CHEMISTRY & BIOCHEMISTRY FACULTY

Ilan Benjamin, Professor of Chemistry & Department Chair
Theoretical chemistry, molecular dynamics of chemical reactions in liquids and at interfaces

Claude F. Bernasconi, Professor of Chemistry
Kinetic studies of fast reactions, organic reaction mechanisms, acid-base catalysis, proton transfers, nucleophilic reactions, organometallic reactions, ab initio molecular orbital calculations

Roberto A. Bogomolni, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Biophysical chemistry, photobiology, light energy conversion and signal transduction in biological systems

Rebecca Braslau, Professor of Chemistry
Synthetic organic chemistry, new synthetic methodology using free radicals; nitroxides, nitroxide-mediated "living" polymerizations, functionalized polymers, designed polymers for applications in nanotechnology

Shaowei Chen, Professor of Chemistry
Synthesis, characterization, and manipulation of novel functional nanomaterials (metals and semiconductors); their long-range ordered assemblies and related nanoscale electron transfer; applications in fuel cells, photovoltaics and electronic devices

Phillip Crews, Professor of Chemistry
Marine natural products chemistry, bioorganic chemistry, organic structural analysis by NMR, natural products of marine macro- and microorganisms

Ólöf Einarsdóttir, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Time-resolved spectroscopy, biophysics and bioenergetics, ligand binding and electron transfer dynamics of redox metalloproteins, heme-copper oxidases, proton translocation

Theodore Holman, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Bioinorganic and biological chemistry

Joseph P. Konopelski, Professor of Chemistry
Synthetic organic chemistry; heterocyclic chemistry, bio-organic chemistry

Yat Li, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Materials Chemistry, Nanomaterials, Solar energy conversion applications, Nanoscale electronics and photonics

Roger Linington, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Marine Natural Products, Drugs for Neglected Diseases, Chemical Biology, Chemical Probes

R. Scott Lokey, Associate Professor of Chemistry
Organic chemistry; combinatorial synthesis, biotechnology, molecular cell biology

Pradip K. Mascharak, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Faculty Undergraduate Advisor
Bioinorganic chemistry, design of antitumor drugs, modeling of active sites of metalloenzymes, design of catalysts for hydrocarbon oxidation, studies on intermediates in non-heme oxygenase chemistry, design of NO-donors for photodynamic therapy

Glenn L. Millhauser, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Electron spin resonance; nuclear magnetic resonance, melanocortin receptor signaling, agouti and agouti-related proteins, prions, solid phase protein synthesis

Scott Oliver, Associate Professor of Chemistry
Materials chemistry, microporous materials, polymer templating, self-assembled monolayers for thin film devices

Carrie Partch, Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Biochemistry and biophysics, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; molecular mechanism of circadian rhythmicity

Seth Rubin, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry & Faculty Graduate Director
Biochemistry and biophysical chemistry; molecular mechanisms of cell cycle regulation, nuclear magnetic resonance, x-ray crystallography

Thomas W. Schleich, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Biomedical magnetic resonance spectroscopy, magnetic resonance imaging, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, biophysical chemistry

William G. Scott, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Three-dimensional atomic structure and function of ribozymes, enzymes, and RNA-protein complexes, static and time-resolved X-ray crystallography, development of structure-based anti-viral agents, RNA evolution, origin of catalysis, and the origin of life.

Bakthan Singaram, Professor of Chemistry
Organic synthesis, organoborane chemistry, heterocyclic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, asymmetric synthesis, biosensors, and natural products chemistry

Michael Stone, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Single-molecule Biophysics and Enzymology; Structure, function, and assembly of the telomerase ribonucleoprotein, Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET), optical/magnetic trapping, sub-diffraction optical imaging of telomeres and the nucleus.

Eugene Switkes, Professor of Chemistry
Quantum theory applied to problems in chemistry and biochemistry; visual information processing, spatial vision, color vision

Jin Z. Zhang, Professor of Chemistry
Design, synthesis, characterization and application of nanomaterials, including semiconductor, metal, and metal oxides; femtosecond laser and optical spectroscopy; ultrafast dynamics in condensed phases and at interfaces; solar energy conversion and hydrogen generation and storage; cancer biomarker detection.