Research Faculty
Research Faculty
![Irving Epstein](../faculty/images/epstein_340.jpg)
Expertise: Oscillating chemical reactions and pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems. Mathematical modeling of biochemical kinetics and neural systems.
![Rebecca L. M. Gieseking](../faculty/images/gieseking-rebecca.jpg)
Expertise: Developing computational models to understand materials for emerging energy technologies in the fields of solar energy, batteries, and fuel generation.
![Grace Han](../faculty/images/han-grace-2024-340.jpg)
Expertise: Organic synthesis of dynamic molecules and polymers for creating interactive material systems. Solid-state application of soft materials for energy conversion, storage, and optoelectronics. Functionalization of 2D materials (graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, etc.) using organic and inorganic synthetic methods.
![Lizbeth Hedstrom](../faculty/images/hedstrom-lizbeth.jpg)
Expertise: Design of targeted protein degraders; antibiotic discovery; enzyme structure-function studies.
![Isaac Krauss](../faculty/images/krauss-isaac1.jpg)
Expertise: Chemical glycobiology and organic chemistry.
![Thomas Pochapsky](../faculty/images/pochapsky-thomas-2022-340.jpg)
Expertise: Self-assembly of chemical and biological systems. Transient interactions in solution by NMR. NMR of soluble proteins. Protein stability and folding by NMR and mutagenesis.
![Klaus Schmidt-Rohr](../faculty/images/schmidt-rohr-klaus1.jpg)
Expertise: Solid-state NMR of complex organic materials, including polymers, carbon materials, nanocomposites, and natural organic matter; NMR technique development; basic thermodynamics and chemical energy.
![Katherine Shulenberger](../images/shulenberger-katherine-340.jpg)
Expertise: Development of optical microscopy techniques to research fundamental nanocrystal properties in device relevant environments.
![Barry Snider](../faculty/images/snider-barry.jpg)
Expertise: Synthesis of natural products, new synthetic methods, free radical chemistry, Lewis acid induced reactions, ketene cycloadditions.
![Chi Ting](../faculty/images/ting-chi-rev-340.jpg)
Expertise: Total synthesis of natural products. Chemoselective functionalization of peptides. Genome mining and natural product biosynthesis.
![Bing Xu](../faculty/images/xu-bing1.jpg)
Expertise: New molecular materials and nanomaterials for the exploration in biomedicine (e.g., molecular drug delivery, cancer therapy, biomedical diagnostics, and biomimetics) and other fundamental problems in nanoscience and biological science.
![Hao Xu, Professor of Chemistry](../faculty/images/xu-hao-2023-340.jpg)
Expertise: Non-precious metal catalysis directed towards organic synthesis. Translational synthetic chemistry. Discovery of new disease targets and therapeutic probes in human biology.
Teaching Faculty
![Milos Dolnik](../faculty/images/dolnik-milos.jpg)
Expertise: Oscillating chemical reactions and pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems. Mathematical modeling of biochemical kinetics and neural systems.
![Jo-Ann Jee](../faculty/images/jee-joann-340.jpg)
Expertise: Organic chemistry, flow chemistry, and chemistry education.
![Stephanie Murray, Chemistry teaching faculty](../faculty/images/murray-stephanie.jpg)
Expertise: Chemistry Education Research, Organic Synthesis & Reaction Development, and Enantioselective Catalysis.
![Claudia Novack](../faculty/images/novack-claudia.jpg)
Expertise: Undergraduate chemistry education.
Emeriti Faculty
![Emily Dudek](../faculty/images/dudek-emily-1-rev.jpg)
![Bruce Foxman](../faculty/images/foxman-bruce-340.jpg)
Expertise: X-ray structure determination, coordination polymers, chemical, physical, and crystallographic studies of solid-state reactions
![Judith Herzfeld](../faculty/images/herzfeld-judith-2023.jpg)
![Peter Jordan](../faculty/images/jordan-peter-340.jpg)
![Philip Keehn](../faculty/images/keehn-philip-340.jpg)
![Dagmar Ringe](../faculty/images/ringe-dagmar.jpg)
Expertise: X-ray crystallography of proteins.Studies of protein structure and function, enzyme mechanisms and protein-ligand and protein-protein interaction.
In Memoriam
![Ernest Grunwald](../images/memorium-images/grunwald-ernest-340.jpg)
Physico-chemical analysis of solvent effects on the structures and energies of reacting species.
![James Hendrickson](../faculty/images/henrickson-james-nb2.jpg)
The logic of organic chemistry, principally in regard to synthesis design and classification of reactions.
![Henry Linschitz](../images/memorium-images/linschitz-henry-340.jpg)
Flash photolysis studies of photochemistry and mechanisms of photobiological processes.
![Robert Stevenson](../images/memorium-images/stevenson-robert-340.jpg)
Isolation, characterization, synthesis and reactions of natural products.