Faculty: The Fischell Department of Bioengineering
For a list of Clark School- and University-wide faculty participating in the Graduate Program in Bioengineering, please see the graduate program faculty page.
Our faculty can be mailed c/o the department at the following address:
Fischell Department of Bioengineering
Room 2330 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building (Bldg. #225)
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
William E. Bentley, Chair
Robert E. Fischell Distinguished Professor
Joint appointments with UMBI and MTECH
Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, 1989
Room 2330 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: bentley@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-4321
Fax: (301) 405-99953
Research Interests: Biomolecular and metabolic engineering; cell-cell communication; heterologous protein expression; device/bio interfaces. Homepage » | Web Site »
Aranda-Espinoza, Helim
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Universidad de San Luis Potosi, Mexico, 1998
Room 3138 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: helim@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-8250
Research Interests: Chemical and biological engineering, soft condensed matter, biomechanics and biopolymers. Web Site »
Balaras, Elias
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, 1995
Room 2246 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: balaras@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-8268
Research Interests: Multiscale/multiphysics modeling in physical and biological systems, applications of blood flow modeling in disease research, medical device design and surgical planning, insect flight biomechanics, fluid-structure interactions. Web Site »
Chen, Yu "Tim"
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2003
Room 2330A Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: yuchen@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-3439
Fax: (301) 314-9953
Research Interests: Biomedical optical imaging, optical coherence tomography (OCT), optical coherence microscopy (OCM), diffuse optical spectroscopy and imaging, molecular imaging, early cancer diagnosis, neuroimaging. Homepage »
Fisher, John
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Rice University, 2003
Room 3238 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: jpfisher@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-7475
Research Interests: Biomedical engineering; synthesis of novel hydrolytically degradable, implantable polymers; study and use of biomaterials for the delivery of therapeutics, scaffolds for orthopaedic tissue engineering applications; interaction of biomaterials and tissues. Web Site »
Herold, Keith
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1985
Room 1145 Engineering Lab Building
E-mail: herold@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-5268
Fax: (301) 314-9477
Research Interests: BioMEMS, microfluidic systems for bioanalytical assays, heat and mass transfer in bioengineering. Homepage »
Hsieh, Adam
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2000
Room 3242 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: hsieh@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-7397
Fax: (301) 314-9477
Research Interests: Orthopaedic biomechanics; soft tissue mechanobiology; mechanisms of intervertebral disc degeneration; mechanobiologic strategies for developing spatially-complex tissue engineered constructs. Homepage »
Johnson, Arthur T.
Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1969
Room 1429 Animal Science/
Agricultural Engineering Building
E-mail: artjohns@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1184
Fax: (301) 314-9023
Research Interests: Bioengineering, instrumentation, transport processes, modeling, exercise physiology and respiratory stress. Web Site »
Kofinas, Peter
Professor and Associate Chair
Keystone Professor
Director, Graduate Program in Bioengineering
Ph.D., M.I.T., 1994
Room 1120 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: kofinas@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-7335
Fax: (301) 405-0523
Research Interests: Biomimetic recognition of viruses using molecularly imprinted polymers, protein and virus recognition using block copolymer patterns, self-assembled nanoarchitectures for flexible, high energy density supercapacitors and batteries, and functional nano-structured polymers. Homepage » | Web Site »
Montas, Hubert
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1996
Room 1453 Animal Science/
Agricultural Engineering Building
E-mail: montas@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1196
Research Interests: Bioenvironmental and water resources engineering; numerical methods in environmental biodynamics, transport modeling, information and decision support systems. Homepage »
Muro, Silvia
Assistant Professor
Joint appointment with the Center for Biosystems Research, part of the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI)
Ph.D., Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain, 1999
Room 5115 Plant Sciences Building
E-mail: muro@umbi.umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-4777
Fax: (301) 314-9075
Research Interests: Mechanisms of endocytic vesicular transport: their role in physiology and disease, and their translational application for the controlled delivery of nano-scale therapeutics to precise targets at the sub-cellular level. Homepage »
Seog, Joonil
Assistant Professor
Joint appointment with the Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003
Room 1140 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: jseog@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1885
Fax: (301) 314-2029
Research Interests: Structure-function relationships of biological molecules using single molecule force spectroscopy; nanomechanics of biopolymers and synthetic macromolecules. Homepage »
Shah, Sameer
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2002
Room 3236 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: sameer@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-9958
Research Interests: Neuromuscular plasticity, degeneration, and disease; cell biomechanics; cargo transport by molecular motors; vesicular motility. Web Site »
Shirmohammadi, Adel
Professor and Associate Chair
Director, Undergraduate Program
Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 1982
Room 1419 Animal Science/Agricultural Engineering Building
E-Mail: ashirmo@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1185
Research Interests: Bioenvironmental and water resources engineering; water quality/transport modeling, nonpoint source pollution assessment using an integrated watershed approach. Homepage »
Tao, Yang
Professor
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1991. P.E.
Room 1427 Animal Science/Agricultural Engineering Building
E-mail: ytao@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1189
Research Interests: Bioengineering, bioimaging, machine vision, food-processing engineering safety, food safety and quality, biomaterial inspection, sensors and bioinstrumentation, robotics, and automation. Web Site »
White, Ian
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2002
Room 1226 Kim Engineering Building
E-mail: ianwhite@umd.edu
Dr. White will be joining us Sept. 1.
Research Interests: Disease detection, optical biosensors, ring resonators, SERS, lab-on-a-chip.
Yu, Yihua Bruce
Associate Professor
Joint appointment with the School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland Baltimore
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1996.
E-mail: byu@rx.umaryland.edu
Fischell Department of Bioengineering (College Park) contact informtion:
Room 1130 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
Phone: (301) 405-2829
School of Pharmacy (Baltimore) contact information:
Room 635 Health Sciences Facility II
Phone: (410) 706-7514
Fax: (410) 706-5017
Research Interests: Mechanosensors to aid the repair and rehabilitation of injured musculoskeletal tissues, delivery of radiopharmaceuticals, force-sensitive nanofiber networks (FSNN), coatings. Homepage »
Barbe, David
Professor and Executive Director
Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute
Room 2115 Potomac Building
Phone: (301) 405-3906
E-mail: dbarbe@umd.edu
DeVoe, Don
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1997
Room 3125, Building 088, Glenn L. Martin Hall
E-mail: ddev@eng.umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-8125
Research Interests: Microfluidic systems for bioanalysis, MEMS. Home Page »
Fenselau, Catherine
Professor
Department of
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Ph.D. Stanford University
Room 0107 Chemistry Building
E-mail: fenselau@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-8616
Research Interests: Biomolecular studies using mass spectrometry,
interactions of drugs and proteins, rapid characterization of microorganisms by mass spectrometry, new methods for proteomics,
mechanisms of acquired drug resistance. Homepage »
Raghavan, Srinivasa R.
Associate Professor
Dept. of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 1998
Room 1227C Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: sraghava@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-8164
Research Interests: Self-assembled systems, containers for drug delivery, "smart" fluids, polymer and colloidal gels, polymer-CNT nanocomposites, scattering techniques/rheology. Web Site »
Rahmoeller, Glenn
Senior Lecturer
UGST-Honors Program and
Fischell Department of Bioengineering
E-mail: rahmoell@umd.edu
Web Site »
