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Name | Department | Areas of Expertise |
|---|---|---|
| Bergens, Steven | Chemistry | amide, flow chemistry, polymerized chiral catalysts, water oxidation reaction, ring opening olefin polymerization, carbon dioxide hydrogenation, metal free chiral catalysts, photocatalysis, green chemistry, inorganic chemistry, materials and surfaces, natural resources and energy, asymmetric catalysis, ketone, ester, imide hydrogenation, intramolecular cycloisomerization, reusable polymeric catalysts, polymer electrolyte fuel cell, direct alcohol, hydrogen fuel cells, oxygen reduction reaction, magnetic resonance fuel cell imaging, earth abundant catalysis of organic reactions, organic chromophore/dye, visible light photocatalysis, enantioselective photocatalysis, renewable energy storage, 1,2,3,5tetrakis(carbazol9yl)4,6dicyanobenzene (4CzIPN), NHC and imidazole ligands in catalysis, electropolymerization on electrode surface, photoelectrochemical N2 reduction, energy transfer photocatalytic reactions |
| Blaskovits, Jacob (Terry) | Chemistry | machine learning, artificial intelligence, organic electronic materials, data-driven chemistry, computational chemistry |
| Brown, Alexander | Chemistry | chemical physics, physical chemistry, theoretical and computational chemistry, photochemistry, quantum chemistry, fluorescent proteins, biofluorophores, novel inorganic materials, multi-photon absorption, optimal control theory, quantum dynamics, molecular dynamics, MCTDH, Quantum Chemistry, Quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM), Phosphorescent materials, MCTDH, Quantum dynamics, Molecular dynamics, Ab initio molecular dynamics |
| Cairo, Christopher | Chemistry | Chemical biology, Enzymology, Medicinal chemistry, Glycomics, Glycolipid, Phosphatase, Glycosidase, Chemoenzymatic synthesis, Neuraminidase, Biophysics, Glycomics, Cancer, Nanomedicine, glycobiology, bioconjugate chemistry, carbohydrate chemistry, glycosyl hydrolase, sialic acid, phosphatase, glycolipid, glycoprotein, adhesion |
| Campbell, Robert | Chemistry | analytical chemistry, chemical biology, organic chemistry, human health, second messengers, biochemistry, biotechnology, enzymes and proteins, neuronal and synaptic activity, cell signaling, cancer, bioanalytical chemistry, bioorganic chemistry, biosensors, fluorescence, microscopy, molecular biology, protein engineering |
| Clive, Derrick | Chemistry | Synthesis of complex organic compounds, Natural product synthesis, Synthetic methodology, Synthetic radical chemistry, Antibiotic natural product synthesis, Anticancer natural product synthesis, Antiviral natural product synthesis, Substituted benzene rings, Green chemistry, Antiviral compounds, MPC1001, Sorbicillactone A, radical reactions, radical cyclization |
| Derda, Ratmir | Chemistry | Drug discovery, Point of care diagnostics, Genetically-encoded libraries, Bioorthogonal chemistry, Reaction discovery, Ligand arrays, Cell surface receptors, Materials and surfaces, Nanotechnology, Organic chemistry, Health, Chemical biology, Phage display, Light-responsive ligand discovery, Protein-ligand interactions, Peptide macrocycles, Materials and surfaces, Cell differentiation, Asymmetric division, Supercooled liquids, Ice nucleating peptides, Genetically-encoded chemistry, DNA-encoded libraries, Late-stage modification of peptides and proteins, Structure activity relationships, Reaction methodology, Carbohydrates, Neural networks, Regression models |
| Gibbs, Julianne | Chemistry | green chemistry, analytical chemistry, chemical biology, materials and surfaces, nanotechnology, physical chemistry, isothermal nucleic acid replication for diagnostics, DNA nanotechnology, chemical processes at interfaces, nonlinear optical spectroscopy, DNA hybridization at surfaces, DNA templated ligation reactions, DNA templated polymerization reactions, vibrational sum frequency generation, second harmonic generation, DNA structural study, selfreplicating systems, DNAmodified nanomaterials, selfassembly of DNA materials, selfreplication of nanomaterials, selfhealing materials, isothermal nucleic acid amplification, DNAmineral interactions, DNA polymerization by novel methods, selfreplication of DNA assemblies |
| Hall, Dennis | Chemistry | asymmetric synthesis, bioconjugation, boronic acids, catalysis, chemical biology, cross-coupling, green chemistry, organic synthesis, organic reactions, Boron, organoboron chemistry, heterocycles, stereocontrol, enantioselectivity, organocatalysis |
| Hanna, Gabriel | Chemistry | chemical physics, physical chemistry, theoretical and computational chemistry, mixed quantum-classical dynamics, energy transfer, electron transfer, proton-coupled electron transfer, two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy, light-matter interactions, algorithm development, quantum control, charge transfer, carbon dioxide reduction, ab initio molecular dynamics, quantum battery, quantum heat transport |
| Harrison, D Jed | Chemistry | analytical chemistry, materials and surfaces, nanotechnology, microfluidics, nanofluidics, separation science, colloidal, self assembly, mass spectrometry, electrophoresis, DNA, metabolites, surface chemistry |
| Harynuk, James | Chemistry | separation science, forensic chemistry, mass spectrometry, emerging environmental contaminants, identification of organic compounds, analytical chemistry, gas chromatography, multidimensional chromatography, separations, thermodynamics, QSRRs, flow modulation, retention, chemometrics, feature selection, data reduction, machine learning, human exposure, cannabis, metabolomics, environmental analysis, nontarget analysis |
| Jaeger, Wolfgang | Chemistry | chemical physics, physical chemistry, microwave spectroscopy, microscopic superfluidity, helium nanodroplet spectroscopy, nano-cryostat and nano-reactor, barrier-less chemical reactions, UV induced photodissociation, reactive intermediates, infrared spectroscopy, photo-reaction (smog) chamber, mass spectrometry |
| Joudan, Shira | Chemistry | Environmental Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Organic contaminants, Chromatography, Mass spectrometry, Per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), Long range transport, Indoor chemistry, Aqueous photochemistry, Persistent pollutants |
| Klassen, John | Chemistry | analytical chemistry, chemical biology, physical chemistry, mass spectrometry, host cell receptors, protein-ligand interactions, affinities, electrospray ionization, hydrophobic bonding, solvent effects, glycolipids, biomolecular recognition, inhibitors |
| Klobukowski, Mariusz | Chemistry | molecular electronic structure, pseudopotentials and basis sets, relativistic effects, spin-orbit coupling, rare gas chemistry, transition metal chemistry, fragment molecular orbitals and model core potentials, design of new anti-cancer drugs, molecular dynamics, core electron binding energies, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, spectroscopy of valence electrons, ab initio molecular dynamics |
| Li, Liang | Chemistry | analytical chemistry, chemical biology, health, cancer, mass spectrometry, chemical separation, liquid chromatography, metabolome analysis, metabolomics, proteomics, bioanalystical techniques, biochemical analysis, large scale chemical profiling, biomarker discovery |
| Lucy, Charles | Chemistry | analytical chemistry, analytical separations, separation science, high performance liquid chromatography, HPLC capillary electrophoresis (CE), hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC), normal phase liquid chromatography (NPLC), reversed phase liquid chromatography (RPLC) |
| Lundgren, Rylan | Chemistry | inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, homogeneous catalysis, C-H bond functionalization, oxidative coupling, catalyst design, nucleophilic catalysis, stereoselective catalysis, biomimetic synthesis, multi-catalyst systems, green synthesis and catalysis, reaction mechanisms, isotopic labelling, enantioselective catalysis, physical organic chemistry, methodology development |
| Mar, Arthur | Chemistry | inorganic chemistry, materials and surfaces, solid state chemistry, intermetallic compounds, zintl phases, crystal chemistry, pnictides, rare- earth compounds, renewable resources |
| McDermott, Mark | Chemistry | analytical chemistry, materials and surfaces, nanotechnology, nanoparticles, bioassay, surface modification, plasmonics, raman spectroscopy, surface plasmon resonance, nanocomposite, enhanced spectroscopy, cellulose nanocrystals, aptamers |
| Michaelis, Vladimir | Chemistry | nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), biomaterials, dental materials, minerals, cements, health, MOFs, zeolites, structure elucidation, dynamic nuclear polarization, perovskites, semiconductors, double perovskites, quantum, batteries, hydrogen, solid-state, analytical, chemistry, energy, solar, storage, generation, battery, renewables, MRI, Helium, bioglass |
| Rivard, Eric | Chemistry | Polymers, light emitting materials (luminescence), catalysis, semiconductor synthesis, inorganic chemistry, materials chemistry, hydrogen/hydride research, plastics, hydrogen economy, OLEDs, nanoelectronics |
| Sang, Lingzi | Chemistry | Surface and Interface chemistry, In-situ measurements, Energy Materials, Vibrational Spectroscopy, Electrochemistry, Synchrotron X-ray Spectroscopy, Battery, Perovskite Solar Cell |
| Serpe, Michael | Chemistry | analytical chemistry, materials and surfaces, nanotechnology, sensing and biosensing, polymer-based muscles, water remediation, polymer brushes, analytical instrumentation development, stimuli responsive polymers, materials/polymer science and chemistry, nano and microparticles, colorimetric sensors, Artificial muscles/actuators, Controlled and triggered drug delivery, Post polymerization modification, Sensor arrays, Pattern recognition/machine learning, Ionic strength responsive devices, Phospholipid bilayers, Enzymatic reactionbased sensing, shape memory alloys |