Faculty Research Groups
Scott A. Banta
Associate Professor
820 Mudd, Mail Code: 4721
Phone: +1 212-854-7531
Fax: +1 212-854-3054
Email: sbanta@cheme.columbia.edu
Our research focuses on applying protein engineering and metabolic engineering tools to solve a variety of important problems in bioengineering.
Mark Borden
Assistant Professor
801 Mudd Bldg.
Phone: +1 212 854 6955
Fax: +1 212 854 3054
Email: mb2910@columbia.edu
Our research focuses on the design and fabrication of biocolloids, such as microbubbles, for applications in molecular imaging and targeted therapy.
Christopher James Durning
Professor
806 S W Mudd, Mail Code: 4721
Phone: +1 212-854-8161
Fax: +1 212-854-3054
Email: cjd2@columbia.edu
Our research focuses on ways of exploiting "soft" materials in a variety of new applications. The important themes in this work are to understand and control: Transport and diffusion in polymeric systems, Surface and interfacial behavior in polymeric systems and Association and self-assembly of soft materials.
George W. Flynn
Thomas Alva Edison Professor of Chemistry; Professor of Chemical Engineering
Havemeyer Hall, Mail Code: 3109
Phone: +1 212-854-4162
Fax: +1 212-854-8336
Email: flynn@chem.columbia.edu
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of absorbates: self assembly processes at interfacial layers; investigations of subsurface environmental
problems; nanoscale studies of molecular electronics; materials research on nanoparticles.
Jingyue Ju
Professor and Head of DNA Sequencing and Chemical Biology. Director, Center for Genome Technology & Biomolecular Engineering Columbia Genome Center
819 SW Mudd, Mail Code: 4721
Phone: +1 212-854-2487
Fax: +1 212-851-5172
Email: dj222@columbia.edu
Genomic Science and Technology
Molecular Engineering and Chemical Biology
Jeffrey T. Koberstein
Percy K. and Vida L.W. Hudson Professor of Chemical Engineering
810 Sw Mudd, Mail Code: 4721
Phone: +1 212-854-3120
Fax: +1 212-854-3054
Email: jk1191@columbia.edu
Synthesis of ultra-thin ceramic films on polymeric membranes for gas separation applications; developing bioactive coatings for implantable glucose biosensors, studies of functional polymer surfaces and the development of smart polymer surfaces for biomaterial applications.
Sanat K Kumar
Professor
801 SW Mudd, Mail Code: 4721
Phone: +1 212-854-2193
Fax: +1 212-854-3054
Email: sk2794@columbia.edu
Polymer systems, both biological and synthetic contexts, using a combined theoretical and experimental program.
Edward F. Leonard
Professor
812 Mudd, Mail Code: 4721
Phone: +1 212-854-4448
Fax: +1 212-854-3054
Email: leonard@columbia.edu
Professor Leonard’s principal area of interest is transport and rate processes in biological systems. He is director of the Artificial Organs Research Laboratory, a component of the Department of Chemical Engineering since 1968. Its mission has grown with the evolution of modern biology and with the increasing sophistication available for the construction of medical devices.
V. Faye McNeill
Assistant Professor
801 Mudd Bldg.
Phone: +1 212 854 4453
Fax: +1 212 854 3054
Email: vfm2103@columbia.edu
Professor McNeill’s research is focused on
understanding the chemical and physical processes that occur at environmental
interfaces, and how they influence the chemical composition of the atmosphere.
Ben O'Shaughnessy
Professor
1006 S W Mudd, Mail Code: 4721
Phone: +1 212-854-3203
Fax: +1 212-854-3054
Email: bo8@columbia.edu
Cell division, cell force production and mechanosensing, cell motility, membrane fusion in cell trafficking and secretion, viral membrane fusion. Quantitative analysis of cellular mechanisms. Applications to disease mechanisms and therapy.
Nicholas J. Turro
William P. Schweitzer Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Chemical Engineering and of Environmental Engineering and Materials Science in the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering
766 Chandler Hall, Mail Code: 3119
Phone: +1 212-854-2175
Fax: +1 212-932-1289
Email: njt3@columbia.edu
Employment of spectroscopic and photochemical methods to characterize the structure of molecules absorbed at the interfaces of polymer systems
and nanoparticles.
Alan C. West
Samuel Ruben-Peter G. Viele Professor of Electrochemistry, Dept. Chairman
808 Mudd, Mail Code: 4721
Phone: +1 212-854-4452
Fax: +1 212-854-3054
Email: acw17@columbia.edu
We are interested in a large number of problems that are often characterized as belonging to "electrochemical engineering" as well as the emerging field of microfludics. Applications in electrochemical engineering include electrochemical metallization processes, corrosion, fuel cells, batteries, and waste-treatment processes.