Chemistry Faculty: Stuart Chalk, Ph.D.

Professor of Chemistry

Office: Science & Engineering (Building 50), Room 3116

Research Lab: Science & Engineering (Building 50), Room 3108

Phone: (904) 620-1938

E-mail: schalk@unf.edu

Education

Bachelor of Science - Loughborough University (UK) 1988

Ph.D. - University of Massachusetts at Amherst 1994

Postdoctoral Research - Duquesne University, Pittsburgh 1994-1996

Teaching

Dr. Chalk teaches Modern Analytical Chemistry, Quantitative Analytical Chemistry, Senior Seminar, Chemometrics,
Structure Elucidation, General Chemistry I, and Chemical Information Science.

Research Interests

Dr. Chalks research is focused on the following areas in chemical informatics, semantic chemistry, and scientific data models:

Current Projects

• NSF Grant #1835643 - An Open Semantic Data Framework for Data-Driven Discovery
• Development of a semantic units repository to support scientific big data (funded by NIST)
• Development of a data model to represent scientific property data
• Expansion of the IUPAC Gold Book - IUPAC Project (and seven others)
• IUPAC Gold Book Webmaster

Other Activities

• Titular member of the IUPAC Committee on Publications and Chemical Data Standards
• Member of the CODATA Digital Representation of Units of Measure Task Group
• Member of the CIPM Digital-SI Initiative Expert Group
• Technical Advisory Board (TAB) member of QUDT.org

Research Group

• Stuart Chalk - PHP/JavaScript programming, data model design, IUPAC Gold Book Project
• Dr. Dylan Johnson (Postdoc) - SciData Python Library,SciFlow Workflow, CHEMBL Data Conversion
• Montana Sloan - NIST TRC ThermoML Data Conversion
• Caleb Weber - SciFlow Workflow Development Lead
• Diane Gallindo - Chemical Database Management
• Olivia Hasty - EPA CCTE Data Conversion
• Karl Bou Mechrek - SciFlow Workflow Development
• Nayya Murray - Solubility Data Conversion
• Alexis Plicque - Solubility Data Conversion