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Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

Faculty members

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry has over 23 full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty members, as well as several associated faculty members from other departments at Concordia University and from industry.

Faculty members

  • John Capobianco
    • Professor and Concordia University Research Chair , Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Research areas: Nanomaterials, upconversion, lanthanides, bioimaging, drug delivery, photodynamic therapy, physical inorganic, optical spectroscopy, persistent luminescence.
  • Louis Cuccia
    • Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
    • Graduate program director, Chemistry and Biochemistry
  • Georges Dénès
    • Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Research areas: Inorganic solid state chemistry Crystallography Mossbauer spectroscopy Tin-containing materials
  • Christine DeWolf
    • Professor , Chemistry and Biochemistry
    • Co-Director, Centre for NanoScience Research
    • Vice-Dean, Dean of Arts & Science (Office)
    Research areas: biophysical chemistry, model membranes, Langmuir monolayers, liposomes, environmental pollutants, nanopatterning, lipid-protein interactions
  • Brandon Findlay
    • Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Research areas: Drug discovery, natural products, directed evolution, biochemistry.
  • Pat Forgione
    • Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Research areas: Organic Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Catalysis, Drug Discovery, Biomass, Anti-Cancer Agents, Materials Chemistry
  • Yves Gélinas
    • Professor and Concordia University Research Chair in Environmental Chemistry, Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Research areas: Analytical Biogeochemistry, Global Cycle of Organic Carbon, Climate Change, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Forensics, Molecular and Isotopic Biomarkers.
  • Ashlee J. Howarth
    • Associate Professor and Concordia University Research Chair, Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Research areas: Inorganic Materials Chemistry, Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs), Rare-Earth Cluster-Based MOFs, Porous Materials, Materials Design, Adsorbents, Catalysts, Photoluminescent Materials, Green Chemistry.
  • Paul Joyce
    • Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Research areas: Biochemistry, Genomics, Proteomics, Molecular/Cell Biology.
  • Gregor Kos
    • Senior Lecturer, Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Status: Current office: SP 275.21
    Research areas: Atmospheric and Environmental Chemistry
  • Marek B. Majewski
    • Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Research areas: Inorganic chemistry, solar energy conversion, artificial photosynthesis, photochemistry, photocatalysis, optical spectroscopy
  • Heidi Muchall
    • Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Research areas: Physical organic and computational chemistry, electronic and molecular structures
  • Rafik Naccache
    • Associate Professor and CURC Tier II in Sustainable Multifunctional Nanomaterials, Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Research areas: Nanoparticle synthesis, materials characterization, carbogenic quantum dots, metallic nanoparticles, plasmonics, sensors, imaging, nanothermometry, drug delivery
  • Jung Kwon (John) Oh
    • Full Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Research areas: Organic and polymer chemistry, Polymer synthesis and characterization, Materials science, biomedical applications, drug delivery
  • Xavier Ottenwaelder
    • Associate Professor , Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Research areas: Inorganic chemistry, oxidation chemistry, catalysis, aerobic reactions, coordination complexes, organic transformations
  • Melissa K. Passarelli
    Research areas: Imaging Mass Spectrometry (IMS); Spatial 'omics; Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS); Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization (MALDI)
  • Peter Pawelek
    • Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Research areas: Bacterial iron uptake, molecular mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis, protein-protein interactions, membrane proteins, biophysical chemistry, protein chemistry, phage display, X-ray crystallography.
  • Gilles Peslherbe
    • Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
    • Centre for Research in Molecular Modeling (CERMM)
    • Professor (cross-appointed), Physics
    • Professor (cross-appointed), Chemical and Materials Engineering
    Research areas: Computational Chemistry, Molecular and Reaction Dynamics, Nanomaterials and Materials Engineering, Chemical Biology, Therapeutics, Photochemistry, Ultrasfast Spectroscopy, Chemical Physics, Environmental Chemistry, Machine Learning, Quantum Computing
  • Cerrie Rogers
    • Senior Lecturer, Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Research areas: Not research active. Formerly involved in inorganic chemistry research (transition metal based molecular sensors).
  • Ingo Salzmann
    • Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
    • Associate Professor, Physics
    Research areas: Conjugated organic molecules and polymers employed as organic (semi-)conductors; their structural, electronic and optical properties; applications in organic electronics
  • Cameron Skinner
    • Associate Professor , Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Research areas: Analytical chemistry with particular focus on electrophoretic separations, bioanalysis, biomarker discovery and forensics
  • Dajana Vuckovic
    • Director, Centre for Biological Applications of Mass Spectrometry
    • Professor and Concordia University Research Chair, Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Research areas: analytical chemistry, metabolomics, lipidomics, mass spectrometry, sample preparation, separation science, bioanalysis, biomarker discovery and validation, inflammation, oxylipins, cardiovascular health, nutrition
  • Christopher J. Wilds
    • Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Research areas: Synthesis of chemically modified nucleic acids, DNA / RNA nanoscience, DNA repair.
  • Xianming Zhang
    • Co-director, Centre for Research in Molecular Modeling
    • Cross-appointed faculty member, Geography, Planning and Environment
    • Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
    Status: positions available for graduate studies and undergraduate research
    Research areas: Organic Contaminants in the Environment; Analytical Environmental Chemistry; Environmental Modeling; Chemical Exposure and Risk Assessment; Chemical Management and Regulation
Nick Serpone

Professor Emeritus

Oswald S. Tee

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

 

(Other university and industry-based affiliate professors)

Pamela Hanic
Tomislav Friščić
Tom Harner
Claudio Sturino
Fiorenzo Vetrone

 

 

Franklin Chacon-Huete

Elham Ghobadi

Denise Koch

Joanne Krupa

Lena Sahlman

Hala Youssef

Contact us

Chemistry and Biochemistry
chemistry.reception@concordia.ca
514-848-2424 ext. 3366

(514) 848-2868

 
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