Program Leadership

The MolE Ph.D. program is run by our Director of Education Alshakim Nelson and Graduate Program Advisor Doug Ballard and overseen by an interdisciplinary committee known as the Graduate School Interdisciplinary Committee (GSIC). This committee is comprised of faculty from a variety of departments across the College of Engineering and College of Arts & Sciences and is responsible for guiding the MolE Ph.D. program and making admissions decisions.

Department	GSIC Member
Bioengineering	Ying Zheng, Associate Professor
Chemical Engineering	Cole DeForest, Associate Professor
Chemical Engineering	Vincent Holmberg, Assistant Professor
Chemistry	Alshakim (Al) Nelson, Associate Professor (Chair of GSIC)
Chemistry	Dianne Xiao, Assistant Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering	Jessica Ray, Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering / CS	Georg Seelig, Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering	Ayokunle Olanrewaju, Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering	Igor Novosselov, Associate Research Professor