The University of Texas at Arlingon

 Faculty     

By research area                                                                    Alphabetical listing   

 

Analytical Chemistry

Daniel W. Armstrong. Robert A. Welch Chair in Chemistry.

  • Enantiomeric Separation Science
  • Capillary Electrophoresis for Microorganisms
  • Room Temperature Ionic Liquids


Donald R. Bobbitt.
Professor Provost and 
                                          Vice President for Academic Affairs

  • Bio-Analytical Chemistry
  • Pharmaceutical Analysis
  • Polarization-Selective Spectroscopy
  • Stereo-Selective Analysis
  • Optical Fiber Biosensors

Purnendu K. (Sandy) Dasgupta. Jenkins Garrett Professor.
                                                Department Chair.

  • Trace Atmospheric Chemistry and Toxicology
  • Automated Intelligent Analyzers
  • Microfabricated sensors and Instrumentation
  • Thin Film Flow Devices and Sensors
  • Perchlorate in the Environment 

Richard (Xiyun) Guan. Assistant Professor.

  • Single Molecule Detection
  • Biomaterial Development for Use in Sensors
  • Direct and in-situ Environmental Monitoring and Medical Diagnosis

Krishnan Rajeshwar. Distinguished Professor.
                               Associate Dean of the College of Science.

  • Semiconductor Electrochemistry and Photocatalysis
  • Conducting Oxides and Polymers
  • Environmental Electrochemistry

Kevin A. Schug. Assistant Professor.

  • Soft Ionization - Mass Spectrometry
  • Chromatographic Separations
  • Molecular Recognition and Biomimetics

Norma Tacconi. Research Associate Professor.

  • Electrochemistry
  • Semiconductor Nanostructures and Nanocomposites
  • Metal Hexacyanoferrates: Electrosynthesis and Photoelectrochromic Applications
  • Spectroelectrochemistry of Dinuclear Ru(II) Complexes

Biochemistry

Edward Bellion. Professor.  Associate Chair of the Department.

  • Biochemistry of Methylotrophic Metabolism
    • Structure and Regulation of Carbon Assimilatory Enzymes
    • Assimilation of Nitrogen
    • Trehalose Synthesis


Jongyun Heo.
Assistant Professor.

  • Mechanistic Studies of Redox Regulation of small GTPases, Phosphatases and Kinases
  • Intervention of Anti-Cancer Drugs


Subhrangsu S. Mandal. Assistant Professor.

  • Biochemistry of Eukaryotic Transcription and Gene Regulation in Human
    • Transcription by RNA Polymerase II
    • Chromatin Structure-Function, Gene Activation and Silencing
    • Histone Modification, Epigenetics and Cancer

Inorganic Chemistry

H. V. Rasika Dias. Professor.

  • Homogeneous Catalysis
  • Luminescent Materials
  • Conducting Polymers
  • Bio-Mimetic Systems
  • Nanotechnology


Frederick MacDonnell. Professor.

  • Metal Directed Supramolecular Chemistry
  • Chiral and Supramolecular Coordination Chemistry
  • Multi-Electron Photochemistry / Solar Hydrogen Production
  • Bioinorganic Chemistry / Metal-DNA Complexes


Roshan Perera. Assistant Professor.

  • Proteins Containing Unnatural Amino Acids
  • Metalloenzymes in Physiological and Pathological Processes
  • Protein Engineering, Biocatalysis and Microarray Biochips
  • Solid-Phase Biochemical Synthesis, Chemical Biology

Brad S. Pierce. Assistant Professor.

  • Bioinorganic chemistry
  • Biophysical chemistry and Spectroscopy
  • Mechanistic metalloenzymology

Organic and Polymer Chemistry

Ronald L. Elsenbaumer. Professor. Vice President for Research
                                                   and Federal Relations

  • Electrically Conductive Polymers
  • Mechanistic Organic and Polymer Chemistry
  • Materials Science of Conjugated Polymers
  • Corrosion
  • Organic Superconductors


Frank W. Foss, Jr. Assistant Professor.

  • Synthetic Organic, Bioorganic, and Medicinal Chemistry
  • Design and Properties of Novel Materials
  • Biomimetic Catalysis
  • Investigating Biomolecular Interactions


Carl J. Lovely. Professor.

  • Heterocyclic Chemistry
  • Natural Product Total Synthesis
  • Metal Mediated and Catalyzed Processes


Christopher J. O'Brien. Assistant Professor.

  • Transition-metal and Organocatalyses
  • Molecular Design
  • Materials and Target-Oriented Syntheses


Martin Pomerantz. Professor.

  • Heterocyclic and Heteroatom Chemistry
  • Self-Assembly and Nanotechnology
  • Nonlinear Optical Materials
  • Electrically Conducting Polymers
  • Electroluminescent Polymers


Physical Chemistry

Peter Kroll. Assistant Professor.

  • Theoretical / Computational Chemistry
    • High-Pressure Materials
    • Embedded Nanocrystals and Nanostructured Materials
    • Covalent Networks and Glasses


Jimmy R. Rogers. Senior Lecturer and Undergraduate Advisor.

  • Chemistry Education


Zoltan A. Schelly. Professor and Graduate Advisor.

  • Electro-Optics of Organized Assemblies
  • Relaxation Method Studies of Fast Processes
  • Dynamics of Colloidal Systems
  • Chemical Instabilities and Bifurcations


Seiichiro Tanizaki.  Lecturer and Undergraduate Advisor.

  • Computational Biochemistry
  • Molecular dynamics
  • Monte Carlo simulations of biological systems


Richard B. Timmons.
Distinguished Professor.

  • Heterogeneous Catalysis
  • Plasma Chemistry

Adjunct Faculty

H. Keith McDowell.  Distinguished Lecturer.  Vice Chancellor for Research and Technology Transfer, University of Texas System.


Laszlo Prokai.
  Adjunct Professor. Biological Chemistry.

  • Bioanalytical and macromolecular mass spectrometry
  • Free-radical chemistry in biology/medicine

E. Thomas Strom. Adjunct Professor. Organic Chemistry.


Yingming Zhao. Adjunct Associate Professor. Biological Chemistry.

  • Mass spectrometry-based proteomics
  • Development and applications of proteomics technologies

 

Professors Emeriti

W. A. (Bill) Baker. Inorganic.

Ann Benham.   Education.

Robert F. Francis. Organic.

Dennis S. Marynick.  Theoretical / Computational.

Margaret C. Willoughby.  Polymer.


Retired Faculty

Eunice Bonar.   Education

Thomas J. Cogdell.  Organic.

Andrew L. Ternay, Jr.  Organic.


Deceased

Dmitry M. Rudkevich (1963-2007).  Organic.

 


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