Bamin Khomami

Bamin Khomami received his MS (1985) and PhD (1987) degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. He is the Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE) at University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK). He has served as CBE Department Head (2006 to 2022) and Director of UTK’s Sustainable Energy and Research Center (SEERC 2009-2019). 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 and Director of the Graduate Program of Chemical Engineering at Washington University, where he started his academic career in 1987.

Khomami has authored or co-authored over 210 archival journals and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society of Rheology, and the American Institute of Chemical Engineering . He is also a co-Founder, CEO and member of Board of Directors of Celtig LLC – Knoxville and International Graphene LLC – South Carolina. Celtig and International Graphene produce high-quality commercial quantities of graphene nanoplatelets or flakes marketed worldwide.