With more than forty faculty members and 150 graduate students, our research covers all the major areas of Chemistry, including core areas, such as: analytical, biochemistry, inorganic, materials, nanotechnology, organic, physical, polymer, theoretical, and the Institute for Quantum Computing - and a great range of collaborative research, between disciplines of chemistry, biology, engineering, and physics.
Each faculty member's name links to their personal profile and is followed by keywords related to their research. Please contact individual faculty regarding the availability of graduate positions. Note: Those marked with an asterisk (*) are not currently accepting graduate students.
Analytical Chemistry
*Tadeusz Gorecki: Separation science, comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GCxGC and LCxLC), GC-MS, HPLC, passive sampling
Vassili Karanassios: Micro- and nano-analysis, miniaturization via lab-on-a-chip, microplasmas, ICP-AES, ICP-MS
Janusz Pawliszyn: Micro-separation techniques, mass spectrometry, in-vivo and on-site determinations, high throughput determinations, imaging
Jung-Ho Yu: Chemical spectroscopy, molecular imaging, nanotechnology, bioanalytical chemistry
Biochemistry
Thorsten Dieckmann: RNA and protein structure, biosensors, ribozymes, NMR spectroscopy, calorimetry, surface plasmon resonance, nucleic acid chemistry
John Honek: Bionanomaterials, medicinal chemistry, enzymology, bioorganic chemistry, protein structure and function
Subha Kalyaanamoorthy: Computational biology, structure- and ligand- based drug discovery, biomolecular simulations, membrane proteins, enzymes, protein structure-function evolution, protein engineering
Elizabeth Meiering: Protein folding, aggregation, design, and therapeutics, ALS
David Sychantha: Microbiology and immunology, antibiotics and resistance, structural enzymology, glycobiology
Inorganic Chemistry
John Corrigan: Nanomaterials, nanoclusters, Metal-chalcogenolate complexes: synthesis and reaction chemistry, Structural chemistry, Organometallic chemistry
Holger Kleinke: Solid state chemistry, inorganic materials, thermoelectric energy conversion, crystal structures, electronic structures
Sonny Lee: Bioinorganic chemistry, nitrogenase, clusters, synthetic analogues, transition metals
Linda Nazar: Solid state electrochemistry, Li-ion batteries, nanostructured materials, X-ray and neutron diffraction, photovoltaic materials
Rodney Smith: Inorganic materials, electrocatalysis, reaction dynamics, reaction kinetics, energy storage
Institute for Quantum Computing
Jonathan Baugh: Quantum information processing, nanoelectronics, magnetic resonance, quantum transport, low-dimensional systems
David Cory: Quantum information processing, magnetic resonance, neutron physics, quantum materials
Adam Wei Tsen: Two-dimensional materials, collective quantum phenomena, electronic transport, nanoscience
Nanotechnology
Anna Klinkova: Nanomaterials synthesis, surface chemistry, nanocatalysis, CO2 electroreduction, plasmonics, self-assembly
Juewen Liu: Biosensors, drug delivery, biointerface chemistry, bioinorganic chemistry, DNA nanotechnology
Vivek Maheshwari: Cell-inorganic composites, multi-functional materials and devices, nanoscale electrodes, wearable sensors, composite membranes
Pavle Radovanovic: Inorganic and hybrid nanostructures, optical and magneto-optical spectroscopies, lighting and LEDs, magnetism and spintronics, photonics and photocatalysis
Shirley Tang: Nanobiomaterial, nanobioelectronics, graphene, carbon nanotube, nanocomposite
Xiaosong Wang: Macromolecules, self-assembly, nanomaterials, organometallic, living polymerization
Organic Chemistry
Mike Chong: Asymmetric catalysis, stereoselective synthesis, organometallic reagents, synthetic methods, synthesis of insect pheromones
Gary Dmitrienko: Organic synthesis, enzyme mechanism, enzyme inhibition, antibiotics, natural products
Eric Fillion: Catalysis, mechanistic studies, methodology development, organometallic chemistry, synthetic chemistry
Bob Lemieux: Ferroelectric liquid crystals, electro-optics of liquid crystals, supramolecular chemistry, Chirality Transfer, Structure-Mesomorphous Property Relationships
Graham Murphy: Organic synthesis, medicinal chemistry, synthetic methodology, hypervalent iodine, halogenation
Derek Schipper: Organic chemistry, synthetic methods, conjugated materials, catalysis, organic electronic materials
Scott Taylor: Biological and medicinal chemistry, synthetic methodology, enzymology, bionanomaterials
Physical / Theoretical Chemistry
Scott Hopkins: Clusters, quantum chemistry, spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, photodissociation
Tong Leung: Green energy: solar cells and hydrogen generation, biosensing and environmental remediation using hybrid nanomaterials, quantum electronics, surface chemical physics, Ultralarge scale computational chemistry
Terry McMahon: Gaseous ion energetics and structure, Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance spectrometry, high pressure mass spectrometry, infrared multiple photon dissociation, ion-molecule reaction dynamics
Marcel Nooijen: Electronic Structure Theory, vibronic coupling and non-adiabatic nuclear dynamics, simulation of vibronic spectroscopy, Coupled Cluster Theory for excited states, multireference methods in transition metal chemistry, thermal electronic properties
Bill Power: Physical chemistry, spectroscopy, NMR, solid state
Pierre-Nicholas Roy: High performance computing, quantum nano-clusters, theoretical chemical physics, quantum dynamics, nano-scale superfluidity
German Sciaini: Femtosecond electron diffraction, time-resolved structural dynamics, ultrafast high-resolution electron imaging, strongly correlated materials, liquid-phase electron microscopy
Conrard Tetsassi Feugmo: Computational electrochemistry and surface science, machine learning, materials sciences, nonlinear optics,, vibrational and electronic spectroscopies, high performance computing and software development, data solutions for sciences.
Polymer Chemistry
Jean Duhamel: Pyrene, fluorescence, self-assembly, macromolecules, colloids
Mario Gauthier: Controlled architecture polymers, graft polymers, block copolymers, dendritic polymers, drug delivery systems
Yangju Lin: Polymer mechanochemistry, mechanically durable polymers, polymer nanoparticles, sustainable polymers, polymers for battery materials, polymers for wearable devices