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

Junior Faculty Awards 2026 graphic.

Assistant professors honored for excellence with junior faculty awards

Engineering Quadrangle

Eight promising projects receive Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund awards

Three Engineering faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Annual teaching awards recognize passion, dedication and lasting impact

An origami crane folds and unfolds

This soft robot has no problem moving with no motor and no gears

Six images of tumor samples show branching growth in the final image.

New evidence that fat promotes tumor growth in aggressive breast cancer

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