Faculty and Staff

Research Interests

Department Division: Physical

Edward Arnold, Professor

• Crystallographic studies of human viruses and viral proteins; molecular design

Kenneth J. Breslauer, Professor and Dean of Life Sciences

• Biopolymer structures and drug-nucleic acid interactions

Kieron Burke, Professor

• Computational and theoretical chemistry

Edward W. Castner Jr., Professor

• Ultrafast laser spectroscopy in condensed phases; electron-transfer and solvation dynamics

Yves Chabal, Professor & Director, Laboratory for Surface Modification

• Physical Chemistry Surface and interfaces (spectroscopic investigations) Micro-, opto-, and nano-electronics Electronic and bio sensors Imaging

Martha A. Cotter, Professor

• Theoretical studies of liquid crystalline systems

Eric L. Garfunkel, Professor

• Surface science; thin film growth; molecular adsorption on surfaces

Lionel Goodman, Professor Emeritus

• Torsional barriers

Martha Greenblatt, Professor

• Solid-state chemistry; high Tc superconductors, low-dimensional solids, ionic conductors

Gene S. Hall, Professor

• Applied analytical chemistry; trace analysis of environmental and geological samples

Gregory F. Herzog, Professor

• Origin and evolution of solar system materials; cosmogenic radionuclides

Jane Hinch, Associate Professor

• Molecular beam-surface interactions; surface diffractive techniques

Charalampos (Babis) Kalodimos, Assistant Professor

• Structural & Mechanistic Biology; Protein Dynamics & Allostery

John Krenos, Professor

• Collision dynamics of electronic energy transfer

Karsten Krogh-Jespersen, Professor

• Computational studies of molecular electronic structure

Jeehiun Katherine Lee, Associate Professor

• Biophysical organic and analytical chemistry; computational chemistry; mass spectrometry; study of chemical reactivity, recognition, and catalysis

Ronald M. Levy, Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry

• Computer studies of protein structure, function, folding and dynamics; chemical physics of liquids

Theodore E. Madey, State of New Jersey Professor of Surface Science

• Surface structure and reactivity; electron- and photon-induced surface processes

Gerald S. Manning, Professor

• Physics and physical chemistry of biopolymers

Wilma K. Olson, Mary I. Bunting Professor of Chemistry

• Theoretical studies of nucleic acid conformation, properties, and interactions

Joseph A. Potenza, Professor

• Molecular structure; X-ray diffraction; magnetic resonance

Laurence S. Romsted, Professor

• Membrane mimetic/micellar/association colloid chemistry, chemical trapping via arenediazonium ions/reaction mechanisms

Ronald R. Sauers, Professor Emeritus

• Organic photochemistry; molecular mechanics

David Talaga, Assistant Professor

• Protein folding and conformational dynamics, single molecule microscopy, time resolved fluorescence, statistical information theory, amyloid formation

Sidney Toby, Professor Emeritus and Lecturer

• Chemical kinetics, chemiluminescence and chemical education