Specialties

Synthesis

Graham Dobereiner
​Inorganic, Organic
Homogeneous catalysis and organotransition metal chemistry 
Susan Jansen-Varnum
Analytical, Inorganic, Education
Inorganic synthesis of chemiluminescent solutions, design/evaluation of materials for liquid and plastic scintillation, science education across the K-20 continuum, profiling urinary creatinine and prostanoids, sex hormones in urine as a profile of biological age
Daniel K. Kim
Organic, Inorganic, Biological
Developing new catalytic platforms to tackle challenges in organic synthesis and biology with a large focus on transition metal catalysis
Chris Schafmeister
Organic
Development of macromolecules capable of acting as catalysts, new therapies and channels
Scott McN. Sieburth
Organic, Medicinal
​New synthetic methods for synthesis including photochemical and organometallic processes; organosilanols as pharmaceuticals; higher-order photocycloaddition
Yugang Sun
Physical/Analytical
Nanomaterials synthesis, nanofabrication, in-situ and operando characterization, plasmonics, nanophotonics, photocatalysis, electrochemical catalysis, electrochemical energy storage, sensing
Rongsheng (Ross) Wang
Biological, Organic
Chemical biology, bioorganic chemistry, bioanalytical chemistry: interdisciplinary approaches to elucidate novel biological mechanisms underlying cancer and inflammatory diseases, and to develop related diagnostic and therapeutic agents
Sarah Wengryniuk
Organic
​Hypervalent iodine chemistry, approaches to medium-sized ring systems, C-H activation, synthesis of bioactive natural products
Katherine (Kallie) Willets
Physical/Analytical
Plasmonics; optical microscopy/spectroscopy; electrochemistry; nanoparticle synthesis, fabrication, functionalization
Michael J. Zdilla
Inorganic
​​Synthetic and mechanistic inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry and crystallography: multi-metal molecular clusters and solid-state systems of fundamental chemical and biological interest, and for energy and materials applications