Expertise

• Membrane microfiltration and membrane fouling.
• Protein separations, transport and adsorption in porous membranes.
• Mass transfer in membrane bioreactors and hybrid artificial organs.
• Solute transport during hemodialysis; blood cell and membrane effects.
• Microfiltration and ultrafiltration.

Experience

University Professor Chemical Engineering

• Professor of Chemical Engineering, 1996 – 2005.
• Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, 1990 – 1996.
• Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, 1985 – 1990.
• University of Colorado, Visiting Professor of Chemical Engineering, 1994 – 1995.

Recent Consulting Clients:

• Genetech, Inc., S. San Francisco, CA
• Millipore Corporation, Bedford, MA
• Eastman Kodak, Rochester, NY
• Merck & Co., West Point, PA
• Baxter Healthcare Corporation, Renal Division, McGaw Park, IL
• National Medical Care, Division of W. R. Grace, Columbia, MD
• DNX Corporation, Plainsboro, NJ
• Amicon Corporation, Division of W. R. Grace, Danvers, MA
• E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, DE
• ParaDigm Biotechnologies, Toronto, Ontario

Honors & Publications

• Numerous publications
• Co-author of the text on principles and applications of microfiltration and ultrafiltration.

Societies

• American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineers
• American Society for Artificial Internal Organs
• American Water Works Association
• North American Membrane Society

Education

• Ph.D. , Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Thesis: Continuous Flow Membrane Plasmapheresis: Analysis of Flux and Hemolysis
• B.S., Chemical Engineering, Yale University