Affiliate Faculty

  • Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering
  • Courtesy Associate Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
  • ABE Graduate Faculty

Areas of Expertise

  • Food-energy-water nexus challenges; ecological wastewater treatment; bioremediation of soil and groundwater contaminants; nutrient recovery for the production of fertilizers, fodder, and biofuels; engaged global scholarship; humanitarian service projects.
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Rachel Brennan, Ph.D., P.E.
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  • Professor of Food Science

Areas of Expertise

  • Dairy Processing
  • Food Rheology
  • Food Engineering
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Federico Harte, Ph.D.
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  • Professor of Production Systems and Modeling

Areas of Expertise

  • Agroecosystems
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling
  • Hydrologic and Nutrient Cycling Modeling
  • Environmental Biophysics
  • Plant Ecophysiology
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Armen R. Kemanian, Ph.D.
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  • Assistant Research Professor
  • ABE Graduate Faculty
  • Autonomy, Perception, and Cognition Department

Areas of Expertise

  • Agent development for cognitive autonomy
  • Automation and mechanization of biological systems and processes
  • Autonomy in unmanned vehicles
  • Thermal fluids and combustion
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David James Lyons, Ph.D.
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  • Adjunct Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
  • USDA-ARS

Areas of Expertise

  • Pasture Systems
  • Watershed Management
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C. Alan Rotz, Ph.D.
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  • Assistant Research Professor
  • Co-Director of CSL Behring Fermentation Facility
  • ABE Graduate Faculty
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Ashik Sathish, Ph.D.
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  • Instructor
  • Design of Wood Structures
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Walter Schneider, III, Ph.D., P.E.
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  • Director of Shared Fermentation Facility

Areas of Expertise

  • Bioprocessing
  • Microbial production
  • Biomolecule purification
  • Cellulosic biomass conversion
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Mark Signs, M.S.
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  • Adjunct Associate Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
  • USDA-ARS

Areas of Expertise

  • Pasture Systems
  • Watershed Management
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Tamie Veith, Ph.D.
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  • Adjunct Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
  • Regents Professor, Washington State University
  • Director, Institute for Sustainable Design, ISD

Areas of Expertise

  • Biomass preparation
  • Biofuels industry logistics
  • Composite material development
  • Extrusion processing
  • Viscoelasticity and rheology
  • Adhesion
  • Anisotropic elasticity
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Michael Wolcott, Ph.D.
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  • Assistant Professor of Chemistry
  • BRS Graduate Faculty

Areas of Expertise

  • Organic chemistry and chemical biology
  • Lignin chemistry, biochemistry, and engineering
  • Bioenergy
  • Synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry
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Yimin Zhu
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