Join the Chemistry/Physics Mentoring Program, offered by the Department of Chemistry and Physics in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences. Look for Research topic(s) of interests below.
Beatrix Aukszi
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Organic synthesis, metal-mediated coupling reactions, phospho-mapping of proteins and chemical education
Maria Ballester
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Porphyrins, spectroscopic analysis, enzyme assay, forensic science, thermodynamics, kinetics, quantum mechanics, pharmaceuticals, electrochemistry, and flavones
Jessica Brown
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: VOC analysis, Periodontal Disease, SPME, and GC-MS
Patricia Calvo
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: polymer synthesis, antimicrobials, tissue engineering, biomimetics, polymer characterization, organic synthesis, drug delivery, smart materials, and biomaterials
David Carnevale
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Nanoparticles, Magnetic Materials, and Synthetic Chemistry
Diego Castano
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Physics and theoretical particle physics
Victor Castro
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Physics, nonlinear dynamics, chaos, electronics
Russell Driver
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: X-ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopy
Dimitri Giarikos
Professor
Research Interests: Synthetic inorganic and organometallic chemistry of photosensitized compounds, heavy metals contaminants and Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in marine mammals, birds and sediments.
Stefan Kautsch
Associate Professor
Research Interests: dark matter, cosmology, galaxies, physics, astrophysics, NASA, observational cosmology, galaxy morphology, astronomical engineering, disk galaxies, and planets
Andrew Kiene
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: dynamics of Earth’s upper atmosphere
Louis Nemzer
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Biophysics, Cooperative Antibiotic Resistance, Information in DNA, Seizure Prediction for Epilepsy, and 3D-Printing for Data Visualization
Richard H Perry
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Analytical Chemistry, Instrument Development, Lipidomics, Ionization Mechanisms, Ambient Mass Spectrometry, Mass Spectrometry Imaging, Molecular Mechanisms of Biological Processes and Diseases, Reaction Mechanisms, and Molecular Modeling
Reza Razeghifard
Professor and Department Chair
Research Interests: chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, protein engineering, biofuels, and p450 enzyme
Venkatesh Shanbhag
Professor
Research Interests: Natural product isolation, green methods in organic synthesis, machine olfaction (E-nose) application in forensics and detection
Arthur Sikora
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Biochemistry, Biophysics and Chemical Education
Brian Van Hoozen
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Computational Chemistry, Quantum Mechanics, Hydrogen Bonding, and Vibrational Spectroscopy