Chemical engineering faculty engage in interdisciplinary partnerships with departments and faculty members across the UW campus. Our joint and adjunct faculty members have continuous and committed collaborations with ChemE, strengthening our efforts in teaching and research.
David Baker
Professor of Biochemistry; Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering and Genome Sciences
Design of protein structures; protein folding mechanisms; protein-protein interactions; protein-nucleotide interactions and protein-ligand interaction
Corie L. Cobb
Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Adjunct Professor of Human Centered Design and Engineering; Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering
manufacturing; engineered materials; computational design for printing and patterning of functional materials for clean energy applications
Richard R. Gustafson
Denman Professor of Forest Resources
Biofuels and bio-based products; process simulation; process control; instrument development
Neil King
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
Designing protein-based nanomaterials for medical applications
Shuyi Ma
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Integrating computational and experimental systems biology approaches for biomedical applications
Alshakim Nelson
Job & Gertrud Tamaki Endowed Professor of Chemistry
Synthesizing, characterizing, and processing stimuli-responsive materials for 3D printing with applications in medicine, soft robotics, sensors and sustainability.
Suzie Pun
Robert F. Rushmer Professor of Bioengineering
Non-viral gene delivery; delivery of drugs and molecular contrast agents; intracellular trafficking
Jessica Ray
Robert O. and Irene V. Sylvester Family Endowed Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Water treatment; interfacial reactions; surface chemistry; polymer chemistry; materials design; nanochemistry and nanotechnology
Aquatic Innovations in Materials Science Lab | jessray@uw.edu
Eleftheria Roumeli
Associate Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, Chair of the Materials Science & Engineering Diversity Committee
Developing a new class of biocomposite materials from plant cells, as well as architected nanocomposite materials.
Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert
Professor of Bioengineering, Professor and Vice Dean of Research and Graduate Education, UW School of Medicine
Tissue and cellular engineering, regenerative medicine, drug delivery, and stem cell biology with applications to therapies for spinal cord and peripheral nerve injury
Avik Som
Associate Director of the HHT Center at the University of Washington, Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering
Bringing advances in cutting edge materials science and engineering to the clinical practice in interventional radiology.
Aniruddh Vashisth
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Enabling rapid, energy-efficient manufacturing of next-generation materials by working at the intersections of mechanics of materials, polymer physics, and field–matter interactions.
Jesse Zalatan
Professor of Chemistry
Molecular mechanisms of crosstalk and coordination; programmable RNA scaffolds for metabolic engineering; spatially-organized cell signaling