Research Interests

  • magnetic hyperthermia
  • environmentally-responsible polymer synthesis
  • gels and networks for membrane separations
  • controlled drug delivery
  • pharmaceutical engineering
  • stimuli-responsive materials
  • cardiovascular biomaterials
  • combination cancer therapy nanoplatform
  • microencapsulation 
  • polymer micelles
  • single-use bioprocessing systems
  • toxicology screening of materials

Biography

Born: San Antonio, Texas, 1970

Education:     
  • B.S. Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1992
  • M.S. Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 1994
  • Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 1997

Work Experiences:
  • Mobil Oil, summer engineer, 1990 (Snyder, TX), 1991 (Beaumont, TX)
  • Topchiev Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences 1994 (Moscow)
  • University of Parma, Italy, Department of Pharmaceutics 1995
  • Southwest Research Institute, research engineer, microencapsulation, 1997-1999 (San Antonio, TX)
  • The University of Alabama, Department of Chemical Engineering, 
    - assistant professor, 1999-2005
    - associate professor, 2005-
         - department head, 2014-2018
  • Keele University, Institute for Science and Technology in Medicine, Fulbright Distinguished Scholar and visiting professor, 2008-2009