RESEARCH RESOURCES: 19 faculty members

Department of Chemical Engineering

Kutlu Ülgen
, Chair

ulgenk
@
boun.edu.tr


http://www.c
h
e.boun.edu.tr



RESEARCH RESOURCES
:

1
9

faculty members



Biomolecular

Engineering


Catalyst Technologies and
Reaction Engineering


Polymer and Biopolymer
Engineering


Process Engineering



ChE

Biological Systems and
Biomolecular Engineering

•
Systems biology

•
Rational design of cells

•
Cell factories

•
Recombinant protein production

•
Protein purification

•
Investigation of complex genetic
disorders using systems biological
approaches

•
Microbial process kinetics

•
Bioinformatics

•
Identification of drug targets

•
Computational physiology

•
Experimental and computational
metabolic and genetic engineering

ChE

Catalyst Technologies and
Reaction Engineering

•
Catalyst design,

•
Fuel cells and catalysis,

•
Nanocatalysts,

•
Hydrogen production technologies,

•
Catalysis for green technologies,

•
Micro
-
reaction engineering

•
Heterogeneous catalysts and surface
science,

•
Artificial intelligence applications,

•
Fuel and energy technologies,

•
Clean and sustainable energy
production,

•
Prevention of green house gas
emissions and fixation of CO
2


ChE

Polymer and Biopolymer
Engineering


•
Computational Structural Biology

•
Bioinformatics

•
Modeling and simulations of
biomolecular

structure and dynamics;

•
Sequence
-
structure
-
function relationship;

•

Statistical mechanics of polymers;

•
Protein
-
protein, protein
-
DNA, peptide
-
membrane interactions;

•
Coarse
-
grained modeling and simulations;

•
Protein binding and folding;

•
Molecular aspects of biochemical and
biophysical processes;

•
Computer modeling of enzyme
-
substrate,
enzyme
-
drug binding and interactions.

•
Computational Docking Studies

•
Nano
-
scale modeling

ChE

Process Engineering

•
Design of chemical processes,

•
Control and optimization,

•
Separation processes

•
Product design,

•
Microfluidics

•
Risk analysis and management

•
Applied mathematics and numerical
methods

•
Energy engineering

•
Multivariate Statistics

•
Computational fluid dynamics

•
Rheology

•
Interfacial instabilities

•
Quality engineering and management

ChE