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

New Ph.D. program leverages Princeton’s broad strength in materials science and engineering

Lynn Loo and Philip Holmes.

Two professors, four alumni elected to National Academy of Engineering

Register named inaugural Distinguished Faculty Service Award recipient

Two researchers in lab coats examining seedlings growing in a petri dish.

These bacteria perform a trick that could keep plants healthy

Several people seated at a table, with focus on man in foreground.

Where complexity reigns, Maravelias reins it in 

Two micrographs, one with little spheres covered in speckles, the other with similar spheres looking cleaner.

Princeton startup recycles rare minerals from lithium batteries

Events

April 02

4:00 pm

Organization and Dynamics of Neuronal Systems at Cellular and Molecular Scales

April 16

4:00 pm

Predicting Structure and Charge Transport in Semiconducting Polymers

April 23

4:00 pm

Mutexa: A Physics-based Ecosystem for Intelligent Protein Engineering

April 30

4:00 pm

Machine Learning Based Analyses and Interpretation of Structural Characterization Data from Soft Materials

May 07

4:00 pm

The Catalytic Science of Making Up and Breaking Up Dinitrogen

Faculty

José Avalos

Clifford Brangwynne

Pierre-Thomas Brun

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

Sankaran Sundaresan

Michael A. Webb