Faculty
- Paschalis Alexandridis, UB Distinguished Professor and Acting Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994
- Self-assembly, directed assembly, complex fluids, soft materials, nanomaterials, interfacial phenomena, amphiphilic polymers, biopolymers, product design.
- Stelios Andreadis, Professor
- Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1996
- Stem cells for vascular tissue engineering, signaling pathways in cell-cell adhesion and wound healing, lentiviral vectors and lentiviral microarrays for high-throughput gene expression analysis and gene discovery.
- 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, Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Ph.D., Cornell University, 1999
- Molecular simulation, statistical thermodynamics, biopreservation.
- Edward P. Furlani, Professor
- Ph.D., University at Buffalo, 1982
- Computational physics/multidisciplinary modeling: microfluidics, computational fluid dynamics, heat/mass transfer, multiphase and inkjet systems, optofluidics, MEMS design and simulation, biomagnetics, nanophotonics.
- 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.
- 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.
- Blaine Pfeifer, Associate Professor
- Ph.D., Stanford University, 2002
- Chemical Engineering
- 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 Director of University Accreditation
- Ph.D., McGill University, 1978
- Polymer and ceramics processing, rheology, non-Newtonian fluid mechanics.
- Mark T. Swihart, Professor, Acting Director of Graduate Studies, 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, Distinguished Professor and 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
- Molecularly engineered materials, self-assembly, interfacial phenomena, controlled crystallization, biomimetics.
- Emmanouhl S. Tzanakakis, Associate Professor
- Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2001
- Tissue engineering, embryonic stem cells, adult stem cells, viral vectors, biochemical engineering.