Chemical and biological engineering addresses a range of problems in human health, energy, materials science, and industrial processes. Areas of excellence at Princeton include: applied and computational mathematics, bioengineering, environmental and energy science and technology, materials synthesis and processing, process engineering and science, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, and transport phenomena.
News
The proteins that could turn corn stalks into fuel

Major Venture Forward gift names Sarofim Pavilion in Princeton’s new engineering buildings

Four projects selected for 2025 Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund awards
Award for Excellence honors graduate student achievement
Prud’homme wins John Scott Award for improving critical disease-fighting drugs
Faculty commended for outstanding teaching
Events
Kinetic Implications of Site Dynamics and Entropy in Nanoporous Catalysts from First-principles Kinetic Simulations
Catalysis at Dynamic Active Sites in Complex Environments
Engineering Microbial Systems for Transformation, Protection, and Function Across Extreme Environments
Machine Learning Based Analyses and Interpretation of Structural Characterization Data from Soft Materials
Liquid Crystalline Elastomers: Soft Materials with Muscle-like Responses
Faculty
José Avalos
Clifford Brangwynne
Mark Brynildsen
Jonathan Conway
Emily Davidson
Pablo Debenedetti
Dimitrios Fraggedakis
David Graves
Jerelle Joseph
A. James Link
Lynn Loo
Marcella Lusardi
Christos Maravelias
Celeste Nelson
Athanassios Panagiotopoulos
Rodney Priestley
Richard A. Register
Andrew S. Rosen
Michele L. Sarazen
Charles Schroeder III
Sankaran Sundaresan
