Chemical Engineering Future Faculty Seminar Series

Announcing the National ChemE Seminar Series highlighting future faculty and the diversity of our discipline!

The chemical engineering departments at the Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California, Berkeley, University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Florida have organized a future faculty seminar series to highlight chemical engineering graduate students of diverse backgrounds.
Date Speakers Presentation Title Session Chairs
Friday, October 23, 2020 Joel Bombile Multi-Scale Modeling of Charge Transport in Semiconducting Polymers
  • Rachel Segalman (UCSB)
  • Paula Hammond (MIT)
  • Jeff Reimer (Berkeley)
  • Carlos Rinaldi (UF)
Noor Momin Collagen Anchoring Cancer Immunotherapies
Friday, October 30, 2020 Diane Nelson Using Perfluorocarbon Emulsions for Drug Delivery to the Lungs
  • Rachel Segalman (UCSB)
  • Paula Hammond (MIT)
  • Jeff Reimer (Berkeley)
  • Carlos Rinaldi (UF)
Stewart Mallory Dynamic Overlap Concentration Scale of Active Colloids
Friday, November 6, 2020 Iwnetim Abate Designing Materials with High-Valent Redox for Electrochemical Applications
  • Rachel Segalman (UCSB)
  • Paula Hammond (MIT)
  • Jeff Reimer (Berkeley)
  • Carlos Rinaldi (UF)
Loza Tadesse Rapid optical detection of bacterial infections and their antibiotic susceptibility
Friday, November 13, 2020 Crystal Chu Bioinspired Polymer Fibers
  • Rachel Segalman (UCSB)
  • Paula Hammond (MIT)
  • Jeff Reimer (Berkeley)
  • Carlos Rinaldi (UF)
Arvin Kakekhani Hybrid Materials for Taming Photons & Solving Fundamental Challenges in Catalysis
Friday, November 20, 2020 Konane Bay What controls failure in ultrathin polymer films?
  • Rachel Segalman (UCSB)
  • Michael Wong (Rice)
  • TBD
Toyin Omojola Descriptors governing reactant selectivity in methanol to olefin conversion
Friday, December 4, 2020 David Bernal Modern Computational Approaches to Nonlinear Discrete Optimization and their Application to Process Systems Engineering
  • Thanos Panagiotopoulos (Princeton)
  • Jeff Gray (Johns Hopkins)
  • Rebecca Willits (Northeastern)
  • Ali Mesbah (Berkeley)
Meenal Datta Abnormal Mechanics in Tumors: Implications for Immunotherapy
Friday, December 11, 2020 Kolade Adebowale Enhanced substrate stress relaxation promotes filopodia-mediated cell migration
  • Jeff Gray (Johns Hopkins)
  • Randy Snurr (Northwestern)
  • Carlos Rinaldi (UF)
Gabriel Burks Understanding Structure Property Relations in Synthetic and Biopolymer Nanomaterials
Friday, December 18, 2020 Yu Luo Model-Based Control of Biological Processes
  • Rebecca Willits (Northeastern)
  • John Yin (Univ. Wisconsin-Madison
  • Carlos Rinaldi (UF)
Shachi Mittal Personalized Cancer Care using Multimodal Imaging, Genomics and Artificial Intelligence
Jan. 8 – Feb. 26, 2021   No Sessions – Faculty Recruiting Season  
Friday, March 5, 2021 Bernardo Gouveia Capillary phenomena involving microtubules and condensed proteins
  • John Yin (UW-Madison)
  • Rachel Segalman (UCSB)
  • Jeff Reimer (Berkeley)
  • TBD
Devleena Samanta Next-generation probes for live-cell chemical analysis
Friday, March 12, 2021 Emma Purcell Predicting Cancer Treatment Outcomes Using Microfluidics
  • Mayuresh Kothare (Lehigh U)
  • Victor Zavala (UW-Madison)
  • Prodromos Daoutidis (Minnesota)
  • TBD
Aditi Chakrabarti Understanding and Controlling Pattern formation in Soft Elastic Solids
Friday, March 19, 2021 Blaise Kimmel Programming Structure-Function Relationships in Protein Megamolecules for Cancer Therapy
  • Thanos Panagiotopoulos (Princeton)
  • Victor Zavala (UW-Madison)
  • Ali Mesbah (Berkeley)
  • TBD
Gina Noh Structure-function relationships in catalysis for a circular chemical industry
Friday, March 26, 2021 J. Mark P. Martirez Divide-and-conquer approaches for accurate quantum mechanical simulation of heterogeneous (photo) catalysis
  • Randy Snurr (Northwestern)
  • Tyler Josephson (UMBC)
  • Prodromos Daoutidis (Minnesota)
  • TBD
Sintu Rongpipi Effects of matrix polysaccharides on cellulose organization in plant primary cell walls
Friday, April 2, 2021 Gonzalo Campillo-Alvarado Diversifying Organic Semiconductors Through Crystal Engineering
  • Jeff Gray (Johns Hopkins)
  • Jason E. Butler (UF)
  • TBD
Sarah Alamdari Biomolecular Assembly at Interfaces
Friday, April 9, 2021 Steven Chavez Energy Exchange in Hybrid Photonic Systems
  • Mark Swihart (U Buffalo)
  • Sohail Murad (Ill. Inst. Tech)
  • TBD
Leila Karimi Advancing Selective Membrane-Based Processes for Water-Energy Nexus
Friday, April 16, 2021 Scott Danielsen Associative Polymers
  • Mark Swihart (U Buffalo)
  • Rajesh Shende (SD Mines)
  • Jeff Gray (Hopkins)
  • TBD
Cherrelle Thomas Interfacial Harnessing of Nanostructures Heterostructures for Sustainable Energy Applications
Friday, April 23, 2021 Camille Bilodeau Designing Optimized Molecules Using Artificial Intelligence
  • Thanos Panagiotopoulos (Princeton)
  • Rebecca Willits (Northeastern)
  • Jeff Gray (Hopkins)
  • TBD
Emily Lin Polymer mechanics and dynamics in polymer nanoparticle composites
Friday, April 30, 2021 Bria Macklin Regenerative Potential of Stem Cell Derived Vascular Cells
  • Jeff Reimer (Berkeley)
  • Rachel Segalman (UCSB)
  • Carlos Rinaldi (UF)
Marian Ackun-Farmmer Engineering Self-Assembly Systems to Treat Disease
Friday, May 7, 2021 Juliana Carneiro Title TBD
  • John Yin (UW-Madison)
  • Prodromos Daoutidis (Minnesota)
  • Jeff Reimer (Berkeley)
Razieh Khalifehzadeh Flexible and Ultra-small Pressure Sensors for Wireless Monitoring and Early Detection of Brain Tumor Recurrence
Friday, May 14, 2021 Adam Caparco Protein and protein-inorganic scaffolds for biocatalysis and gene delivery
  • Anuj Chauhan (Colorado School of Mines)
  • Jason E. Butler (UF)
  • TBD
Maggie Qi Biologically Inspired Complex Fluids and Soft Matter
Friday, May 21, 2021 Doris Oke Benefits Analysis of co-optimized fuels and engines
  • Victor Zavala (UW-Madison)
  • John Kitchin (CMU)
  • Jeff Gray (Hopkins)
  • Jeff Reimer (Berkeley)
  Gina Noh Structure-function relationships in catalysis for a circular chemical industry
Friday, May 28, 2021 Elizabeth Corson Plasmon-Enhanced Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide
  • Rebecca Willits (Northeastern)
  • John Kitchin (CMU)
  • Jeff Reimer (Berkeley)
  • TBD
Catera Wilder Dynamic control of signaling networks: uncovering specificity in cellular responses
Friday, June 4, 2021 Corine Jackman Investigating microbial interactions in the human reproductive and respiratory tracts using a co-cultivation microfluidic technology platform
  • John Yin (UW-Madison)
  • Jeff Reimer (Berkeley)
  • TBD
Juan Jimenez Influence of coordination environment on catalyst structure and function for CO2 hydrogenation
Each session should have four session chairs. Senior faculty and department chairs interested in serving as session chairs should contact the organizers.
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