Department of Chemical Engineering Kutlu Ülgen, Chair RESEARCH RESOURCES: 19 faculty members  Biomolecular Engineering  Catalyst Technologies and Reaction Engineering  Polymer and Biopolymer Engineering  Process Engineering ChE

Biological Systems and Biomolecular Engineering Systems biology Rational design of cells Cell factories Recombinant protein production Protein purification Investigation of complex genetic disorders using systems biological approaches Microbial process kinetics Bioinformatics Identification of drug targets Computational physiology Experimental and computational metabolic and genetic engineering ChE

Catalyst Technologies and Reaction Engineering Catalyst design, Fuel cells and catalysis, Nanocatalysts, Hydrogen production technologies, Catalysis for green technologies, Micro-reaction engineering Heterogeneous catalysts and surface science, Artificial intelligence applications, Fuel and energy technologies, Clean and sustainable energy production, Prevention of green house gas emissions and fixation of CO 2 ChE

Polymer and Biopolymer Engineering Computational Structural Biology Bioinformatics Modeling and simulations of biomolecular structure and dynamics; Sequence-structure-function relationship; Statistical mechanics of polymers; Protein-protein, protein-DNA, peptide- membrane interactions; Coarse-grained modeling and simulations; Protein binding and folding; Molecular aspects of biochemical and biophysical processes; Computer modeling of enzyme-substrate, enzyme-drug binding and interactions. Computational Docking Studies Nano-scale modeling ChE

Process Engineering Design of chemical processes, Control and optimization, Separation processes Product design, Microfluidics Risk analysis and management Applied mathematics and numerical methods Energy engineering Multivariate Statistics Computational fluid dynamics Rheology Interfacial instabilities Quality engineering and management ChE