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Faculty Profiles
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Dr. Jason F.
Weaver joined the faculty of the chemical engineering department in January
of 2000. Jason is a native Floridian and an alumnus of the chemical engineering
department at University of Florida. He received both B.S. and M.S. degrees in
chemical engineering from UF in 1992 and 1993. He then went to Stanford
University for graduate school, where he earned a Ph.D. in chemical engineering
in 1998.
Jason's research interests are in the area of gas-surface reactivity, which has
applications in fields such as heterogeneous catalysis and semiconductor
processing. Jason and his students have spent the past two years developing an
ultrahigh vacuum analysis system in which they investigate chemical reactions at
surfaces. They are currently studying the reactions of gas-phase oxygen atoms at
surfaces in a general effort to better understand the surface chemistry
occurring in extreme environments such as plasmas and flames.
Dr. Narang Joins Faculty
Dr. Atul Narang
joined the faculty of the chemical engineering department in August, 1999. He
received a BS (ChE) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, in 1985. He
earned his MS (ChE) from the University of Toledo in 1989, and his PhD (ChE)
from Purdue in 1994. He worked as a Research Engineer at the Amoco Research
Center in Naperville, IL, until 1999.
Atul's research interests are in bacterial growth kinetics and mammalian cell
movement. The goal of this work is to understand the intracellular mechanisms by
which cells receive signals from the environment and respond to them by growing
or moving. An understanding of these mechanisms would lead to better design of
certain environmental and biotechnological systems. Atul's group has spent the
last three years developing mathematical models of the intracellular mechanisms
and designing experiments to test the validity of the models.
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