Faculty Profiles

Faculty

Robbyn K 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

Interim Department Chair, 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

William S Jenks

Professor

Organic and Bioorganic

Areas of Expertise:

Chemistry Reactive Intermediates, Computational Organic Chemistry, Environmental Photochemistry, Photochemistry, Physical Organic Chemistry

Kirill Kovnir

Professor

Inorganic and Materials

Areas of Expertise:

Materials Chemistry, Solid State Chemistry

George K Kraus

University Professor

Organic and Bioorganic

Areas of Expertise:

Biorenewable Chemicals from Lignin, Green Chemistry, Organic Synthesis

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

Frederic A Perras

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

Assistant 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

Aaron J Rossini

Associate 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

Javier Vela

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

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

Peng Xu

Assistant Adjunct Professor

Physical and Theoretical

Areas of Expertise:

Physical and Theoretical

Julia Zaikina

Assistant Professor

Inorganic and Materials

Areas of Expertise:

Inorganic Chemistry, Materials

Yan Zhao

Professor

Organic and Bioorganic

Areas of Expertise:

Biomaterials, Catalysis, biomimetic polymers, Biomass Conversion, Organic Synthesis, Fluorescent Sensing, Supramolecular chemistry, Nanoscience

Teaching Faculty

David Appy

Associate Professor of Teaching

Cristina Bonaccorsi

Professor of Teaching

Kathy A Burke

Associate Professor of Teaching

Areas of Expertise:

General Chemistry, Chemical Education

Joseph Burnett

Professor of Teaching

Teresa 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 J 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 J 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

Thomas J 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