Faculty members
Meet our interdisciplinary faculty members making impact in sustainability and diversity in their research areas.
Department Chair
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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.
Full-time faculty
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Anan Chen- Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research areas: Virology and Cell Biology, RNA Virus Replication Organelles, Double-Membrane Vesicles, Molecular Pores -
Louis Cuccia- Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Graduate program director, Chemistry and Biochemistry
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Christine DeWolf- Professor , Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Vice-Dean, Faculty of Arts and Science
Research areas: biophysical chemistry, model membranes, Langmuir monolayers, liposomes, environmental pollutants, nanopatterning, lipid-protein interactions -
Brandon Findlay- Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research areas: Antibiotics, antimicrobial resistance, drug discovery, natural products, directed evolution, biochemistry, microbiology. -
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, 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 275.21Research 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 M. Muchall- Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research areas: Physical organic and computational chemistry, electronic and molecular structures -
Rafik Naccache- Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Co-Director, Centre for NanoScience Research
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- Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research areas: Inorganic chemistry, oxidation chemistry, catalysis, aerobic reactions, coordination complexes, organic transformations, mechanochemistry -
Melissa K. Passarelli- Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research areas: Imaging Mass Spectrometry (IMS); Spatial 'omics; Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS); Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization (MALDI) -
Gilles Peslherbe- Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Professor (cross-appointed), Physics
- Professor (cross-appointed), Chemical and Materials Engineering
- Centre for Research in Molecular Modeling (CERMM)
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- Teaching Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research areas: Not research active. Formerly involved in inorganic chemistry research (transition metal based molecular sensors). -
Ingo Salzmann- Associate Professor, Physics
- Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research areas: π-conjugated organic (semi-)conductors; molecular and polymeric materials; structure–property relationships; charge transport and optoelectronic processes; organic electronic applications -
Cameron Skinner- Associate Professor , Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research areas: Analytical chemistry with particular focus on electrophoretic separations, bioanalysis, biomarker discovery and forensics -
Dajana Vuckovic- Professor and Concordia University Research Chair, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Director, Centre for Biological Applications of Mass Spectrometry
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- Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Co-director, Centre for Research in Molecular Modeling
- Cross-appointed faculty member, Geography, Planning and Environment
Status: Positions available for graduate studies and undergraduate researchResearch areas: Organic Contaminants in the Environment; Analytical Environmental Chemistry; Environmental and Molecular Modeling; Chemical Exposure and Risk Assessment; Chemical Management and Regulation
Associated faculty at Concordia
Professors from other departments at Concordia who collaborate with research activities in the Department of Biology. They can supervise graduate students and serve as committee members.
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Catherine Bachewich- Affiliate Associate Professor, Biology
Research areas: Regulation of the cell cycle, development and virulence in fungi -
Patrick Gulick- Professor, Biology
Research areas: Genomic analysis of environmental stress-tolerance in plants. -
Laszlo Kalman- Associate Professor, Physics
- Undergraduate Program Director, Physics
- Co-op Academic Director, Physics
Research areas: molecular biophysics; bioenergetics; photosynthesis -
David H Kwan- Professor, Biology
Research areas: Synthetic biology, chemical biology, enzyme engineering, directed evolution, antimicrobial drug screening -
Vincent Martin- Emeritus Professor, Biology
Status: No longer accepting studentsResearch areas: Metabolic engineering and synthetic biology -
Reginald Storms- Professor, Biology
Research areas: Gene regulation, functional genomics, and industrial biotechnology -
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Malcolm Whiteway- Professor Emeritus (retired), Biology
Research areas: Genetics and genomics of the fungal pathogen Candida albicans -
Valter Zazubovits- Professor, Physics
- Chair, Physics
Research areas: Photosynthesis research using optical methods. Energy and charge transfer. Protein dynamics. Tunneling in biological systems. Explosives detection. Novel microscopy and single-molecule imaging techniques. -
William Zerges- Professor, Biology
Research areas: Molecular mechanisms underlying the biogenesis of the thylakoid membrane compartment in the eukaryotic alga Chlamydomonas reinhardti
Technical staff
Neema Chirwa
Mihai Ciortea
Heng Jiang
Vincent Lau
Jennifer Romero
Khalil Rahman
Constantin Yannopoulos
Hai Tao Yan
Professors Emeriti
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Peter Bird- Professor Emeritus, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Status: Retired (June 1, 2017)Research areas: Former research area: inorganic/organometallic synthesis and X-ray crystallography. -
John A. Capobianco
- Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Honorary Concordia University Research Chair in Nanoscience
Status: Distinguished Professor EmeritusResearch areas: Nanomaterials, upconversion, lanthanides, bioimaging, drug delivery, photodynamic therapy, physical inorganic, optical spectroscopy, persistent luminescence. -
Georges Dénès- Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research areas: Inorganic solid state chemistry Crystallography Mossbauer spectroscopy Tin-containing materials -
Ann English- Distinguished Professor Emerita and Honorary Concordia University Research Chair in Bioinorganic Chemistry, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research areas: Bioinorganic, analytical and biophysical chemistry, oxidative stress, nitric oxide biochemistry, proteomics, mass spectrometry. -
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Joanne Turnbull- Professor Emeritus, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research areas: Biochemistry, Biophysical Chemistry, Protein Chemistry.
