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Number of experts found: 27

 
Dorothy Beckett

Professor

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Expertise Key Words:
Bioterrorism; Forensics related to biochemistry and biotechnology; Advances in therapeutic agents for treatment of some diseases; Funding of basic scientific research; Regulation of gene expression, protein structure and function; Analytical biochemistry

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301-405-1812

dbeckett@umd.edu

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Maria Lorna A. De Leoz

Research Associate

Inst for Research in Electronics & Applied Physics

Expertise Key Words:
bioanalytical chemistry, mass spectrometry, biomarker discovery, human milk, glycomics, proteomics, carbohydrates, analytical chemistry, bioanalysis,glycans, oligosaccharides, peptides, glycopeptides, metabolites, intact proteins, tandem mass spectrometry, MSn, electrospray

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 975 6731

ladeleoz@umd.edu
marialorna.deleoz@nist.gov

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Russell R. Dickerson

Professor

Atmospheric & Oceanic Science

Expertise Key Words:
Air Pollution, Atmospheric Chemistry, Air Quality, Global Biogeochemical Cycles(including their relevance to climate change), Ammonia

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 5391

rrd@umd.edu

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Michael P. Doyle

Professor & Chair

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Expertise Key Words:
Science policy, chemistry education, asymmetric catalysis, some industrial processes; design and development of transition metal catalysts capable of high selectivity in organic chemical transformations; focus on pharmaceutical applications

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 1788

mdoyle3@umd.edu

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Douglas S. English

Assistant Professor

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Expertise Key Words:
Fluorescence, Spectroscopy, Physical chemistry

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 3368

denglish@umd.edu

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Daniel E. Falvey

Professor

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Expertise Key Words:
Reaction mechanisms and reactive intermediates; photochemistry, photobiology, and environmental photochemistry; laser spectroscopy; photoenzymatic repair of DNA; photochemical degradation of drugs and natural products

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 1808

falvey@umd.edu

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Catherine Fenselau

Prof, Affiliate Prof

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Expertise Key Words:
Proteomic strategies for the analysis of changes in proteins in human cancer cells. Mass-spectrometry-based methods for the rapid analysis of airborne microorganisms.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 8616

fenselau@umd.edu

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John T. Fourkas

Prof

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Expertise Key Words:
optics, liquids,imaging, nanotechnology, nanofabrication, plasmonics, spectroscopy

Contact Information:

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Home phone    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 7996

301 530 1625

fourkas@umd.edu

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Kenneth A. Gabriel

Director, Advanced Concepts - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

Clark School of Engineering; Adjunct Faculty member - R.H. Smith School of Business

Expertise Key Words:
Port security technology; integrated security logistics for defense and homeland security (including port and border security, rapid response and recovery operations in natural and man-made disasters); integrated weapon system supply chain optimization to improve military readiness and reduce costs

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 9702

egabriel@umd.edu

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Christopher Jarzynski

Assoc Prof

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Expertise Key Words:
Satistical mechanics at the molecular level; The foundations of nonequilibrium thermodynamics, the application of statistical mechanics to problems of biophysical interest, and the development of efficient numerical schemes for estimating thermodynamic properties of complex systems.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4439

cjarzyns@umd.edu

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Frederick Khachik

Senior Research Scientist, Adjunct professor

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Expertise Key Words:
Dietary carotenoids in the prevention of cancer and age-related macular degeneration (AMD); lycopene; lutein

Expertise Credentials:
Studied lycopene in the treatment of prostate cancer; Currently involved in a clinical study with lutein in patients with macular degeneration in collaboration with investigators at the National Eye Institute; University of Maryland Outstanding Invention of the Year 2000 award in life sciences for "A novel method for production of rare carotenoids from commercially available lutein"

Web Site(s):
www.chem.umd.edu/faculty/organic/khachik/khachik.htm

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 1811

khachik@umd.edu

Address:
2125A Chemistry Building
College Park, MD  20742

Degrees:
Ph.D., Organic Chemistry and Natural Products, University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology, UK
Ph.D., Organic Chemistry and Natural Products, University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology, UK


 
Sang Bok Lee

Professor

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Expertise Key Words:
Electrochemistry; Energy Storage; Battery; Supercapacitor; Nano-technology; Alumina membrane; Conducting polymer nanotubes; Electrochromic display; drug delivery; Transport and diffusion properties of surface nanotubes and nanotube membranes

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 7906

slee@umd.edu

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Eugene P. Mazzola

Adjunct Prof

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Expertise Key Words:
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Applications to the structural elucidation of natural products and organic chemicals.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 1826

emazzola@umd.edu

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William F. McDonough

Professor

Geology

Expertise Key Words:
Chemical and isotopic studies of materials, Composition of the Earth, the continental crust, the mantle and core; Volcanos; ash; cosmochemistry; Instrumentation development: laser ablation ICP-MS analyses, development of analytical methods for chemical and isotopic analyses; micron-scale analysis.

Contact Information:

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Cell phone          

E-mail(s)    

301 405 5561

240 429 2206

mcdonoug@umd.edu

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Alice C. Mignerey

Prof

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Expertise Key Words:
Nuclear Science: environmental aspects, nuclear power, nuclear forensics. Nuclear Physics: studies in the nature of matter at the beginning of the universe, shortly after the big bang; the Quark-Gluon states of matter.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 1852

mignerey@umd.edu

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Amy S. Mullin

Prof

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Expertise Key Words:
Chemical dynamics of highly excited molecules;mechanisms of collisional energy transfer chemical reactions of activated molecules;high-resolution transient optical probing;development of intermolecular potential energy surfaces;optical control of molecular rotation.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6569

mullin@umd.edu

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Zhihong Nie

Asst Prof

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Expertise Key Words:
Molecular and colloidal self-assembly; soft nanotechnology; nanoscience and nanochemistry; plasmonics and metamaterials; bioimaging and drug delivery; microfluidics and microreactors;biomineralization and bioinspired materials

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 1874

znie@umd.edu

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Garegin Papoian

Assoc Prof

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Expertise Key Words:
DNA packing in cells of higher organisms and cellular cytoskeleton and motility.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 8667

gpapoian@umd.edu

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Steven E. Rokita

Prof

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Expertise Key Words:
Bioorganic chemistry and biochemistry. Nucleic acid structure and reactivity; therapeutic and toxicology aspects of DNA modification; redox processes in enzymology, enzyme mechanisms of dehalogenation; biomimetic reactions of nickel and copper and electron transfer in nucleic acids.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 1816

rokita@umd.edu

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Lawrence R. Sita

Professor; Associate Dean for Faculty, Research, and Diversity, College of Life Sciences

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Expertise Key Words:
Nano Technology; New Nanofabrication Processes; Transition and Main Group Metal Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry; New Synthetic Methodology; Catalyst Development; Polymers; Chemically-Tailored Surfaces and Interfaces; Molecular and Mesoscopic Self-Assembly

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 5753

lsita@umd.edu

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Santiago D. Solares

Asst Prof

Mechanical Engineering

Expertise Key Words:
Nanomechanics, nanorobotics, nanomanipulation, scanning probe microscopy, quantum mechanics, atomic force microscopy, molecular simulation, multi-scale simulation, nanotechnology

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 5035

ssolares@umd.edu

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Nedelina I. Tchangalova

Librarian I

Libraries

Expertise Key Words:
International librarianship, librarianship in Bulgaria, engineering library education, collection development, reference, disability issues, Bulgarian culture and history

Contact Information:

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E-mail(s)    

301 405 9151

nedelina@umd.edu

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Devarajan Thirumalai

Distinguished University Professor

Inst for Physical Science & Technology

Expertise Key Words:
various problems in equilibrium and non equilibrium statistical mechanics, various aspects of the transition from liquid to amorphous state are being investigated, theoretical study of polymer-colloid interactions,understand the dynamics of protein folding.

Contact Information:

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E-mail(s)    

301 405 4803

thirum@umd.edu

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Andrei Vedernikov

Assoc Prof

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Expertise Key Words:
BOND ACTIVATION, ALKANE, DIOXYGEN, HYDROCARBON FUNCTIONALIZATION, HOMOGENEOUS CATALYSIS, WATER, OXIDATION, TRANSITION METALS, PLATINUM, PALLADIUM, COPPER, ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY, COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY, DFT, REACTION MECHANISMS, LIGAND DESIGN, OXIDATIVE ADDITION, REDUCTIVE ELIMINATION

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 2784

avederni@umd.edu

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Yan Wang

Res Asst Prof

Maryland Pathogen Research Institute

Expertise Key Words:
Proteomics, mass spectrometry, liquid chromatography

Contact Information:

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E-mail(s)    

301 405 6764
301 405 8425

yanwang@umd.edu

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Krista R. Wigginton

Asst Prof

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Expertise Key Words:
Pathogen detection, drinking water treatment, disinfection, protein mass spectrometry, surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy, virology, disinfection by-products, drinking water trace contaminants

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4828

wigginto@umd.edu

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Michael R. Zachariah

Professor

Mechanical Engineering and Chemistry and Biochemistry

Expertise Key Words:
Aerosol and Particle Technology, Nano-particle science, manufacturing and measurements. Micro-combustion, energetic materials and reacting flows (combustion and thermal CVD processes). Gas-Phase Chemical Kinetics, classical molecular dynamics

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4311

mrz@umd.edu

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