Buldum, Alper, Associate Professor, Physics and Chemistry (b.1970)

Calvo, Kim Cornelius, Professor and Chair (b.1951)
Research Area(s): Biochemistry
Research Interests: Current research involves the study of phosphoryl group transfer mechanisms, mechanisms of unusual enzymatic lyase reactions, and the study of enzymatic Claisen condensations.

Donovan, William J., Associate Professor (b.1974)
Research Area(s): Chemistry Education
Research Interests: Visualization of chemical concepts; development of computer-assisted laboratory experiments; enhancement of freshman chemistry courses; students' conceptual understanding.

Espe, Matthew Paul, Associate Professor (b.1961)
Research Area(s): Analytical Chemistry, Materials Chemistry
Research Interests: Application of solid-state NMR techniques to study the structure-function relationship of polymers, nanoparticles, composites and materials. Systems under study include semi-conducting nanoparticles, conducting polymers and metal-oxide nanofibers.

Hardy, James Keith, Professor (b.1955)
Research Area(s): Analytical Chemistry
Research Interests: Development of methods for the determination of trace organic and inorganic pollutants; pattern recognition and stable isotope dilution studies.

Hu, Jun Jack, Associate Professor (b.1964)
Research Area(s): Bioanalytical Chemistry, Materials Chemistry
Research Interests: Pioneering the supramolecular chemistry on surfaces and at interfaces, exploring a range of dynamic structures and reaction chemistry of organic, bioorganic, and organometalic compounds as well as polymers on metal, semiconductor and nanoparticle surfaces, developing new multifunctional optical probes and nanomanufactured devices for drug/gene targetting, in vivo molecular imaging, and in situ bioanalytical applications base on supramolecular recognition of sugars.

Kofron, William G., Professor Emeritus (b.1925)
Research Interests: Carbanion, heterocyclic chemistry.

Koser, Gerald Franklin, Distinguished Professor Emeritus (b.1942)
Research Area(s): Organic Chemistry
Research Interests: Chemistry of hypervalent iodine compounds; phosphate ester hydrolysis.

Leeper, Thomas C., Assistant Professor (b.1972)
Research Area(s): Biochemistry, NMR Spectroscopy
Research Interests: Protein and RNA NMR spectroscopy of RNP and protein complexes. Epigenetic regulatory factors, components of the 3' processing machinery, and silver binding proteins are all topics of activer research.

Lim, Edward C., Professor Emeritus (b.1932)
Research Area(s): Physical Chemistry
Research Interests: Laser spectroscopy and molecular photophysics; structure and dynamics of excited states; electronic and vibrational relaxations; excited-state redox processes; and intramolecular dynamics of van der Waals molecules and bridged diaryl compounds.

Luettmer-Strathmann, Jutta, Associate Professor, Physics and Chemistry (b.1961)
Research Area(s): Physical Chemistry
Research Interests: The study of structural, thermodynamic and transport properties of simple and complex fluids, including phase transitions. The development of accurate models for these systems using analytic theory, numerical analysis, and simulation techniques. Static and dynamic properties of polymer melts and blends and of single polymer chains. Thermal diffusion in simple and complex liquids.

Lyuksyutov, Sergei F., Associate Professor, Physics and Chemistry (b.)
Research Area(s): Chemical Physics, Physical Chemistry

Mallik, Robert R., Professor, Physics and Chemistry (b.1960)
Research Interests: Electron tunneling spectroscopy, vibrational spectroscopy, scanning probe microscopy, characterization and growth of ultra-thin films of metals, metal oxides, semiconductors, polymers, and glasses. Molecular adsorption studies on these films.

Modarelli, David A., Professor (b.1964)
Research Area(s): Organic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry
Research Interests: Photochemistry, physical organic chemistry, dendrimers, polymers design, synthesis and optical time-resolved spectroscopy of photosynthetic mimics; photoinduced electron-transfer reactions; synthesis of novel dendritic macromolecular materials.

Pang, Yi, Associate Professor (b.1957)
Research Area(s): Materials Chemistry, Polymer Science
Research Interests: Our research interest is in the development of luminescent materials for device applications such as light-emitting diodes. The study is focusing on the fundamental understanding of various molecular building blocks on the optical and other physical properties. Luminescent materials with unique metal-binding properties are also sought for biological applications.

Perry, David S., Professor (b.1949)
Research Area(s): Physical Chemistry
Research Interests: High resolution infrared spectroscopy; vibrational energy transfer; intramolecular dynamics; spectroscopy of atmospheric molecules; combustion in microgravity.

Ramsier, Rex D., Professor, Physics and Chemistry (b.1964)
Research Interests: Gas-surface interactions; thin film growth; physical, chemical and structural characterization of surfaces. Science education. Project and active-learning based course and lab development.

Richter, Helen Wilkinson, Professor (b.1946)
Research Area(s): Physical Chemistry
Research Interests: Free radical reactions, kinetic analysis of complex systems; physical chemistry of hypervalent iodine compounds via UV-vis and NMR spectroscopy; low spin, high spin equilibria in Fe(II) complexes, and relevance to reactivity of the complexes.

Rinaldi, Peter L., Professor (b.1953)
Research Area(s): NMR Spectroscopy
Research Interests: Development of NMR techniques, applications of NMR to polymer, inorganic, organic and biochemical problems.

Smith, Daniel John, Professor Emeritus (b.1946)
Research Area(s): Biomaterials, Biochemistry
Research Interests: Biomaterials, mechanisms of wound repair, wound metabolism, bioactive polymers.

Taschner, Michael John, Professor (b.1953)
Research Area(s): Organic Chemistry
Research Interests: Total synthesis of natural products, cycloaddition reactions, new synthetic methods, and application of enzymes in synthesis.

Tessier, Claire Adrienne, Professor (b.1953)
Research Area(s): Bioinorganic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry
Research Interests: Main group chemistry, especially silicon, phosphorus and aluminum; their reactions with transition-metals; biomineralization of silicon and phosphorus; polyphosphazenes and other inorganic backbone polymers; metal complexes of alkynes and acetylides; design of new ligands, especially based on imidazoles and N-heterocyclic carbenes; medicinal inorganic compounds, X-ray crystallography and multi-nuclear NMR.

Wesdemiotis, Chrys, Distinguished Professor (b.1952)
Research Area(s): Analytical Chemistry
Research Interests: Structures and reactivities of gaseous ions; chemistry of reactive intermediates relevant to biology and medicine; structure/property relationships of biomolecules and polymers; development of new methods for the structural characterization of synthetic polymers; analytical applications of mass spectrometry in polymer and materials science.

Youngs, Wiley Jay, Distinguished Professor (b.1949)
Research Area(s): Inorganic Chemistry, Bioinorganic Chemistry
Research Interests: Synthesis of organometallic compounds; synthesis of carbeneporphyrinoids and their use as ligands in radiopharmaceuticals; the exploration of the antimicrobial properties of silver carbene complexes; acetylene containing ring systems and their metal complexes.

Ziegler, Christopher J., Associate Professor (b.1970)
Research Area(s): Inorganic Chemistry
Research Interests: Bioinorganic chemistry, metalloporphyrins, coordination polymers, aqueous organometallic chemistry.