Degree Programs Offered: Master of Science, Doctor of Philosophy

Director of Graduate Program: Frieder Jakle, Olson Laboratories, Room 336 (973-353-5064)

Coordinator of Graduate Program: Elena Galoppini, Life Science Center I, Room 301D (973-353-5317); galoppin@newark.rutgers.edu

Website: chemistry.rutgers.edu/grad/graduate-prog

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Professors:

Huixin He, SAS-N; Ph.D., Beijing
Carbon nanomaterials; battery applications; nanomedicine for cancer research; scanning-probe microscopy studies

Frieder Jäkle, SAS-N; Ph.D., Technical University of Munich
Conjugated organboranes for organic electronics; luminescent materials; stimuli-responsive and supramolecular materials; polymer-supported catalysts; chiral Lewis acids and Lewis pairs

Frank Jordan, SAS-N; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Bioorganic chemistry; enzyme mechanisms; protein NMR

Roger A. Lalancette, SAS-N; Ph.D., Fordham
X-ray diffraction and the structure of solids; synthesis and characterization of nitrogen and sulfur complexes; hydrogen bonding in keto-carboxylic acids

Richard Mendelsohn, SAS-N; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Biophysical chemistry; infrared microscope imaging and confocal Raman microscopy applications to skin biophysics and pharmacology; permeation mechanisms of pharmacological agents through the skin barrier; formation of layered structures in stratum corneum models

Piotr Piotrowiak, SAS-N; Ph.D., Chicago
Photoinduced charge and excitation transfer; excited-state dynamics; transient laser spectroscopy; electrolyte dynamics

Associate Professors:

Stacey Brenner-Moyer, SAS-N; Ph.D., Stanford
Organic synthesis with medicinal applications; new method development; asymmetric catalysis 

W. Phillip Huskey, SAS-N; Ph.D., Kansas
Physical organic chemistry; mechanistic enzymology; isotope effects

Jenny V. Lockard, SAS-N; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Molecular spectroscopy; X-ray spectroscopy; applications to metal-organic frameworks; coordination complexes and materials

Michele Pavanello, SAS-N; Ph.D., Arizona
Density-functional theory and nonadiabatic dynamics with application to transfer of charge and excitation energy in biosystems, molecular electronics, and photovoltaics

John B. Sheridan, SAS-N; Ph.D., Bristol (England)
Transition-metal organometallic chemistry; synthesis, structure, and mechanism; applications to organic synthesis

Assistant Professors:

Demyan Prokopchuk, SAS-N; Ph.D., Toronto
Sustainable catalysis for energy storage and production, inorganic synthesis and ligand design; sustainable/renewable (electro)catalysis

Michal Szostak, SAS-N; Ph.D., Kansas
Synthetic organic and organometallic chemistry; transition-metal catalysis; free-radical chemistry; C-H activation