Peter Kelleher
Dr. Kelleher has served as the Associate Vice Chancellor for the Office of Intellectual Property, Commercialization & Development at Louisiana State University since December 2006. He is responsible for overseeing patent protection and licensing of inventions developed from LSU’s research activities. The majority of recent inventions were in the areas of engineering, materials science, chemistry, computer science software and the life sciences. Immediately prior to joining LSU, Dr. Kelleher was a Senior Technology Manager at the Center for Technology Development of The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, TX.
Pete received his Ph.D. in Microbiology from Texas A&M University in 1979. His postdoctoral training in cancer immunology and cell biology occurred at the National Jewish Hospital in Denver, CO, the University of Texas Medical School and The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX. Subsequently, he was Director and Vice President of Research at Houston Biotechnology Incorporated and Zonagen Inc., two start-up biotechnology companies in Houston. His responsibilities included basic research, product and business development, and evaluation of new technologies for in-licensing.
Dr. Kelleher is active in the Association of University Technology Managers and the Licensing Executive Society and is a member of the American Chemical Society and the American Society for Microbiology. He has authored several peer reviewed scientific publications, and is an inventor on ten issued US patents.
Contact information: kelleher@lsu.edu
Website: http://uiswcmsweb.prod.lsu.edu/research/intellectualproperty/
Matthew Lee
Dr. Lee is a criminologist and public health scholar who received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Louisiana State University in 1999. He spent 5 years on the faculty in the Department of Sociology at Mississippi State University before coming back to LSU in 2004. He is currently a Professor of Sociology, co-founder and co-coordinator of CAPER, the Crime and Policy Evaluation Research group, and is an Associate Vice Chancellor in the Office of Research and Economic Development. He is an elected member of several scholarly honor societies, including Alpha Kappa Delta - the International Sociology Honor Society, Phi Kappa Phi, and Sigma Xi - the Scientific Research Society. He was named an LSU Rainmaker in both 2008 and 2009.
His research and teaching interests are in the broad areas of criminal violence and public health. He has written or co-authored more than 55 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and has received NSF CAREER and SGER grants, Board of Regents Enhancement funds, and research support from other sources. He has been heavily involved in mentoring outstanding graduate and undergraduate students, including students who have become Ronald McNair and Perkins Fellows, and a Truman Scholar and Ford Fellow.
The substance of his scholarly work lies in the areas of racial inequality, social structure and violence; rural violence; cultural influences on violence; and community public health issues. He is a major proponent of civic community theory in sociology, and has demonstrated its broad applicability to the explanation of community variation in social pathologies.
Contact information: mlee@lsu.edu
Website: http://appl003.lsu.edu/artsci/sociologyweb.nsf/$Content/Lee?OpenDocument
Kalliat T. Valsaraj
Professor Kalliat Valsaraj received his M.Sc. in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1980 and his Ph.D in Chemistry (with Chemical Engineering as Minor) from Vanderbilt University in 1983. He is a Professor in the Cain Department of Chemical Engineering and served as the Department Chair from 2005 to 2011. He holds the titles of Charles and Hilda Roddey Distinguished Professor in Chemical Engineering and Ike East Professorship in Chemical Engineering.
His research area is in environmental chemical engineering. He has broad research experience in wastewater treatment, atmospheric chemistry and, modeling the fate and transport of contaminants in all three environmental media (air, water and soil/sediment). His present research is concerned with the transformations of pollutants on atmospheric aerosols (fog, rain, ice and snow), mercury sequestration in sediments and, high pressure / low temperature phase equilibrium studies of relevance to the sub-sea oil/gas spills. He has provided consulting and expert opinions to various industries, State and Federal agencies. He is the author of 1 textbook (with three editions), 164 peer-reviewed journal articles, 27 book chapters and 2 U.S. patents. His research has been supported by the NSF, EPA, DOE, DOD, USGS and private industries. He is a Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).
Contact information: valsaraj@lsu.edu