Bamin Khomami
Bamin Khomami received his MS (1985) and PhD (1987) degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois-Urbana. He is the Distinguished University Professor and Head of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee- Knoxville (UTK), a position he has held since 2006. In 2008, he became the founding director of the Sustainable Energy Education and Research at UTK and in 2011 he received a dual appointment and became a Professor of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering. Prior to joining UTK he was the Francis F. Ahmann Professor of Chemical Engineering at Washington University where he started his academic career in 1987. In addition, between 1992 to 2006, he has been a visiting Professor at Stanford University, Universidad Nacional De Education A Distancia (Spain), and the Technical University of Denmark. During his career he has received a number of teaching and research awards, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), American Institute of Chemical Engineering (AIChE), American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), and Society of Rheology (SoR). Khomami’s current research interests include structure, dynamics and rheology of complex fluids. He has authored or co-authored over 195 archival journal publications and he currently serves on editorial boards of Journals of Rheology (2007-Present), Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics (2008-Present), and Applied Rheology (2007-Present). He is also a co-Founder and member of Board of Directors and CEO of Celtig, LLC, and Interntional Graphene, LLC. Celtig and Internationl Graphene produces high-quality commercial quantities of graphene nanoplatelets or flakes marketed worldwide.