- Assistant Research Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Affiliate Researcher of Engineering Design in SEDTAPP
Areas of Expertise
- Fabrication of research test equipment in metal, wood & plastic
- Computer aided design and analysis
- Design for additive manufacturing
- Engineering education
- Email rgb@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-2300
- Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Director, Graduate Studies
- Affiliated Faculty of the The Rock Ethics Institute
Areas of Expertise
- Cellulose and nanocellulose structure and characterization
- Bacterial cellulose production
- Polysaccharide composite materials
- Polysaccharide based barrier materials to replace plastics
- Improved paper and paperboard products and processes
- Bioabsorbable biomedical materials based on polysaccharides
- Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Development of emerging bioproducts
- Additive manufacturing with lignocellulosic biomass
- Applications of synthetic chemistry to lignin
- Catalytic transformations of biomass
- Spectroscopic characterization of bio-derived molecules
- Email sc411@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-6815
- Associate Research Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- BRS Graduate Program Coordinator
Areas of Expertise
- Bioenergy
- Biomass Energy Systems
- Thermochemical Conversion
- Energy Efficiency
- Controlled Environment Agriculture
- Solar Energy Resource Evaluation
- Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Industrial Ecology
- Ethical Decision Making
- Life Cycle Analysis
- Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Bioprocess and Food Safety Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Bioprocess Engineering/Fermentation: Bioconversion of agricultural raw and waste commodities into value added products including bioenergy/biofuels, microbial enzymes, organic acids, polysaccharides, antimicrobial agents; optimization; novel bioreactors; downstream processing.
- Food Engineering/Food Safety : inactivation of pathogenic and spoilage microorganisms by using novel non-thermal processing technologies including pulsed UV light, electrolyzed oxidizing water, and ozone.
- Email demirci@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-1098
- Professor of Agricultural Engineering
- Environmental Biophysics, Animal Welfare, and Agricultural Emissions
- Integrated Research and Extension Programs
Areas of Expertise
- Air quality in indoor agriculture (barns, poultry houses)
- Heating and Ventilation system design, principles and practice
- Horse facility engineering (stables, riding arenas)
- Farm animal welfare
- Agricultural air emissions (gas, odor, particulates)
- Assistant Teaching Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- BioRenewable Systems Lead Advisor
Areas of Expertise
- Study of sediment transport
- Ecohydrology
- Mathematical modeling
- Email suf474@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-8124
- Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Mechanization and Automation for Specialty Crops
- Robotic Solutions for Agricultural Applications
- Precision Agriculture
- Electro-Hydraulic Control System
- Email luh378@psu.edu
- Office 717-677-6116
- Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- BioRenewable Systems Coordinator
Areas of Expertise
- Engineering for specialty crop production systems
- Quality evaluation of specialty crops
- Email hzh@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2633
- Research Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Chemical and thermochemical conversions of lignocellulosic biomass and other byproducts (including wastes) into value-added products (e.g. platform chemicals and hydrogen gas)
- Developing catalysts for various conversion processes using nanotechnological approaches
- Developing degradable biofilm formulations for agricultural applications
- Various applications of advanced oxidation processes (degradation of toxic organic chemicals in wastewaters, depolymerization of biomass)
- Evaluation of the effects of various fumigation treatments/technologies on the quality characteristics of food products
- Email sji5137@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-3559
- Professor and Head of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Soil and water resources engineering
- Impact of climate change on water resources and agro-ecosystem productivity
- Measurement and modeling of surface energy and water vapor balance
- Evapotranspiration, transpiration and evaporation
- Irrigation science and engineering; agro-ecosystem water management
- Nitrogen management and impacts on water and soil quality
- Impact of tillage practices on water and energy balance and water productivity
- Cover crop impact on soil quality (soil health) and water and energy balance
- Plant abiotic stresses vs productivity
- Plant phenotyping
- Measurement and modeling of soil moisture dynamics and soil physical properties
- Specialty cropping systems
- Agricultural IoTs
- Assistant Research Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Agricultural water management & agrohydrology
- Irrigation science, management, & engineering
- Sense & model water fluxes in soil-plant-atmospheric continuum
- Evapotranspiration & its physiological and environmental controls
- Precision water & nutrient management
- Agricultural resource (water, radiation, nutrient) use efficiency
- Agrometeorology; Climate sensitivity & resiliency of ag systems
- GIS & Remote Sensing applications in agricultural & natural resources
- Associate Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Machinery and Biomass Logistics
- Program contact for Agricultural Systems Management Minor; Off-Road Equipment Minor
Areas of Expertise
- Agricultural Machinery
- Machine design and test
- Biomass harvesting, handling and logistics
- Biomass in-field processing and densification
- Hydraulics and Pneumatic system design and test
- Email jliu@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-6844
- Associate Teaching Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Biological Engineering Program Coordinator
Areas of Expertise
- Biomass conversion
- Microbial ecology
- Mathematical modeling
- Email mnm11@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-3392
- Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Water quality
- Stormwater management
- Green infrastructure
- Urban ecohydrology
- Biogeochemistry
- Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Nationwide Insurance Professor of Safety & Health
Areas of Expertise
- Safety
- trade secrets
- packaging & pallets
- sustainable business
- sports greening
- wood, building products, paper industries
- Associate Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- ABE Graduate Program Coordinator
- Natural Resource Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Emerging Contaminants
- Contaminant Fate and Transport
- Environmental Hydrology
- Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Storm water management
- Watershed modeling
- Application of optimization tools in watershed analysis
- Ecohydrological impacts of climate and land use change
- Email craj@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-5616
- Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Director of Penn State Institutes for Energy and the Environment
- Bioenergy and Bioresource Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Lignocellulosic biomass conversion
- Bioenergy
- Manure conversion
- Sustainable agriculture
- Email tlr20@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-3722
- Associate Professor of Biological and Chemical Engineering
- Synthetic Biology
Areas of Expertise
- Synthetic Biology
- Metabolic Engineering
- Biophysics
- Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
- Modeling & Optimization
- Email salis@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-1931
- Associate Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Coordinator, Environmental Resource Management Program
- Assistant ENRI Director for Environmental Education
- Water Resources
Areas of Expertise
- Wetland biogeochemistry
- Riparian wetlands
- Construction of wetlands for waste treatment
- Pollutant impacts on aquatic systems
- Email rds13@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-6942
- Associate Teaching Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Instrumentation and Controls
Areas of Expertise
- Electronic instrumentation and control
- Fluid power systems
- Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Bioproducts Systems Analysis
- Process Systems Engineering
- Bioprocess Engineering
- Biomass Valorization
- Biosystems Techno-Economic Analysis and Life-Cycle Assessment
- Email julianavasco@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-8841
- Pronouns She/Her
- Assistant Research Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Engineering Mechanics of Materials; Characterization of Physical and Mechanical Properties of Agricultural and Biological Materials
- Powder Mechanics; Storage, Conveying, Mixing, Size Reduction, Flow, Segregation, and Compaction of Particulate Materials
- Mathematical/numerical modeling, simulation, and analysis of mechanical behavior of particulate materials and biological materials
- Applying mechanical engineering theories to the problems involving biological and particulate materials including renewable energy and consumer products
- Email huy1@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2807
