College Directory
Electronic materials processing, inorganic thermodynamics and
phase
equilibria, chemical vapor deposition, crystal growth,
photovoltaics.
Dynamics of Complex Fluids, Suspension and Multiphase Fluid Mechanics, Polymer Dynamics and Rheology
Cellular and molecular bioengineering, biomolecular cell mechanics, mathematical biology.
Organometallic Chemistry
Homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis,
quantum chemical calculations,
surface characterizations.
Nanomaterials, nano-optics, micro-bioanalysis, self-assembly, templated synthesis.
Molecular and multi-scale modeling, nanoscale transport phenomena, and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics.
Numerical simulations of statistical mechanical problems, colloidal suspensions, flow in heterogeneous media.
Thermal convection. Fluid mechanics of materials processing, bifurcation phenomena in applied mathematics, transport phenomena, low-gravity process modeling, experiments in instabilities.
Mathematical modeling, photoelectrochemical phenomena, corrosion, impedance spectroscopy.
Applied AI and data analytics,Soft matter/biomaterials/tissue engineering,Immunological engineering
Interfacial phenomena in
engineering, biomedical systems.
Before joining UF, Dr. Turpeinen spent his career in the biotechnology and medical device industry, where he led multidisciplinary research and development programs focused on vaccine development and manufacturing, regenerative biomaterials and medical device commercialization.
Dr. Turpeinen brings extensive industrial experience into the classroom, connecting fundamental chemical engineering principles with real-world engineering practice.…
Influence of microdomains on diffusion in biomembranes, transport in porous materials with hierarchy of pore sizes, transport-optimized catalysis and separations.
Gas-surface reactivity and dynamics, heterogeneous catalysis, semiconductor processing.
Nanomaterials synthesis and characterization, integration of nanomaterials into devices, porous structures.