CBEE Seminars
The CBEE Seminar Series showcases cutting-edge research and industry insights in chemical, biological, and environmental engineering, featuring distinguished speakers from academia, government, and industry. Seminars are typically held in person on Fridays at 11 a.m. in Kelley Engineering Center, with occasional special sessions throughout the term. All students, faculty, and community members are welcome to attend.
Upcoming Seminars
Past Events
Fall 2025 to present
Seminars prior to 2025/26 academic year
Dispensing Gynecological Cancer Cells to Create a 3D Cervical and Endometrial Cancer Models
Samantha Seymour
Reactor Development for Effective Heat Harvesting from Thermochemical Energy Storage Media
Juve Ortiz-Ulloa
Optimal experimental design for the calibration of irreversible, binary-state sensors
Gbenga Fabusola, Adrian Henle, Qia Ke, and Gabriel Pinheiro
Mitigating Data Scarcity in Polymer Property Prediction via Multi-task Auxiliary Learning
Gabriel Pinheiro
How the environment around electrocatalytic active sites influences reactivity
Joaquin Resasco
Toward Sustainable, Intensified Food and Chemical Productions via Process Systems Engineering Approaches
Zheyu Jiang
Polymeric drug delivery systems for enhanced chemotherapeutic efficacy in endometrial cancer
Brittany Givens Rassoolkhani
Mission Impossible: Imaging and quantifying biofilms with x-rays
Dorthe Wildenschild
Elevating Your Academic Presence: Presentation Skills for Graduate Success
Heidi Kloefkorn (Assistant Professor in Bioengineering), Kostantinos Goulas (Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering) and Tyler Radniecki (Associate Professor in Environmental Engineering).
Role of hydrides in the conversion of biomass to biofuels
Sri Krishna Murthy Padavala
Spectroscopic determination of metal redox and segregation effects during CO and CO/NO oxidation over Pd and PdCu catalysts
Stephen Thomas Kristy
Incentivizing the upcycling of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) by converting PVC to hydrocarbon waxes via dechlorination and catalytic hydrogenation
Scott Svadlenak
Exploring Catalytic Reactions on Surfaces Using Computational and Surface Science Tools
L铆ney 脕rnad贸ttir
Cell Senescence in Intervertebral Disc Disease; From Basic Knowledge to Therapeutic Opportunities
Lisbet Haglund