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Richard Axelbaum
 Professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering

Axelbaum is the Director of the Consortium for Clean Coal Utilization. He also heads the Laboratory for Advanced Combustion and Energy Research and has directed the Engineering section of the NASA Missouri Space Grant Consortium at Washington University in St. Louis since 1997. He served as the associate ...

Expertise: Clean coal, nanoparticles, nanotechnology, materials, synthesis, flames

Direct contact: (314) 935-7560
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rla@wustl.edu

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William Buhro
 Professor of Chemistry in Arts & Sciences

William H. Buhro, Ph.D., professor of chemistry and associate director of the Center for Materials Innovation, specializes in nanotechnology. He and his group are engaged in synthesis on the nanometer-scale. They design reactions and mechanisms for the growth of inorganic crystals having dimensions ...

Expertise: nanomaterials, materials, inorganic chemistry, nanotubes, nanowires

Direct contact: (314) 935-4269
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buhro@wustl.edu

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Jonathan Chase
 Associate Professor of Biology in Arts & Sciences and director of Tyson Research Center

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Jonathan M. Chase, associate professor of biology in Arts & Sciences and director of the university's Tyson Research Center, focuses his research on the rules (or lack thereof) underlying the diversity, distribution, and abundance of animal and plant species from the population/community/ecosystem ...

Expertise: biology, ecology, ecosystem, natural history, evolution, biodiversity, food webs, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-4105
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jchase@wustl.edu

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Robert Criss
 Professor of Earth & Planetary Science

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Criss specializes in hydrogeology, the geology of water and systems of water. Much of his work has an environmental slant. He investigates the transport of aqueous fluids in environments such as rivers, cool potable groundwater systems essential to civilization, and deeper, hotter hydrothermal systems. ...

Expertise: Geology, hydrogeology, floods, river systems, dams

Direct contact: (314) 935-7441
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criss@wustl.edu

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Mike Dudukovic
 Laura and William Jens Professor of Enviromental Engineering

Mike Dudukovic, Ph.D., is the Laura & William Jens Professor of Environmental Engineering and director of the Chemical Engineering Reaction Laboratory (CREL). His primary interest is in chemical reaction engineering involving kinetic-transport interactions in multiphase systems. His research group ...

Expertise: chemical reaction engineering, kinetic transport interactions, fluid dynamic studies, transport studies, computational fluid dynamic, catalytic distillation, photochemical reactive distillation, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-6021
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dudu@wustl.edu

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Bruce Fegley
 Professor of Planetary Geochemisrty and Cosmochemistry

Bruce Fegley, Ph.D., professor of earth and planetary sciences, specializes in Venus and the early solar system. Fegley and Senior Research Scientist Katharina Lodders, Ph.D., and technical staff, graduate students, and undergraduates form the Planetary Chemistry Laboratory in the Department of Earth ...

Expertise: chemical processes in the early solar system, planeary surfaces, planetary atmospheres, Venus, Jovian planets, solar nebula, Magellan, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-4852
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bfegley@levee.wustl.edu

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Richard Loomis
 Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry

Richard Loomis, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry, is a physical chemist making inroads into high-speed computing. Loomis received his doctorate in chemistry in 1995 from the University of Pennsylvania and then received a prominent National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship with the National ...

Expertise: reaction dynamics, atomic resolution, quantum computing, radical molecule clusters, linear laser spectroscopy, nonlinear laser spectroscopy, quantum wave packet dynamics, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-8534
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loomis@wuchem.wustl.edu

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Ralph Quatrano

Ralph S. Quatrano, Ph.D., is the Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts and Sciences and chair of the Department of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis. He is internationally known for his plant science work on patterns of embryo formation, and how the patterns lead cells to acquire traits or ...

Expertise: Plants, plant biology, botany, moss, genome, algae, genes, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-6850
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rsq@wustl.edu
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John-Stephen Taylor
 Professor of Chemistry in Arts & Sciences

Taylor is a chemist who has developed an alternative to chemotherapy that relies on using sequences of mutated human DNA as a trigger to release a drug. The sequence is not used as a target, rather as a trigger to cause the catalytic release of a drug. Taylor, a synthetic organic chemist, says the ...

Expertise: DNA, cancer, catalytic drugs, skin

Media assistance: (314) 935-5272 / dlutz@wustl.edu

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Michael Welch
 Professor of radiology

Welch, an expert in synthetic chemistry, has been a leader for more than 30 years in the development of synthetic imaging agents that have allowed doctors to use positron emission tomography (PET) to diagnose an increasingly wide variety of disorders. He is also head of the Radiochemistry Institute ...

Expertise: PET, nuclear medicine, synthetic chemistry, oncology, imaging agents, radioisotopes, radionuclides

Media assistance: (314) 286-0122 / purdym@wustl.edu

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Karen Wooley
 Professor of Polymer and Organic Chemistry in Arts & Sciences

Karen L. Wooley, Ph.D, professor of chemistry, has done important research in polymers and nanoparticles. Her interests include bioorganic chemistry; nanotechnology; material science; and atomic force microscopy. These interests are broadly focused upon the design, synthesis and characterization ...

Expertise: nucleophilic attack, graft copolymer micellar structures, liquid crystalline sub-units, Dendrimeric cylinders, Shell-crosslinked Knedels, amphiphilic nanometer-sized spheres, hyperbranched polycarbonates, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-7136
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klwooley@artsci.wustl.edu

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