Chemistry Faculty & Staff

A complete list of Chemistry faculty and staff is below. Click on the names below for more information.

Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty

Dr. Kenneth Laali, Professor and Chair 

Mechanistic and Synthetic Organic/Organometallic Chemistry

 

Dr. Stuart Chalk, Associate Professor 

Analytical Chemistry, Chemometrics, and Chemical Informatics

 

Dr. Michael Lufaso, Associate Professor 

Inorganic and Materials Chemistry

 

Dr. Radha Pyati, Associate Professor 

Environmental and Analytical Chemistry

 

Dr. Robert Vergenz, Associate Professor 

Physical and Computational Chemistry

 

Dr. Corey Causey, Assistant Professor 

Organic and Bio-Organic Chemistry

 

Dr. Jose Jimenez, Assistant Professor 

Physical Chemistry

 

Dr. Bryan Knuckley, Assistant Professor 

Biochemistry

 

Dr. Christos Lampropoulos, Assistant Professor 

Inorganic/Materials Chemistry

 

Dr. Amy Lane, Assistant Professor 

Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Bio-Organic Chemistry

 

Dr. Thomas 'TJ' Mullen, Assistant Professor 

Analytical/Materials Chemistry

 

Laboratory Lecturer Faculty

Melissa Bush 

Quantitative, Environmental and Biological Chemistry

 

Matt Davies 

General and Organic Chemistry

 

Dr. David Nyquist 

Organic, Biological and General Chemistry

 

Dr. Robert Stern 

General, Biological, and Organic Chemistry

 

Dr. Rick Troendle 

General and Quantitative Chemistry, Instrumental Analysis

 

Visiting Faculty

Dr. Shoumen Datta 

Visiting Assistant Professor

Introduction, General Chemistry and Organic Chemistry

 

Dr. Ujjwal Chakraborty 

Visiting Laboratory Lecturer

General and Organic Chemistry

 

Dr. Abdul Fauq 

Visiting Laboratory Lecturer

General and Organic Chemistry

 

Support Staff

Dr. Chunqing "Nelson" Zhao 

Analytical Instrumentation Facility Manager

 

Steve Shedd 

Laboratory Manager

 

Melanie Speaks 

Laboratory Assistant

 

Katie Ovadia 

Office Manager

 

Emeritus Faculty

Dr. Kunisi Venkatasubban (Venkat), Professor 

Organic Chemistry, Past Chair of Chemistry and Physics

 

Dr. Ray Bowman, Founding Director, UNF Environmental Center 

Environmental and Biochemistry

 

Dr. Edward Healy, Original Chair of Natural Sciences 

Inorganic Chemistry

 

Postdoctoral and Research Associates

Dr. Ganesh Nandi

 Organic Chemistry, Laali Group (2012-2013)

 

Dr. Takao Okazaki 

Organic Chemistry, Research Associate (2013)