Adsorption and Bio Sensing Chemical Engineering Consultant: (1351)
Expertise
Protein and polyelectrolyte adsorption.
Polyelectrolyte multilayer films formed via layer-by-layer assembly.
Optical waveguide biosensing.
Biosensing in presence of applied electric potential.
Thin film polymeric biomaterials as biocompatible coatings.
Thermodynamics of adsorption of gases in porous materials and proteins/polymers at surfaces.
Molecular computer simulation of adsorption.
Experience
University Assistant and Full Professor
Selected Courses Taught
Colloidal Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics, Advanced Engineering Mathematics.
Thermodynamics and Chemical Equilibria.
Special Topics: Molecular Modeling.
Computational Methods in Engineering
Proposals, Publications, Lectures, Collaborations
Research Proposals Funded: 14
Conference Proposals Funded: 5
Referred Publications: 56
Papers presented at professional meetings: 82
Invited Lectures: 35
List of publications furnished upon request.
Honors & Publications
Professorial
J. William Fulbright Scholarship, France (2006)
John J. Lee Associate Professorship of Chemical Engineering (2005)
Invited Feature Article, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science (2003)
National Academy of Engineering: Frontiers of Engineering (1999)
National Science Foundation CAREER Award (1998)
Post-Doctoral
NATO-NSF Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Chateaubriand Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Enrico Fermi Summer School of Physics Scholarship
Doctoral
University of Minnesota Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Alpha Chi Sigma Award
Pre-Doctoral
Magna Cum Laude
Phi Beta Kappa
Departmental distinction
Deans' list all eight semesters
Letter winner and elected team captain, St. Olaf College track team
M.I.A.C. academic all-conference track team
Education
Post-Doctoral, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
Laboratoire de Physique Theorique des Liquides
Ph.D., University of Minnesota Graduate School, Minneapolis, MN
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
B.A., Chemistry and Mathematics, Saint Olaf College, Northfield, MN