Research Efforts by Faculty

Our faculty conduct research in broader areas of chemistry, environmental science, life sciences, materials science, and photonics. These research activities are supported by funding from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, US Army, US Department of Energy, as well as industry.

Our Researchers

Kevin Belfield – Biophotonics, photonic materials, and molecular engineering.

Sara Casad-Zapico - Applications of biochemical techniques to forensic science issues, like age-at-death estimation, postmortem interval determination, body fluid identification, and touch/transfer DNA.

Pier Champagne - Enantioselective organic synthesis and computational investigations of organic reaction mechanisms, in the fields of organosulfur compounds and organocatalysis.

Hao Chen  – The mass spectrometry and electrochemistry research, with the aim to develop new analytical, biomedical, and forensic applications through novel instrumentation.

Trevor Del Castillo - Polymer Chemistry, Organic Synthesis, Polymer Characterization, Sequence-defined Polymer Synthesis and Properties, Drug/Gene Delivery, Automation, Flow Chemistry, Polymer Recycling.

Michael Eberhart - Inorganic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, electron transfer mechanisms, chemistry at interfaces, and catalysis.

Edgardo Farinas – Protein engineering and enzyme design using directed evolution.

Tamara Gund – Modeling of the drug-biomolecule interactions.

Alexei Khalizov – Atmospheric chemistry, aerosols, air pollution, and climate change.

Mengyan Li – Environmental microbiology and biotechnology, water remediation.

Som Mitra – Nanotechnology for environmental and energy technologies, analytical chemistry, membrane separations, and real-time environmental monitoring.

Zeyuan Qiu – Natural resources and environmental economics.

Omowunmi Sadik - Biosensors, Surface chemistry, Electrochemistry, and Nanostructured conducting polymers: with emphasis on developing innovative technologies for improving human health, energy, and the environment.

Farnaz Shakib - A Theoretical and Computational Chemistry group interested in designing new generation sustainable energy resources, working at the junction of Computer Science, Quantum Chemistry, and Materials Science.

Genoa Warner - Environmental health, reproductive toxicology, chemical biology.

Lijie Zhang - Environmental biogeochemical processes, particulate-water interactions, contaminant remediation.

Yuanwei Zhang – Organic chemistry, biomaterials for disease diagnosis and treatment.