Department Faculty

• Assistant Professor

Physical chemistry of organic semiconductors; energy and electron transfer dynamics; conjugated polymer physics; supramolecular assembly; charge transport in organic thin films Read more ...

• Distinguished Professor
• Department Chair

Theoretical chemistry, molecular dynamics of chemical reactions in liquids and at interfaces Read more ...

• Professor

Synthetic organic chemistry: new synthetic methodologies using free radicals; nitroxides, nitroxide mediated “living” polymerizations: design and functionalization of tailored Read more ...

• Professor

Synthesis, characterization, and manipulation of novel functional nanomaterials (metals and semiconductors); their long-range ordered assemblies and related nanoscale electron transfer; Read more ...

• Distinguished Research Professor

Marine natural products chemistry, bioorganic chemistry, organic structural analysis by NMR, natural products of marine macro- and microorganisms Read more ...

• Professor

Time-resolved spectroscopy, biophysics and bioenergetics, ligand binding and electron transfer dynamics of redox metalloproteins, heme-copper oxidases, proton translocation Read more ...

• Assistant Teaching Professor

Chemistry education; developing engaging and supportive learning environments for large enrollment general chemistry courses; developing interventions that increase the performance and Read more ...

• Professor

Biochemistry, bioinorganic chemistry, biophysics, enzymology, inhibitor discovery, and the role of fatty acid oxidation in human disease, such as stroke, diabetes and blood coagulation Read more ...

• Assistant Professor

Medicinal bioinorganic chemistry; synthetic inorganic chemistry; nanoparticle drug delivery; inorganic spectroscopy; small-molecule X-ray crystallography; mammalian and microbiological cell Read more ...

• Distinguished Research Professor

Time-resolved laser spectroscopy, biophysics, studies of visual transduction, protein function, and protein folding

• Professor

Materials chemistry, energy conversion and storage, catalysis

• Professor

Organic chemistry; combinatorial synthesis, biotechnology, molecular cell biology Read more ...

• Professor
• Associate Vice Chancellor of Research

Natural products chemistry, chemical biology, structural elucidation, cancer biology, microbial natural products

• Distinguished Professor

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 Read more ...

• Assistant Professor

Organic Chemistry; Chemical Biology; Biochemistry; Chemistry; DNA, RNA, Proteins; Biocatalysis;

• Distinguished Professor

Electron paramagnetic resonance; nuclear magnetic resonance, prions, melanocortin receptor signaling, agouti proteins

• Professor
• X-ray Facility Director
• Faculty Undergraduate Adviser

Cationic inorganic materials for environmental cleanup; biomaterials; powder and single crystal X-ray diffraction

• Associate Professor

Biochemistry and biophysics, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; molecular mechanism of circadian rhythmicity

• Assistant Professor

Theoretical chemistry, materials chemistry, electronic structure, optical excitations, spin dynamics,  two-dimensional materials, electronic transport and catalytic properties of Read more ...

• Assistant Professor

Organic synthesis, NMR, molecular modeling, biophysical characterization, molecular biology assays Read more ...

• Professor
• Director PBSE Graduate Program

Biomolecular mechanisms of cell-cycle regulation and cancer; structural biology and biochemistry; macromolecular x-ray crystallography; nuclear magnetic resonance

• Professor
• Director and Adviser BMB Program
• Member, Center for Molecular Biology of RNA

Structure and function of RNA, proteins, and their complexes, origin of life.

• Assistant Professor

Molecular & Structural Immunology; T cell receptor signaling dynamics; MHC-I peptide loading mechanism; Tumor neoantigen characterization (in collaboration with David Haussler’s BME Read more ...

• Professor

Organic synthesis, organoborane chemistry, heterocyclic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, asymmetric synthesis, biosensors, and natural products chemistry

• Professor

Molecular basis of telomere length and telomerase-related diseases; biophysical characterization of nucleic acid-associated molecular motors; development of novel approaches for imaging Read more ...

• Professor

Design, synthesis, characterization, and application of nanomaterials, including semiconductor and metal nanoparticles; femtosecond laser spectroscopy; ultrafast dynamics of nanomaterials; cancer Read more ...