Oleg S. Alexeev
A research professor, his research interests include surface chemistry and catalysis, reaction kinetics, nanocatalysts, and supported metal clusters.
Our Faculty
Salai C. Ammal
A research professor, her research interests include heterogeneous catalysis and electrocatalysis.
Theodore M. Besmann
Dr. Besmann is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering. His research interests are related to thermochemical experiment and modeling for nuclear fuel development and in-reactor behavior, and development of advanced nuclear waste forms.
Donna Chen
Donna Chen is an adjunct faculty member in the Chemical Engineering Department and a professor of chemistry and biochemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Paul T. Coman
A research professor, his interests include development of mathematical modeling for improving the performance and safety in Li-ion batteries
Armin D. Ebner
A research professor, his research interests include electro-dialysis, hydrogen production, and hydrogen storage.
Brenda Garcia-Diaz
Brenda Garcia-Diaz is an adjunct professor from Savannah River National Laboratory.
Edward P. Gatzke
Dr. Gatzke's research interests are in the area of process modeling, control, and optimization. Application areas of interest include particulate processing, bio-processes, and large scale systems.
R. Michael Gower
Dr. Gower's research focuses on understanding the immune system in order to develop bio-instructive materials that stimulate specific immune responses.
Chad Hardaway
As a patent attorney and chemical engineer, Chad brings a broad skill set to intellectual property protection and management.
Andreas Heyden
Research interests include nanomaterials, catalysis, computational chemistry, and multiscale modeling.
Kevin Huang
Dr. Huang's research interests include solid oxide electrochemical cells, storage batteries, gas separation membranes, solid state defect chemistry and electrochemistry.
Esmaiel Jabbari
Dr. Jabbari's research draws upon chemistry, biology, macromolecular science and exploits biomimetic strategies to engineer cellular constructs for regeneration of skeletal tissues. His research interests include tissue engineering, biomimetic materials, bioinspired nanocomposites, and peptide-mediated drug delivery.
Ehsan Jabbarzadeh
Dr. Jabbarzadeh's lab is interested in the interdisciplinary areas of biomaterials, stem cells and nano/micro-electromechanical systems with applications in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. His research activities focus on understanding the principles by which microenvironmental signals regulate cellular responses.
Golareh Jalilvand
Dr. Golareh Jalilvand is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering. Her research is in the field of structural materials for energy storage, and microfabrication of batteries.
Jochen Lauterbach
A CoEE Endowed Chair of the Strategic Approaches to the Generation of Electricity, his research interests include catalysis, storage and reduction technology, and hydrogen storage.
Woo-Kum Lee
Woo-Kum Lee is an adjunct professor of chemical engineering and a professor and Vice President of Research at Woosuk University, Jeonju, Korea.
Michael A. Matthews
Dr. Matthews is the Senior Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs and a professor of chemical and biomedical engineering. He conducts research in the broad field of thermodynamics, and his research interests include supercritical fluids, ionic liquids, green chemical engineering, and carbon dioxide technology for sterilization, disinfection, modification of tissue scaffolds, and deactivation of allergenic proteins and asthma triggers.
Benjamin H. Meekins
A research professor, his research interests include photovoltaics, solar fuel conversion (water splitting and carbon dioxide remediation), and catalysis related to both.
John R. Monnier
Research interests include heterogeneous catalysis, bimetallic catalyst synthesis, and reaction kinetics.
Melissa Ann Moss
Dr. Moss is the Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of South Carolina. Her research focuses on understanding the role of amyloid-β protein (Aβ) aggregation in Alzheimer’s disease and inhibiting Aβ aggregation as a therapeutic approach to this widespread and devastating illness.
William E Mustain
Research interests include: Electrochemistry, catalysis, materials design, surface chemistry, energy conversion and storage, and electrochemical synthesis.
Marjorie Nicholson
Marjorie Nicholson is an instructor of chemical engineering that works with James A. Ritter's group.
Ivelisse Ortiz-Hernandez
Dr. Ortiz-Hernandez is an instructor of chemical engineering. Her background involves the study of heterogeneous catalytic systems under reaction conditions.
Zhenmeng Peng
Dr. Peng is a professor of Chemical Engineering. His research interests include electrochemical hydrogen generation/storage/utilization, new approaches for electrical energy storage, C1 chemicals conversion, electrochemical engineering for desalination and separation applications.
Branko N. Popov
A Carolina Distinguished Professor and author of Corrosion Engineering, his research interests include electrochemical power sources, industrial metal finishing, and corrosion.
John R. Regalbuto
A CoEE Endowed Chair in Renewable Fuels, his research interests include catalysis preparation and characterization, adsorption theory, and reaction kinetics.
James A. Ritter
A L.M. Weisiger Professor of Engineering, Carolina Distinguished Professor, his research interests include hydrogen storage systems, targeted drug delivery, gas separation and purification.
Monirosadat (Sanaz) Sadati
Research includes the structure, dynamics, and self-assembly of soft materials, with an emphasis on anisotropic components capable of leading to new, tunable macroscopic properties.
Sirivatch Shimpalee
Research interests include electrochemical engineering, fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, and computational fluid dynamics.
Thomas G. Stanford
A Professor Emeritus, his research interests include chemical process systems and advanced professional engineering education.
Nader Taheri Qazvini
Dr. Taheri Qazvinis' research interests include bio-nano hybrid and biomimetic materials, charge-driven self-assembly, structure-dynamics relations in polymer networks, hydrogels, soft glassy materials and living cells, microfabrication and 3D bioprinting and tissue engineering, and collective cell migration
John Meynard M. Tengco
John Tengco is an assistant research professor in chemical engineering at USC.
Mark J. Uline
Dr. Uline is the Program Director of the Biomedical Engineering Program at UofSC. His research group is working toward the fundamental understanding of how the complex interactions at interfaces couple together to give the rich phenomena observed in various chemical and biological systems.
Thomas Vogt
Thomas Vogt is an adjunct faculty member in the Chemical Engineering Department and a professor of chemistry and biochemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Tao Wei
Dr. Tao Wei's lab focuses on functional materials and biotechnologies using the combination of multiscale simulations, experiments and machine learning.
Ralph E. White
A Westinghouse Distinguished Scientist, his research interests include fuel cells, batteries, electrodeposition, corrosion, and numerical methods.
Christopher Williams
The Undergraduate Director of Chemical Engineering. Research interests include heterogeneous catalysis, surface science, catalyst design, and in-situ vibrational spectroscopy.
Yanjiao Yi
Yinjiao Yi is a Research Assistant Professor. Her research focus is on the rational synthesis of catalysts through different methodologies, including the preparation of metal particle catalysts that range from single atoms to clusters, from 1-2 nm to larger than 2 nm particles.
Emeritus Faculty
Francis Gadala-Maria
A Distinguished Professor Emeritus, his research interests include rheology of suspensions, polymer processing, and composite materials.
Vincent Van Brunt
A Distinguished Professor Emeritus, his research interests include separations modeling and chemistry, filtration, and extraction chemistry.
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