Chemical and Biological Engineering

Professor and student work together in lab setting.

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.

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Program Information

News

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Events

  • October 03

    3:00 pm

    SMatCH – Building Cytoskeletal Circuits via Branched Microtubule Networks

  • October 03

    3:00 pm

    SMatCH – Hyperuniformity of Maximally Random Jammed Packings of Hyperspheres Across Spatial Dimensions

  • October 11

    4:00 pm

    Multiscale Control of Dynamic Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications

  • October 12

    3:00 pm

    Bacterial Chemotaxis

  • October 31

    3:00 pm

    O-JAWS (Oscillating Jet Assisted Wet Spinning): A Structured Microfiber Production Methodology

  • October 31

    3:00 pm

    Morphodynamics of Growing Multispecies Microbial Colonies

Related Research

  • Bioengineering and Health

  • Energy and Environment

Princeton Engineers

  • J Clay Hamill, Jr.

    J. Clay Hamill, Jr.

    “I'm a Princeton engineer because I want to leave a positive impact on the world. With education from Princeton, I'm best positioned to do so in my graduate studies and professional career, as well as in my personal life.”

  • Aleena Patel

    Aleena Patel

    “I’m a Princeton engineer because I get to study the embryo, the most beautifully built system.”

Faculty

  • José Avalos

  • Clifford Brangwynne

  • Pierre-Thomas Brun

  • Mark Brynildsen

  • Jonathan Conway

  • Sujit Datta

  • Emily Davidson

  • Pablo Debenedetti

  • David Graves

  • Jerelle Joseph

  • Bruce E. Koel

  • A. James Link

  • Lynn Loo

  • Marcella Lusardi

  • Christos Maravelias

  • Celeste Nelson

  • Athanassios Panagiotopoulos

  • Rodney Priestley

  • Richard A. Register

  • Michele L. Sarazen

  • Sankaran Sundaresan

  • Michael A. Webb