School of Engineering

Georges Belfort
Russell Sage Endowed Professor
http://www.rpi.edu/dept/chem-eng/WWW/faculty/belfort/index.html

Department Affiliation:

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Education:

Ph.D., The University of California at Irvine
Chemical Engineering

M.S., The University of California at Irvine
Chemical Engineering

B.S., the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Chemical Engineering

Background:

Read More: http://www.rpi.edu/dept/chem-eng/WWW/faculty/belfort/index.html

Research Interests:

• Membrane separation processess (cross-flow filtration, fouling, module design, affinity adsorption, membrane surface modification, NMR flow imaging)
• adsorption processes (proteins and polysaccharides from solution onto solids)
• biocatalysis (bioreactor design for cells and enzymes)
• bioseparations (gene-fusion proteins)