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Pablo Debenedetti portrait

Pablo Debenedetti

Dean for Research

Class of 1950 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science

Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

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Office: 107 91 Prospect Ave./Office of the Dean for Research

Phone: 609-258-5480

Research Interests: Protein thermodynamics; ice nucleation in the atmosphere; liquid-state theory; theory of the glass transition; theory of nucleation; molecular theory of water and aqueous systems.

Research Areas

Applied Math

Applied Physics

Bioengineering and Health

Data Science

Computing and Network Systems

Materials Science and Engineering

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