Professors

Here in the Department of Chemistry, we've built a fine team of professors committed to student success.

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	Heather Andreas BSc, PhD (Calgary) Assistant Professor; Studying electrochemical methods to optimise alternative energy systems.
	Stephen L. Bearne BScH (Acadia), PhD (Toronto), MDCM (McGill) Professor; Enzymology, Biological Chemistry Cross-appointed from Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Biological chemistry, enzymology, kinetics, enzyme inhibition, drug design, enzyme evolution, proteomics, organic synthesis.
	Axel D. Becke BSc (Queen's), MSc, PhD (McMaster), FRSC, FRS, FCIC Canada Council Killam Research Fellow and Killam Chair in Computational Science; New theoretical and computational methods for electronic structure of atoms, molecules and solids.
	Russell J. Boyd BSc (UBC), PhD (McGill), FCIC Alexander McLeod Professor of Chemistry; Computational and theoretical chemistry.
	D. Jean Burnell BSc, MSc (Carleton), PhD (UNB) Professor; Synthetic and mechanistic organic chemistry.
	Frances L. Cozens BSc (York), PhD (Toronto) Associate Professor; Laser flash photolysis; study of reactive intermediates in homogeneous and heterogeneous media.
	Jeff R. Dahn, BSc (Dal), MSc, PhD (UBC) Professor; Canada Research Chair in Battery & Fuel Cell Materials, NSERC/3M Canada Inc. Industrial Research Chair, and cross-appointed from Physics and Atmospheric Science.
	Alan A. Doucette BSc (Dal), PhD (Alberta) Associate Professor; Bioanalytical chemistry: technology development for biological mass spectrometry, protein sample manipulations, and multiplexed LC separations.
	Kevin R. Grundy BSc, MSc, PhD (Auckland) Associate Professor; The synthesis and reactivity of transition metal complexes containing unusual molecular and ionic species.
	David L. Jakeman BSc, PhD (Sheffield) Professor; Enzymes and proteins, antibiotics, catalysis, chemical synthesis, enzymatic synthesis, carbohydrate chemistry, oligosaccharides, and cross-appointment with College of Pharmacy .
	Randall V. Martin BS (Cornell), MSc (Oxford), MSc, PhD (Harvard) Associate Professor; Atmospheric chemistry, and cross-appointed from Physics and Atmospheric Science.
	Mark N. Obrovac BSc (SFU), MSc, PhD (Dal) Associate Professor and NSERC/3M Canada Ltd. Industrial Research Chair in Materials Science; New Materials for Advanced Batteries, Electrochemistry, Inorganic Materials Synthesis, Nanostructured Materials
	Jan K. Rainey BSc (Guelph), MSc, PhD (Toronto) Assistant Professor; Biophysical chemistry, NMR spectroscopy, scanning probe microscopy, computation, protein structure-function, cell membranes, self-assembly, and cross-appointed from Biochemistry & Molecular Biology.
	Norman P. Schepp BSc, PhD (Toronto) Associate Professor; Organic chemistry.
	Mark Stradiotto BSc, PhD (McMaster) Professor, Organometallic chemistry.
	Alison Thompson BSc (Leicester), PhD (Sheffield) Professor; Synthesis and applications of homochiral dipyrromethene complexes; asymmetric catalysis; new methodology for the synthesis of important pyrroles.
	Laura Turculet BSc (MIT), PhD (Berkeley) Associate Professor; Synthetic Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry and Reactivity; New Materials Synthesis.
	Donald F. Weaver MD, PhD (Queen's), FRCP(C) (Dalhousie) Professor; Canada Research Chair in Clinical Neuroscience, Medicinal/pharmaceutical chemistry, and cross-appointed from the Division of Neurology.
	Peter D. Wentzell BSc (Dal), PhD (Michigan State) Professor; Chemometrics, sensors and continuous flow analysis.
	Mary Anne White BSc (UWO), PhD (McMaster), FCIC University Research Professorship; Director, Institute for Research in Materials; Materials science: thermal properties, and cross-appointment with Physics and Atmospheric Science.
	Robert L. White BSc (Dal), PhD (McMaster), FCIC Associate Professor; Bioorganic chemistry.
	Peng Zhang BSc, MSc (Jilin U., China), PhD (Western) Assistant Professor; Materials science, nano-science and technology, synchrotron spectroscopy, biotechnological applications of nanocrystals.
	Josef W. Zwanziger (Chair) BA (Chicago), PhD (Cornell) Professor; Canada Research Chair in NMR Studies of Materials, Director, NMR-3, and cross-appointment with Physics and Atmospheric Science; Materials science: Structure, bulk properties, and synthesis.