Affiliated Faculty
Jennifer Dunn
Director of the Center for Engineering Sustainability and Resilience
Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering
Associate Director, Northwestern Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering
Phone: 847-467-6285
email
- Nonlinear dynamics, mathematical geoscience, and pattern formation
Ange-Therese Akono
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
- Fracture and failure mechanisms in environment-friendly and high-performance structural materials and geological materials
Oluwaseyi Balogun
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Mechanical Engineering
- Solid oxide fuel cells, including reversible fuel cells for energy storage
Michael Bedzyk
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Physics and Astronomy Co-Director, Northwestern Synchroton Research Center
- Thin-film interfaces for catalysis and electronic and engineering materials
Randall Berry
Chair and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
John A. Dever Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Phone: 847-491-7074
email- Resource allocation in systems ranging from communication networks to social networks
Neal Blair
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth and Planetary Sciences
Phone: 847-491-8790
email- Pathways of organic carbon decomposition and sequestration via biological and physical processes in soils and sediments.
Linda Broadbelt
Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Associate Dean for Research
Phone: 847-467-1751
email- Microkinetic modeling for conversion of shale gas and biomass to chemicals and fuels
- Modeling of geomaterials with application to geo-engineering, natural hazards, and landslide forecasting.
Jian Cao
Associate Vice President for Research
Cardiss Collins Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) Civil and Environmental Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering
Director, Northwestern Initiative for Manufacturing Science and Innovation (NIMSI)
Phone: 847-467-1032
email- Innovative manufacturing processes and systems including energy-efficient manufacturing
Stephen Carr
Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemical and Biological Engineering
Phone: 847-491-3558
email- Polymer properties and materials selection including for reconstruction after disasters
Cécile Chazot
Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Julia Weertman Professor in Materials Science and Engineering
- sustainable polymer design and manufacturing for textiles, textile recycling
Wei Chen
Wilson-Cook Professor in Engineering Design
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Phone: 847-491-7019
email- Rational and computationally efficient design methods based on data science, optimization, statistical inference, and decision analysis
Giorgia Chinazzo
Assistant Professor of Instruction of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Phone: 847-467-3627
email- Energy efficient and healthy building design and control; personalized environments
Yip-Wah Chung
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering
Phone: 847-491-3112
email- Design and characterization of lubricant additives, hard coatings, and high-performance alloys
- Mechanics of infrastructure materials and constitutive modeling of concrete and cementitious composites
- Human-centered design, digital fabrication, and organizational development
Peter Dinda
Professor of Computer Science and (by courtesy) Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director of Graduate Studies, Computer Science
Phone: 847-467-7859
email- Experimental parallel and distributed computer systems; empathic systems
Vinayak Dravid
Abraham Harris Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Founding Director, Northwestern University Atomic and Nanoscale Characterization (NUANCE) Center
Founding Director, Soft and Hybrid Nanotechnology Experimental (SHyNE) Resource, an NSF-NNCI Node
- OHM sponge for recovery of oil, nutrients, and heavy metals from water
- Analysis of colloidal systems via structure generation; material failure via emergent structures
- Mechanical properties of metallic alloys, composites, and foams
- Micro/meso-scale manufacturing; precision engineering; automation and robotics
Omar K. Farha
Associate Professor Department of Chemistry and (by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering
Phone: 847-467-4934
email- Metal-organic frameworks for gas storage and separation, catalysis, and water remediation
Jean-François Gaillard
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) Earth and Planetary Sciences
Sandip Ghosal
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
Phone: 847-467-5990
email- Hydrodynamics of ionic liquids on small scales; electroosmosis; electrophoresis
Kimberly Gray
Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Family Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering
Phone: 847-467-4252
email- Environmental catalysis and physicochemical processes with a focus on energy and urban sustainability
- Design, fabrication, and electrical and thermoelectric characterization of electronic devices and materials
- Micro/nano-manufacturing, additive manufacturing, and precision engineering
James Hambleton
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Louis Berger Junior Professor
- Geotechnical analysis and soil-machine interactions
Mark Hersam
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, Materials Research Science and Engineering (MRSEC)
- Low-dimensional nanoelectronic materials for thin-film transistors, photovoltaics, and batteries
Josiah Hester
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and (by courtesy) of Preventive Medicine at Feinberg School of Medicine
- Battery-free smart devices and intermittent computing for infrastructure monitoring and conservation
Greg Holderfield
Pentair - D. Eugene and Bonnie L. Nugent Clinical Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Director of the Segal Design Institute
Co-Director of the MMM Program
Phone: 847-491-2987
email- Design innovation and product development
Daniel Horton
Assistant Professor, of Earth and Planetary Sciences and (by courtesy) Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Earth’s climate system and its interaction with human and natural systems
Ágnes Horvát
Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and (by courtesy) of Computer Science and the Department of Management and Organizations of the Kellogg School of Management
- Collective behaviour of networked crowds in large-scale socio-technical systems
- Chemical principles and tools to advance materials processing and manufacturing
Michael Jewett
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence
- Synthetic biology, bio-derived chemicals and fuels
- Organic synthesis and polymer chemistry
Aggelos Katsaggelos
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and (by courtesy) Computer Science
Joseph Cummings Professor
Phone: 847-491-7164
email- Image processing and machine learning
Sridhar Krishnaswamy
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Director of Center for Smart Structures and Materials
Phone: 847-491-4006
email- Sensors, smart structures, multifunctional materials
- Mixed-integer programming and large-scale optimization, infrastructure, humanitarian logistics
Manohar Kulkarni
Clinical Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Chairperson of Mechanical Engineering
Phone: 847-467-6741
email- Thermal systems and energy management
Harold Kung
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Phone: 847-491-7492
email- Catalysis science and energy conversion and storage
- Fluid mechanics, statistical mechanics, energy
Wing K. Liu
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) Materials Science and Engineering
Phone: 847-491-7094
email- Computational science and numerical methods, material systems, materials design, manufacturing, bio-sensing
- Design of new materials for energy storage applications using understanding of charge transport and reactions at electrochemical interfaces
Julius Lucks
Associate Chair of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Synthetic biology and RNA structure, water quality
Richard M. Lueptow
Professor of Mechanical Engineering (and by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering
Senior Associate Dean of Research
Phone: 847-491-2739
email- Fluid flow and granular flow
Hani Mahmassani
Professor of Civil and Environmental and (by courtesy) Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences Engineering
William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation
Phone: 847-467-7445
email- Transportation systems and traffic networks
Niall Mangan
Assistant Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
Phone: 847-491-7243
email- Mechanistic modeling, Systems biology and energy systems
- Ecosystem services provided by urban nature preserves and green infrastructure
Adilson Motter
Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Phone: 847-491-4611
email- Network science and complex systems, electrical grid
- Transportation
- Catalysis and materials
Aaron Packman
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering and Chemical and Biological Engineering
Phone: 847-491-9902
email- Environmental transport processes, energy-water systems, urban flooding
- Surface engineering and interfacial transport phenomena
- Industrial organization and energy and environmental economics
- Colloids and soft matter
- Geomechanics and energy
- Transportation and infrastructure
David Seidman
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Founding Director of the Northwestern University Center for Atom-Probe Tomography (NUCAPT)
- Phase separation and superalloys
- Electrocatalysis and spectroscopy
Karen Smilowitz
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
James N. and Margie M. Krebs Professor in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Co-Director, Center for Engineering and Health
- Transportation and logistics, humanitarian logistics
Randall Q. Snurr
Chair of Chemical and Biological Engineering
John G. Searle Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Metal organic frameworks, molecular modeling and nonporous materials
- Thermoelectrics and energy efficiency
Amanda Stathopoulos
William Patterson Junior Professor
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Phone: 847-491-5629
email- Equitable transportation, Choice modelling and decision-analysis
- Integrating nanophotonics and heterogeneous catalysis to develop sustainable light-powered chemical transformations of societal and industrial importance
John Torkelson
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering
Phone: 847-491-7449
email- Polymers and materials science
Ryan Truby
Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- bringing capabilities found in living organisms to novel devices and machines through materials design and advances in additive manufacturing
- building devices and machines that can resiliently perform in unstructured, real-world environments to serve in applications spanning environmental monitoring and remediation, sustainable agriculture, virtual work, and beyond
Danielle Tullman-Ercek
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Director, Master of Science in Biotechnology Program
Phone: 847-491-7043
email- Protein engineering and synthetic biology, sustainable materials
- Synthetic biology and metabolic engineering, nutrient recovery
Petia Vlahovska
Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, and (by courtesy) of Mechanical Engineering
- Soft matter and fluid mechanics
Peter Voorhees
Frank C. Engelhart Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
- Materials science, thermodynamics and kinetics
- Nanostructures and polymers
- Algorithms and optimization, electric grid
- Computational mechanics and simulations, advanced manufacturing
Ermin Wei
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences
Phone: 847-467-5702
email- Distributed optimization, networks, and market analysis
- Environmental biotechnology and microbial ecology, nutrient recovery from wastewater
Mark Werwath
Clinical Full Professor
Executive Director of the Office of Professional Education
Director, Master of Engineering Management Program
Co-Director of Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Innovation and product development
Qi Zhu
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and (by courtesy) Computer Science
- Design automation, cyber-physical systems and embedded systems