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.
Associate Dean for Inclusive Excellence, College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Chemistry
College of Arts and Sciences
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: 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
Jere Solo Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
College of Arts and Sciences
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
Research Interests: Bioinorganic chemistry: Magnetic resonance imaging contrast agents based on iron, cobalt or nickel, CEST or T1 probes responsive to pH, or redox environment, self-assembled multinuclear iron complexes for imaging and drug delivery.
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: Nanophotonics, Nonlinear Optical Effects in Organic and Organic: Inorganic Hybrids, Multiphoton Processes and Applications, Metaphotonics and Chiral Photonics, Biophotonics, Nanomedicine, Sensor Technology, Energy Materials, Nanomagnetics
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
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: 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
