Our faculty are not content to trod well-worn engineering paths. Instead, they are driven to pursue innovations in teaching, research that address truly complex challenges, and to pursue worldwide leadership roles in their fields. See Also: Emeritus Faculty Directory.
2020 Brenton S. Halsey Distinguished Visiting Professor
Pamela Faggert will join UVA Engineering's Chemical Engineering Department in January as the 2020 Brenton S. Halsey Distinguished Visiting Professor in Chemical Engineering. She most recently served as chief environmental officer and senior vice president for sustainability at…
Roseanne M. Ford is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia. She holds a B.S. degree from the University of Delaware and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, both in chemical engineering.
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering (by courtesy)ChE Undergraduate Program Director
Geoffrey M. Geise, associate professor at the University of Virginia, earned a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the Pennsylvania State University and an M.S.E. and Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. At UVA, his research focuses on studying the fundamentals of chemically- and electrochemically-driven small molecule transport.
Prof. Giri graduated from Chemical Engineering at Stanford University, working on the crystallization control of organic semiconductors for flexible electronic applications. His postdoctoral work focused on the use of microfluidics and continuous flow processing for pharmaceutical industry.
Our group focuses on the synthesis of well-defined nanoparticles, their dispersion into polymer solutions and melts, and their suspension rheology. With our fundamental studies, we seek to optimize processing to achieve a desirable microstructure in industrial suspensions, and to set a foundation for developing constitutive rheological models.
Associate Professor, Biomedical EngineeringGraduate Program Director
Donald Griffin improves clinical translation of acellular and cellular therapies through enhanced hydrogel-tissue integration, specifically focusing on the development of passive and active instructional microenvironments using microscale building blocks.
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering
Christopher Highley develops materials and fabrication technologies to enable the design and construction of complex cellular and material systems, with the goal of addressing fundamental and translational problems in biomedicine.
2017 & 2018 Brenton S. Halsey Distinguished Visiting Professor
Katie Hunt worked for nearly thirty years in a variety of roles at Rohm and Haas and later the Dow Chemical Company. She retired from Dow where she was an R&D Director in Innovation Sourcing & Sustainable Technologies. Katie served as the president of the American Chemical Society…
Spring 2023 Brenton S. Halsey Distinguished Visiting Professor
Pat Kelly is a financial and operations executive with a track record of effectively managing all financial aspects of companies in the technology and travel industries. After graduating with a computer science degree from the University of Virginia, Pat worked as a software engineer…
Michael L. King is a professor of practice in the Department of Chemical Engineering. He received his B.S.degree in chemical engineering from VA Tech, M.S. from the University of Virginia and Ph.D. from University of Delaware. Mike had a significant 32-year industrial experience at…
