Faculty Research Areas/Research Themes

Alphabetical listing

All phone numbers begin with 519-661-2111

Chemical Biology and Biomaterials - click for description

Faculty Member
 Research Interests Email Extension
Gillies, Elizabeth
 Polymers and biomaterials egillie@uwo.ca
 80223
Hudson, Robert
 Bioorganic and synthetic chemistry, DNA, RNA, peptide nucleic acids, fluorescence rhhudson@uwo.ca
 86349
Luyt, Leonard
 Probes for molecular imaging, medicinal and bioorganic chemistry lluyt@uwo.ca
 80223
Konermann, Lars
 Analytical and biophysical chemistry, mass spectrometry, protein structure and function, rapid mixing devices, kinetic measurements, computer simulations konerman@uwo.ca
 86313
Stillman, Martin
 Metalloproteins; chemistry of Zn, Cd, As, and Hg in biology; iron scavenging by S. aureus; porphyrins and phthalocyanines; metal-thiolate clusters stillman@uwo.ca
 83821
Yeung, Ken Enabling Miniaturized Protein Analysis using Capillary Electrophoresis and Mass Spectrometry   kyeung@uwo.ca
86439

Synthesis, Catalysis and Molecular Materials

Faculty Member
 Research Interests Email Extension
Baines, Kim
 Mechanistic organometallic chemistry, organometallic polymers, low-coordinate Si and Ge compounds, interference lithography (with Robert Lipson) kbaines2@uwo.ca
 83122
Corrigan, John
 Semiconductor nanoparticles and nanoclusters, materials chemistry, main group chemistry jfcorrig@uwo.ca
 86387
Gilroy, Joe Inorganic, polymer and materials chemistry joe.gilroy@uwo.ca 81561
Kerr, Michael
 Synthesis of natural products, chemistry of heterocycles and cycloaddition reactions makerr@uwo.ca
 86354
Luyt, Leonard
 Probes for molecular imaging, medicinal and bioorganic chemistry lluyt@uwo.ca
 80223
Pagenkopf, Brian
 Synthetic methods and total synthesis, catalysis, silole-based materials bpagenko@uwo.ca
 81430
Puddephatt, Richard
 Organometallic chemistry, molecular materials, catalysis pudd@uwo.ca
 86336
Ragogna, Paul
 Chalcogens, main group and transition metal chemistry, ionophilic materials, cobaltoarenophanes, metallopolymers, superhydrophobic coatings, functional materials pragogna@uwo.ca
 87048
Usselman, Mel History of chemistry, early 19th century chemistry, replications of classical experiments usselman@uwo.ca 86308
Wisner, James Organic Supramolecular Chemistry Self-Assembly, Templation and Mechanically Bonded Molecules jwisner@uwo.ca 86864


Energy and Mechanism

Faculty Member
 Research Interests Email Extension
Calvin, Kay
kcalvin@uwo.ca 86305
Constas, Styliani Molecular simulations, chemical reactions in solution, dynamics of processes, charged clusters, activated processes, methods for rare events, polymer systems, Monte Carlo methods, molecular dynamics methods sconstas@uwo.ca 86338
Griffiths, Keith
 Surface Science
 griff@uwo.ca 84141
Shoesmith, David Electrochemistry and corrosion of materials, kinetics of surface reactions, modelling of surface processes, nuclear waste disposal, corrosion processes on gas pipelines dwshoesm@uwo.ca 86366
Staroverov, Viktor Theoretical and computational quantum chemistry vstarove@uwo.ca 86317
Weedon, Alan
 Organic Photochemistry
 aweedon@uwo.ca
 82900
Wren, Clara Chemical Kinetics and Transport Phenomena in Radiation-Induced Processes  jcwren@uwo.ca 86339


Materials: Design, Function and Characterization

Faculty Member
 Research Interests Email Extension
Ding, Zhifeng
 Bioanalytical and materials chemistry, scanning electrochemical microscopy, electrochemiluminescence, raman microspectroscopy zfding@uwo.ca 86161
Huang, Yining Characterization of nanoporous and layered inorganic materials by solid-state NMR and vibrational spectroscopy; crystallization of molecular sieves; host-guest interactions in zeolites; behavior of zeolites under high pressures yhuang@uwo.ca 86384
Lagugné-Labarthet, François Vibrational imaging, confocal microscopy, plasmonics, nanomaterials and Nanofabrication, photonics, polymers flagugne@uwo.ca 81006
Semenikhin, Oleg Materials, renewable energy, electrochemistry, nanotechnology osemenik@uwo.ca 82858
Sham, T.K.
 Synthesis and electronic properties of nanomaterials, heterostructures, surface and interfaces, X-ray spectroscopy, scattering and imaging using synchrotron radiation tsham@uwo.ca
 86341
Song, Yang
 Materials chemistry, extreme-condition studies, vibrational spectroscopy, synchrotron radiation yang.song@uwo.ca 86310
Workentin, Mark Materials, photochemistry, organic electrochemistry mworkent@uwo.ca 86319


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