Faculty

Research Faculty

Irving Epstein
Irving Epstein
Henry F. Fischbach Professor of Chemistry and HHMI Professor
781-736-2503 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
Rebecca L. M. Gieseking
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
781-736-2511 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
Grace Han
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
781-736-2576 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
Lizbeth Hedstrom
Professor of Biology and Chemistry
Chair, Biology
781-736-2333 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
Judith Herzfeld
Professor of Biophysical Chemistry
781-736-2538 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
Isaac Krauss
Professor of Chemistry
781-736-2574 Edison-Lecks 226
Area of Expertise: Chemical glycobiology and organic chemistry
Thomas Pochapsky
Thomas Pochapsky
Professor of Chemistry
781-736-2559 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.
Klaus Schmidt-Rohr
Klaus Schmidt-Rohr
Professor of Chemistry
781-736-2520 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
Barry Snider
Charles A. Breskin Professor of Organic Chemistry
Department Chair
781-736-2550 Edison-Lecks 122
Area of Expertise: Synthesis of natural products, new synthetic methods, free radical chemistry, Lewis acid induced reactions, ketene cycloadditions
Chi Ting
Chi Ting
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
781-736-2534 Edison-Lecks 125
Area of Expertise: Total synthesis of natural products. Chemoselective functionalization of peptides. Genome mining and natural product biosynthesis.
Bing Xu
Bing Xu
Professor of Chemistry
781-736-5201 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
Hao Xu
Professor of Chemistry (Professor Xu will arrive in summer 2020)
Edison-Lecks 225
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
Milos Dolnik
Associate Professor of Chemistry
781-736-2604 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.
Bryan Ingoglia
Bryan Ingoglia
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
781-736-2554 Edison-Lecks 115
Area of Expertise: Organometallic chemistry, Organic Synthesis, and Chemistry Education Research. 
Stephanie Murray, Chemistry teaching faculty
Stephanie Murray
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
781-736-2545 Shapiro Science Center 08B
Area of Expertise: Chemistry Education Research, Organic Synthesis & Reaction Development, and Enantioselective Catalysis.
Claudia Novack
Claudia Novack
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
781-736-2582 Edison-Lecks 120
Area of Expertise: Undergraduate chemistry education.

Faculty Emeriti

Iu-Yam Chan
Iu-Yam Chan
Professor of Chemistry Emeritus
Edison-Lecks 115
Emily Dudek
Emily Dudek
Professor of Chemistry Emerita
Bruce Foxman
Bruce Foxman
Professor of Chemistry Emeritus
781-736-2532 Edison-Lecks 118
Area of Expertise: X-ray structure determination, coordination plymers, chemical, physical, and crystallographic studies of solid-state reactions
Michael Henchman
Michael Henchman
Professor of Chemistry Emeritus
781-736-2558 Edison-Lecks 126
Peter Jordan
Peter Jordan
Professor of Chemistry Emeritus
781-736-2540 Edison-Lecks 115
Philip Keehn
Philip Keehn
Professor of Chemistry Emeritus
781-736-2541 Edison-Lecks 126
Kenneth Kustin
Kenneth Kustin
Professor of Chemistry Emeritus
Gregory Petsko
Gregory Petsko
Professor of Chemistry Emeritus
Dagmar Ringe
Dagmar Ringe
Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry Emerita
781-736-4902 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
Thomas Tuttle
Thomas Tuttle
Professor of Chemistry Emeritus