People
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Steven H. Bergens E4-51 Chemistry Centre (780) 492-9703 steve.bergens@ualberta.ca Group website |
Design and study of chiral ligands, chiral organometallic catalysts and enantioselective catalytic transformations; mechanisms, origins of catalytic enantioselection; applied electrochemistry, synthesis of supported electrocatalysts as compounds of fuel cells |
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Terence Blaskovits W4-70B Chemistry Centre |
machine learning; artificial intelligence; data-driven chemistry; organic electronic materials; organic photovoltaics (OPV); organic light-emitting diodes (OLED); molecular design; excited states; physical organic chemistry; computational catalysis |
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Alexander Brown W4-70D Chemistry Centre (780) 492-1854 alexander.brown@ualberta.ca Group website |
Development and application of quantum, semi-classical, and classical dynamics methods for the study of molecular photoabsorption, photodissociation, and photoionization; laser control of chemical reactions. |
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Christopher W. Cairo CCIS 4-082 (780) 492-0377 ccairo@ualberta.ca Group website |
Synthesis of saccharides, glycolipids, peptides, and fluorophores; Biophysical analysis of model systems and live cells with spectroscopy and fluorescence microscopy; Instrument development; Microscopy and single molecule fluorescence analysis; Biochemical analysis of glycoproteins and glycolipids |
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Wesley Chalifoux CCIS 4-009 (780) 492-3233 wchalifoux@ualberta.ca Group website |
Organic synthesis method development for carbon-rich materials, achiral and chiral nanographenes, graphene nanoribbons, and conjugated polymers. Circular dichroism and circularly polarized luminescent properties of chiral nanographenes for chiroptical applications and the use of conjugated materials in OFETs, OLEDs, and OPVs |
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Derrick L. J. Clive W5-03B Chemistry Centre (780) 492-3251 derrick.clive@ualberta.ca Group website |
Synthesis of biologically important natural products; development of new synthetic methods, especially processes based on radical cyclization |
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Ratmir Derda CCIS 4-008 (780) 492-8370 ratmir.derda@ualberta.ca Group website |
Synthesis of molecules to probe cell function, genetically-encoded chemical libraries, in-vitro selection of molecules with dynamic properties, phage display, biomaterials and synthetic cell microenvironments, cell-based screening, molecular tools to study self-organization in chemistry and biology |
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Julianne M. Gibbs E3-52 Chemistry Centre (780) 492-7140 julianne.gibbs@ualberta.ca Group website |
Multivalency and molecular recognition at interfaces; physical chemistry of "green" catalytic surfaces; supramolecular, self-replicating systems for DNA detection; nonlinear optical spectroscopy of interfacial dynamics |
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Dennis Hall CCIS 4-010 (780) 492-3141 dennis.hall@ualberta.ca Group website |
Organic synthesis; organoboron chemistry; stereocontrolled reaction methodology; solid-phase synthesis; artificial biopolymers; chemical biology |
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Gabriel Hanna W4-70C Chemistry Centre (780) 492-3352 gabriel.hanna@ualberta.ca Group website |
Development of mixed quantum-classical methods for the study of condensed phase quantum dynamics; mixed quantum-classical formulations of nonlinear spectroscopy; modelling of multidimensional infrared spectra of nanoconfined systems |
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James Harynuk W3-03B Chemistry Centre (780) 492-8303 james.harynuk@ualberta.ca Group website |
Multidimensional gas-phase separations and advanced data-handling tools |
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Wolfgang Jäger CCIS 4-244 (780) 492-5020 wolfgang.jaeger@ualberta.ca Group website |
Application of molecular beam techniques and pulsed excitation-emission spectroscopic methods for the study of weak intermolecular interactions |
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Shira Joudan |
environmental analytical chemistry; fate of organic contaminants in the environment; per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS); characterization of environmental transformations and long-range transport; environmental mass spectrometry |
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John Klassen CCIS 4-084 (780) 492-3501 john.klassen@ualberta.ca Group website |
High performance mass spectrometry, bioanalytical techniques, glycomics, library screening, protein-ligand affinities, tissue and cell analysis, disease biomarker discovery |
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Mariusz Klobukowski E4-44 Chemistry Centre (780) 492-2568 mariusz.klobukowski@ualberta.ca |
Development and applications of model core potentials in accurate molecular structure calculations; electronic structure of inorganic, organic, and organometallic molecules, molecular ions, and molecular clusters in their ground and excited electronic states; weakly interacting systems; relativistic effects in atoms and molecules |
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Liang Li W3-39C Chemistry Centre (780) 492-3250 liang.li@ualberta.ca Group website |
Analytical mass spectrometry, bioanalytical techniques, proteomics, proteome analysis, protein characterization, metabolomics, metabolome analysis, tissue and cell analysis, disease biomarker discovery, biosystems analysis |
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Rylan Lundgren E4-17A Chemistry Centre (780) 492-3766 rylan.lundgren@ualberta.ca Group website |
Homogeneous catalysis, organometallic chemistry, synthetic organic methodology development, inorganic and organic reaction mechanisms |
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Matthew Macauley E5-18A Chemistry Centre macauley@ualberta.ca Group website |
Chemical biology, glycoimmunology, protein-carbohydrate interactions, liposomal nanoparticles |
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Lara Mahal W3-39B Chemistry Centre - West (780) 492-5847 lkmahal@ualberta.ca Group website |
For the past 15 years, my laboratory has been at the forefront of creating and utilizing systems-based approaches to decode the glycome, sifting the important signals from the noise. |
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Sheref Mansy W5-70C Chemistry Centre (780) 492-8823 sheref.mansy@ualberta.ca Group website |
Prebiotic chemistry of iron-sulfur peptides; synthesis of protocells and artificial cells, the role of metallopeptides in shaping emergent protometabolism. |
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Arthur Mar E4-40 Chemistry Centre (780) 492-5592 arthur.mar@ualberta.ca Group website |
Synthesis, structure, and bonding of intermetallic and Zintl phases; solid-state chemistry of phosphides, arsenides, antimonides, and bismuthides; characterization of electrical and magnetic materials, such as superconductors and ferromagnets |
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Mark T. McDermott CCIS 4-256 (780) 492-3687 mark.mcdermott@ualberta.ca Group website |
Surface modification and microfabrication for improved electroanalytical response, biomolecule microarray development, nanoscience, molecular electronics |
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Michael Meanwell W3-39A Chemistry Centre (780) 492-2868 meanwell@ualberta.ca Group website |
Development of organic reactions to facilitate efforts in drug discovery; electrochemical organic synthesis;photoredox catalysis;synthesis of medicinally relevant natural products |
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Vladimir K. Michaelis E3-18 Chemistry Centre (780) 248-5893 vladimir.michaelis@ualberta.ca Group website |
Structural investigation of inorganic and biological materials; developing local and medium range structural techniques; solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance; high field dynamic nuclear polarization; ion dynamics; high temperature synthesis; NMR crystallography; disordered solids; cements |
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Eric Rivard CCIS 4-243 (780) 492-4255 erivard@ualberta.ca Group website |
Synthetic inorganic and polymer chemistry; energy, catalysis, and sensing technologies; donor-acceptor stabilization of reactive main group species; ligand design |
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Lingzi Sang W3-03A (780) 492-5763 lsang@ualberta.ca Group website |
Analytical spectroscopy; electrochemistry; materials for energy conversion (e.g. organic photoelectronics, Perovskite solar cells) and storage (Li-ion and beyond Li-ion batteries) systems; measurements associated with critical interfaces; multi-disciplinary materials characterization method development; in-situ vibrational spectroscopy and synchrotron X-ray spectroscopy |
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Michael J. Serpe W4-03C Chemistry Centre michael.serpe@ualberta.ca Group website |
Polymer-based photonic materials and sensors, polymer assisted water remediation, triggered/controlled drug delivery, novel micro and nanoparticle synthesis, analytical instrument design, responsive polymers, and nanoscience |
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Jeffrey M. Stryker E5-24 Chemistry Centre (780) 492-3891 jeff.stryker@ualberta.ca |
Inorganic and electrochemical catalysis. Sustainable energy. Catalyst design for the first-row transition metals. Heterolytic C–H activation, catalytic dehydrogenation of methane (“blue hydrogen”). Electrocatalytic denitrogenation of basic heterocycles; hydrogen-free electrocatalytic hydrotreatment. Electrochemical upcycling of bitumen – production of carbon nanomaterials: production of quantum dots, graphene, and reinforced carbon fibre. Deep desulfurization. Electrocatalytic synthesis of carbon quantum dots from lignin. |
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Rik Tykwinski W5-03C Chemistry Centre (780) 492-9529 tykwinsk@ualberta.ca Group website |
Physical organic chemistry, new synthetic methods to carbon-rich molecules (e.g., cumulenes and polyynes, acenes and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons), relationships between chemical structure and molecular reactivity/properties; synthesis of compounds for applications as wires in single-molecule devices, solar cells, TFTs, singlet fission, as well as synthetic model compounds for the asphaltenes |
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John C. Vederas W5-39A Chemistry Centre (780) 492-5475 john.vederas@ualberta.ca Group website |
Enzyme stereochemistry and mechanism, amino acid metabolism; peptide antibiotics; development of new biophysical methods for metabolic studies; design of new medicinal agents based on enzyme inactivation; polyketide biosynthesis; synthesis of amino acids |
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Jonathan G. C. Veinot CCIS 4-254 (780) 492-7206 jveinot@ualberta.ca Group website |
Application of inorganic and organometallic chemistry to the development of a rational approach to the design, synthesis, and characterization of novel metal containing polymeric and nanophased materials with applications in the electronic, electro-optic, catalytic, and biomedical sectors |
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Frederick G. West W5-70D Chemistry Centre (780) 492-8187 frederick.west@ualberta.ca Group website |
Synthesis of biologically important natural and unnatural products; new synthetic methods utilizing domino processes; synthetic photochemistry; asymmetric catalysis; drug delivery |
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Yunjie Xu CCIS 4-245 (780) 492-1244 yunjie.xu@ualberta.ca Group website |
Chirality and chirality recognition in the gas phase, at metal clusters, and in solution: development and applications of cutting-edge spectroscopic tools including quantum cascade laser based rapid scan technique, cavity ring down spectroscopy, vibrational circular dichroism, Raman optical activity, matrix isolation, and infrared multiphoton dissociation spectroscopy; ab initio and molecular dynamics modelling. |
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Ran Zhao W4-03A Chemistry Centre (780) 492-2315 rz@ualberta.ca Group website |
Environmental and Atmospheric Chemistry; air pollution; atmospheric particulate matter (e.g., PM2.5); advanced chemical analyses of organic air pollutants; photochemistry of organic pollutants in the environment. |