Bioengineering: cellular engineering;  metabolic engineering ; targeted bacteriolytic cancer therapy; synthesis of small molecules; systems biology; biopolymers; nanostructured materials for clinical diagnostics, synthetic biology and cancer immunotherapy.

• Lauren Andrews
• Neil Forbes (Forbes Research Group)
• Michael Henson (Henson Research Group)
• Ashish Kulkarni (Kulkarni Research Group)
• Jungwoo Lee (Lee Research Group)
• Sarah Perry (Perry Research Group)
• Shelly Peyton (Peyton Research Group)
• Nianqiang Wu (Wu Research Group)

Catalysis and Reaction Engineering: conversion of biomass to fuels and chemicals, hydrocarbon chemistry, C1 chemistry, acid-base catalysis, electrocatalysis, microwave reaction engineering, computational catalysis, microkinetic modelling, catalysis thermodynamics, microporous materials synthesis, mass transport in porous materials, catalyst characterization methods, in situ spectroscopy.

• Omar Abdelrahman (Abdelrahman Research Group)
• Peng Bai (Bai Research Group)
• W. Curt Conner
• Wei Fan (Fan Research Group)
• Friederike Jentoft
• Rolf Jentoft
• Nianqiang Wu (Wu Research Group)

Materials Science and Nanotechnology: design and characterization of new catalytic materials; nanostructured materials for nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, and photovoltaics; graphene and carbon nanomaterials; synthesis and characterization of microporous and mesoporous materials; colloids and biomaterials; membranes; biopolymers; rheology and phase behavior of associative polymer solutions; polymeric materials processing.

• Peng Bai (Bai Research Group)
• Peter Beltramo (Beltramo Research Group)
• ​Christos Dimitrakopoulos
• John Klier
• Dimitrios Maroudas
• T.J. Mountziaris (Mountziaris Research Group)
• Sarah Perry (Perry Research Group)
• Jessica Schiffman (Schiffman Research Group)
• H. Henning Winter
• Nianqiang Wu (Wu Research Group)

Molecular, Multi-scale, and System-level Modeling:  Quantum chemistry and density functional theory; Computational statistical mechanics; Computational materials science; Computational fluid dynamics; Hierarchical and equation-free multi-scale modeling; Machine learning and high-throughput screening; Bioprocess systems engineering; Population-dynamics modeling.

• Peng Bai (Bai Research Group)
• Jeffrey Davis
• Michael Henson (Henson Research Group)
• Dimitrios Maroudas