Professor and student work together in lab setting.

Chemical and Biological Engineering

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

Northern entrance of Princeton's Sarofim Pavilion.

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

Aerial view of Princeton's campus.

Four projects selected for 2025 Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund awards

Card with words: Graduate Student Award for Excellence.

Award for Excellence honors graduate student achievement

Prud’homme wins John Scott Award for improving critical disease-fighting drugs

Graphic with text "Commendation for Outstanding Teaching".

Faculty commended for outstanding teaching

Charles Schroeder, whose research has broadened the study of single molecules, joins Princeton faculty

Events

February 16

12:00 pm

Electrolyte Design for Next-Generation Batteries and Electrolyzers

February 18

4:00 pm

Engineering Preclinical Tumor Models and Novel Biosensors to Study Cancer Drug Resistance and Metastatic Spread

February 24

4:00 pm

Sustainable Plastics Design and Characterization in the Era of Machine Learning

February 25

4:00 pm

Liquid Crystals — From Simple Self-Assembled Constructs to Functional and Autonomous Materials

March 18

4:00 pm

Catalysis at Dynamic Active Sites in Complex Environments

March 25

4:00 pm

Engineering Microbial Systems for Transformation, Protection, and Function Across Extreme Environments

Faculty

José Avalos

Clifford Brangwynne

Mark Brynildsen

Jonathan Conway

Emily Davidson

Pablo Debenedetti

Portrait of Dimitrios Fraggedakis

Dimitrios Fraggedakis

David Graves

Jerelle Joseph

A. James Link

Lynn Loo

Marcella Lusardi

Christos Maravelias

Celeste Nelson

Portrait of Athanassios Panagiotopoulos

Athanassios Panagiotopoulos

Rodney Priestley

Portrait of Richard A. Register

Richard A. Register

Portrait of Andrew Rosen

Andrew S. Rosen

Michele L. Sarazen

Charles Schroeder portrait

Charles Schroeder III

Sankaran Sundaresan

Michael A. Webb