Faculty

Fuat E. Celik

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Phone
848-445-5558

Location
98 Brett Road
C-215 Engineering Building
Piscataway, NJ 08540

Biography

  • 2019 – Present: Associate Professor, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University
  • 2019 – Present: Graduate Program Director, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University
  • 2015 – Present: Associate Member, Graduate Faculty in Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University
  • 2012 – 2019: Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University
  • 2010 – 2012: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • 2003 – 2004: Research Assistant, Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University

Research

Research Interests:

  • Energy and Environmental Systems
  • Heterogeneous Catalysis
  • Computational Chemistry
  • Molecular Spectroscopy
  • Kinetics and Reaction Engineering
  • Materials Synthesis
  • Organometallic Chemistry
  • Process Simulation and Design

Education Overview

  • Post-doc. Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2010-2012
  • Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2010
  • M.Eng. Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, 2003
  • B.S.E. Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, 2002

Activities

  • AIChE Student Chapter Advisor’s Honor Roll Award (Level II) (2014 and 2015)
  • Rutgers School of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award (2013 and 2015)
  • A. Walter Tyson Assistant Professorship Award (2014)

Publications

Smita Thakker-Varia

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Phone
732-235-5393

Activities

  • Provides active academic and student support, structurally and individually, to students in the Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. and Master's programs in New Brunswick/Piscataway
  • Oversees admissions, administration, and curricular matters for Biomedical Sciences Master's programs in New Brunswick/Piscataway
  • Supports recruitment and outreach efforts for Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. and Master's programs in New Brunswick/Piscataway

Huaye Zhang

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Phone
732-235-3433

Research

Regulation of Dendritic Spine Morphogenesis and Synaptic Plasticity

Annika Barber

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Research

Neural signal integration in Drosophila behavioral circuits

Renping Zhou

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Phone
848-445-7246

Research

Molecular biology of axonal guidance and neural map formation