CBE Seminars

The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering's Colloquium Series will typically take place on Fridays in Spring 2025.

• Friday seminars will typically be held from 10:45 am - 12 pm in Maker EventSpace (6 MetroTech Center - 1st floor)

Dipti Jasrasaria

Columbia University

Modeling many-body interactions for materials design: From quantum dots to clathrate

Friday, January 10, 2025

Phillip Rauscher

Syensqo

Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Interfacial Transport

Friday, January 17, 2025

John R. Kitchin

Carnegie Mellon University

Large Machine-learned Potentials for Materials Design with Catalysis and Energy Applications

Friday, January 24, 2025

Nergis Mavalvala

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dean of MIT School of Science

Curtis (1963) and Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics

Gravitational Waves: A New Window to the Universe

Friday, January 31, 2025

*Distinguished Lecture Honoring Herbert Morawetz*

Ive Hermans

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Detangling Complex Catalytic Systems

Friday, February 7, 2025

Jihong Min

California Institute of Technology

Unobtrusive Bioelectronic Platforms for Personalized Healthcare

Friday, February 14, 2025

Sarah Sandler

Harvard University

DNA-Encoded Protein Sensing

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Yuanwei Li

Stanford University

Sculpting Light at the Nanoscale: Chemical Pathways to Nanophotonics and Biosensing Open configuration options

Friday, February 21, 2025

Mahla Poudineh

University of Waterloo

Advanced Sensing and Therapeutic Technologies for Healthcare Automation

Friday, February 28, 2025

Tim Barckholtz

ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering

CO2 Capture with Molten Carbonate Fuel Cells

Friday, March 7, 2025

LaShanda Korley

University of Delaware

Innovating Across the Life Cycle of Macromolecular Materials

Friday, March 14, 2025

Carlos Carrero

Clariant Corp.

Heterogeneous Catalysis: When Academic Vision Meets Industrial Reality

Friday, March 19, 2025

Thomas H. Epps, III

University of Delaware

Improving Materials Circularity – Linking Polymer Science and Life-Cycle Analysis

Friday, March 21, 2025

William Tarpeh

Stanford University

Designing Catalysts and Reactive Separations for Electrochemical Wastewater Refining

Friday, April 4, 2025

Levi Thompson

University of Delaware

Making a Difference: Perspectives on Being a Change Agent

Friday, April 11, 2025

Michael S. Yu

University of Utah

Collagen Hybridizing Peptides: Targeting Collagen Remodeling for Diagnostics and Therapies

Friday, April 25, 2025

Corsin Battaglia

ETH Zurich

Innovating the Batteries of the Future

Friday, May 2, 2025

Todd Martinez

Stanford University

Sparsity, Compression, and Parallelization for Efficient Quantum Mechanics of Molecules

Friday, May 9, 2025

Stacey F. Bent

Stanford University

Precise Materials Synthesis One Layer at a Time: Toward Catalysis and Energy Storage

Friday, September 13, 2024

Yannis Kevrekitis & Stavroula Sofou

Johns Hopkins University

It takes two: “transport cocktails” for solid tumor alpha-particle radiotherapy and their digital twins

Friday, September 20, 2024

Joseph A. Zasadzinski

University of Minnesota

Two-Dimensional Snowflakes – Dynamic and Equilibrium Domain Morphologies in Lung Surfactant Monolayers

Friday, September 27, 2024

Richard van de Sanden

Eindhoven Institute for Renewable Energy Systems (EIRES)

*SPECIAL GUEST LECTURE*

Renewable electricity driven chemical conversion: Novel pathways provided by plasma enhanced chemistry

Friday, September 27, 2024

Dr. Gennady Gor

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Elasticity of Fluids in Nanopores: Molecular Modeling and Ultrasonic Experiments

Friday, October 4, 2024

Paul S. Weiss

California NanoSystems Institute & UCLA

*SPECIAL GUEST LECTURE*

Mimicking Nature: Controlling Charge, Heat, and Spin

Thursday, October 17, 2024

Kelly A. Burke

University of Connecticut

Design of Liquid Crystalline and Protein-based Networks for Responsive Biomaterials

Friday, October 18, 2024

Darren J. Lipomi

University of Rochester

Organic Haptics: Structured Polymers for Two-Way Communication with Biological Systems

Friday, October 25, 2024

John T. Wilson

Vanderbilt University

Engineering Polymeric Drug Carriers for Cancer Immunotherapy

Friday, November 8, 2024

Christos T. Maravelias

Princeton University

Systems Engineering for Renewable Energy: Novel Approaches for New Problems

Friday, November 15, 2024

Linda J. Broadbelt

Northwestern University

Developing Strategies for Polymer Redesign and Recycling Using Reaction Pathway Analysis

Friday, November 22, 2024

Pamela Cai

University of Chicago

Biopolymer Physics in Health and Sustainability

Friday, December 6, 2024

Juanita Hidalgo

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Structure-property relationships in perovskites for energy conversion: From mechanisms to advancing sustainable energy materials

Friday, December 13, 2024

Jeffrey Hubbell

Eugene Bell Professor in Tissue Engineering

Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago

Molecular Engineering to Turn Immunity On and Off

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Justin Bui

University of California, Berkeley

Continuum Modeling to Resolve Multiscale Phenomena in Bipolar Membranes: From Fundamental Physics to Application in Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage

Friday, January 19, 2024

Aisulu Aitbekova

Harry Atwater Group at the California Institute of Technology

Converting CO2, water, and sunlight into liquid fuels: Towards affordable solar fuels and chemicals

Friday, January 26, 2024

Fanglin Che

University of Massachusetts Lowell

Machine Learning Boosted Multi-Scale Simulation for Electrified Chemical Processes

Friday, February 2, 2024

Bradley Biggs

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Recovering Waste through Biomanufacturing for Sustainable Chemical Synthesis

Friday, February 9, 2024

Selin Bac Bilgi

University of Southern California

Navigating the Complexities of Computational Catalysis: From Atomically Dispersed Catalysts to Cost-Effective Rate Calculations

Friday, February 16, 2024

Pavel Kots

Evonik Corporation

Advancing Towards a Circular Economy through Catalytic Upcycling of Plastic Waste  

Friday, February 23, 2024

Mahla Poudineh

University of Waterloo

Advanced Sensing Technologies for Healthcare Automation 

Friday, March 1, 2024

Robert Langer

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Biomaterials and biotechnology: From the discovery of the first angiogenesis inhibitors to the development of controlled drug delivery systems and the foundation of tissue engineering

*Morawetz Lecture*

Friday, March 8, 2024

Warren D. Seider

University of Pennsylvania

Thermoeconomic Analysis of sCO2 Power Cycles 

Friday, March 15, 2024

Jae W. Lee

Korean Advanced Institute of Sci and Tech (KAIST)

Mesoporous Carbon Host and Nanofiber Interlayer Derived from CO2 for Inhibiting Shuttle Behaviors in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries 

Monday, March 25, 2024

Elizabeth J. Biddinger

City College of New York

Integrating Kinetics of Electrochemical Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis of Furfural with its Side Reactions 

Friday, April 5, 2024

Allie Obermeyer

Columbia University

Engineering Cellular Compartmentalization in Bacteria 

Friday, April 12, 2024

Dong Meng

NYU Dentistry

Polymer Behavior in Mixed-Solvent Solutions

Friday, April 19, 2024

Claudia Avalos

New York University

Lighting Up Magnetic Resonance

Friday, April 26, 2024

Prem Premsrirut

Mirimus Inc.

The Silent Echo: The aftermath of infections 

Friday, May 3, 2024

Timothy Whitehead

University of Colorado, Boulder

Controlling Life with Small Molecules 

Friday, May 10, 2024

Erika La Plante

The University of Texas at Arlington

Mineral-Water Interactions and their Applications to Climate and Sustainability

Friday, September 15, 2023

Harry Deckman

University of California, Berkeley

Agro Sequestration: A scalable, economical, and verifiable method for stable sequestration of agricultural fixed carbon

Friday, September 22, 2023

Katsuo Kurabayashi

New York University

Integrated Nanoplasmonic Biosensors for Critical Care Medicine

Friday, October 6, 2023

Arthi Jayaraman

University of Delaware, Newark DE

Linking computational techniques to experiments for design-structure-property relationships in soft materials

Friday, October 13, 2023

Wilson A. Smith

University of Colorado - Boulder

Engineering the Electrochemically Driven Capture and Conversion of Atmospheric CO₂

Friday, October 20, 2023

Lola Eniola-Adefeso

University of Michigan

Leveraging the Natural Cellular and Biomolecular Interactions in Blood for the Design of Targeted, Anti-Inflammatory Particle Therapeutics

Friday, October 27, 2023

Bradley Bundy

Brigham Young University

Distributed and On-demand Production of Magistral Biotherapeutics and At-home Biosensors from Shelf-stable Cost-effective Reagents Open configuration options

Friday, November 3, 2023

Dharik S. Mallapragada

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Energy Initiative

A Systems Perspective on the Market and Technological Factors Impacting the Role for H2 in Future Low-Carbon Energy Systems

Friday, November 17, 2023

Jean Tom

Chemistry Process Development at Bristol Myers Squibb

Innovations in the Development of Small Molecule Pharmaceuticals

Friday, December 1, 2023

Saad Bhamla

Georgia Institute of Technology

Curiosity-driven Science: How insects urinate and how BBQ lighters help mRNA/DNA vaccine delivery

Friday, December 15, 2023

Dharik S. Mallapragada
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Advancing systems modeling to support the transition to a deeply decarbonized energy system

Thursday, January 12, 2023

Micah Ziegler
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Quantitative insights to accelerate the improvement of sustainable energy and chemical technologies

Thursday, January 19, 2023

Samantha McBride
Princeton University

Designing interfacial phenomena for water, energy, and sustainability

Thursday, January 26, 2023

Jason Bates
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Teaching Old Electrocatalysts New Tricks: Merging Concepts from Thermal Catalysis and Molecular Synthesis

Thursday, February 2, 2023

Max Huelsey
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Controlling the local reaction environment to drive catalysis Open configuration options

Thursday, February 9, 2023

SriBala Gorugantu
Northwestern University

Unraveling reaction mechanisms of complex systems for sustainable process development

Friday, February 17, 2023

Elizabeth Hénaff
NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Holobiont Urbanism: Microbial Metrics for the Multispecies City

Friday, March 24, 2023

Rajesh Khanna
New York University, College of Dentistry

Allosteric modulation of voltage-gated sodium channels: Opportunities for neuropathic pain drug discoveries.

Friday, March 31, 2023

John F. Brady
California Institute of Technology

The Mechanics of Active Matter

Friday, April 14, 2023

Kathryn A. Whitehead
Carnegie Mellon University

Lipid nanoparticles for RNA delivery: COVID-19 vaccines, chemistry, and beyond

*Morawetz Lecture*

Friday, April 21, 2023

Javad Shabani
NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Towards realization of protected qubits using topological superconductivity

Friday, April 28, 2023

May Khanna
NYU College of Dentistry

Chemical biology, structure-based approach to targeting protein-protein and protein-RNA interactions for AD/ADRD therapeutics

Friday, May 5, 2023

Elodie Passeport
University of Toronto

Fate of trace organic contaminants in green infrastructure

Thursday, May 11, 2023

Gaurav Giri

University of Virginia

Understanding and Controlling Metal Organic Framework Formation as Crystals

September 2, 2022

Shelly Peyton

University of Massachusetts

Mechanoresponsive and tissue-inspired soft networks and gels

September 9, 2022

Chris Johnson

Argonne National Laboratory

Using Light Energy to Accelerate Electrochemical Reactions in Li-ion Batteries

September 16, 2022

Juan-Pablo and Correa-Baena

Georgia Institute of Technology

Tailored interfaces in metal halide perovskites for efficient carrier transfer

September 23, 2022

Gerardine Botte

Texas Tech University

Electrochemical Technologies toward Sustainability and Circular Economy

September 29, 2022

Emily Day

University of Delaware

Bio-Nanoconjugates for Disease Management

September 30, 2022

Christina Li

Purdue University

Tuning Active Sites in Catalytic Nanomaterials through Colloidal Synthesis

October 7, 2022

Jayakanth Ravichandran

University of Southern California

Quasi-1D Hexagonal Chalcogenides: A Novel Materials Platform for Next Generation Infrared Opto-electronics

October 14, 2022

Yury Gogotsi

Drexel University

The Fascinating World of Two-Dimensional Carbides and Nitrides (MXenes)

October 21, 2022

Sanjaya Senanayake

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Enabling New Chemical Pathways over Metal-Oxide Interfacial Sites

October 28, 2022

1MTC 1930

Casey O’Brien

Purdue University

Catalytic Membranes for Integrated CO2 Capture and Conversion: Towards Artificial Carbohydrate Synthesis

November 4, 2022

Ayse Asatekin

Tufts University

Next generation membranes through polymer self-assembly

November 11, 2022

Aditya Mohite

Rice University

Halide perovskites for durable and high-efficiency photovoltaics and solar fuels

November 18, 2022

Day After Thanksgiving Day

November 25, 2022

Carmela Aruta

CNR-SPIN

Tuning functional properties by strain and doping in oxide thin films for energy applications

December 2, 2022

Elizabeth Nance

University of Washington 

Nanotherapeutics for neonatal and pediatric brain disease

December 9, 2022

Yasemin Basdogan

California Institute of Technology

Machine Learning Guided Discovery of Polymer Membranes for CO₂ Separation

December 15, 2022

Shelley Peyton

University of Massachusetts

Postponed to September 9, 2022*

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic

Columbia University

Engineering human tissues for medical impact

February 18, 2022

Julie Rorrer

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Catalytic Deconstruction and Upcycling of Waste Plastics

March 25, 2022

Yury Gogotsi

Drexel University

The Fascinating World of Two-Dimensional Carbides and Nitrides (MXenes)

April 1, 2022

Cesar A. Urbina Blanco

Ghent University

Understanding and tuning the reactivity of Solid Micellar Catalysts for CO2 utilization

April 8, 2022

Marcella Lusadri

BASF (zealots synthesis team)

Towards a "greener" route for acetic acid production via the carbonylation of dimethyl ether over small-power molecular sieves

April 15, 2022

Vijay Murugesan

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Beyond Lithium Batteries: Robust Material Designs and Testing

April 22, 2022

Chris Johnson

Argonne National Library

Using LIght Energy to Accelerate Electrochemical Reactions ini Li-ion Batteries

April 29, 2022 CANCELLED

Chinedum Osuji

University of Pennsylvania

Creating Useful Nanostructured Soft Materials by Directed Self-Assembly

May 6, 2022

Daniel A. Heller

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center / Weill Cornell Medicine

"Nanomedicines for the Research, Detection, and Treatment of Cancer and Allied Diseases"

September 3, 2021

Michael A Filler

Georgia Tech

"The Chemical Engineering-ification of Electronics"

September 10, 2021

Pulickel Ajayan

Rice University

"Materials Science in Two Dimensions"

September 17, 2021

Delia Milliron

University of Texas Austin

"Plasmonic nanocrystals and their gel assemblies"

September 24, 2021

Thomas Epps

University of Delaware

"From Waste to Polymers: Creating Sustainable Materials from Biomass"

October 1, 2021

Kevin Roger

National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse

"How complex fluids dry? The interplay of water activity and permeability when solutions, dispersions, biological fluids and membranes meet open air"

October 8, 2021

Edward M. Bahnson

University of North Carolina

"Redox modulation and nanotherapies for the treatment of Bahnson Carolina cardiovascular disease"

October 15, 2021

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic

Columbia University

"Engineering human tissues for medical impact"

*Postponed to February 18, 2022

Guido Mul

University of Twente

"Studying surface phenomena in electrochemical processes by IR and Raman spectroscopy"

November 5, 2021

Frances Arnold

California Institute of Technology

"Morawetz Lecture"

November 12, 2021

LaShanda Korley

University of Delaware

"Manipulating Architecture and Mechanics via Bio-inspired Design"

November 19, 2021

Marissa Caldwell

Medtronic

"Battery Technology for Medical Devices"

December 3, 2021

Ngoc Bui

University of Oklahoma

"Materials and Methods for Selective Ion Capture from Water"

December 10, 2021

Joseph M. DeSimone

Stanford University

"Digital Approaches for Precision Drug and Vaccine Delivery and Treatments"

February 19, 2021

Chris Boyce

Columbia University

"Characterizing and Structuring Multiphase Granular Flows"

February 26, 2021

Mark Hersam

Northwestern University

"Fundamentals and Applications of Mixed-Dimensional Heterostructures"

March 5, 2021

Ashutosh Chilkoti

Duke University

"Translating Molecular Bioengineering from the Lab to the Patient"

March 12, 2021

Raffaella Buonsanti

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)

"Colloidal chemistry for tunable and controlled electrocatalyst"

March 26, 2021

Mark Kushner

University of Michigan

"Leveraging Low Temperature Plasmas for Materials, Energy and Environment"

April 2, 2021

Shelley Minteer

University of Utah

"Electrocatalysis for Organic Electrosynthesis"

April 9, 2021

Jesús M. Velázquez

UC Davis

"Establishing Compositional Control in 2D and 3D Metal Sulfide Electrocatalysts to Drive CO2 and CO Conversion to Alcohols"

April 16, 2021

Carolyn Koh

Colorado School of Mines

"Gas Hydrates and their Role in Future Energy Needs & Mitigating Environmental Impacts"

April 30, 2021

Selma Mededovic

Clarkson University

"Plasma-based water treatment of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS): reactor design challenges and physicochemical processes at the plasma-liquid interface"

May 7, 2021

Nitash Balsara

UC Berkeley

“Negative Diffusion Coefficients, the Pesko Condition, and Performance of Polymer Electrolytes for Lithium Batteries."

September 4, 2020

Peter Green

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

“Enabling the Transition to a Future Low Carbon Energy System: Important Scientific and Technological Challenges.”

September 11, 2020

Paulette Clancy

John Hopkins University

“From Messy Solution Processes to Better Solar Cells: A Bayesian Optimization-guided Study."

September 25, 2020

Bill Epling

University of Virginia

"Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) of NOx – How to Avoid Sulfur Poisoning.”

October 2, 2020

Eric Furst

University of Delaware

“Interactions, Microstructure, Elasticity, and Aging of Colloidal Gels.”



October 9, 2020

Randy Snurr

Northwestern University

“Metal-Organic Frameworks as Tunable Platforms for Gas Storage, Chemical Separations, and Catalysis.”

October 16, 2020

Carlos Rinaldi

University of Florida

“Diffusion of Nanoparticles in Polymer Solutions and Biological Fluids."

October 23, 2020

Nigel Bunnett

NYU Dental

"The Inside-Out Signaling of Pain."

October 30, 2020

Mahesh Mahantappa

University of Minnesota

"Molecular Frustration, Symmetry Breaking, and an Escape to Infinity."

November 6, 2020

Stephanie S. Lee

Stevens Institute of Technology

"Nanoconfining Optoelectronic Crystals"

December 11, 2020