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CHAIR

Akira Kawamura
Akira Kawamura
Associate Professor and Chair

Akira Kawamura is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Chemistry.

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FACULTY

Spiro Alexandratos
Spiro Alexandratos
Professor

Professor Spiro Alexandratos in the Department of Chemistry teaches courses in polymer chemistry. His research focus is polymer chemistry and environmental chemistry.

Nathan Astrof
Nathan Astrof
Doctoral Lecturer

Doctoral Lecturer Nathan Astrof is a member of the Department of Chemistry.

Adam Braunschweig
Adam Braunschweig
Professor

Adam Braunschweig is a professor in the Department of Chemistry. His research focus is supramolecular chemistry, organic chemistry and nanotechnology.

Lynn Francesconi
Lynn Francesconi
Professor

Lynn Francesconi is a professor in the Department of Chemistry. She teaches courses and conducts research in inorganic chemistry.

Dixie Goss
Dixie Goss
Professor

Dixie Goss is a professor in the Department of Chemistry. She teaches courses in biological spectroscopy and does research in the areas of biochemistry and physical chemistry.

Kirsten Grant
Kirsten Grant
Clinical Professor

Clinical Professor Kirsten Grant in the Department of Chemistry has a research focus of chemical education.

Nancy Greenbaum
Nancy Greenbaum
Professor

Nancy Greenbaum is a professor in the Department of Chemistry. Her research focus is structural biology of RNA.

Philip R. Hamann
Philip R. Hamann
Doctoral Lecturer

Doctoral Lecturer Philip R. Hamann in the Department of Chemistry teaches courses in organic chemistry. His research focus is chemical education and organic chemistry.

Wayne W. Harding
Wayne W. Harding
Associate Professor

Associate Professor Wayne Harding in the Department of Chemistry teaches courses and conducts research in organic chemistry and medicinal chemistry.

Mandë Holford
Mandë Holford
Associate Professor

Mandë Holford is an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry whose research focuses on venom and venomous organisms as agents of change and therapeutic development.

Frida Kleiman
Frida Kleiman
Professor

Frida Kleiman is a professor in the Department of Chemistry. Her teaching and research focuses on biochemistry.

Nadya Kobko-Litskevitch
Nadya Kobko-Litskevitch
Doctoral Lecturer

Doctoral Lecturer Nadya Kobko-Litskevitch in the Department of Chemistry does research in the areas of chemical education, physical chemistry and computational chemistry.

Mateusz Marianski
Mateusz Marianski
Assistant Professor

Mateusz Marianski is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry. He teaches courses in physical chemistry and does research in the areas of computational chemistry and physical chemistry.

Louis Massa
Louis Massa
Professor

Professor Louis Massa in the Department of Chemistry has a research focus of electronic structure of biological molecules.

Hiroshi Matsui
Hiroshi Matsui
Professor

Professor Hiroshi Matsui in the Department of Chemistry teaches courses in biophysical chemistry and physical chemistry. His research focus is bionanotechnology, nanotechnology, biomaterials, sensors, electronics, medical imaging and quantum computing.

David Mootoo
David Mootoo
Professor

David Mootoo is a professor in the Department of Chemistry. He teaches courses in organic chemistry and does research in the areas of bioorganic chemistry, biochemistry and organic chemistry.

Gabriela M. Smeureanu
Gabriela M. Smeureanu
Doctoral Lecturer

Gabriela Smeureanu is a doctoral lecturer in the Department of Chemistry. Her research focus is chemical education, nanotechnology and analytical chemistry.

Rein Ulijn
Rein Ulijn
Professor

Professor Rein Ulijn in the Department of Chemistry teaches courses in nanotechnology. His research focus is nanoscale chemistry, biochemistry and physical chemistry.

Yujia Xu
Yujia Xu
Associate Professor

Yujia Xu is an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry. She teaches courses in biophysical chemistry, biochemistry and structural biology and conducts research centered around protein design, biomaterials and biochemistry.

Brian Zeglis
Brian Zeglis
Associate Professor

Associate Professor Brian Zeglis in the Department of Chemistry teaches courses in inorganic chemistry. His research focus is biochemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry and radiochemistry.

Shengping Zheng
Shengping Zheng
Professor

Shengping Zheng is a professor in the Department of Chemistry. His teaching and research focuses on organic chemistry.

Directors of Research Facilities

Matthew Devany
Matthew Devany
Director of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Matthew Devany is in charge of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance facility in the Department of Chemistry.

Michelle Neary
Michelle Neary
Director of X-Ray Crystallography

Michelle Neary is in charge of the X-Ray Crystallography facility in the Department of Chemistry.

Dustin Wheeler
Dustin Wheeler
Director of Electronics

Dustin Wheeler is director of the Electronics facility in the Department of Chemistry. His research focus is inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry and analytical chemistry.

Barney Yoo
Barney Yoo
Director of Mass Spectrometry

Barney Yoo is in charge of the Mass Spectrometry facility in the Department of Chemistry.

Laboratory Staff

Tomoko Hagane-Mullins
Tomoko Hagane-Mullins
Senior College Lab Technician 

Tomoko Hagane-Mullins is a senior college lab technician in the Department of Chemistry.

Rodica Nyerges
Rodica Nyerges
Senior College Lab Technician

Rodica Nyerges is a senior college lab technician in the Department of Chemistry.

Nicole Popa
Nicole Popa
Purchasing Agent / Chief CLT

Nicole Popa is a purchasing agent and chief CLT in the Department of Chemistry.

Alex Ruck
Alex Ruck
College Lab Technician

Alex Ruck is a college lab technician in the Department of Chemistry.

Olena Shport
Olena Shport
Senior College Lab Technician

Olena Shport is a senior college lab technician in the Department of Chemistry.

Gabriela Solotchi
Gabriela Solotchi
Senior College Lab Technician

Gabriela Solotchi is a senior college lab technician in the Department of Chemistry.

George Solotchi
George Solotchi
Chief College Laboratory Technician

George Solotchi is a chief college laboratory technician in the Department of Chemistry.

Emeritus Faculty

Joseph Dannenberg: Theoretical Chemistry with Emphasis on Hydrogen Bonds
Richard W. Franck: Organic Chemistry
Klaus Grohmann: Organic Chemistry
Willam Grossman: Raman spectroscopy, inductively coupled plasma (ICP) spectroscopy

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