Gill Eminent Professor

Research Areas: Biocompatible Surfaces, Cancer Cell Metastasis, Cell-Based Biosensors, Microfluidic Devices for Biological Applications

Associate Professor

Director Center for Applied Energy Research

Research Areas: Activated carbon materials, Agriculture, Biotechnology, carbon fiber formation, Carbon materials, Energy, Environment, Nanotube synthesis, Nanotube-polymer and nanotube-carbon composite materials, Pitch chemistry and characterization

Assistant Professor

Research Areas: biomolecular interactions with interfaces, coatings for drug delivery, electrode modification, enzyme mediated polymerization, interfacial transport phenomena, Materials for biological detection

University Alumni Professor

Research Areas: Membrane Separation, Nanotechnology, Tunable Membranes and Biocatalysis, Water Treatment

Gill Associate Professor

Research Areas: Active Polymeric Biomaterials, Drug Delivery, Functionalized Polymer Nanocarriers, Postsurgical Adhesions., Pro/antioxidant Biomaterials, Wound Healing

Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies

Research Areas: Advanced Carbon Materials and Nanotechnology, Diffusion in Polymers, Polymerization

William Bryan Associate Professor

Research Areas: Biomaterials, Bionanotechnology, Magnetic Nanoparticles, Nanocomposites, Nanomedicine, Nanotechnology, Polymer Science

Professor and Chair

Research Areas: Blends and Synthetic Membranes, Polymer Nanocomposites, Polymer Processing, Rheology

Professor

Research Areas: Biotechnology, Materials Processing, Self-Assembly in Compressed Fluids, Separations, Solution Thermodynamics, Supercritical Fluid Technology for Biosynthesis

Daniel W. Pack, Ph.D.

Ashland Inc. Chair in Chemical Engineering

Research Areas: Engineering of advanced drug delivery systems with an emphasis on human gene therapy for the prevention control and treatment of disease

Christina M. Payne, P.E., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Research Areas: Biophysics, Biopolymers, Biotechnology, Computational science, Energy, Enzymes, Molecular modeling

Professor

Research Areas: Biotechnology, Interfacial Science, Multiscale Modeling, Nanotechnology, Reaction Engineering, Renewable Energy, Separations

Professor

Research Areas: Chemical and Transprort Processes Associated with Microparticles, Light-scattering, Optical Microsensors based on Spherical Microparticles, Physical, Synthesis of Tailored Micro- and Nano-particles

Professor

Research Areas: Parallel Computation of Three-Dimensional Transport of Reactive Species in Air Pollution Modeling

John Y. Walz, Ph.D.

Professor and Dean of the College of Engineering

Research Areas: Elucidation of colloidal forces in solution as related to colloidal stability, coalescence, adsorption, and transport phenomena; application of total internal reflection microscopy techniques

Associate Professor

Research Areas: Deformation Mechanisms and Mechanical Behavior of Nanoporous Metals, in situ Transmission Electron Microscopy, Structure, Thin Film Plasticity

Assistant Professor

Research Areas: Application of Novel Quantum Mechanical Methods to Diffusion, Computational Materials Science of Nanomaterials and Materials for Energy, Electron Transport and Catalysis. Application of Novel Quantum Mechanical Methods to Diffusion, Computational Materials Science of Nanomaterials and Materials for Energy, Electron Transport and Catalysis.

Frank J. Derbyshire Professor

Research Areas: Biomedical Devices, Conservation, Energy, Nanostructured Materials, Sustainable Manufacturing

Assistant Professor

Research Areas: Ceramics, Clinical and Translational Science, Lab-on-a-Chip, Materials Science and Engineering, Microfluidics, Smart Materials and Devices

William Bryan Professor

Research Areas: Molecular Electronics, Nanoscale Device Fabrication, Nanotechnology, Spintronics, Thin Film Processes

Professor

Research Areas: Contact Deformation of Materials, Electrical-Chemical-Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Micromechanics of Advanced Materials

Associate Professor

Research Areas: Electron Microscopy, Failure Analysis, Fatigue and Fracture, Micro and Macrotexture, Simulation of Fatigue Damage, Structure/Property Relations

Assistant Professor

Research Areas: Biofuels, Computer Aided Process Engineering, Energy, Green Engineering, Process Design, Process Safety, Sustainability

PJC Board of Trustees Engineering Professor and Director, Extended Campus Programs in Paducah, KY

Research Areas: colloids and interfacial phenomena, distance learning, Fluids modeling in porous media, interactive multimedia educational software, model-based process control, surface kinetics, surfactant induced water movement

Associate Professor

Research Areas: Use of Membranes for Water Purification