Melis Duyar
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including heterogeneous catalysis, rational catalyst design, carbon capture and utilisation, plastics upcycling
Edward P. Gatzke
Undergraduate Program Director and Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including process modeling, control, and optimization, with applications involving particulate processing, bio-processes, and large scale systems.
Andreas Heyden
MCEC Distinguished Professor and Graduate Program Director of Chemical Engineering with research interests including nanomaterials, catalysis, computational chemistry, and multiscale modeling.
Golareh Jalilvand
Dr. Golareh Jalilvand is the principal investigator of the Laboratory for Materials Properties and Structures (LMaPS). Her research lies at the intersection of electrochemical engineering and materials science, with a focus on advancing the fundamental understanding of how materials dynamically evolve under electrochemical operation. She is particularly interested in conversion redox reactions and investigates the coupling between multiscale material structures and phase evolution, examining how chemical, structural, and mechanical properties of materials change in operando. With a special focus on next-generation battery technologies, Dr. Jalilvand's team advances the full battery innovation cycle, from the design and synthesis of advanced electrode, separator, and electrolyte materials to electrochemical performance evaluation, device development, and battery materials recycling. The group's research spans high-performance lithium-ion, sodium-ion, and metal-sulfur battery systems, with the goal of enabling efficient, durable, and sustainable energy storage technologies.
Shengli (Bruce) Jiang
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests in machine learning, multiscale simulation, and computational design of soft materials for energy and sustainability.
Jochen Lauterbach
SmartState Endowed Chair for Strategic Approaches to the Generation of Electricity (SAGE) and Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including AI to accelerate catalyst discovery, catalysis for nuclear waste remediation and nuclear fusion, and hydrogen storage.
Michael A. Matthews
Associate Vice President for Research of USC, Senior Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs of the Molinaroli College of Engineering and Computing, and Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, with research interests in the broad field of thermodynamics, including 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.
William E. Mustain
Director of the Carolina Institute for Battery Innovation (CIBI), and Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including electrochemistry, catalysis, materials design, surface chemistry, energy conversion and storage, and electrochemical synthesis.
Zhenmeng Peng
Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including electrochemical hydrogen generation/storage/utilization, new approaches for electrical energy storage, C1 chemicals conversion, electrochemical engineering for desalination and separation applications.
James A. Ritter
Carolina Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and L.M. Weisiger Professor of Engineering, with research interests including cyclic adsorption processes for gas separation and purification and hydrogen storage processes and materials.
Monirosadat (Sanaz) Sadati
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including the structure, dynamics, and self-assembly of soft materials, with an emphasis on anisotropic components capable of leading to new, tunable macroscopic properties.
Ralph E. White
Westinghouse Distinguished Scientist and Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including fuel cells, batteries, electrodeposition, corrosion, and numerical methods.
Christopher Williams
Professor and Chair of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including heterogeneous catalysis, surface science, catalyst design, and in-situ vibrational spectroscopy.
Hui Yang
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including materials design, electrochemical energy storage, sustainability/photocatalysis/CO2 capture and utilization, and charge transfer mechanisms and kinetics.