Faculty & Staff
Our faculty and staff are leaders in their fields. As subject matter experts and dedicated educators, their passion is for providing students with the knowledge, skills, and abilities they need to become future leaders, thinkers, and doers.
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William M. Chirdon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Graduate Coordinator B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, 1998
M.S., Macromolecular Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, 2000
Ph.D., Macromolecular Science and Engineering and Biomaterials, University of Michigan, 2004
Email: wchirdon@louisiana.edu Office: 337-482-6564 Madison Hall, Room 216-B |
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Dilip Depan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
BORSF Bioprocessing Professorship I
B.S., Chemistry, M.D.S. University, India, 2000
M.S., Applied Chemistry, M.D.S. University, India 2002
Ph.D., Polymer Science and Engineering, National Chemical Laboratory, India 2009
Website: https://ddepan.wixsite.com/beamlab Email: ddepan@gmail.com, dilip.depan@louisiana.edu Office: (337) 654-0943 Madison Hall, Room 218-B
Research Interests: Can be found here
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Ling (Jessica) Fei, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Chevron Endowed Professorship
B.S., Applied Chemistry, Shantou University, China, 2010
M.S., Chemical Engineering, New Mexico State University, 2012 Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, New Mexico State University, 2014 Group Website: https://sites.google.com/view/fei-lab-ull Email: ling.fei@louisiana.edu Madison Hall, Room 218-C
Research Interests: Can be found here
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Dhan Lord B. Fortela, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of the Philippines at Los Banos, 2010 Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2016 Email: dhanlord.fortela@louisiana.edu Office: 337-482-5765 Madison Hall, Room 218-D |
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Rafael Hernandez, Ph.D.
Department Head and Professor
J. Madison Nelson/ BORSF Professorship
Associate Director of the Energy Institute of Louisiana B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, 1993
M.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, 1996
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Mississippi State University, 2002
Email: rhernandez@louisiana.edu
Office: 337-482-6062
Madison Hall, Room 217-D |
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Ashley Mikolajczyk, P.E.
Instructor B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2013 M.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2020 Email: ashley.mikolajczyk@louisiana.edu
Office: 337-482-5765
Madison Hall, Room 216-A |
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Vu Nguyen, Ph.D. Instructor B.S., Chemical Engineering, Vietnam National University, H.C.M., Vietnam, 2013 |
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Brandon Plaisance, E.I.
Instructor
B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2013 M.S., Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering - Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016 Email: brandon.plaisance@louisiana.edu Madison Hall, Room 217-M |
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John C. Prindle, Jr., Ph.D, P.E.
Professor of Practice B.S., Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, 1982 B.S., Mathematics, Texas Tech University, 1983 Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1989 Email: john.prindle@louisiana.edu Office: 337-482-1217 Madison Hall, Room 217-J
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Emmanuel Revellame, Ph.D. |
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Mark E. Zappi, Ph.D., P.E.
Executive Director of UL Energy Institute of Louisiana
Endowed Chair in Bioprocessing
Professor
B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1984
M.S., Chemical Engineering, Mississippi State University, 1991
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Mississippi State University, 1995
Website: https://energy.louisiana.edu/
Research Interests: Can be found here
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Timothy Boudreaux
Laboratory Manager
B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2015 Email: timothy.boudreaux2@louisiana.edu Office: 337-482-1221 Madison Hall, Room 217-K |
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William “Bill” Holmes
Director of Process Analytics and Process Chemistry
Madison Hall, Room 224
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Vacant
Administrative Assistant III
Email: chemical@louisiana.edu
Office: 337-482-6562
Madison Hall, Room 217-A
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