Faculty
- Paschalis Alexandridis, UB Distinguished Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994
- Self-assembly, complex fluids, nanomaterials, interfacial phenomena, amphiphilic polymers.
- Stelios Andreadis, Professor
- Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1996
- Gene therapy, tissue engineering of skin and blood vessels, controlled protein and gene delivery.
- Michael E. Cain, Professor and Dean, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
- M.D., George Washington University School of Medicine, 1975
- Cardiac electrophysiology.
- Chong Cheng, Assistant Professor
- Ph.D., City University of New York, 2003
- Biodegradable functional polymers and nanostructures, new drug delivery systems, synthetic materials for tissue engineering.
- Jeffrey R. Errington, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Ph.D., Cornell University, 1999
- Molecular simulation, statistical thermodynamics, biopreservation.
- Mattheos A.G. Koffas, Associate Professor
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000
- Metabolic engineering, bioinformatics, evolutionary engineering.
- David A. Kofke, UB Distinguished Professor and Department Chair
- Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1988
- Statistical physics, molecular modeling and simulation, software engineering.
- Michael J. Lockett, Professor
- PhD., Trinity College, University of Cambridge, 1967
- Distillation and absorption, separations.
- Carl F. Lund, Distinguished Teaching Professor
- Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1981
- Heterogeneous catalysis, chemical kinetics, reaction engineering.
- Michael M. McKittrick, Assistant Professor
- Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005
- Photofunctional materials, supported catalysis.
- Sriram Neelamegham, Professor
- Ph.D., Rice University, 1995
- Biomedical engineering, cell biomechanics, vascular engineering.
- Johannes M. Nitsche, Professor
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989
- Transport phenomena, bioactive surfaces, biological pores, transdermal transport.
- Sheldon J. Park, Assistant Professor
- Ph.D., Harvard University, 2000
- Protein engineering, yeast surface display, bioinformatics, molecular dynamics simulations.
- Eli Ruckenstein, Distinguished Professor
- Ph.D., Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, 1966
- Catalysis, surface phenomena, colloids and emulsions, biocompatible surfaces and materials.
- Michael E. Ryan, Professor and Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education
- Ph.D., McGill University, 1978
- Polymer and ceramics processing, rheology, non-Newtonian fluid mechanics.
- Harvey G. Stenger, Jr., Professor and Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, 1983
- Hydrogen production, selective catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides, mercury reaction pathways, catalytic destruction of chlorinated hydrocarbons, fuel cell modeling and optimization.
- Mark T. Swihart, Professor and Director, UB2020 Strategic Initiative in Integrated Nanostructured Systems (INS)
- Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1997
- Synthesis and application of nanoparticles, reactor modeling, computational chemistry, particle nucleation and growth.
- Esther S. Takeuchi, Greatbatch Professor of Advanced Power Sources, Chemical & Biological Engineering and Electrical Engineering
- Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1981
- Lithium battery cells for implantable applications, development of power sources for implantable cardiac defibrillators.
- Marina Tsianou, Assistant Professor
- Ph.D., Lund University, Sweden, 2000
- Complex fluids, self-assembly, crystallization.
- Emmanouhl S. Tzanakakis, Assistant Professor
- Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2001
- Tissue engineering, embryonic stem cells, adult stem cells, viral vectors, biochemical engineering.