Centers, Labs, Groups

In research labs and groups across UVA Engineering, our faculty and students are making discoveries and disseminating their breakthroughs across the globe.

  • Davis Lab Group

    Led by Professor Robert Davis, The Davis Laboratory is a research group at the University of Virginia interested in developing new or improved catalytic materials by studying how the structure of a catalyst affects its performance in a chemical reaction

  • Dolatshahi Systems Immunology Lab

    We develop new systems biology approaches to understand fundamental mechanisms of immune regulation and dysregulation, with an ultimate objective of identifying strategies to design and improve immunotherapies

  • Du Lab

  • DWELL Collective

  • E-Snail

  • ELM Research Group

    Our group, led by Keivan Esfarjani, performs design, modeling and atomistic simulation of materials for energy conversion and storage using first-principles density functional theory (DFT) calculations and quantum and statistical mechanics tools.

  • Environmental Resilience Institute

    The Environmental Resilience Institute brings together UVA faculty, students, and external partners to conduct trans-disciplinary research at the intersection of environmental change and human wellbeing. The institute’s overarching goal is to identify solutions to some of society’s most challenging and complex social-environmental problems. UVA Engineering Representatives: Andres F. Clarens and Jonathan L. Goodall.

  • ExSiTE Lab

    Our group’s interests are in energy transport and coupled photonic interactions with condensed matter, soft materials, liquids, vapors, plasmas and their interfaces. We use various optical thermometry-based experiments to measure the thermal conductivity, thermal boundary conductance, thermal accommodation, strain propagation and sound speed, optical properties, and electron, phonon, vibrational and polaritonic scattering mechanisms in a wide array of bulk materials and nanosystems.

  • Fluids Research and Innovation Laboratory (FRIL)

    Our projects focus on unsteady fluid dynamics, including micro- and nano-texturing coatings for self-cleaning, fluid dynamics and heat transfer of energy-storage systems, inlet aerodynamics of supersonic aircraft and inlet particle separators of helicopters, and bio-inspired morphing wind turbines to reduce off-shore cost of energy

  • Ford Group

    Our research focuses on the application of chemical engineering principles to problems in microbial ecology. The aim is to develop a fundamental understanding of mechanisms underlying microbial behavior which will provide insights for future technological innovation.