Administration
Rebecca Alexander
Director for Academic Programming and Professor of Chemistry
Amanda Tingle
Office Manager
Brian Smith
Laboratory Manager
Alana James
Associate Director, Community Engagement
Tommy Murphy
Instructional Technologist, Wake Downtown
Jordan Buzzett
Fellow in the Office of Wake Downtown
Engineering Faculty and Staff
Olga Pierrakos
Founding Chair of the Department of Engineering
Michael Gross
Associate Professor
Studies solid oxide fuel cells, materials and composites for energy technologies, and student motivation in STEM.
Erin Henslee
Assistant Professor
Studies the electrophysiologic properties of cells through lab-on-a-chip assays to delineate how these properties relate to disease, drug resistance, circadian biology and cell patterning.
Lauren Lowman
Assistant Professor
Focuses on how disturbances related to weather, climate, and land cover/land use change affect ecosystem productivity and self-sustainability.
Kyle Luthy
Assistant Profesor
Kyana Young
Assistant Professor
Research: Water quality, water treatment efficacy, and public health.
Saami K. Yazdani
Associate Professor
My research interest is to prevent and treat cardiovascular disease. We employ a combination of traditional engineering approaches (solid mechanics and fluid mechanics) and biological techniques (tissue engineering and physiology) to develop models to better understand the pathology of cardiovascular disease and characterize the failure of cardiovascular devices.
Courtney Di Vittorio
Assistant Professor
Research: Hydrology, remote sensing, water resources management, modeling frameworks, decision support tools, optimization, and geostatistics.
Melissa Kenny
Assistant Teaching Professor
Research: Structural and physical characterization of insect flow systems.
Cathy Bailey
Administrative Assistant
Olle Rostlund
Lab Manager, Department of Engineering
Nick Lutzweiler
Visiting Assistant Professor of Practice
Paul Allaire
Adjunct Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Faculty
Patricia Dos Santos
Studies the biochemical formation of [Fe-S] clusters in Gram-positive bacteria.
Rebecca Alexander
Focuses on understanding the mechanisms of protein synthesis and protein factors that facilitate processes of synthesis.
Gloria Muday
Studies hormone signaling, action, and their physiological consequences in Arabidopsis thaliana and tomato plants.
Ke Zhang Reid
Studies epigenome regulation (and misregulation) in response to nuclear signaling networks in fission yeast and mammalian cells.
Lindsay Comstock-Ferguson
Studies the role of post-translational modifications in the dynamic regulation of cellular function and how their alterations correlate to disease.
Sarah McDonald Esstman
Studies RNA virus biology, especially rotavirus genome replication, virion assembly, evolution & gene reassortment.
Troy Stich
Studies mechanism determination for metalloenzymes and chemical and computational modeling of enzymatic chemistry.
Josh Currie
Studies how molecules and cells are coordinated during complex tissue regeneration in the Mexican axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum).
Medicinal Chemistry & Drug Discovery Faculty
Mark Welker
Studies engineered polysaccharides for use in wound healing & drug delivery, and organic electronics with versatile functionality.
Lindsay Comstock-Ferguson
Studies the role of post-translational modifications in the dynamic regulation of cellular function and how their alterations correlate to disease.
Bruce King
Studies the various roles nitric oxide (NO) performs in biological systems, and organic methodologies for the preparation of biologically active compounds.
Ulrich Bierbach
Studies the design of small-molecule agents for the cure and management of life-threatening diseases and for probing & modulating gene regulation
John Lukesh
Studies heterocyclic, bioorganic, medicinal & combinatorial chemistry, the study of DNA-agent interactions, and the chemistry of antitumor antibiotics