Faculty & Staff

Lauren S. Anderson

Assistant Professor

B.S. Chemical Engineering, Lafayette College
Ph. D. Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia

Teaching areas:  transport phenomena, experimental design, molecular bioengineering, nature of materials

Research interests: molecular bioengineering, polymer fabrication and drug delivery, tissue engineering

Contact andersol@lafayette.edu

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Patricia A. Darcy

Assistant Professor

B.S. Chemical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Iowa

Teaching areas: thermodynamics, fluid phase equilibrium, biotechnology, experimental design

Research interests: protein crystallization, bioseparations, complex fluids

Contact darcyp@lafayette.edu

James K. Ferri

Associate Professor and Head

Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Seminar Series in the Life Sciences

B.S., Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University

Teaching areas: mass transfer and separations, applied math and numerical methods, interfacial phenomena

Research interests: mechanics and transport in soft nanomaterials, stability of foams and emulsions, polymer physical chemistry, bottom-up manufacturing

Recipient of Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, Jones Faculty Lecture Award, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdientst Fellowship.  Visiting scientist Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces, Germany

Contact ferrij@lafayette.edu

Research laboratory Physicochemical Mechanics in Soft Surface Materials

Joshua A. Levinson

Assistant Professor

B.S. Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
M.S., Chemical Engineering Practice, MIT
M.S., Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Stanford University

Teaching areas: analysis of chemical processes, process design, integrated chemical engineering

Research interests: semiconductor processing technology, microfluidics, chemical kinetics, transport phenomena

Contact levinsoj@lafayette.edu

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J. Ronald Martin

Professor

B.S. Chemical Engineering, Lafayette College
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Princeton University
P.E., Pennsylvania

Teaching areas: first year engineering, material and energy balances, thermodynamics, materials science, polymers

Research interests: structure-property relationships in polymeric materials, polymer processing, flammability of macromolecules

Recipient of the Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award, Marquis Distinguished Teaching Award

Contact martinj@lafayette.edu

pierPolly R. Piergiovanni

Associate Professor

B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Kansas
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Houston

Teaching areas: first year engineering, material and energy balances, process control, biochemical engineering

Research interests: biochemical processes, system dynamics and control

Contact piergiop@lafayette.edu

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James P. Schaffer

Professor and Director of Institutional Research

B.S., M.S., Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Duke University

Teaching areas: first year engineering, engineering ethics, materials science

Research interests: physical and electronic structure of materials, spectroscopy

Recipient of Jones Faculty Lecture Award, Student Government Superior Teaching Award, Marquis Distinguished Teaching Award, and Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award

Contact schaffej@lafayette.edu

Javad Tavakoli

Professor

Ph.D., New Jersey Institute of Technology
P.E., Pennsylvania

Teaching areas: kinetics and reactor design, chemical engineering laboratories, environmental engineering, alternative energy sources

Research interests: renewable energy sources, catalysis, industrial wastewater treatment, hazardous waste treatment

Contact tavakoli@lafayette.edu

Staff

DEFAZIOTThomas DeFazio

Coordinator of Chemical and Environmental Labs
AEC 210
(610) 330-5422
defaziot@lafayette.edu

ASHMORESSerena Ashmore

Secretary
AEC 230
(610) 330-5435
ashmores@lafayette.edu