The Gene and Linda Voiland School of
Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering
Faculty & Staff
Director
Name | Research Focus | |
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Su Ha George Austin Endowed Director / Director, O.H. Reaugh Laboratory for Oil and Gas Research | suha@wsu.edu | Energy generations from alternative fuels |
Regents Professors
Name | Research Focus | |
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Yong Wang Regents Professor Voiland Distinguished Professor | wang42@wsu.edu | Development of novel catalytic materials and reaction engineering for the conversion of fossil and biomass feedstocks to fuels and chemicals |
Named Professors
Name | Research Focus | |
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Alla Kostyukova Professor, The Paul Hohenschuh Distinguished Professor in Chemical Engineering | alla.kostyukova@wsu.edu | Regulation of actin dynamics by actin-binding proteins, protein structure and protein-protein interactions, protein engineering, circular dichroism |
Professors
Name | Research Focus | |
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Birgitte Ahring Professor Bioproduct Sciences & Engineering Laboratory (BSEL) | bka@wsu.edu | Microbiology, biomass conversion to biofuels and high-value bioproducts |
Haluk Beyenal Professor Voiland College Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies | beyenal@wsu.edu | Electrochemistry for human health and environment, electrochemical bandage, electrochemical signals in soil and envirochemical engineering. |
Peter Pfromm Professor | peter.pfromm@wsu.edu | Advancing engineering research in fundamental and applied aspects |
Mary Rezac Professor, Dean of the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture | mary.rezac@wsu.edu | Molecular-level fundamentals of new separation processes; integration of this knowledge with industrial scale processes |
Kirk Schulz Professor, President of Washington State University | PresidentsOffice@wsu.edu | Catalysis, surface science, materials science |
Bernard Van Wie Professor | bvanwie@wsu.edu | Biotechnology including biosensors and bioanalytical devices, cell and tissue culture, engineering education research |
Xiao Zhang Professor | x.zhang@wsu.edu | Biomass chemistry, biomass conversion to bioproducts and bioenergy |
Associate Professors
Name | Research Focus | |
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Wen-ji Dong Associate Professor | dongwenji@wsu.edu | Cardiac muscle biology and mechanics, protein chemistry and engineering, fluorescence techniques, computer modeling, nanoscale biosensor design and engineering |
David Lin Associate Professor | davidlin@wsu.edu | Integrated mechanical properties of skeletal muscle and spinal reflexes |
Hongfei Lin Associate Professor | hongfei.lin@wsu.edu | Catalyst synthesis and application; catalytic conversion of biomass; CO2 reduction; renewable hydrogen production; fuel cell electrocatalysis; advanced functional nanomaterials; photocatalysis |
Jean-Sabin McEwen Associate Professor | js.mcewen AT wsu.edu | Atomistic modeling of catalytic processes for energy applications |
Steven R. Saunders Associate Professor & Associate Director for Administration and Undergraduate Research | steven.r.saunders@wsu.edu | Nanotechnology for novel catalytic systems, sustainable solvent technologies |
David Thiessen Associate Professor (Career Track) | thiessen@wsu.edu | Fluid mechanics of drops, bubbles, and capillary channels, applications in microgravity |
Anita Vasavada Associate Professor | vasavada@wsu.edu | Biomechanics and neural control of the musculoskeletal system, focusing on the human head and neck system |
Assistant Professors
Name | Research Focus | |
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Dmitri Tolkatchev Assistant Professor (Career Track) | dmitri.tolkatchev@wsu.edu | Protein chemistry and structure, protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions; protein engineering; protein NMR |
Di Wu Assistant Professor & Founding Director of Alexandra Navrotsky Institute for Experimental Thermodynamics | d.wu@wsu.edu | Heterogeneous catalysis, porous materials, surface science, materials chemistry, thermodynamics, nanogeoscience and nanotechnology |
Dominic Scalise Assistant Professor | dominic.scalise@wsu.edu | Molecular Programming |
Emeritus Faculty
Name | Research Focus | |
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Denny Davis Emeritus Professor | dennycdavis73@gmail.com | Engineering education, design education and assessment, engineering entrepreneurship, engineering for K–12 education, pedagogies for innovation and professional development |
Howard Davis Emeritus Professor | davish@wsu.edu | Engineering and entrepreneurship pedagogy, technology development and clinical applications of biomedical instrumentation |
Cornelius F. Ivory Emeritus Professor | cfivory@wsu.edu | Electrofocusing, forensic microelectrophoresis, nanochannel separations, diagnostic microfluidic devices, microchannel sample preparation |
Norbert Kruse Emeritus Professor | norbert.kruse@wsu.edu | Heterogeneous catalysis: from fundamentals to industrial applications |
KNona Liddell Emeritus Professor | liddell@wsu.edu | Electrochemical kinetics and reactor design; Applications to environmental problems and materials processing |
R. Mahalingam Emeritus Professor | mahalingam@wsu.edu | |
Reid Miller Emeritus Professor | millerrc@moscow.com | |
James Petersen Emeritus Professor | jn_petersen@wsu.edu | Bioremediation of contaminated aqueous systems, modeling of biological processing operations and on-line optimization of biological processes |
William J. Thomson Emeritus Professor | privprof@yahoo.com | |
Richard Zollars Emeritus Professor | rzollars@wsu.edu | Colloidal phenomena/interfacial phenomena, multiphase heat transfer, engineering education |
Research Professors
Name | Research Focus | |
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Oscar Marin-Flores Assistant Research Professor | omarinflores@wsu.edu | Biomass conversion, hydrogen production for fuel cells applications via reforming of liquid fuels, direct solid oxide fuel cells, mathematical modeling of fuel cell systems, photocatalytic/electrochemical processes for CO2 mitigation |
Affiliate Faculty
Name | |
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Arda Gozen | arda.gozen@wsu.edu |
Bert Tanner | bertrand.tanner@wsu.edu |
Louis Scudiero | scudiero@wsu.edu |
Manuel Garcia-Perez | mgarcia-perez@wsu.edu |
Yuehe Lin | yuehe.lin@wsu.edu |
Adjoint Faculty
Name | |
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David Heldebrant | david.heldebrant@pnnl.gov |
Huamin Wang | Huamin.wang@pnnl.gov |
Jerome Babauta | jbabauta@gamry.com |
Jian Zhi Hu | jianzhi.hu@pnnl.gov |
Karthi Ramasamy | karthi@pnnl.gov |
Mike Thorson | michael.thorson@pnnl.gov |
Olga A. Marina | olga.marina@pnnl.gov |
Ryan Renslow | ryanr@totusmedicines.com |
Venky Prabhakaran | venky@pnnl.gov |
Zdenek Dohnalek | zdenek.dohnalek@wsu.edu |
Staff
Name | Phone | Office | |
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Billy Schmuck Laboratory Coordinator | bschmuck@wsu.edu | 509-335-4776 | 147 Wegner Hall |
Kate Konen IT System Administrator | kate.konen@wsu.edu | 509-335-8039 | 249 Wegner Hall |
Lael Gray Administrative Manager | l.gray@wsu.edu | 509-335-4731 | 105G Wegner Hall |
Malena Braatne-Millstein Administrative Assistant 1 | m.braatne@wsu.edu | 509-335-3151 | 107N Wegner Hall |
Maria Greaney Curry Academic (Undergraduate) Coordinator | mgreaney@wsu.edu | 509-335-1041 | 105B Wegner Hall |
Nicole Leavitt Fiscal Analyst 1 | nicole.leavitt@wsu.edu | 509-335-3205 | 105D Wegner Hall |
Samantha Bailey Academic (Graduate) Coordinator | samantha.bailey@wsu.edu | 509-335-4001 | 105E Wegner Hall |
Tucson Smith Fiscal Analyst 3 | smitht@wsu.edu | 509-335-3811 | 105H Wegner Hall |
Postdoctoral Research Associates
Name | Research Focus | |
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Ashok Jangam | ashok.jangam@wsu.edu | |
Caiqi Wang | caiqi.wang@wsu.edu | |
Garry Smith | garry.smith@wsu.edu | |
Hao Xu | hao.xu1@wsu.edu | |
Junrui Li | junrui.li@wsu.edu | |
Weixin Huang | weixin.huang@wsu.edu |