Chemistry Faculty
ISU Chemistry Faculty With Active Research Groups
| Name | Research Area(s) |
| Robbyn Anand | Bioanalytical; microfluidics; electrochemistry; separations |
| Jared Anderson | Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry |
| Mark Gordon | Theoretical and Computational Chemistry |
| Alexander Gundlach-Graham | Development and application of atomic mass spectrometry for environmental and bioanalytical sciences |
| Tom Holme | Chemical Education, Computational Chemistry |
| Wenyu Huang | Nanomaterials, Catalysis, and Renewable Energy |
| William Jenks** | Organic Photochemistry, Organosulfur Chemistry, Environmental Photochemistry |
| Kirill Kovnir | Novel materials for energy |
| George Kraus | Organic Synthesis and New Synthetic Methodology, Bioagricultural Chemistry, Green Chemistry |
| Young Jin Lee | Biological Mass Spectrometry |
| Junqi Li | Chemical synthesis methods can rapidly access derivatives of comples small molecule structures |
| Gordon Miller | Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of Solid State Inorganic Chemistry |
| Jacob Petrich | Ultrafast spectroscopy of biophysical systems and solvation processes. Applications of light to food safety and human health |
| Davit Potoyan | Theoretical Chemistry & Biophysics |
| Marek Pruski | Materials Chemistry and Solid State NMR |
| Aaron Rossini | Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy, Dynamic Nuclear Polarization and Materials Characterization |
| Aaron Sadow | Organometallic Chemistry and Asymmetric Catalysis |
| Igor Slowing | Multitasking Nanostructured Materials |
| Emily Smith | Bioanalytical, Fluorescence and Chemical Imaging |
| Xueyu Song | Theoretical and Computational Chemistry |
| Levi Stanley | Organic and Organometallic Chemistry, Catalysis, and Asymmetric Synthesis |
| Patricia Thiel | Surface Chemistry, Metal Thin Films and Nanoparticles, Properties of Structurally-complex Alloy Surfaces |
| Brett VanVeller | Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry, Self-assembly, Materials |
| Javier Vela | Nanostructured and Optical Materials for Energy, Catalysis, and Imaging Applications |
| Vincenzo Venditti | Molecular mechanisms of enzyme regulation NMR Spectroscopy |
| Theresa Windus | Theoretical and Computational Chemistry |
| Arthur Winter | Synthesis of chemical tools for biological and medical applications |
| Julia Zaikina | Unconventional synthesis of emerging inorganic and solid state materials |
| Yan Zhao | Organic, Supramolecular, Biomimetic, Materials, Catalysis, and Nano Chemistry |
**Department Chair
Lecturers in Chemistry
| Name | Research Area(s) |
| Joseph Awino | General Chemistry and Organic Chemistry |
| Cristina Bonaccorsi | General Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry |
| Joseph Burnett | General Chemistry and Physical Chemistry |
| Sara Pistolesi | General Chemistry Laboratories |
| Irmi Schewe-Miller | General Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry |
| Kathy Burke | General Chemistry and Chemical Education |
| David Appy | General Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry |
| Terry Fernando | Organic Labs |
Emeritus and Retired Professors (No longer accepting students)
| Name | Research Area(s) |
| Robert Angelici | Organometallic Chemistry, Catalysis on Gold Metal, Biodiesel Conversions |
| Andreja Bakac | Oxygen Activation, Transition Metal Catalysts, Kinetics and Mechanisms |
| Thomas Barton | Organosilicon Chemistry |
| John Corbett + | Inorganic Solid State Chemistry |
| James Espenson | Transition metal catalysts, Mechanisms & Applications |
| Hugo Franzen | High Temperature Solid State Chemistry |
| James Fritz + | Analytical Separations |
| Gregory Geoffroy | Synthetic organometallic chemistry, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, and organometallic photochemistry. |
| Bernard Gerstein | Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Effective Teaching |
| David Hoffman | Physical Chemistry |
| R. Samuel Houk | Inorganic Mass Spectrometry, ICP-MS, Biological Mass Spectrometry, Forensic Chemistry |
| Wilbert Hutton + | Education |
| X-Ray Crystallography, Molecular Machanics Methods | |
| Dennis Johnson | Electrochemistry |
| Richard Larock | Organometallic Chemistry, Synthetic Methodology, Heterocycles, Bioplastics from Soybean/Corn Oils |
| Victor Lin + | Nanomaterials, Synthesis and Characterization |
| Robert McCarley + | Solid-State and Metal Cluster Chemistry |
| Klaus Ruedenberg | Quantum Chemistry |
| Glen Russell + | Organic Chemistry |
| Martha Russell + | General & Organic Chemistry |
| Kathleen Trahanovsky | General & Organic Chemistry |
| Walter Trahanovsky | Pyrolysis of Organic Compounds, Applications in Coal and Biomass |
| John Verkade + | Promoting Organic Transformations with New Phosphorus-based Lewis Base and Aluminum-based Lewis Acid "Football" Catalysts |
| Metalloporphyrin Catalyzed Chemistry, Atom Transfer, Metal-ligand Binding | |
| Edward Yeung | Analytical Spectroscopy, Analytical Separations, Single Molecule and Single Cell Studies |
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