Faculty Profiles

Faculty

robbyn anand
Associate Professor
  • Analytical and Bioanalytical
Areas of Expertise:
Bioanalytical, Dielectrophoresis, Electrochemistry, Microfluidics, Separations
jared anderson
Professor
  • Analytical and Bioanalytical
Areas of Expertise:
Bioanalytical, Chromatography, Ionic Liquids, Ordered Media, Sample Preparation, Separations
mark gordon
Distinguished Professor
  • Physical and Theoretical
Areas of Expertise:
Method Development for Computational Chemistry and Materials, Massively Parallel Computational Chemistry, Software Engineering, Intermolecular Interactions Including Solvent Effects in Ground and Excited States
Alexander Gundlach-Graham
Assistant Professor
  • Analytical and Bioanalytical
Areas of Expertise:
Analytical Chemistry, Atomic Mass Spectrometry, Nanomaterial Analysis, Mass Spectrometer Design
tom holme
Morrill Professor
  • Physical and Theoretical
  • Chemical Education
Areas of Expertise:
measurement and assessment of student learning
wenyu huang
Professor
  • Inorganic and Materials
Areas of Expertise:
Catalysis, Nanomaterials, Nanostructures, Renewable Energy, Plastic Upcycling
Professor
  • Inorganic and Materials
Areas of Expertise:
Materials Chemistry, Solid State Chemistry
young jin lee
Professor
  • Analytical and Bioanalytical
Areas of Expertise:
Bio-fuel Analysis, Biological Mass Spectrometry, Mass Spectrometry Imaging, Metabolomics, Proteomics, Single Cell Analysis
Junqi Li
Assistant Professor
  • Organic and Bioorganic
Areas of Expertise:
Organic Synthesis, transition-metal catalysis, Asymmetric Synthesis
gordon miller
University Professor
  • Inorganic and Materials
Areas of Expertise:
Inorganic Chemistry, Theoretical Solid-State Chemistry
Adjunct Associate Professor
  • Inorganic and Materials
  • Physical and Theoretical
Areas of Expertise:
Solid-state NMR
jacob petrich
Professor
  • Analytical and Bioanalytical
  • Physical and Theoretical
Areas of Expertise:
Analytical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry
Davit Potoyan
Associate Professor
  • Physical and Theoretical
Areas of Expertise:
Theoretical and Computational Biophysics and Chemistry
ryan richard
Assistant Adjunct Professor
Areas of Expertise:
electronic structure theory, scientific software development
Professor
  • Physical and Theoretical
Areas of Expertise:
Characterization, Materials, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Solid-state NMR, Spectroscopy
aaron d sadow
Professor
  • Inorganic and Materials
Areas of Expertise:
Asymmetric Catalysis, Catalysis, Green Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Kinetics, Mechanism, Organometallics, Synthesis
emily a smith
Professor
  • Analytical and Bioanalytical
Areas of Expertise:
Cell Membrane Dynamics, Fluorescence and Raman Imaging, Spectroscopy, Thin Films
xueyu song
Professor
  • Physical and Theoretical
Areas of Expertise:
Theoretical Chemistry
levi stanley
Associate Professor
  • Organic and Bioorganic
Areas of Expertise:
Asymmetric Synthesis, Catalysis, Organic Chemistry, Organometallics, Synthetic Methodology, Synthetic Organic Chemistry
brett vanveller
Associate Professor
  • Organic and Bioorganic
Areas of Expertise:
Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry, Physical Organic Chemistry, Photochemistry, Peptide Chemistry
University Professor
  • Inorganic and Materials
Areas of Expertise:
Inorganic Chemistry, Applied Nanoscience, Energy Conversion, Chemical Catalysis, Quantum Dots
vincenzo venditti
Associate Professor
  • Physical and Theoretical
Areas of Expertise:
Biochemistry, Biomolecular NMR, Dark States, Enzymology, Molecular Dynamics, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Structural Biology
theresa windus
Department Chair and Distinguished Professor
  • Physical and Theoretical
Areas of Expertise:
Catalysis, Computational Chemistry, Critical Materials, Distributed Computing, Dynamics, Massively Parallel Design and Implementation, Reaction Mechanisms, Renewable Energy and Environmental Science, Software Architectures, Software Interoperability
arthur winter
Professor
  • Organic and Bioorganic
Areas of Expertise:
Bioorganic Chemistry, Computational Chemistry, Organic Materials, Organic Synthesis, Physical Organic Chemistry, Time-resolved Spectroscopy
Assistant Adjunct Professor
  • Physical and Theoretical
Areas of Expertise:
Physical and Theoretical
julia zaikina
Associate Professor
  • Inorganic and Materials
Areas of Expertise:
Inorganic Chemistry, Materials
Yan Zhao picture
Professor
  • Organic and Bioorganic
Areas of Expertise:
Biomaterials, Catalysis, biomimetic polymers, Biomass Conversion, Organic Synthesis, Fluorescent Sensing, Supramolecular chemistry, Nanoscience

Teaching Faculty

Assistant Professor of Teaching
cristina bonaccorsi
Professor of Teaching
Associate Professor of Teaching
Areas of Expertise:
General Chemistry, Chemical Education
joseph burnett
Professor of Teaching
Terry Fernando
Director of Teaching Laboratories and Organic Lab Instructor
sara pistolesi
Associate Professor of Teaching
Areas of Expertise:
General Chemistry
irmi schewe-miller
Associate Professor of Teaching
Areas of Expertise:
General Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Solid State Chemistry

Emeritus

Robert Angelici
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
  • Inorganic and Materials
Areas of Expertise:
Catalysis, Organometallics
Andreja Bakac
Senior Scientist. Adjunct Professor
  • Organic and Bioorganic
Areas of Expertise:
Catalysis, Mechanism
Thomas Barton
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
  • Organic and Bioorganic
Areas of Expertise:
Organic Chemistry
Hugo Franzen
Professor Emeritus
  • Inorganic and Materials
Areas of Expertise:
Synthesis
tom greenbowe
Morrill Professor of Chemistry Emeritus
  • Chemical Education
Areas of Expertise:
Guided-Inquiry Pedagogy; Computer Simulations and Animations; Professional Development of Chemistry Instructors; Chemical Education Research and Practice
David Hoffman
Professor Emeritus
  • Physical and Theoretical
Areas of Expertise:
Theoretical Chemistry
R. Samuel Houk
Professor Emeritus
  • Analytical and Bioanalytical
Areas of Expertise:
Analytical Spectroscopy
Robert Jacobson
Professor Emeritus
Areas of Expertise:
Crystallography
william s jenks
Professor Emeritus
  • Organic and Bioorganic
Areas of Expertise:
Chemistry Reactive Intermediates, Computational Organic Chemistry, Environmental Photochemistry, Photochemistry, Physical Organic Chemistry
george a kraus
University Professor Emeritus
  • Organic and Bioorganic
Areas of Expertise:
Biorenewable Chemicals from Lignin, Green Chemistry, Organic Synthesis
Richard Larock
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
  • Organic and Bioorganic
Areas of Expertise:
Organic Chemistry, organomercurials, synthetic organic methodology
marek pruski
Scientist II [A LAB]
  • Physical and Theoretical
Areas of Expertise:
Solid-state NMR
Klaus Ruedenberg
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
  • Physical and Theoretical
Areas of Expertise:
Quantum chemistry
Kathleen Trahanovsky
Adjunct Associate Professor Emeritus
  • Organic and Bioorganic
Areas of Expertise:
Organic Chemistry, General Chemistry
Walter Trahanovsky
Professor Emeritus
  • Organic and Bioorganic
Areas of Expertise:
Pyrolysis of Organic Compounds
Keith Woo
Professor Emeritus
  • Organic and Bioorganic
Areas of Expertise:
organometallic chemistry, Catalysis
Edward Yeung
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
  • Analytical and Bioanalytical
Areas of Expertise:
Analytical Spectroscopy

In Memoriam

John D. Corbett
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
  • Inorganic and Materials
Areas of Expertise:
Inorganic Chemistry
Distinguished Professor
  • Inorganic and Materials
Areas of Expertise:
Transition Metal Catalysis
James Fritz
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
  • Analytical and Bioanalytical
Areas of Expertise:
Chromatography and Separations
Bernard Gerstein
Professor Emeritus
  • Physical and Theoretical
  • Chemical Education
Areas of Expertise:
Materials, Physical Chemistry
Professor Emeritus
  • Chemical Education
Areas of Expertise:
Chemical Educaiton
Dennis C. Johnson
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
  • Analytical and Bioanalytical
Areas of Expertise:
Electrochemistry
Professor
  • Analytical and Bioanalytical
Areas of Expertise:
Nanomaterials, Synthesis and Characterization
Professor Emeritus
  • Inorganic and Materials
Areas of Expertise:
Solid-State and Metal Cluster Chemistry
Professor Emeritus
  • Organic and Bioorganic
Areas of Expertise:
Organic & General Chemistry
Professor
  • Organic and Bioorganic
Areas of Expertise:
Organic
Distinguished Professor
  • Inorganic and Materials
Areas of Expertise:
Spectroscopy
patricia a thiel
Distinguished Professor
  • Inorganic and Materials
  • Physical and Theoretical
Areas of Expertise:
Formation, Nanostructures, Structurally-complex Metallic Alloys, Surface Science Growth
Professor Emeritus
  • Organic and Bioorganic
Areas of Expertise:
novel green catalysts for organic reactions, organometallic self-assembled systems