Faculty and Staff

Research Interests

Theoretical/Computational

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

• Computational and theoretical chemistry

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

• Organometallic chemistry: reactions, mechanisms, photochemistry, and catalysis

• Torsional barriers

• Computational studies of molecular electronic structure

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

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

• Physics and physical chemistry of biopolymers

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

• Organic photochemistry; molecular mechanics

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