College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Department of Chemistry

REU Faculty

Chemistry

Mark Gordon  

Distinguished professor of chemistry, Dr. Gordon joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry at Iowa State University in 1992. Dr. Gordon also serves as the director of the Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences division of Ames Lab, a Department of Energy national laboratory facility located on the ISU campus.

William S. Jenks  

Professor Jenks joined the faculty at Iowa State in the fall of 1992. He was named a Cottrell Scholar by the Research Corporation in 1995 and received and NSF Career Award in 1996. He is an associate editor of Advances in Photochemistry. His on-campus recognitions include the 1998 Wilkinson award for undergraduate teaching, LXA Professor of the Month in February 1996, and being named an Outstanding Ally by the LGBTAA in 1999. In 2002, Dr. Jenks received the Award for Excellence in Teaching from the LAS College.

Gordon Miller  

Following postdoctoral work at the Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany, Professor Miller joined the faculty at Iowa State. His group's research efforts focus on experimental and theoretical solid state chemistry. He has received the Exxon Faculty Fellowship in Solid State Chemistry, he is the editor of the Journal of Alloys and Compounds and is on the Editorial Advisory Board for Inorganic Chemistry

Xueyu Song  

Assistant professor of chemistry, received his B.S. in 1984 and M.S. in 1987 from Nankai University, China. He then attended California Institute of Technology in 1991 and received his Ph.D. in 1995. After working as a postdoctoral fellow at University of California, Berkeley, he joined the faculty at Iowa State University in the fall of 1998.

Chemical Engineering

Monica Lamm  

Assistant professor of chemical engineering. Dr. Lamm joined the faculty at Iowa State in 2003. She received her Ph.D. from North Carolina State University in 2000 and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan from 2001 - 2003. Her research interests include applying Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations to study the connection between molecular structure and the thermodynamic and transport properties of advanced materials, such as membranes, sensors, and pharmaceuticals.

Physics

Bruce Harmon  

Ames Laboratory/Iowa State University 1975-present; Visiting Scientist, Kernforschungszentrum, Karlsruhe, West Germany 1980-81, Program Director 1983-present, Visiting Scientist ESRF, Grenoble, France 1990, Deputy Director Ames Laboratory 1995-present, Acting Director of the Center for Physical and Computational Mathematics 1996-, and member of the Executive Council of the Division of Condensed Matter Physics of the APS, 2000-2002.

Kai-Ming Ho  

Has been at Iowa State University since 1982. Electronic structure of clean and adsorbate-covered solid surfaces in vacuum or in electrolytes. Precise first-principles total energy calculations for bulk and distorted crystals, crystal surfaces, impurities and point defects in crystals. Molecular dynamic simulations.

Mathematics

James Evans  

Associate Professor of Mathematics at Iowa State University since 1991, and Professor of Mathematics since 1996. Research interests include spatiotemporal behavior in catalytic surface reactions: atomistic lattice-gas modeling accounting for the influence of adlayer ordering on the reaction kinetics and chemical diffusivity; development of exact reaction-diffusion equations; analysis of fluctuations in nanoscale reaction systems.