseases, immunotherapy/vaccines, clinical diagnostics
Narendra Maheshri Assistant Professor 617.258-8986
narendra@mit.edu
design and dynamics of genetic and metabolic networks, evolvability, synthetic biology
Kristala Jones Prather Assistant Professor 617.253.1950
kljp@mit.edu
metabolic engineering, biochemical engineering, bioprocess engineering, synthetic biology
Janos M. Beér Emeritus Professor 617.253.6661
jmbeer@mit.edu
turbulent combustion of gaseous, liquid, and solid fuels; reduction of pollutant emission from flames by combustion process modification
Howard Brenner Emeritus Professor 617.253.6687
hbrenner@mit.edu
microfluidics, low Reynolds number hydrodynamics, complex fluids, interfacial transport, multiphase transport in porous media, generalized Taylor dispersion phenomena and macro transport processes, chromatography theory, aerosol and hydrosol deposition, physico-chemical hydrodynamics, statistical mechanics, laminar chaotic transport, thermodynamics of polarized systems
Marcus Karel Emeritus Professor 617.253.6744
karel@mit.edu
physical chemistry of foods, controlled release of active ingredients in foods and pharmaceuticals, cryopreservation, food engineering
Edward W. Merrill Emeritus Professor 617.253.4593
emerrill@mit.edu
polymer synthesis, polymer physical chemistry, biomedical engineering, biomaterials, conservation and preservation of works of art
Charles Satterfield Emeritus Professor 617.253.4584
cnsatter@mit.edu
chemical reaction engineering, applied catalysis, diffusion and mass transfer; Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, catalytic hydrotreating