Giorgio Carta has served an Editor of Biotechnology Journal from its founding and as a member of the Editorial Board of Separation Science & Technology. He has been a consultant for a number of chemical and pharmaceutical companies. He has published extensively in the area of adsorption and ion exchange with emphasis on protein chromatography.

Geoffrey M. Geise is an associate professor at the University of Virginia with appointments in chemical engineering and materials science and engineering (by courtesy). At UVA, his research focuses on studying the fundamentals of chemically- and electrochemically-driven small molecule transport in polymeric membranes for clean water and energy.

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.

We are interested in the tailored synthesis of new materials at multiple length scales. At the molecular scale, the physical properties of materials are largely dependent on the stoichiometry and stable structures that can be formed. 

Professor Erik Fernandez received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1989.

One area I focus on is building and validating models of chemical processes. Modern commercial software has made many parts of this task much easier, but proper use of commercial tools requires judgment about the inputs and the level of modeling detail, process-specific knowledge, and validation against real-world performance data.

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.

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.