Biological manufacturing methods and feedstocks with low carbon footprints can
create sustainable solutions that address challenges of food security, food
safety, and health while adding value to agriculture. Our research addresses
the engineering fundamentals for sustainable manufacturing of pharmaceuticals,
foods, and bioproducts derived from agricultural and cellulosic renewable
resources. We strive to educate our students to be the best "and do their
best" in the design, analysis, prediction, modeling, control and
optimization of processes that capitalize on the unique biophysical behavior
of biological molecules, as well as the products from which they are derived.
Our goal is to develop platforms that enable unique products to be
manufactured in new ways.
Faculty
R.P. Kingsly Ambrose
Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering and
University Faculty Scholar
Research Areas
Applying particle technology concepts to the
handling and processing of grain, food, feed, and other
particulate materials. Research areas include powder flow;
particle, powder characterization; agglomeration; dust
explosion; modeling and simulation.
https://engineering.purdue.edu/FFP
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Teresa Carvajal
Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Research Areas
Surface Materials Science Exploring and
exploiting physical and chemical factors governing particulate
interactions to relationships between surface-structure and
process-performance of food and pharmaceutical powders and
composites
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Kari Clase
Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Research Areas
Biotechnology Innovation and Regulatory Science
Center
leader, developing global programs to ensure sustainable access
to medicines in Africa and advance discovery in manufacturing
technology, quality of medicines, and rare disease research.
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Abigail Engelberth
Associate Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering,
Environmental & Ecological Engineering
Research Areas
Bioseparations to recover valuable co-products
from underutilized biological resources and the design of the
recovery processes to assess potential economic feasibility of a
given co-product.
https://engineering.purdue.edu/ERG
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Klein Ileleji
Professor, Extension Engineer
Research Areas
Grain post-harvest handling & storage,
powder technology and logistics with focus on post-harvest
operations, storage and feedstock characterization for grains,
oilseeds, bioprocessing coproducts and lignocellulosic biomass.
https://engineering.purdue.edu/~biomass/index.html
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Michael Ladisch
Distinguished Professor of Agricultural & Biological
Engineering; Director, Laboratory of Renewable Resources
Engineering
Research Areas
Bioseparations & Mass Transfer: liquid
chromatography, membrane separations, microfluidics, injectable
biologics.
Pathogen Detection. Biocatalysis: enzymes,
cellulose pretreatment, fermentation, process engineering.
https://www.purdue.edu/lorre/
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Nathan Mosier
Department Head, Agricultural & Biological Engineering;
Indiana Soybean Board Professor in Soybean Utilization;
Laboratory of Renewable Resources Engineering
Research Areas
Bioprocess engineering for transforming
carbohydrates (starch and cellulose) and lipids (vegetable oils)
to biofuels and value-added chemicals. Development of novel
catalysts, reaction engineering, reactor design, and process
integration.
https://www.purdue.edu/lorre/
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Ganesan Narsimhan
Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Research Areas
Colloidal and Interfacial Phenomena. Pore
formation by antimicrobial peptides in lipid bilayers, molecular
dynamics simulation of protein conformation, oxidative stability
in food emulsions, pasting behavior of starch.
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Martin Okos
Professor, Agricultural & Biological
Engineering/Biochemistry, and Food Process Engineering
Research Areas
Optimization of food, pharmaceutical and bio
processes
using experimental and computer-aided research. Measurement of
rheological, transport and kinetic properties, Design of
biological fermentation, extrusion, dehydration and separation
systems,
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Karthik Sankaranarayanan
Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Research Areas
Applied data science for enzymology. We develop
computational models for enzyme reaction chemistry to make
experimentally testable predictions for addressing manufacturing
challenges associated with complex synthetic molecules that are
important to the society (e.g., pharmaceutical agents,
agrochemicals, and food flavoring).
https://www.ksankargroup.com/
Shweta Singh
Associate Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
and Ecological & Environmental Engineering
Research Areas
Systems Science & Engineering for Sustainability:
Industrial Ecology, Circular Economy, Process Systems Models,
Machine Learning, Industrial-Natural Coupled Systems, Life Cycle
Analysis, Macroeconomic Models, Urban Systems, Dynamics, Complex
Systems
https://sites.google.com/site/shwetasinghlab/home
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