Faculty Directory

Research Interests: Environmental and Analytical Chemistry: Fate and transport of emerging contaminants and endocrine disrupting chemicals; treatment of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in wastewater; bioaccumulation of halogenated organic contaminants in fish and wildlife; target and non-target analysis of environmental contaminants; bioremediation of perfluoroalkyl substances; antibiotic resistance in the environment.

Research Interests: Theoretical and computational chemistry; Quantum and classical molecular dynamics, nonadiabatic dynamics, computations in large-scale systems, semiempirical methods; electron-nuclear coupling, simulation of spin, charge, and excitation energy transfer; Solar energy conversion materials, nanomaterials and nanoscale systems.

Research Interests: Bioorganic and medicinal chemistry: Understanding the involvement of lipids in different cell fates; LC-MS based lipidomics; biochemical characterization of lipids of interest

Research Interests: Computational and theoretical chemistry: Simulation of molecular spectra, optical activity, molecular vibrations, NMR, electron paramagnetism, organic molecules, metal complexes, heavy elements, organometallic materials, computer programming

Research Interests: Solid-state materials science: Synthesis and characterization of Sustainable Functional Molecular Nanomaterials for light harvesting, light generation and light-based switches and sensors

Research Interests: Organometallic chemistry, medicinal chemistry: New reaction development with earth-abundant copper and manganese catalysts, asymmetric catalysis, alkene difunctionalization reactions, natural product synthesis, synthesis and medicinal chemistry of nitrogen heterocycles.

Area of Instruction: Instruction of undergraduate students in organic chemistry as well as the overview of general, organic and biological chemistry for students interested in health-science careers such as nursing.

Research Interests: Analytical chemistry, separation science, chemical analysis in the micro/nano scales, bioanalytical chemistry, environmental chemistry, material science

Research Interests: Self-assembly and characterization of discrete inorganic metallacycles and cages; energy harvesting, transport and storage in photo- and redox-active molecular materials. Polynuclear catalysts for small molecule activations of relevance to renewable energy schemes.

Research Interests: Inorganic and solid-state materials synthesis; electrochemical synthesis; layered materials; strained materials; high-entropy alloys; energy-storage devices; heterogeneous catalysis; water treatment; ab-initio density functional theory calculations of X-ray spectra; X-ray synchrotron science

Research Interests: Earth-abundant metals for sustainable organic synthesis, macrocyclic catalysts for selective organic reactions, metal recovery, natural product synthesis, photocatalysis, cell permeable reagents for chemical biology

Research Interests: Analytical Chemistry; Analytical Separations; Microextraction Technologies; Fate and transport of emerging contaminants in heterogeneous environmental systems; Micropollutants exposure to human and wildlife; Use of natural polymers for separations; Bioanalytical Chemistry; PFAS preconcentration and quantification in complex media; Target and non-target analysis of environmental contaminants; Hyphenation of microextraction technologies to mass spectrometry; Fundamentals of analytical separations; Green Analytical Chemistry

Research Interests: Biomimetic chemistry; medicinal chemistry; organic synthesis and catalyst development; supramolecular chemistry; transmembrane channels and carriers for molecules and ions; cryoprotection of cells

Area of Instruction: Instruction of undergraduate students in the fundamentals of (Introductory and General) chemistry.

Research Interests: Chemical biology, medicinal chemistry, structure-guided drug design, protein biochemistry, structural biology, cancer biology, protein kinases, allosteric inhibitors, targeted protein degradation, bioinorganic chemistry, redox biology, and bioorthogonal chemistry.

Research Interests: Synthetic inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, and organometallic chemistry. Coordination chemistry of transition metal catalysts and reagents. Catalysis and reaction mechanism.

Research Interests: Electrochemistry, electrocatalysis, activation of hydrocarbon molecules, surface mediated reactions, in situ spectroscopies for mechanistic investigations

Research Interests: Bioorganic and medicinal chemistry: Bioorthogonal chemistry/organic reactions in living systems, bioorthogonal reaction discovery and development, peptide/protein therapeutics, synthetic biology

Area of Instruction: Instruction of undergraduate students in general chemistry and organic chemistry

Research Interests: Bioinorganic chemistry: Magnetic resonance imaging contrast agents based on iron, cobalt or nickel, bimodal (fluorescent) probes, ligand synthesis, self-assembled multinuclear iron complexes for imaging and drug delivery, yeast cell labeling with inorganic complexes.

Research Interests: Bioorganic chemistry: Determination of enzyme mechanisms and transition states; synthesis of inhibitors, alternative substrates, and isotopically labeled compounds; enzyme kinetics

Research Interests: Theoretical and computational biochemistry and molecular biophysics: simulations of proteins and nucleic acids; structures of intrinsically disordered proteins; liquid-liquid phase separation; ion-induced RNA folding and dynamics; lncRNA structures; X-ray scattering theory of biomolecules in solvent

Research Interests: Lasers, Photonics, and Biophotonics: Preparation, processing, and theoretical modeling of nanostructured photonic materials; Biophotonics; Nonlinear optical processes

Research Interests: Analytical Chemistry, Mass Spectrometry, and Chemical Instrumentation: Distance-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry, Soft-landing Mass Spectrometry, Novel Detector Platforms for Mass Spectrometry, New Mass Spectrometry Instrumentation and Ionization Sources, Atomic Spectrometry, Plasma Spectrochemistry

Research Interests: Mechanism for enzyme-catalyzed reactions: Small molecule model reactions; structure-reactivity studies on mutant enzymes; the role of flexible loops; and, mechanisms for transition-state stabilization

Research Interests: Polymer and organic materials chemistry: synthesis of multicomponent polymers, self-assembly and nanomaterials, chemical upcycling of polymers

Area of Instruction: Instruction of undergraduate students in the fundamentals of (Introductory and General) chemistry.

Research Interests: Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)-based structural biology, structural genomics and metabonomics: NMR methodology development, applications to study protein structure, dynamics and folding, metabolic profiling.

Research Interests: Time-resolved structure determination; X-ray scattering/diffraction; Microfluidics and microfabrication; Soft matter and protein dynamics; Nanotechnology; Physical chemistry

Research Interests: Physical, materials and analytical chemistry: Nonlinear spectroscopy of interfaces, ultrafast processes at surfaces, molecular devices, biointerfaces and environmental surface chemistry.

Research Interests: Inorganic, materials, and physical chemistry: Synthesis and surface-functionalization of materials, assembly of nanostructured interfaces, spectroscopic characterization of photoinduced electron transfer.

Research Interests: Mass spectrometry: Low-flow electrospray ionization, biomarker identification, metabolomics, proteomics, molecular imaging mass spectrometry, tandem mass spectrometry.

Research Interests: Theoretical and computational chemistry: electronic structure and properties of discrete and extended systems, materials and structure prediction, molecular self-assembly on surfaces, catalysis