Faculty & Research Interests

Hertanto Adidharma, Assistant Professor, PhD Louisiana State University. Equations of state, applied molecular and macromolecular thermodynamics, macromolecular phase equilibria.

Vladimir Alvarado, Assistant Professor, PhD University of Minnesota. Enhanced-Oil Recover, Transport in Porous Media

David A. Bell, Associate Professor, PhD Colorado State University. Process design, environmental applications of chemical engineering, explosives technology, surface science and vacuum technology.

Maohong Fan, Associate Professor, PhD, Chemical Engineering, Osaka University; PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University; PhD, Environmental (Engineering) Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Nanostructure(d) materials and combined nano-bio technologies, identification and removal of conventional and emerging contaminates in water and wastewater, and pollutants in air, green chemical manufacturing processes and environmental sensors, production of separtation of chemical from biorenewable resources, characterization and utilization of waste materials.

Lamia Goual, Assistant Professor, PhD, Petroleum Engineering, Imperial College London, England. Characterization of petroleum fluids, heavy organic precipitation, interfacial phenomena in oil/water systems, petroleum fluid/water/solid interactions

H. Gordon Harris, Professor, PhD University of California, Berkeley. Coalbed methane, enhanced oil recovery, oil shale, tar sands and other fossil derived synfuels, process simulation and design, process development, and extractive metallurgy.

Joseph Holles, Associate Professor, PhD University of Virginia, Heterogeneous Catalysis, Nanoscale Materials Design and Synthesis, Materials Characterization, Catalysts for Sustainable Processes.

Patrick Johnson, Assistant Professor, PhD, Chemical Engineering, Columbia University. Biointerfaces, Nanomaterials, Biosensors, Biomaterials

Norman R. Morrow, Professor, PhD University of Leeds. Hydrocarbon recovery, wettability and oil recovery by spontaneous imbibition and waterflooding, crude oil/brine/rock interactions, surface chemistry of adsorption and wetting, capillarity, low permeability gas sands, multiphase flow in porous media.

John Oakey, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Colorado School of Mines. Microfluidics and Low Reynolds Number Hydrodynamics, Soft Matter, Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Biomedical Diagnostics.

M Piri, Assistant Professor, PhD, Petroleum Engineering, Imperial College London, England. Multiphase flow in porous media with application sto oil and gas recovery, pore-scale modeling of displacement processes, two- and three-phase relative permeablities (measurement and prediction), wettablitiy and CO2 sequestion and leakage.

Maciej (Mac) Radosz, Professor and Department Head, PhD. Cracow University of Technology, Macromolecular phase equilibria, crystallization and melting of polymers in supercritical fluids, equations of state, fouling, separations.

Mrityunjai P. Sharma, Professor, PhD Washington State University. Air pollution control technologies, particulate emissions control, supercritical fluids, produced water and sludge treatment, soil and groundwater remediation, industrial ecology, oil and gas production, thermal and enhanced oil recovery, drilling hydraulics, multiphase flows in porous media, and pipelines.

Brian F. Towler, Associate Professor, PhD University of Queensland. Reservoir engineering, enhanced oil recovery, natural gas processing, petroleum trapping mechanisms.

Shunde Yin, Assistant Professor, PhD, Geotechnical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada. Coupled thermal - hydraulic - mechanical - chemical (THMC) modeling and soft computing in petroleum geomechanics.

Emeritus Faculty:

Chang-Yul Cha, Professor, PhD University of California, Davis. Application of microwave energy for flue gas cleanup, solid waste recycling, wet oxidation and wet calcination of trona, oil shale and tar sands processing, coal utilization.

Henry W. Haynes, Jr., Professor, PhD University of Colorado. Heterogeneous reaction kinetics, applied thermodynamics, ion permeable membranes, solution mining and processing of trona, synthetic fuels from coal, fuel processing for fuel cells.

Adjunct Faculty:

John Ackerman, Adjunct Professor, PhD Brown University. Thin film deposition technologies, deposition of multilayer dielectric films for electrical and optical applications, modeling of CVD and ALE depositions, peritectic synthesis of materials from the gas phase.

Geoff Mason, Adjunct Professor. Loughborough University of technology, PhD University of Bristol. Capillarity and pore structure, wettability, oil recovery.