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
![Two researchers in lab coats examining seedlings growing in a petri dish.](https://engineering.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ConwayLab_100223_0010_16X9-scaled.jpg)
These bacteria perform a trick that could keep plants healthy
![Several people seated at a table, with focus on man in foreground.](https://engineering.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/ChristosMaravelias_101524_0001_1600x900.jpg)
Where complexity reigns, Maravelias reins it in
![Two micrographs, one with little spheres covered in speckles, the other with similar spheres looking cleaner.](https://engineering.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Koel-NuEnergy_Old-new-copy.jpg)
Princeton startup recycles rare minerals from lithium batteries
![Image of plant floating in water and fish swimming nearby.](https://engineering.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/GOPR1104_1600-900.jpg)
From troublesome seaweed to sustainable feedstock
![A 3D printer creates a small translucent plastic cylinder. Two blurred faces in the background observe](https://engineering.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/16X9-for-web-Davidson-Fergerson_111524_0003-scaled.jpg)
Stretchable, flexible, recyclable. This plastic is fantastic
![Two small rectangular robots connected by a flexible tether; three researchers watch in background.](https://engineering.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PTBrunLab_101724_0030-1920x1200-1.jpg)
For these little robots, two heads are better than one
Events
Single-atom Alloy Catalysts: Born in a Vacuum, Tested in Reactors, and Understood in Silico
Structure and Function of Responsive Electrolytes
Electrification and Decarbonization of Chemical Synthesis
Organization and Dynamics of Neuronal Systems at Cellular and Molecular Scales
Machine Learning Based Analyses and Interpretation of Structural Characterization Data from Soft Materials
Faculty
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José Avalos
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Clifford Brangwynne
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Pierre-Thomas Brun
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Mark Brynildsen
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Jonathan Conway
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Emily Davidson
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Pablo Debenedetti
![Portrait of Dimitrios Fraggedakis](https://engineering.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/dimitrios-fraggedakis.png)
Dimitrios Fraggedakis
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David Graves
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Jerelle Joseph
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A. James Link
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Lynn Loo
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Marcella Lusardi
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Christos Maravelias
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Celeste Nelson
![Portrait of Athanassios Panagiotopoulos](https://engineering.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Athanassios_Panagiotopoulos-1.png)
Athanassios Panagiotopoulos
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Rodney Priestley
![Portrait of Richard A. Register](https://engineering.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/richard_register-card.png)
Richard A. Register
![Portrait of Andrew Rosen](https://engineering.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Rosen-portrait.png)
Andrew S. Rosen
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Michele L. Sarazen
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Sankaran Sundaresan
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