Institute Faculty Directory

  • Directors
  • Steering Committee
  • Rice University Faculty

Director
Jennifer L. West (jwest@rice.edu)   
Director of the Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering  
Isabel C. Cameron
Professor of Bioengineering
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor 

Executive Director
Stacey Kalovidouris (Stacey.Kalovidouris@rice.edu)
Executive Director of the Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering


Steering Committee
George N. Bennett (gbennett@bioc.rice.edu) 
Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology 
Janet Braam (braam@bioc.rice.edu) 
Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology and Chair

Seiichi P.T. Matsuda (matsuda@ruf.rice.edu) 
E. Dell Butcher
Professor of Chemistry and Chair
Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Antonios G. Mikos (mikos@rice.edu)   
John W. Cox Professor of  Bioengineering and Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering    
Rebecca Richards-Kortum (rkortum@rice.edu)
Stanley C. Moore Professor and Chair of Bioengineering
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor 

Ka-Yiu San(ksan@rice.edu)  
E.D. Butcher Professor of Bioengineering and Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 
Diana L. Welch (dwelch@rice.edu) 
Associate Director of the Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering

Rice University Faculty
Pedro J. Alvarez (
alvarez@rice.edu) 
George R. Brown Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Chair
Pulickel Ajayan (ajayan@rice.edu) 
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Constantine Armeniades (cda@rice.edu) 
Professor Emeritus of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Kyriacos Athanasiou (athanasiou@rice.edu) 
Karl F. Hasselmann Professor of Bioengineering 
Registered Professional Engineer
  
Zachary T. Ball  (zb1@rice.edu) 
Assistant Professor in Chemistry

Andrew Barron(arb@rice.edu) 
Charles W. Duncan, Jr. - Welch Professor of Chemistry
Bonnie Bartel (bartel@bioc.rice.edu)  
Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor
Yildiz Bayazitoglu (bayaz@rice.edu) 
H. S. Cameron Endowed Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Chair
Kathleen M. Beckingham (kate@bioc.rice.edu) 
Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology 

Sibani Lisa Biswal  (biswal@rice.edu)
Assistant Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
John W. Clark, Jr. (jwc@rice.edu) 
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cecilia Clementi (cecilia@rice.edu) 
Norman Hackerman - Welch Young Investigator Associate Professor of Chemistry
James S. Coleman  (James.S.Coleman@rice.edu)
Vice Provost for Research; Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Vicki Colvin  (colvin@rice.edu)
Professor of Chemistry
Michael Covington (mfcovington@ucdavis.edu)
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Steven J.Cox (cox@rice.edu) 
Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Michael W. Deem (mwdeem@rice.edu) 
John W. Cox Professor of Biochemical and Genetic Engineering and Physics and Astronomy 
Michael Diehl (diehl@rice.edu)
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering      
Rebekah Anna Drezek  (drezek@ruf.rice.edu) 
Stanley C. Moore Associate Professor of Bioengineering 
Leonardo Duenas-Osorio (leonardo.duenas-osorio@rice.edu)
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Mark Embree (embree@rice.edu) 
Associate Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics
 
Ariel Fernandez (arifer@rice.edu)
Karl F. Hasselmann Professor of Bioengineering

Fathi Ghorbel (ghorbel@rice.edu) 
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science  
Raymon M. Glantz (rmg@rice.edu)
Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Cell Biology 
Richard H. Gomer (richard@rice.edu)  
Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology   
Ramon Gonzalez    
(ramon.gonzalez@rice.edu)
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 
K. Grande-Allen (grandeallen@rice.edu)
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering 
Rudy Guerra (rguerra@stat.rice.edu) 
Professor of Statistics
Michael C. Gustin (gustin@bioc.rice.edu) 
Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Jason H. Hafner (hafner@rice.edu) 
Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Naomi J. Halas (halas@ece.rice.edu) 
Stanley C. Moore Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jeffrey Hartgerink (jdh@rice.edu)
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
J. David Hellums (jhellums@rice.edu) 
A.J. Hartsook Professor Emeritus of Chemical and Biomolecular  Engineering and Bioengineering 
Nat Holland (jholland@rice.edu)
Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Huey W. Huang (hwhuang@rice.edu) 
Sam and Helen Worden Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Oleg A. Igoshin (Oleg.Igoshin@rice.edu) 
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
Lydia E. Kavraki (kavraki@rice.edu) 
Noah Haring Professor of Computer Science and Bioengineering  
Sallie Keller-McNulty  (sallie@rice.edu)
Dean of Engineering and Professor of Statistics
Ching-Hwa Kiang
 (chkiang@rice.edu) 
Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Thomas C. Killian 
(killian@rice.edu) 
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy 
Marek Kimmel (kimmel@stat.rice.edu) 
Professor of Statistics

Michael Kohn (hmkohn@rice.edu) 
Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Anatoly B. Kolomeisky (tolya@rice.edu)
Associate Professor of Chemistry

Mary Ellen Lane (melane@rice.edu)  
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology 
Michael Liebschner (liebschner@rice.edu) 
Assistant Professor of Bioengineeering 
Peter Lwigale  (lwigale@caltech.edu)
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Stephan Link (slink@rice.edu)
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Jun Lou (jlou@rice.edu) 
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
Andreas Luttge (aluttge@rice.edu) 
Associate Professor of Earth Science and Chemistry
Jianpeng Ma  (jpma@rice.edu) 
Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Rice University 
Associate  Professor of Biochemistry, Baylor College of Medicine
Kevin R. MacKenzie (mev@rice.edu)
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology  

Nikolaos V. Mantzaris (nman@rice.edu) 
Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Carrie A. Masiello  (masiello@rice.edu)
Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences

Kathleen S. Matthews (ksm@bioc.rice.edu
Dean, School of Natural Sciences
 
Stewart Memorial Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology 
James A. McNew (mcnew@rice.edu) 
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology 
Lisa Meffert (lmeffert@rice.edu) 
Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Daniel Mittleman (daniel@rice.edu) 
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering 
Joel L. Moake (jmoake@tmh.tmc.edu)
Professor of Medicine (Baylor) 
Associate Director of the Cox Laboratory
  
Luay Nakhleh (nakleh@rice.edu) 
Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Edward P. Nikonowicz (edn@bioc.rice.edu) 
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology 
Marcia O'Malley (omalleym@rice.edu)
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
 
John S. Olson  (olson@bioc.rice.edu) 
Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology  
Graham A. Palmer (graham@bioc.rice.edu)
Professor Emeritus, Biochemistry and Cell Biology 
Ronald J. Parry  (parry@rice.edu)
Professor of Chemistry 

David Queller (queller@rice.edu)
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Robert Raphael (rraphael@rice.edu) 
T.N. Law Assistant Professor of Bioengineering 
Jennifer Rudgers  (jrudgers@rice.edu) 
Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 
Volker HW Rudolf (volker.rudolf@rice.edu)
Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Ronald Sass (sass@rice.edu) 
Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Ann Saterbak   (saterbak@rice.edu)       
Lecturer, Department of Bioengineering
 
Laura Segatori    (Laura.Segatori@rice.edu)       
T.N. Law Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Yousif Shamoo (shamoo@rice.edu)
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Evan Siemann (siemann@rice.edu) 
Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Jonathan Silberg (joff@rice.edu)
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology 
Michael Stern  (stern@bioc.rice.edu) 
Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Charles R. Stewart  (crs@bioc.rice.edu)
Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology 

Joan Strassmann (strassm@rice.edu) 
Professor and Chair of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 
Devika Subramanian  (devika@rice.edu)
Professor of Computer Science
Junghae Suh  (jsuh@rice.edu)
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
Yizhi Jane Tao (ytao@bioc.rice.edu) 
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Frank K. Tittel  (fkt@ece.rice.edu)
J. S. Abercrombie Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Tomasz Tkaczyk (tkaczyk@ece.rice.edu)
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
James M. Tour (tour@rice.edu)
Chao Professor of Chemistry
Moshe Y. Vardi (vardi@rice.edu) 
Professor of Computer Science

Daniel S. Wagner (dswagner@rice.edu) 
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology 
James B. Walker   
Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Cell Biology  

Calvin H. Ward (wardch@ruf.rice.edu)  
Foyt Family Professor and Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering

R. Bruce Weisman (weisman@rice.edu) 
Professor of Chemistry
Kenneth D. Whitney  (kwhitney@rice.edu) 
Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Lon J. Wilson (
durango@ruf.rice.edu)
Professor of Chemistry 
Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede (pernilla@rice.edu)  
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology  
Michael S. Wong (mswong@rice.edu) 
Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Lin Zhong (lzhong@rice.edu)
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineeering
Weiwei Zhong  (wzhong@its.caltech.edu)
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Kyriacos Zygourakis  (kyzy@rice.edu) 
A.J. Hartsook Professor and Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Professor of  Bioengineering
 

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Sherry Nassar, Program Coordinator

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