Bamin Khomami

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

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ABOUT BAMIN KHOMAMI

I started my independent academic career at Washington University in 1987 as an Assistant Professor and was named the Francis F. Ahmann Professor of Chemical Engineering in 1997. In fall of 2006, I joined the University of Tennessee in Knoxville as a Distinguished University Professor and Head of the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department. In January of 2008, I was named the founding director of the Sustainable Energy Education and Research at the University of Tennessee. In 2011, I became affiliated with the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering. In addition, between 1992 to 2006, I served as a visiting Professor at Stanford University, Universidad Nacional De Education A Distancia (Madrid, Spain), and the Technical University of Denmark.I have also been very active in consulting in the past two decades. To date, I have worked with a number of national and international fortune 500 companies (Dow, 3M, NIKE, Mitsubishi, GE, MEMC, SACMI Imola, ANSYS, Poly Flow, Coren corporation and Bryce corporation) interested in development and manufacture of functional and structural materials such as polymeric films and fibers, gels, polymer matrix composites, emulsions, adhesives, etc. In 2015, I co-founded Celtig LLC to produce high-quality graphene nanoplatelets or flakes (marketed under the trade name Cicarbo™) and to distribute commercial quantities of this line of products to markets worldwide. My current research interests are mainly focused on: 1) Complex Fluids, 2) Advanced Materials for Sustainable Energy Applications, 3) Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, 4) Rheology, and 5) Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics.