Research in the energy space within our chemical engineering department focuses on the grand challenge of providing affordable and sustainable clean energy solutions for future generations. To address this broad challenge, research efforts include (i) novel technologies for clean energy, electrification, decarbonization and the hydrogen economy, (ii) enabling novel materials that will support and empower energy technology and transition scenarios, such as in batteries, and (iii) multi-scale energy systems engineering methods and tools, for the systematic assessment of energy scenarios from a techno-economic and sustainability point of view.
Energy Faculty
Perla Balbuena
- University Distinguished Professor
- Mike O’Connor Chair I Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Joint Professor of Chemistry
- Affiliated Faculty, Materials Science and Engineering
- Office: CHEN 240
- Phone: 979-845-3375
- Email: balbuena@tamu.edu
Abdoulaye Djire
- Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
- Affiliated Faculty, Materials Science & Engineering
- Office: CHEN 210
- Phone: 979-458-4776
- Email: adjire@tamu.edu
Joe Elabd
- Vice Chancellor for Research
- Interim Vice Chancellor for Engineering
- Interim Dean of the Texas A&M University College of Engineering
- Interim Director of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
- Axalta Coating Systems Chair II
- Professor, Chemical Engineering
- Office: Zachry Engineering Education Complex (ZACH), Suite 500
- Phone: 979-458-5598
- Email: engineeringvcd@tamu.edu
Efstratios Pistikopoulos
- Professor, Chemical Engineering
- University Distinguished Professor
- Director, Texas A&M Energy Institute
- Dow Chemical Chair
- Office: CHEN 335
- Phone: 979-458-0259
- Email: stratos@tamu.edu
Manish Shetty
- Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
- Office: CHEN 246A
- Email: manish.shetty@tamu.edu
Benjamin Wilhite
- Director of Undergraduate Studies, Chemical Engineering
- Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering
- Office: CHEN 226
- Phone: 979-845-0406
- Email: benjaminwilhite@tamu.edu
Mark A. Barteau
- Professor, Chemical Engineering and Department of Chemistry
- Member, National Academy of Engineering
- C. D. Holland '53 Chair
- Office: CHEN 249
- Phone: 979-845-8585
- Email: barteau@tamu.edu
Micah Green
- Professor, Chemical Engineering
- Associate Department Head of External Engagement, Chemical Engineering
- Nancy and Dan Zivney '73 Faculty Fellow
- Office: CHEN 202
- Phone: 979-862-1588
- Email: micah.green@tamu.edu
Sreeram Vaddiraju
- Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering
- Office: CHEN 237
- Phone: 979-862-1615
- Email: sreeram.vaddiraju@tamu.edu
Mustafa Akbulut
- Professor, Chemical Engineering
- Axalta Coating Systems Faculty Fellow
- Office: CHEN 230
- Phone: 979-847-8766
- Email: makbulut@tamu.edu
Jodie Lutkenhaus
- Associate Department Head, Internal Engagement, Chemical Engineering
- Professor, Chemical Engineering
- Presidential Impact Fellow
- Axalta Coating Systems Chair
- Dean’s Fellow
- Office: CHEN 218
- Phone: 979-845-2682
- Email: jodie.lutkenhaus@tamu.edu
Jorge Seminario
- Professor, Chemical Engineering
- Lanatter & Herbert Fox Professor
- Office: CHEN 239
- Phone: 979-845-3301
- Email: seminario@tamu.edu
Faisal Khan
- Interim Department Head, Chemical Engineering
- Professor, Chemical Engineering and Petroleum Engineering
- Mike O'Connor II Chair
- Director, MKO Process Safety Center
- Director, Ocean Energy Safety Institute
- Affiliated Faculty, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Affilliated Faculty, Ocean Engineering
- Office: CHEN 246
- Email: fikhan@tamu.edu
Qingsheng Wang
- Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering
- George Armistead ’23 Faculty Fellow
- Office: CHEN 232
- Phone: 979-845-9803
- Email: qwang@tamu.edu
Chad Mashuga
- Associate Professor of Practice, Chemical Engineering
- Office: CHEN 205
- Phone: 979-845-3339
- Email: mashuga@tamu.edu
Joseph Sang-Il Kwon
- Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering
- Kenneth R. Hall Career Development Professor
- Office: 206 CHEN/ERB 331
- Phone: 979-862-5930
- Email: kwonx075@tamu.edu
M. M. Faruque Hasan
- Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering
- Kim Tompkins McDivitt ’88 and Phillip McDivitt ’87 Faculty Fellow
- Assistant Director of Decarbonization, Texas A&M Energy Institute
- Office: 242 CHEN/ERB 333
- Phone: 979-862-1449
- Email: hasan@tamu.edu
Mahmoud El-Halwagi
- Professor, Chemical Engineering
- Bryan Research and Engineering Chair in Chemical Engineering
- Managing Director, TEES Gas and Fuels Research Center
- Office: CHEN 229
- Phone: 979-845-3484
- Email: el-halwagi@tamu.edu
