Our People
Meet Our People
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Delaware boasts a distinguished faculty and staff dedicated to excellence in teaching and research. The department comprises highly accomplished professors with diverse areas of expertise, ranging from organic chemistry and biochemistry to materials science and computational chemistry. These esteemed scholars are actively engaged in cutting-edge research, contributing to the advancement of scientific knowledge and fostering an environment of intellectual curiosity and innovation.
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Joel Rosenthal
Department Chair
Professor
Phone: (302) 831-0716
Email: joelr@udel.edu
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Jocelyn Alcántara-García
Conservation Scientist
Associate Professor
Winterthur Museum
Scientific Research and Analysis LaboratoryEmail: joceag@udel.edu
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Ariel Alperstein
Assistant Professor
Email: amalpers@udel.edu
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Brian Bahnson
Professor
Email: bahnson@udel.edu
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Thomas Beebe
Professor
Director, Surface Analysis Facility
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William Chain
Associate Professor
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Junghuei Chen
Associate Professor
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Darrell Collison
Assistant Professor
Teaching IntensiveEmail: dacollis@udel.edu
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Trevor Daly
Assistant Professor
(Teaching Intensive)Email: tdaly@udel.edu
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Rachel Davidson
Assistant Professor
Email: rachelda@udel.edu
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Joseph M. Fox
Francis Alison Professor
Email: jmfox@udel.edu
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Lauren Genova
Assistant Professor
Teaching IntensiveEmail: lgenova@udel.edu
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Jodi Hadden-Perilla
C. Eugene Bennett Early Career Chair of Chemistry
Email: jhadden@udel.edu
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Emil Hernandez-Pagan
Assistant Professor
Email: emilhp@udel.edu
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Bruce Hietbrink
Assistant Professor
Teaching IntensiveEmail: hietbrin@udel.edu
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Murray V. Johnston
Professor
Email: mvj@udel.edu
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Laure Kayser
Assistant Professor
Email: lkayser@udel.edu
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John T. Koh
Professor
Email: johnkoh@udel.edu
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Catherine E. Leimkuhler Grimes
Professor
Email: cgrimes@UDel.Edu
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Edward Lyman
Associate Professor
Email: elyman@udel.edu
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Marco Messina
Assistant Professor
Email: messinam@udel.edu
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Carsten Milsmann
Associate Professor
Email: milsmann@udel.edu
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Jeffrey Mugridge
Assistant Professor
Email: mugridge@udel.edu
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Sandeep Patel
Associate Professor
Email: sapatel@udel.edu
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Juan Perilla
Associate Professor
Email: jperilla@udel.edu
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Tatyana Polenova
C. Eugene Bennett Chair of Chemistry
Email: tpolenov@udel.edu
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Sharon Rozovsky
Professor
Email: rozovsky@udel.edu
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Karl Schmitz
Assistant Professor
Joint Appointment in BiologyEmail: schmitzk@udel.edu
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Andrew V. Teplyakov
Professor
Email: andrewt@udel.edu
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Colin Thorpe
Willis Harrington Professor
Email: cthorpe@udel.edu
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Donald A. Watson
Willis Harrington Professor
Email: dawatson@udel.edu
Melinda Duncan (302) 831-0533, duncanm@udel.edu, Professor, Biological Sciences, Ph.D., The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Rutgers the State University of New Jersey
Pamela Green (302) 831-6160, green@dbi.udel.edu, Crawford H Greenwalt Professor, Plant and Soil Science, Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook
George Luther (302) 645-4208, luther@udel.edu, Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington Professor of Marine Studies, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Bob Opila (302) 831-3128, opila@udel.edu, Professor, Materials Science, Ph.D., University of Chicago
Vijay Parashar (302)831-4552, parashar@udel.edu, Assistant Professor, Medical and Molecular Sciences, Ph.D., Panjab University, India
Darrin Pochan (302) 831-3569, pochan@udel.edu, Professor and Chair, Materials Science, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts
Donald Sparks (302) 831-8153, dlsparks@udel.edu, S Hallock duPont Professor, Plant & Soil Science, Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universit
Kryszof Szalewicz (302) 831-6579, szalewic@udel.edu, Professor, Physics and Astronomy, Ph.D., University of Warsaw
Name | Title | |
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Asare-Okai, Papa Nii | Assistant Professor | pasare@udel.edu |
Bai, Shi | Professor | bais@udel.edu |
Burke, Kathryn | Assistant Professor | kdburke@udel.edu |
Chatellier, Dana | Education Specialist | danac@udel.edu |
Cruz, Federico | Assistant Professor | cruzf@udel.edu |
Hoober, Karen | Adjunct Faculty | khoober@udel.edu |
Mohr, Jordan | Assistant Professor | jmohr@udel.edu |
Quinn, Caitlin | Assistant Professor | cmquinn@udel.edu |
Sametz, Geoffrey | Assistant Professor | sametz@udel.edu |
Singewald, Beth | Assistant Professor | singewal@udel.edu |
Stemniski, Michael | Adjunct Faculty | mastem@udel.edu |
Yap, Glenn | Assistant Professor | gpyap@udel.edu |
Peter Bernstein, pbernst@udel.edu, Affiliated Professor, Ph.D., Columbia University
Andrew Combs, acombs@preludetx.com, Affiliated Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
James R. Damewood, Jr., jrdamewood@gmail.com, Affiliated Professor, Ph.D., Princeton University.
Eric Freed, efreed@mail.nih.gov, Affiliated Professor, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Angela Gronenborn, amg100@pitt.edu, Affiliated Professor, Ph.D., University of Cologne, Germany
Alan Price, alan.t.price@gsk.com, Affiliated Professor, Ph.D., Emory University
Joel Schneider, Joel.Schneider@nih.gov, Affiliated Professor, Ph. D., Texas A&M University
Jochem Struppe, Jochem.Struppe@bruker-biospin.com, Affiliated Professor, Ph.D., University of Stuttgart, Germany
Nicholas Zumbulyadis, nicholas.zumbulyadis@icloud.com, Affiliated Professor, Ph.D., Columbia University
- John Bulkowski, jbulkow@udel.edu, Associate Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University
- John L. Burmeister, jlburm@udel.edu, 302-831-1130, 203 Brown Laboratory, Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Northwestern University
- Don Dennis, ddennis@udel.edu , Professor Emeritus, Biochemistry, Ph.D. Brandeis University
- Douglas Doren, doren@udel.edu, Professor Emeritus, Physical Chemistry, Ph.D. Harvard University
- Jean Futrell, jeanfutrell@charter.net or Jean.Futrell@pnl.gov, Professor Emeritus, Analytical/Physical Chemistry, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
- Susan E. Groh, sgroh@udel.edu, Associate Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Stanford University
- Charles G. Riordan, riordan@udel.edu, Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Texas A&M University
- Kathryn C. Scantlebury, kscantle@udel.edu, Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Purdue University
- Klaus H. Theopold, theopold@udel.edu, Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., UC, Berkeley
- Douglass Taber, taberdf@udel.edu, Professor Emeritus, Organic Chemistry, Ph.D., Columbia University
- Conrad Trumbore, conradt@udel.edu, Associate Professor Emeritus, Physical Chemistry, Ph.D., Penn State
- Harold White, halwhite@udel.edu, (302) 831 2908,135 Brown Laboratory, Professor Emeritus, Biochemistry, Ph.D. Brandeis University
Administrative Staff
Name | Title | |
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Laura Carson |
Business Administrator II |
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Susan Cheadle | Academic Program Coordinator, Graduate Program (post-admission) and Administrative Assistant to the Chair |
scheadle@udel.edu |
Sue James | Academic Program Coordinator, Undergraduate Program |
suejames@udel.edu |
Kylee Kusters |
Academic Support Coordinator II |
kyleec@udel.edu |
Dana Wallace | Academic Program Coordinator Graduate Recruitment (Pre-admission) | dlw@udel.edu |
CBI Grant Support
Name | Title | |
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Jessica Pappas |
Coordinator, CBI Program | pappas@udel.edu |
COBRE Grant Support
Name | Title | |
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Dawn Yasik | Business Administrator I | dyasik@udel.edu |
Vera Vladimirova | Business Administrator I | veravlad@udel.edu |
Computing Support
Name | Title | |
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Pat McMahon | Manager Research Computing | pmcmahon@udel.edu |
Justin Vitelli | Computing Support Specialist I | jvitelli@udel.edu |
Financial Services
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Eileen Adams | CAS Financial Processor | ewadams@udel.edu |
Grants Administration
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Karen Jordan | Grants Analyst II, CAS Research | kejordan@udel.edu | |
Emily Wood | Grants Analyst II, CAS Research | elwood@udel.edu | |
Instructional Laboratory Staff
Name | Title | |
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Kathryn Burke | Manager, Introductory Laboratories | kdburke@udel.edu |
John Cronin |
Senior Laboratory Technician |
johncr@udel.edu |
Federico Cruz | Manager, Analytical/Physical Laboratories | cruzf@udel.edu |
Joseph Karpinski | Laboratory Coordinator | jkarpins@udel.edu |
Nicholas Rutherford | Senior Laboratory Technician | nrutherf@udel.edu |
Geoffrey Sametz |
Manager, Organic Laboratories | sametz@udel.edu |
Instrument Facility Staff
Name | Title | |
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Steve Bai | Manager, NMR Facility | bais@udel.edu |
PapaNii Asare-Okai | Manager, Mass Spec Facility | pasare@udel.edu |
Yinzhi Fang | Manager, Synthetic Core Facility | yinzhif@udel.edu |
Xu Feng | Manager, Surface Analysis Facility | xufeng@udel.edu |
Caitlin Quinn | NMR Spectroscopist | cmquinn@udel.edu |
Jessica Sampson | Director, High Throughput Experimentation Facility | jrsampso@udel.edu |
Glenn Yap | Manager, X-Ray Facility | gpyap@udel.edu |
Yanbao Yu | Director of Proteomics | yybyu@udel.edu |
Technical Services Staff
Name | Title | |
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John Neff | Master Glass Technician | jneff@udel.edu |
Moiscell Robinson | Master Elec./Instrument Specialist | moisrob@udel.edu |
John Famiglietti | Supervisor, Instrument Shop | jfamig@udel.edu |
Storeroom - Fisher Scientific
Name | Title | |
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Gary Lance | Fisher Storeroom Clerk | gary.lance@thermofisher.com |