Chemical & Environmental Engineering

Suchol Savagatrup

Assistant Professor, Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Member of the Graduate Faculty
Assistant Professor, BIO5 Institute
Contact
(520) 621-6044

Work Summary

Suchol’s work includes the use of soft materials mechanics and device engineering in the development of chemical and biosensors for health and environmental monitoring.

Research Interest

Suchol Savagatrup is an Assistant Professor in the Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department. His research interests sit at the interface of responsive soft materials science and device fabrication for applications in biosensors and environmental sustainability. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering from UC Berkeley and UC San Diego, respectively. And he completed his postdoctoral study as a Ruth L. Kirschstein NIH postdoctoral fellow at MIT. His work focuses on novel designs of chemical sensors using functional polymers and complex liquid colloids for the detection of foodborne pathogens, biomarkers, and environmental contaminants.

Armin Sorooshian

Distinguished Scholar, Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Professor, Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Professor, Global Change - GIDP
Professor, Hydrology / Atmospheric Sciences
Professor, Optical Sciences
Professor, Public Health
Member of the Graduate Faculty
da Vinci Fellow
Contact
(520) 626-5858

Work Summary

Armin's research focuses on the effect of aerosol particles on the environment, clouds and rainfall, climate, and public health/welfare. A suite of synergistic methods are used for this research, including laboratory experiments, ground and airborne field measurements, modeling, and remote sensing observations. Since 2004, he has participated in 15 airborne field projects, including six as a mission PI with the CIRPAS Twin Otter (sponsored by ONR). Currently, Armin is involved with a multi-year NASA project called CAMP2EX (Cloud and Aerosol Monsoonal Processes-Philippines Experiment; https://espo.nasa.gov/camp2ex/content/CAMP2Ex) and is serving as the PI of a NASA Earth Venture Suborbital-3 (EVS-3) mission called ACTIVATE (Aerosol Cloud meTeorology Interactions oVer the western ATlantic Experiment; https://activate.larc.nasa.gov/).

Research Interest

Armin's research focuses on the effect of aerosol particles on the environment, clouds and rainfall, climate, and public health/welfare. A suite of synergistic methods are used for this research, including laboratory experiments, ground and airborne field measurements, modeling, and remote sensing observations. Since 2004, he has participated in 15 airborne field projects, including six as a mission PI with the CIRPAS Twin Otter (sponsored by ONR). Currently, Armin is involved with a multi-year NASA project called CAMP2EX (Cloud and Aerosol Monsoonal Processes-Philippines Experiment; https://espo.nasa.gov/camp2ex/content/CAMP2Ex) and is serving as the PI of a NASA Earth Venture Suborbital-3 (EVS-3) mission called ACTIVATE (Aerosol Cloud meTeorology Interactions oVer the western ATlantic Experiment; https://activate.larc.nasa.gov/).

Erin L Ratcliff

Associate Professor, Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Co-Director, Institute for Energy Solutions
Associate Professor, BIO5 Institute
Primary Department
Contact
(520) 626-5567

Research Interest

Erin L. Ratcliff is an Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Arizona, with joint appointments in the Departments of Chemical and Environmental Engineering and Chemistry and Biochemistry. She also has a joint appointment with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, CO. Dr. Ratcliff’s research group – the Laboratory for Interface Science of Printable Electronic Materials - is focused on the application of electrochemistry and spectroscopy to better understand the functionality of printable electronic materials, interfaces, and devices. The majority of her research efforts target understanding the structure-property relationships that govern charge transfer kinetics and transport of electronic and ionic species, with connections to energy conversion devices and biosensors.

Andrea Achilli

Assistant Professor, Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Assistant Professor, BIO5 Institute
Contact
(520) 621-6586

Research Interest

Andrea Achilli is an Assistant Professor in the Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Arizona (UA) and affiliated faculty at the UA Water and Energy Sustainable Technology (WEST) Center. His main fields of research are membrane processes for desalination and water reuse and energy recovery from water and wastewater. Additional field of his research focuses on process integration, modelling, and optimization and biological processes for water and wastewater treatments. Dr. Achilli is the PI or Co-PI on funded research projects for membrane contactor processes and hybrid systems for desalination and water reuse, including EPRI, CA DWR, EREF, and SERPD .