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Jennifer Dunn

Director of the Center for Engineering Sustainability and Resilience
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering
Interim Director, Northwestern Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering

Phone: 847-467-6285

Daniel Abrams

Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics and (by courtesy) Physics and Astronomy
Bette and Neison Harris Chair in Teaching Excellence
Co-Director, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)

Nonlinear dynamics, mathematical geoscience, and pattern formation

Ludmilla Aristilde

Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, (by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering, and (by courtesy) Earth and Planetary Sciences

Nivedita Arora

Allen K. and Johnnie Cordell Breed Junior Professor of Design
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

sustainable computational materials and things
self-powered battery-free operation
end-of-cycle management
low-carbon manufacturing

Oluwaseyi Balogun

Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Mechanical Engineering

Scott Barnett

Professor of Materials Science & Engineering

Phone: 847-491-2447

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

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

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
Senior Associate Dean

Phone: 847-467-1751

Microkinetic modeling for conversion of shale gas and biomass to chemicals and fuels

Giuseppe Buscarnera

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Phone: 847-491-5884

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

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

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

Bin Chen

Research Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Wei Chen

Wilson-Cook Professor in Engineering Design
Chair and Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Phone: 847-491-7019

Rational and computationally efficient design methods based on data science, optimization, statistical inference, and decision analysis

Giorgia Chinazzo

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Director of the Architectural Engineering and Design Program

Phone: 847-467-3627

Energy efficient and healthy building design and control; personalized environments

Yip-Wah Chung

Professor of Instruction of Materials Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering

Phone: 847-491-3112

Design and characterization of lubricant additives, hard coatings, and high-performance alloys

Gianluca Cusatis

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering

Phone: 847-491-4027

Mechanics of infrastructure materials and constitutive modeling of concrete and cementitious composites

Pam Daniels

Charles Deering McCormick Distinguished Clinical Professor
Clinical Full Professor, Segal Design Institute

Human-centered design, digital fabrication, and organizational development

Peter Dinda

Professor of Computer Science and (by courtesy) Electrical and Computer Engineering

Phone: 847-467-7859

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

Michelle Driscoll

Associate Professor of Physics

Phone: 847-467-6708

Analysis of colloidal systems via structure generation; material failure via emergent structures

David Dunand

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Phone: 847-491-5370

Mechanical properties of metallic alloys, composites, and foams

Kornel F. Ehmann

Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering

Phone: 847-491-3563

Micro/meso-scale manufacturing; precision engineering; automation and robotics

Omar K. Farha

Professor of Chemistry and (by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering

Phone: 847-467-4934

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

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

Environmental catalysis and physicochemical processes with a focus on energy and urban sustainability

Matthew Grayson

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Phone: 847-491-8137

Design, fabrication, and electrical and thermoelectric characterization of electronic devices and materials

Ping Guo

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Phone: 847-491-4029

Micro/nano-manufacturing, additive manufacturing, and precision engineering

Mark Hersam

Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Chair of Materials Science and Engineering
Director, Materials Research Science and Engineering (MRSEC)

Low-dimensional nanoelectronic materials for thin-film transistors, photovoltaics, and batteries

Josiah Hester

Adjunct Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science

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
Executive Director of the Segal Design Institute
Co-Director of the MMM Program

Phone: 847-491-2987

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

Associate 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

Jiaxing Huang

Adjunct Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Chemical principles and tools to advance materials processing and manufacturing

Steven Jacobsen

Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Breton Johnson

Senior Associate Director, NUTC

Phone: 847-491-2194

Transportation

Julia Kalow

Associate Professor of Chemistry

Phone: 847-467-4972

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

Image processing and machine learning

Sam Kriegman

Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Sridhar Krishnaswamy

Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Director of Center for Smart Structures and Materials

Phone: 847-491-4006

Sensors, smart structures, multifunctional materials

Simge Kucukyavuz

Chair of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
David A. and Karen Richards Sachs Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences

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

Thermal systems and energy management

Harold Kung

Walter P. Murphy Professor Emeritus of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Phone: 847-491-7492

Catalysis science and energy conversion and storage

Seth Lichter

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Phone: 847-467-1885

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

Computational science and numerical methods, material systems, materials design, manufacturing, bio-sensing

Jeffrey Lopez

Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Design of new materials for energy storage applications using understanding of charge transport and reactions at electrochemical interfaces

Julius Lucks

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

Phone: 847-491-2739

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

Transportation systems and traffic networks

Niall Mangan

Assistant Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics

Phone: 847-491-7243

Mechanistic modeling, Systems biology and energy systems

William Miller

Professor Emeritus of Chemical and Biological Engineering
CESR Founding Director

Phone: 847-491-4828

Ecosystem services provided by urban nature preserves and green infrastructure

David Morton

Walter P. Murphy Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences

Adilson Motter

Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Phone: 847-491-4611

Network science and complex systems, electrical grid

Yu (Marco) Nie

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Phone: 847-467-0502

Transportation

Justin Notestein

Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Chair of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Phone: 847-491-5357

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

Environmental transport processes, energy-water systems, urban flooding

K.C. Kenneth Park

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Surface engineering and interfacial transport phenomena

Mar Reguant

Professor of Economics

Phone: 847-491-8221

Industrial organization and energy and environmental economics

Jeffrey Richards

Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Phone: 847-467-4641

Colloids and soft matter

Alessandro Rotta Loria

Louis Berger Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Geomechanics and energy

Ted Sargent

Lynn Hopton Davis and Greg Davis Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Co-Executive Director, Paula M. Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy

Joseph Schofer

Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Phone: 847-491-8795

Transportation and infrastructure

David Seidman

Walter P. Murphy Emeritus Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Founding Director of the Northwestern University Center for Atom-Probe Tomography (NUCAPT)

Phase separation and superalloys

Linsey Seitz

Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Phone: 847-467-3056

Electrocatalysis and spectroscopy

Karen Smilowitz

James N. and Margie M. Krebs Professor in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences

Transportation and logistics, humanitarian logistics

Randall Q. Snurr

John G. Searle Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Metal organic frameworks, molecular modeling and nonporous materials

G. Jeffrey Snyder

Professor of Materials Science & Engineering

Thermoelectrics and energy efficiency

Amanda Stathopoulos

William Patterson Junior Professor
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Phone: 847-491-5629

Equitable transportation, Choice modelling and decision-analysis

Dayne Swearer

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

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

Polymers and materials science

Ryan Truby

Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
June and Donald Brewer Junior Professor

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