Faculty, Sorted by Rank

Name

Rank

Contact

Research

Rayford G. Anthony

Professor

979-845-3370
rg-anthony@tamu.edu

methanol to olefins, partial oxidation of ethane, methane activation, ethyl benzene, dehydrogenation
synthesis and ion exchange with TAM-5

A. John Appleby

Professor

979-845-8281
ajappleby@tamu.edu

electrochemistry

Perla B. Balbuena

Professor

979-845-3375
balbuena@tamu.edu

quantum and classical molecular simulations
thermodynamic and transport properties of materials

Dragomir B. Bukur

Professor

979-845-3401
d-bukur@tamu.edu

chemical reaction engineering, applied catalysis, coal and natural gas conversion to liquids

Tahir Cagin

Professor

979-862-1449
cagin@che.tamu.edu

Computational Materials Science and Nanotechnology;
Functional Materials for Devices and Sensors;
Surface and interface properties of materials;
Nano-mechanics, nano-tribology;
Process modelling for nanostructured materials;
Transport at nanoscale;
Development of multiscale simulation methods

Richard M. Crooks

Professor

979-845-5629
crooks@tamu.edu

electrochemistry, nanomaterials, catalysis, chemical and biological sensing, microanalytical systems

Mahmoud El-Halwagi

Professor

979-845-3484
el-halwagi@tamu.edu

mass integration, property integration energy integration pollution prevention and environmental biocomplexity ecological modeling, management, and environmental biocomplexity integrating process and molecular design global optimization

Philip T. Eubank

Professor

979-845-3339
p-eubank@tamu.edu

classical thermodynamics and phase equilibria of fluid-phase mixtures
electrical discharge machining (EDM), erosion in arc jets, reactors for conversion of natural gases to liquids, improvements in conventional crackers of hydrocarbon gases

Gilbert Froment

Professor

979-845-0406
g.froment@che.tamu.edu

hydrocracking, hydrodesulfurization
catalytic cracking, catalytic reforming, synthesis gas production by steam reforming, partial oxidation of natural gas

Charles J. Glover

Professor

979-845-3389
c-glover@tamu.edu

material properties with applications to asphaltic materials, diffusion and reaction of oxygen in thin asphalt films

Kenneth R. Hall

Professor

979-845-3357
krhall@tamu.edu

thermophysical fluid properties, obstruction flowmeters, gas to liquid processing

James C. Holste

Professor

979-847-9339
j-holste@tamu.edu

correlations for thermodynamic properties
thermocatalytic process for chemical feedstocks using large hydrocarbons

Mark T. Holtzapple

Professor

979-845-9708
m-holtzapple@tamu.edu

conversion of biological materials into useful fuels and chemicals, air conditioning, engines

Yue Kuo

Professor

979-845-9807
yuekuo@tamu.edu

thin film nano and microelectronics materials, processes, and devices, thin
film transistors (TFTs), advanced VLSI technology, plasma processing,
biochips

M. Sam Mannan

Professor

979-862-3985
mannan@tamu.edu

abnormal situation management, aerosol research, inherently safer design, quantitative risk assessment, reactive chemicals
modeling of silane releases, flammability research

Jorge M. Seminario

Professor

979-458-3532
seminario@tamu.edu

molecular electronic systems, nanobiotronics, spintronics, sensing projects

David M. Ford

Associate Professor

979-862-4850
d-ford@chemail.tamu.edu

statistical thermodynamics, molecular simulation
adsorption, transport in microporous materials, diffusion in polymers, financial modeling

Michael A. Bevan

Assistant Professor

979-845-8766
mabevan@tamu.edu

multi-body & multi-dimensional interfacial colloidal interactions, colloidal self assembly on chemically & physically patterned substrates, colloidal directed assembly using applied fields, phase behavior of polymer coated colloids, direct measurement of single protein interactions

Zhengdong Cheng

Assistant Professor

979-845-3413
cheng@chemail.tamu.edu

microfluidics, non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, biological and biologically inspired physics

Juergen Hahn

Assistant Professor

979-845-3568
hahn@tamu.edu

process systems engineering, systems biology, modeling, analysis, simulation, and control of complex dynamic systems, process optimization

Mariah Hahn

Assistant Professor

862-1454
mariah.hahn@che.tamu.edu

vocal fold tissue engineering, cell-biomaterial interactions

Arul Jayaraman

Assistant Professor

979-845-3306
arulj@tamu.edu

(genomics and proteomics), BioMEMS (living Cell arrays), microbial biofilms (quorum sensing), molecular networks (inflammation)

Daniel F. Shantz

Assistant Professor

979-845-3492
shantz@che.tamu.edu

structure-property relationships in nanostructured materials, biomimetic material synthesis, organic-inorganic hybrid materials, new paradigms for inorganic material synthesis

James Silas

Assistant Professor

979-845-6446
jasilas@seas.upenn.edu

Biomaterials

Thomas K. Wood

Professor

Green chemistry and bioremediation

Biofilms

Victor M. Ugaz

Assistant Professor

979-458-1002
ugaz@tamu.edu

transport and flow in microfluidic systems, microdevices for DNA analysis, convectively driven biochemical reactions, materials and processes for fabrication of microfluidic devices

Jerry A. Bullin

Emeritus Professor

979-845-3361
j-bullin@bre.com

gas processing and treating, conversion of light gases to liquid fuels

Ronald Darby

Emeritus Professor

979-845-3301
r-darby@tamu.edu

applied fluid mechanics, rheology of non-newtonian and multi-phase fluids, polymer processing, chemical process safety

Richard R. Davison

Emeritus Professor

979-845-1310
davison@chemail.tamu.edu

material properties with applications to asphaltic materials, diffusion and reaction of oxygen in thin asphalt films

Leonel D. Durbin

Emeritus Professor

979-845-3309
L-Durbin@tamu.edu

Charles D. Holland

Emeritus Professor

979-845-3371
cdholland@tamu.edu

Maria Barrufet

Associate Professor

979-845-0314
barrufet@spindletop.tamu.edu

oilfield brine desalination methods, enhanced oil recovery, multiphase flow, thermal recovery

Trevor Kletz

Adjunct Professor

t.kletz@lboro.ac.uk

process safety, loss prevention

Zivko Nikolov

Professor

979-458-0763
znikolov@tamu.edu

recovery of recombinant proteins and other biomolecules, bioseparations (solid-liquid, liquid–liquid, and chromatography), bioprocessing of transgenic plants, bioprocess design and simulation

Marlan A. Scully

Professor

979-862-2333
scully@tamu.edu

applied physics, theoretical quantum optics

John T. Baldwin

Senior Lecturer

979-845-9803
jt-baldwin@tamu.edu

curriculum reform, education

Jerry L. Bradshaw

Senior Lecturer

979-845-0610
j-bradshaw@tamu.edu

instrumentation, safety, education

Lale Yurttas

Senior Lecturer

979-847-9316
l-yurttas@tamu.edu

curriculum reform, education