Faculty

Department of Aerospace Engineering

Emily Arnold, Ph.D.
earnold@ku.edu

Research interests: multifunctional structures, airborne remote sensing, and unmanned aircraft systems
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Department of Chemical Engineering

Alan M. Allgeier, Ph.D.
alan.allgeier@ku.edu

Research interests: heterogeneous catalysts and processes to efficiently use renewable resources and existing fossil fuel resources, advance the ongoing revolution in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals, and characterization methods for sustainable porous materials
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Cory Berkland, Ph.D. Pharmaceutical or chemical engineering????
berkland@ku.edu

Research interests: antigen-specific immunotherapies, sequestering cells to combat autoimmunity, autoimmunity and tolerance reintroduction, targeted drug delivery, and gene delivery
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Ana Rita C. Morais, Ph.D.
ana.morais@ku.edu

Research interests: developing economically viable and energy-efficient technologies for upgrading lignocellulose and mixed plastic wastes, exploring potential synergies between lignocellulosic biomass conversion and plastic recycling
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Aaron M. Scurto, Ph.D.
ascurto@ku.edu

Research interests: enzyme catalysis in non-aqueous solvents, extractive fermentation, and pharmaceutical and biomaterials processing with compressed carbon dioxide
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Mark B. Shiflett, Ph.D., P.E.
mark.b.shiflett@ku.edu

Research interests: advanced materials for separations, gas sorption and physical property measurements, reactor design and kinetics catalysis, desalination processes, gas expanded lubricants
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Susan M. Williams, Ph.D.
smwilliams@ku.edu

Research interests: hydrothermal liquefaction of wastewater algae, physicochemical properties of fuels and blends, catalysts for automotive emissions, glycerol reforming for syngas and hydrogen production, electroporation of algae, and the biodiesel initiative
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Department of Chemistry

Brian B. Laird, Ph.D.
blaird@ku.edu

Research interests: understanding structure, thermodynamics and kinetics of condensed phase interfaces, phase-equilibrium and transport properties of novel solvent media, and development of new algorithms for molecular modeling
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Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering

Edward F. Peltier, Ph.D.
epeltier@ku.edu

Research interests: biomolecular engineering
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Elaina J. Sutley, Ph.D.
enjsutley@ku.edu

Research interests: performance-based seismic design, hazard mitigation and structural reliability, large scale dynamic testing and monitoring, advanced materials, infrastructure rehabilitation using composite materials, shape memory alloys, and light-frame wood systems
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Department of Economics

Dietrich H. Earnhart, Ph.D.
earnhart@ku.edu

Research interests: optimal strategies for enforcing environmental protection laws, the effects of regulatory factors on corporate and municipal environmental performance, the effect of professional peer comparisons on environmental compliance, policies to induce energy and water conservation, and efforts to reduce food waste
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Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Michael S. Branicky, Sc.D., P.E.
msb@ku.edu

Research interests:
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Department of Geology

David Fowle, Ph.D.
fowle@ku.edu

Research interests: mineral exploration, environment, geochemistry, and early diagenesis
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Department of Mechanical Engineering

Christopher Depcik, Ph.D.
depcik@ku.edu

Research interests: automotive engineering, internal combustion engines, alternative fuels and energy
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Gibum Kwon, Ph.D.
gbkwon@ku.edu

Research interests: superomniphobic surfaces, liquid-liquid separations, self-healable coatings, and patterned surfaces
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Xianglin Li, Ph.D.
xianglinli@ku.edu

Research interests: direct methanol fuel cells, lithium-air batteries, battery thermal management, advanced heat pipes, and topology optimization
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