PRINCETON UNIVERSITY - Key Persons


A. James Link

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering Director of Graduate Studies

Adji Bousso Dieng

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  • Assistant Professor of Computer Science
  • Professor

Alfred P. Sloan

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  • Research Fellowship, 2010

Ali Yazdani

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  • Director, PCCM

Amala Akkiraju

Education B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2022

Andreas Kounis-Melas

Education B.S./ M.S., National Technical University of Athens

Andrej Košmrlj

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Andrew S. Rosen

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  • Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos

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  • Adviser
  • Susan Dod Brown Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

B. Andrei Bernevig

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  • Professor of Physics

Barry Rand

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  • Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering & Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment

Bethany Xerri

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Faculty Assistant to Professors Conway, Datta, Davidson, Debenedetti, Panagiotopoulos, Priestley, Register and Sundaresan

Betty Perry Smith

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Biao Lian

Job Titles:
  • Physics

Bonnie L. Bassler

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  • Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology. Chair, Department of Molecular Biology.

Bruce E. Koel

Job Titles:
  • Adviser
  • Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Caleb Geissler

Education B.S., Chemical Engineering, Purdue University

Cameron A. Myhrvold

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology

Camille Dreyfus

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  • Teacher - Scholar Award, 2012

Celeste M. Nelson

Job Titles:
  • Wilke Family Professor in Bioengineering
  • Wilke Family Professor in Bioengineering / Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
  • Wilke Family Professor in Bioengineering Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering Director, Program in Engineering Biology

Christos Maravelias - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Adviser
  • Anderson Family Professor in Energy and the Environment / Chair, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
  • Anderson Family Professor in Energy and the Environment / Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
  • Professor
Role Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment Christos Maravelias Anderson Family Professor in Energy and the Environment Chair, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Claire White

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment

Clifford P. Brangwynne

Job Titles:
  • Director, Omenn - Darling Bioengineering Institute
  • Director, Princeton Bioengineering Initiative

Daniel Cohen

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

David B. Graves

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Dimitrios Fraggedakis

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Donald R. Dixon

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Professor and Chair
Donald R. Dixon '69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor and Chair, Department of Mechanical Aerospace Engineering

Dong-Ning (Donna) Sheng

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Physics, Cal State University, Northridge

Duncan Haldane

Job Titles:
  • Sherman Fairchild University Professor of Physics

Emily C. Davidson

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Eric Paul

Job Titles:
  • Manager of Information Technology

Eugene Higgins

Job Titles:
  • Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering / Chair, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
  • Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics
  • Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Frankenstein Day

Job Titles:
  • Facilities / Events

George Thodos Teaching

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Award ( ×2 ), Northwestern University, 2017 & 2018

Glaucio H. Paulino

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  • Margareta Engman Augustine Professor of Engineering / Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Princeton Materials Institute

Günther Turk

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  • PCCM Postdoctoral Research Fellow ( With Prof. Stone )

Ian C. Bourg

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  • Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the High Meadows Environmental Institute

Ilhan A. Aksay

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  • Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Emeritus

Jacqueline Armstrong

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  • Financial and Grants Assistant

James S. McDonnell

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  • Distinguished University Professor of Physics. Inaugural Co - Director, Princeton Quantum Initiative

James Wei

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  • Pomeroy and Betty Perry Smith Professor of Chemical Engineering, Emeritus / Dean Emeritus of the School of Engineering and Applied Science

Janine K. Nunes

Job Titles:
  • Director of Education Outreach

Jared E. Toettcher

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  • Associate Professor of Molecular Biology

Jay B. Benziger

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Emeritus

Jennifer Bornkamp

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  • Assistant to the PCCM Director and Website Coordinator

Jerelle A. Joseph

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Jiachen Yu

Job Titles:
  • PCCM Postdoctoral Research Fellow ( With Prof. Yazdani )

John Gillham

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Chemical Engineering, Emeritus

Jonathan M. Conway

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Jordan Jackson-Small

Job Titles:
  • IT Support Specialist

Joseph Silbert

Job Titles:
  • Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering and James a. Friend Family Distinguished Professor in Engineering, Cornell University

José L. Avalos

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment

Julia Mikhailova

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Julie Sefa

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Administrator

June K. Wu

Job Titles:
  • Professor

K. Kim, J. Oh

K. Kim, J. Oh, J. R. Gardner, A. B. Dieng, H. Kim. Markov Chain Score Ascent: A Unifying Framework of Variational Inference with Markovian Gradients. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022. https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.06295

Kaleigh Lane

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Faculty Assistant to Professors Brun, Graves, Joseph, Koel, Lusardi, Sarazen and Webb

Karen Oliver

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  • Graduate Program Administrator

Kate Braunstein

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  • Senior Manager, Finance and Administration

Keith E. Gubbins

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  • Inaugural Lecturer, N. Carolina State U., 2016

Kelsey B. Hatzell

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment

Kevin Lamb

Job Titles:
  • Lab and Safety Manager

Lauren Taylor

Job Titles:
  • PCCM Postdoctoral Research Fellow ( With Prof. Register and Prof. Priestley )

Leslie M. Schoop

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Chemistry

Loren Pfeiffer

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Scholar, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Lynden Archer

Job Titles:
  • Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering and James a. Friend Family Distinguished Professor in Engineering, Cornell University

Mansour Shayegan

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Marcella Lusardi

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and PMI
  • Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Princeton Materials Institute

Margareta Engman Augustine

Job Titles:
  • Margareta Engman Augustine Professor of Engineering / Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Princeton Materials Institute

Marissa L. Weichman

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Mark P. Brynildsen

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Martin H. Wühr

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and the Lewis - Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics

Meera Ramaswamy

Job Titles:
  • PCCM Postdoctoral Research Fellow ( With Prof. Datta )

Michael A. Webb

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Michele L. Sarazen

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Mikko Haataja

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Mini Thomas

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Grants and Finance Manager

Mohamed S. Donia

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  • Associate Professor of Molecular Biology

Morton Kostin

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Emeritus

N. Phuan Ong

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  • Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics

Nan Yao

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  • Professor of the Practice in the Princeton Materials Institute ( PMI ) Director of Industry Outreach, PCCM

Norman John Sollenberger

Job Titles:
  • Norman John Sollenberger Professor in Engineering / Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Pablo G. Debenedetti

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Pam Raney

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Assistant Finance and Grants Manager

Patti West

Job Titles:
  • Grants and Finance Manager

Paul E. Elfers

Job Titles:
  • Professor, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2017

Phoebe Rivera

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Administrative Office Coordinator

Pierre-Thomas Brun

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Reza Moini

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Robert Cava

Job Titles:
  • Russell Wellman Moore Professor of Chemistry

Robert K. Prud'homme

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Emeritus

Robert L. Pigford

Job Titles:
  • Memorial Lecturer, U. of Delaware, 2018

Rodney D. Priestley

Job Titles:
  • Dean of the Graduate School / Associate Director, Princeton Center for Complex Materials ( PCCM )
  • Vice Dean for Innovation, Office of the Dean for Research

Russell Wellman Moore

Job Titles:
  • Russell Wellman Moore Professor of Chemistry

Sabine Petry

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Molecular Biology

Sanfeng Wu


Sankaran Sundaresan

Job Titles:
  • Norman John Sollenberger Professor in Engineering / Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Scott Lyon

Job Titles:
  • Senior Engineering Communications Strategist

Sonia Natalias

Job Titles:
  • PCCM Education Outreach & Center Assistant

Soonoo Aria


Stanislav Y. Shvartsman

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Molecular Biology and the Lewis Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics

Sujit S. Datta

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Susan Dod Brown

Job Titles:
  • Susan Dod Brown Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Tanya Berry

Job Titles:
  • PCCM Postdoctoral Research Fellow ( With Prof. Schoop & Prof. Register )

Viliam Vano

Job Titles:
  • PCCM Postdoctoral Research Fellow ( With Prof. Yazdani )

W. David Smith Jr.

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Paper Award, CAST Division of AIChE, 2008

William M. Jacobs

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Chemistry

William S. Tod

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Chemistry

William Schowalter

Job Titles:
  • Class of 1950 Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, Emeritus / Professor of Chemical Engineering, Emeritus

Yannis G. Kevrekidis

Job Titles:
  • Pomeroy and Betty Perry Smith Professor in Engineering, Emeritus / Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Applied and Computational Mathematics, Emeritus

Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Z. Jason Ren

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment / Associate Director for Research, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment