Degree Programs Offered: Master of Science, Master of Science for Teachers, Doctor of Philosophy
Director of Graduate Program: Professor Roger A. Jones, Wright-Rieman Laboratories, Busch Campus (732-445-4900)
Vice Chair for Graduate Program: Professor Ralf Warmuth, Wright-Rieman Laboratories, Busch Campus (732-445-8432)
Members of the Graduate Faculty
Georgia A. Arbuckle-Keil, Professor of Chemistry, FAS-C; Ph.D., Pennsylvania Synthesis/properties of conducting polymers; quartz crystal microbalance study of electroactive surfaces
Eddy Arnold, Professor of Chemistry, SAS/CABM; Ph.D., Cornell Crystallographic studies of human viruses and viral proteins, structure-based drug, and vaccine design
Tewodros (Teddy) Asefa, Associate Professor of Chemistry, SAS, and of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SOE; Ph.D., Toronto Nanomaterials for catalysis; sensors; renewable energy; nanomedicine
Jean S. Baum, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley) Structural studies of proteins by nuclear magnetic resonance techniques
Helen M. Berman, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Pittsburgh Structural biology, structural nucleic acids, bioinformatics
Robert S. Boikess, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia Chemical education
John G. Brennan, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley) Molecular, cluster, and solid-state inorganic chemistry; NIR emission and composite materials synthesis
Kenneth J. Breslauer, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Yale Characterization of the molecular interactions that modulate biopolymer structure, stability, and drug binding
David A. Case, Professor of
Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Computational aspects of biomolecular NMR; electrostatic interactions in proteins and nucleic acids; electronic structure aspects of metalloenzymes
Edward Castner Jr., Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago Ionic liquids; ultrafast dynamics and photoreactions in solution
Kuang-Yu Chen, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Yale Chemical biology; elF5A and hypusine function; polyamines; nutraceuticals and high throughput screening
Martha A. Cotter, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Georgetown Theoretical investigations of liquid crystals and micellar systems
G. Charles Dismukes, Professor of Chemistry, SAS/WIM, and of Biochemistry and Microbiology, SEBS; Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison) Biological and chemical approaches to renewable fuel production; catalysis
Richard H. Ebright, Professor of Chemistry, WIM/SAS; Ph.D., Harvard Structure and mechanism of transcription complexes; small-molecule inhibitors of transcription; single-molecule biophysics
Laura Fabris, Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering,
SOE; Ph.D., Padova (Italy) Synthesis, characterization, and application of metal nanoparticles; surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy; imaging, cell targeting, drug delivery
Paul G. Falkowski, Professor of Geological Sciences and Marine and Coastal Sciences,
SAS; Ph.D., British Columbia Biogeochemical
cycles; evolution; astrobiology
Eric L. Garfunkel, Chair and Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley) Surface and nanoscience; ultrathin films and interfaces for nanoelectronics; alternative energy materials
Alan S. Goldman, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia Organometallic chemistry; homogeneous catalysis
Martha Greenblatt, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Polytechnic Institute of New York Solid-state inorganic chemistry; low dimensional transition-metal oxides
Gene S. Hall, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute Forensic, biological, and environmental analytical chemistry
Gregory F. Herzog, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia Origin and evolution of meteorites; cosmogenic radioisotopes
Jane Hinch, Associate Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Cambridge Molecular beam-surface interactions and diffractive techniques
Kai
C. Hultzsch, Associate Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Johannes
Gutenberg (Mainz, Germany) Synthesis of chiral organometallic complexes
and their applications in small molecule syntheses and
stereospecific polymerizations
Leslie S. Jimenez, Associate Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles) Synthesis and characterization of analogs of antitumor antibiotics, total synthesis of natural products
Roger A. Jones, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Alberta Nucleoside and nucleic acid synthesis
Charalampos Kalodimos, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Ioannina (Greece) and Curie Institute (France)
Protein-protein and
protein-DNA interactions; biomolecular NMR spectroscopy
Spencer A. Knapp, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell Synthesis of natural products, enzyme inhibitors, and complex ligands
Joachim B. Kohn, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Weizmann (Israel) Development of structurally new polymers as biomaterials for medical applications
John Krenos, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Yale Chemical physics, energy transfer in hyperthermal collisions, chemical education
Karsten Krogh-Jespersen, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., New York Computational studies of molecular electronic structure; excited electronic states
Jeehiun
Katherine Lee, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard Experimental and theoretical studies of biological and organic
reactivity
Ki-Bum Lee, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Northwestern
Signaling pathways in stem cells; dynamic cell
processes
Ronald M. Levy, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard Biophysical chemistry; chemical physics; dynamics of macromolecules
Jing Li, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell Inorganic and materials chemistry, synthesis and properties of materials for energy storage and conversion
Joseph
Marcotrigiano, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D.,
Rockefeller Structural and functional studies of RNA virus replication
Gaetano T. Montelione, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell Structure and dynamics of protein-protein and protein-nucleic acid complexes
Alexandre V. Morozov, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, SAS; Ph.D., Washington Biophysics; bioinformatics; systems biology; theoretical evolutionary biology
Wilma Olson, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Stanford Theoretical and computational studies of nucleic acid structure and properties
Daniel
S. Pilch, Associate Professor of Pharmacology, UMDNJ-RWJMS;
Ph.D., California (Berkeley) Structure and energetics of
drug-biomolecule interactions; anticancer and antimicrobial drug
development
Joseph A. Potenza, University Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard Molecular structure; X-ray diffraction; chemical education
Laurence Romsted, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Indiana Chemistry in and properties of micelles, microemulsions, and vesicles; organic reaction mechanisms
Heinz D. Roth, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Cologne (Germany) Electron transfer induced chemistry; chemistry of reactive intermediates; history of chemistry
Daniel Seidel, Associate Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Texas (Austin) Synthesis of complex molecular architectures
Ann
M. Stock, Professor of Biochemistry, UMDNJ-RWJMS, HHMI Investigator;
Ph.D., California (Berkeley) Structure and function of signal
transduction proteins
John W. Taylor, Associate Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago Bioactive peptide design and synthesis, multicyclic peptides
Kathryn
E. Uhrich, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell Synthesis and
characterization of novel polymers for drug delivery
Ralf
Warmuth, Associate Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Frankfurt Synthesis and application of nanocapsules; design and synthesis of
conformationally constrained peptides
Lawrence J. Williams,
Associate Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Arizona Molecular design
and synthesis: strategies, methods, and applications
Darrin M. York, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SAS/SOE; Ph.D., Toronto Molecular simulation and quantum chemistry methods in the study of RNA catalysis
