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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.

Faculty
	Prashanth R. Buchireddy, Ph.D. Assistant Professor BORSF Bioengineering Professorship II B.S., Chemical Engineering, Mississippi State University, 1998 M.S., Chemical Engineering, Mississippi State University, 2004 Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Mississippi State University, 2013 Email: prashanth.buchireddy@louisiana.edu Office: 337-482-5761 Madison Hall, Room 218-A Research Interests: Can be found here
	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
	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
	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
	Dhan Lord B. Fortela, Ph.D. Instructor 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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	Melanie Sanders Instructor B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2016 M.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2018 Email: msanders@louisiana.edu Phone: 337-482-5052 Madison Hall, Room 217-F
	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/ Email: zappi@louisiana.edu Office: 337-482-6685 Research Interests: Can be found here
	Xiao-Dong Zhou, Ph.D. The Stuller Endowed Chair Executive Director of the Institute for Materials Research and Innovation Professor B.S., Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 1994 M.S., Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 1997 Ph.D. Ceramic Engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla, 2001 Website: www.zhoulab.com Email: zhou@louisiana.edu Office: 337-482-5910 Madison Hall, Room 218-E

Staff
	Jace Conerly Laboratory Technician B.S., Chemical Engineering, Missippi State University, 2015 M.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2019 Email: jerry.conerly1@louisiana.edu Office: 337-482-1221 Madison Hall, Room 217-K
	William “Bill” Holmes Director of Process Analytics and Process Chemistry Energy Institute of Louisiana Email: william.holmes@louisiana.edu Office: 337-482-2939 Madison Hall, Room 224
	Stacy Knight Administrative Assistant III Email: stacy.knight@louisiana.edu Office: 337-482-6562 Madison Hall, Room 217-A
Affiliates of Chemical Engineering
	Emmanuel Revellame, Ph.D. Assistant Professor B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of the Philippines Los Banos, 2001 Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Mississippi State University, 2011 Email: erevellame@louisiana.edu Office: 337-482-5351