Teaching

Let's catch up over the five courses mentioned below on this coming term at the Arizona State University. Please sign up for courses on the university website. If you have any specific questions about course topics, feel free to message my office, and a teaching staff member will respond as soon as possible.

221: Chemical, Biomolecular Engineering and Applications

Term: Spring

Offered: 2026

Chemical Engineering and Applications

Chemical, Environmental, and Process Engineering

Environmental engineering and sustainable development

Process design and optimization

Product innovation, development and economics

Process intensification

Nanotechnology

New materials and structured products

Intelligent polymers

Green organic synthesis routes

Process integration

Environmental engineering and management

Sustainable and clean technologies

SCF as solvent substitutes

Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Fundamentals

Chemical engineering fundamentals

Physical, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry

Chemical engineering educational challenges and development

Chemical reaction engineering

Chemical engineering equipment design and process design

Thermodynamics

Catalysis and reaction engineering

Particulate systems

Rheology

Multifase flows

Interfacial and colloidal phenomena

Transport phenomena in porous/granular media

Membranes and membrane science

Crystallization

Distillation, absorption and extraction

Ionic liquids/electrolyte solutions

Multi-scale and/or Multi-disciplinary Approaches

Process system, instrumentation and control

Product engineering and product development

Product design & innovation

Nanomanufacturing

Controlled release of the active ingredient

Energy and nuclear sciences

Energy and environment

CFD and chemical engineering

Food engineering

Nanomaterials

Particle technology

Mathematical modeling in chemical engineering

Macromolecular Science and Engineering

Advanced materials processing

Systematic Methods and Tools for Managing the Complexity

Multiscale modeling

Process synthesis and design

Process control and operations

Process Safety Management

Supply chain management and business decision support

Advances in computational and numerical methods

Safety and risk management systems

Systems biology

Economics and Business Management

Process Analytical Technology - PAT

Software architecture, standards and interfaces

Integration of Life Sciences and Engineering

Biochemical Engineering

Biotechnology

Product Engineering in the Bio Industries

Self-organisation in the Bio-sciences and elsewhere

Delivery of the final product

Biotechnology applied to production of new and better quality food

Physical chemistry and thermodynamics for life sciences and biotechnology

Improvement of environmental remediation processes

Food process technology and engineering

The impact of bio-based polymeric materials

Biochemical and biomolecular engineering

Bioengineering and biomedical engineering

Biological and Medicinal Chemistry 

321: Fundamentals of Chemometrics in Analytical Geo-Chemistry

Term: Fall

Offered: 2026

Chemometrics in “omics” technologies

Genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, metabonomics, evaluation of microarray data

Multivariate curve resolution and calibration

Multivariate calibration, theoretical aspects, self modeling curve resolution, alternative least squares, unmixing, new developments

Chemometrics in industry

Process analytical technologies, multivariate process control, process monitoring, experimental design, bilinear models, hard modeling, applications

Validation aspects

All aspect of model validations, handling uncertainity, cross validation, re-sampling techniques, permutation test, external validation

New algorithms and software development

Data mining, sequentially orthogonalized PLS, swarm intelligence, signal processing, Kernel methods, large data sets, missing data

Pattern recognition and classification

Artificial neural networks , classification and regression trees, N-way models, principal component analysis, partial least squares discriminant analysis, support vector machine, and their variants

Modeling and quantitative structure-activity relationships

Quantitative structure-property relationships, feature selection, topological descriptors, computer aided drug design, molecular modeling, high-throughput screening

Application of chemometrics to chromatography and spectroscopy

Column selection, peak alignment, resolution 

421: Nuclear Chemistry and Fundamentals of Heterogeneous Catalysis

Term: Spring

Offered: 2027

Analytical and environmental chemistry

Organic materials and supramolecular chemistry

Ternary and multinary compounds

Biochemistry and technology

Biobased chemicals

Synthesis and application of curved organic molecules and materials

Inorganic chemistry

Designing new heterogeneous catalysis

Macromolecular chemistry

Nanoparticle synthesis and assembly

Organic and medicinal chemistry

Photovoltaic energy conversion

Physical and theoretical chemistry

Synthesis in organic chemistry

Chemical sciences and technologies

The economy and impact on chemicals in the region

Global feedstocks and energy outlook

Flow chemistry

Industrial green chemistry

State of the global chemical industry

Solid oxide electrolysis

Single molecule microscopy and spectroscopy

Carbon dioxide utilisation

Nanoparticles with morphological and functional anisotropy

Ethylene and propylene developments coal to chemicals updates

Renewable chemicals from waste

Organics, photonics and electronics

Natural product discovery and development

Specific products including polyolefins, aromatics, the polyester chain, fibers and feedstocks, butadiene and elastomers

521: Fundamentals of Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry

Term: Fall

Offered: 2027

Systems chemistry and replication

Molecular complexity

Supramolecular chemistry in water

Novel host design

Membrane transport and interfaces

Membrane transport and novel hosts

Supramolecular catalysis

Diagnostics

Foldamers

Molecular recognition driving forces

Physical analysis driving forces

Functional materials 

621: Fundamentals of Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis

Term: Spring

Offered: 2028

Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis

Transition Metal Complexes

Main Group

Rare Earth Chemistry

Materials and Precursors

Bio-Organometallic Chemistry

Structure and Reactivity

Applications in Catalysis

Applications in Asymmetric Synthesis

Theoretical Studies

Sustainable Chemistry