Leadership
- Hua Zhao
Department head - Bo Hu
Director of the Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering undergraduate program - Omar Espinoza and Tim Smith
Co-Directors of the Sustainable Systems Management undergraduate program - Roger Ruan
Director of the Bioproducts and Biosystems Science, Engineering and Management graduate program
Faculty
| Name | Areas of Interest | |
|---|---|---|
| Abdennour Abbas Associate Professor |
Bionanotechnology, Nanotechnology, Rapid Diagnostics, Food Safety |
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| Min M Addy Research Associate Professor |
Food Safety, Food Processing, and Renewable Energy |
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| Brett Barney Professor |
Biofuels and high value chemicals from bacteria and algae, Biofertilizers for aquaculture and nitrogen based agriculture |
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| Mrinal Bhattacharya Professor |
Biodegradable polymers, tissue engineering, nanobiosensors |
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| John Chapman Research Associate Professor, Director of Erosion and Stormwater Management Certification Program |
Erosion prediction, and storm water quality. Surface water quality impacts from soils and the built environment and the interaction of fluids and particulate matter. |
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| Paul Chen Research Professor |
Food and bioprocessing engineering, healthy and functional foods, liquid and solid waste management and utilization, and renewable energy and bioproducts |
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| Rui Cheng Assistant Professor |
Remote Sensing, Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence, Hyperspectral Imaging, Land-Climate Feedbacks, Surface Process Modeling |
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| Erin Cortus Associate Professor, Extension Engineer |
Sustainable Livestock Production |
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| Omar Espinoza Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Professor |
Marketing and Management of Biobased Products, Circular Economy, Process Improvement, Supply Chain Management, Performance Measurement, Product Development, Environmental certification |
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| Rebecca Forman Teaching Assistant Professor |
Erosion prevention and stormwater quality |
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| Jason Hill Professor |
Air quality; Bioenergy; Climate change; Energy; Food; Life cycle assessment; Sustainability |
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| Bo Hu Professor |
Bioprocess development, Environmental remediation |
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| Peter Huajiang Huang Research Associate Professor |
Process Modeling & Analysis, Product Separation/Purification, Biorefineries |
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| Natalie Hunt Teaching Assistant Professor |
Food Systems, Systems Thinking, Alternative Cropping Systems, Life Cycle Analysis, Sustainability Literacy, Quantitative Literacy, Cropping System Diversification |
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| Forrest Izuno Professor |
Value-added crops/cropping systems, social and economic improvements for rural areas. Agricultural Production System Resilience, BMPs for Agricultural Water Quality, and Application for Plasma in the Liquid Phase. |
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| Zhenong Jin Assistant Professor |
Mapping agriculture features using high-resolution satellite imagery, forecasting crop yields, integrating crop models with remote sensing for precision nitrogen management, impacts of climate change on agroecosystem, digital and precision agriculture. |
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| Christian Lenhart Research Associate Professor |
I work on ecological restoration and management practices in relation to hydrologic and water quality benefits. |
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| Joe Magner Research Professor |
Environmental and Ecological Engineering. Exploring the ecological connect between increased precipitation and groundwater. |
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| Beth Nelson Research Associate Professor, Director, North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program |
Local and sustainable food system, sustainable ag systems and practices |
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| John Nieber Professor |
Hydrologic processes simulation and modeling, impact of land use activities on water quality |
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| Shri Ramaswamy Professor |
Biomass Conversion and Utilization, Renewable Energy, Bioprocessing |
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| Roger Ruan Professor and Director |
Renewable Engineering and Environment, and Food Engineering |
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| Gary R Sands Professor |
Water management and quality for agricultural systems |
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| Steve Severtson Professor |
Coatings and adhesives, polymer films |
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| Vasudha Sharma Assistant Extension Professor |
Irrigation water management |
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| Timothy Smith Professor |
Corporate sustainability, product stewardship, sustainable systems policy and market adoption |
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| Ulrike Tschirner Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies |
Biomass conversion, Bioplastics, Renewable Energy, Pulping, Bleaching |
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| William Tai Yin Tze Associate Professor |
Nanocellulose/nanocomposites, materials and adhesives from biomass solid wastes |
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| Bruce Wilson Professor |
Water Resources and Ecological Engineering |
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| Grace Wilson Research Assistant Professor |
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| Ce Yang Associate Professor |
Precision Agriculture, High-throughput Phenotyping, Remote Sensing, Drone Hyperspectral Imaging, Machine Learning. |
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| Jiwei Zhang Assistant Professor |
System biology; Genome editing and large-scale phenotyping; Genetic engineering; Plant biomass conversion; Wood decay fungi; Bioremediation. |
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| Hua Zhao Head and Professor |
Biocatalysis, biomass utilization, biofuel, biopolymer, coal liquefaction, ionic liquids
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Adjunct & Teaching Faculty
| Name | Areas of Interest | |
|---|---|---|
| Charles Abbas Adjunct Professor |
Bioprocess engineering |
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| Yanling Cheng Adjunct Professor |
Renewable energy and wastewater treatment, food wastes digestion and compost for fertilizers, and food safety |
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| Holly Dolliver Adjunct Professor |
Soil health, soil physics, soil pedology, geomorphology |
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| Qinghuang Charles Geng Adjunct Professor |
Food processing, biotechnology, renewable energy, bio-engineering |
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| Sara Heger Adjunct Assistant Professor, Research Associate |
Waste Treatment |
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| Roman Kanivetsky Adjunct Professor |
Water resources, groundwater |
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| Jeppe Kjaersgaard Adjunct Professor |
Agricultural water management |
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| Dharma Kodali Adjunct Professor |
Byproduct utilization of renewable raw materials for food and industrial applications, bioplasticizers |
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| Brock Lundberg Adjunct Assistant Professor |
Food Processing, Agricultural based products |
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| Cindy McComas Adjunct Associate Professor |
Sustainable business practices, pollution prevention, energy efficiency, water conservation, renewable energy, and industrial energy efficiency |
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| HS Muralidhara Adjunct Professor |
Biologics, membrane applications |
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| Heidi Peterson Adjunct Professor |
Nutrient Management, Agricultural Soil and Water Conservation (Soil Health/Water Quality) |
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| Joel Peterson Adjunct Assistant Professor |
Agricultural Engineering Technology |
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| Srinivas Rallapalli Adjunct Assistant Professor |
Environmental and ecological engineering |
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| Koray Sekeroglu Adjunct Assistant Professor |
Fluid handling components, material testing, plastic failure analysis |
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| Udai Singh Adjunct Assistant Professor |
Stormwater management |
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| Ping Wang Adjunct Professor |
Biochemical engineering |
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| Jerrold Winandy Adjunct Professor |
Wood and biocomposite science and their engineering properties |
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