Faculty

Research Faculty

Li Deng

Orrie Friedman Distinguished Professor of Chemistry

781-736-2529 deng@brandeis.edu Edison-Lecks 322

Area of Expertise: Asymmetric catalysis and asymmetric synthesis. Solid phase synthesis and combinatorial chemistry. Chiral recognition. Chemical approaches towards understanding protein functions.
Dr. Deng is on leave.

Irving Epstein

Henry F. Fischbach Professor of Chemistry and HHMI Professor

781-736-2503 epstein@brandeis.edu Shapiro Science Center 3-09

Area of Expertise: Oscillating chemical reactions and pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems. Mathematical modeling of biochemical kinetics and neural systems

Rebecca L. M. Gieseking

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

781-736-2511 gieseking@brandeis.edu Shapiro Science Center 3-12

Area of Expertise: Developing computational models to understand materials for emerging energy technologies in the fields of solar energy, batteries, and fuel generation.

Grace Han

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

781-736-2576 gracehan@brandeis.edu Edison-Lecks 307

Area of Expertise: Organic synthesis of dynamic molecules and polymers for creating interactive material systems. Solid-state application of soft materials for energy conversion, storage, and optoelectronics. Functionalization of 2D materials (graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, etc.) using organic and inorganic synthetic methods.

Lizbeth Hedstrom

Professor of Biology and Chemistry

781-736-2333 hedstrom@brandeis.edu Kosow-Wolfson 112

Area of Expertise: Relationship between protein structure and function in enzyme catalysis and inhibitor action. Understanding the effects of mutations in vivo.

Judith Herzfeld

Professor of Biophysical Chemistry

781-736-2538 herzfeld@brandeis.edu Shapiro Science Center 3-06

Area of Expertise: Development and application of reactive and polarizable force fields as efficient replacements for quantum mechanics in simulations of reactions in complex media. Solid-state NMR studies of structure and function in membrane proteins and bio-inspired materials.

Isaac Krauss

Professor of Chemistry

781-736-2574 kraussi@brandeis.edu Edison-Lecks 226

Area of Expertise: Chemical glycobiology and organic chemistry

Thomas Pochapsky

Professor of Chemistry

781-736-2559 pochapsk@brandeis.edu Rosenstiel 655

Area of Expertise: Self-assembly of chemical and biological systems. Transient interactions in solution by NMR. NMR of soluble proteins. Protein stability and folding by NMR and mutagenesis.

Dagmar Ringe

Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry

781-736-4902 ringe@brandeis.edu Rosenstiel 654

Area of Expertise: X-ray crystallography of proteins.Studies of protein structure and function, enzyme mechanisms and protein-ligand and protein-protein interaction

Klaus Schmidt-Rohr

Professor of Chemistry

781-736-2520 srohr@brandeis.edu Edison-Lecks 118A

Area of Expertise: Solid-state NMR of complex organic materials, including polymers, carbon materials, nanocomposites, and natural organic matter; NMR technique development; basic thermodynamics and chemical energy.

Barry Snider

Charles A. Breskin Professor of Organic Chemistry

Department Chair

781-736-2550 snider@brandeis.edu Edison-Lecks 122

Area of Expertise: Synthesis of natural products, new synthetic methods, free radical chemistry, Lewis acid induced reactions, ketene cycloadditions

Chi Ting

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

chiting@brandeis.edu

Area of Expertise: Total synthesis of natural products. Chemoselective functionalization of peptides. Genome mining and natural product biosynthesis.

Chi Ting will be on-campus starting July 1, 2020.

Bing Xu

Professor of Chemistry

781-736-5201 bxu@brandeis.edu Edison-Lecks 320

Area of Expertise: New molecular materials and nanomaterials for the exploration in biomedicine (e.g., molecular drug delivery, cancer therapy, biomedical diagnostics, and biomimetics) and other fundamental problems in nanoscience and biological science.

Hao Xu

Professor of Chemistry (Professor Xu will arrive in summer 2020)

haohxu@brandeis.edu

Area of Expertise: Non-precious metal catalysis directed towards organic synthesis. Translational synthetic chemistry. Discovery of new disease targets and therapeutic probes in human biology.

Teaching Faculty

Milos Dolnik

Associate Professor of Chemistry

781-736-2604 dolnik@brandeis.edu Shapiro Science Center 00-11A

Area of Expertise: Oscillating chemical reactions and pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems. Mathematical modeling of biochemical kinetics and neural systems.