Complex systems is an exciting and emerging area in chemical engineering.  Chemical engineering, with its systems approach and its ability to integrate knowledge over a wide range of length scales and its intimate connection to molecules and biology, provides a natural habitat for these ideas. Research in this area ranges from analysis of bioinformatics to dynamics of granular materials.

Faculty working in Complex Systems:
Luis Amaral
Vassily Hatzimanikatis
Julio Ottino
Bartosz Grzybowski

Collaborating Faculty, Departments, and Research Facilities:
Richard Lueptow, Mechanical Engineering
Richard Morimoto, BMBCB
NICO (Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems)
IBiS (Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program)
Kelvin Lee, Cornell University, Molecular & Cell Biology