News: Faculty

Sundaresan recognized for lifetime achievement in chemical engineering
Oct. 3, 2022

Sundaresan, the Norman John Sollenberger Professor of Engineering and professor of chemical and biological engineering, has developed mathematical models describing granular and multiphase flows (such as…

Brangwynne wins the Breakthrough Prize for revolutionary view of living cells
Sept. 22, 2022

Brangwynne, the June K. Wu ’92 Professor in Engineering, shares the $3 million prize with Anthony Hyman of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics. The Breakthrough Prize cited their discovery of “a…

Marcella Lusardi joins Princeton, bringing materials and environmental expertise
Sept. 1, 2022

Materials expert Marcella Lusardi has joined Princeton as an assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering and the Princeton Materials Institute. She brings expertise in designing molecular-scale catalytic materials and plans to apply it to the large-scale problems of environmental sustainability and global warming.

A hairpin twist hints at nature’s answer to a long-running molecular mystery
Aug. 18, 2022

A naturally occurring chemical group, called aspartimide, is usually found interfering with cancer therapies and spoiling biological experiments. But a paper in Nature Chemistry, published Aug. 18, shows that aspartimide also provides a key structural link in some peptides, tiny protein-like molecules at the center of many modern medicines.

Artificial intelligence broke the ice in simulating how water freezes
Aug. 15, 2022

A team based at Princeton University has accurately simulated the initial steps of ice formation by applying artificial intelligence (AI) to solving equations that govern the quantum behavior of individual atoms and molecules.

The resulting simulation describes how water molecules transition into solid ice with quantum accuracy. This…