Sibani Lisa Biswal

Dr. Biswal is a the William M. McCardell Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CHBE) with a joint appointment in Material Science and Nanoengineering (MSNE). She also serves as Senior Associate Dean in the George R. Brown School of Engineering. Biswal joined the Rice faculty in 2006. She earned her doctorate in chemical engineering from Stanford University in 2004 and received her undergraduate degree in chemical engineering at the California Institute of Technology. She completed her postdoctoral research in mechanical engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. She has been previously awarded the Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. She has received the George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching. She has advised 30+ doctoral students and published 130+ peer-reviewed publications in the area of colloidal and interfacial phenomena.