Faculty members

Faculty members

• John Capobianco

  Professor and Concordia University Research Chair
  

  
  

  
  Nanomaterials, upconversion, lanthanides, bioimaging, drug delivery, photodynamic therapy, physical inorganic, optical spectroscopy, persistent luminescence.

• Louis Cuccia

  Associate Professor
  

  
  

  
  

• Georges Dénès

  Professor
  

  
  

  
  Inorganic solid state chemistry Crystallography Mossbauer spectroscopy Tin-containing materials

• Christine DeWolf

  Professor

  
  

  
  biophysical chemistry, model membranes, Langmuir monolayers, liposomes, environmental pollutants, nanopatterning, lipid-protein interactions

• Brandon Findlay

  Associate Professor
  

  
  

  
  Drug discovery, natural products, directed evolution, biochemistry.

• Pat Forgione

  Associate Professor
  

  
  

  
  Organic Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Catalysis, Drug Discovery

• Yves Gélinas

  Professor, Graduate Program Director and Concordia University Research Chair in Environmental Chemistry
  

  
  

  
  Analytical Biogeochemistry, Global Cycle of Organic Carbon, Climate Change, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Forensics, Molecular and Isotopic Biomarkers.

• Ashlee J. Howarth

  Assistant Professor
  

  
  

  
  Inorganic Materials Chemistry, Metal–Organic Frameworks, Porous Materials, Materials Design, Adsorbents for Wastewater Treatment, Green Chemistry, Sensing.

• Paul Joyce

  Professor and Chair
  

  
  

  
  Biochemistry, Genomics, Proteomics, Molecular/Cell Biology.

• Gregor Kos

  Senior Lecturer
  

  
  

  
  Atmospheric and Environmental Chemistry

• Marek B. Majewski

  Assistant Professor
  

  
  

  
  Inorganic chemistry, solar energy conversion, artificial photosynthesis, photochemistry, photocatalysis, optical spectroscopy

• Heidi Muchall

  Associate Professor
  

  
  

  
  Physical organic and computational chemistry, electronic and molecular structures

• Rafik Naccache

  Associate Professor and CURC Tier II in Sustainable Multifunctional Nanomaterials
  

  
  

  
  Nanoparticle synthesis, materials characterization, carbogenic quantum dots, metallic nanoparticles, plasmonics, sensors, imaging, nanothermometry, drug delivery

• Jung Kwon (John) Oh

  Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Nanobioscience
  

  
  

  
  Organic and polymer chemistry, Polymer synthesis and characterization, Materials science, biomedical applications, drug delivery

• Xavier Ottenwaelder

  Associate Professor
  

  
  

  
  Inorganic chemistry, oxidation chemistry, catalysis, aerobic reactions, coordination complexes, organic transformations

• Marco Paladino

  Lecturer
  

  
  

  
  

• Melissa K. Passarelli

  
  Imaging Mass Spectrometry (IMS); Spatial 'omics; Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS); Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization (MALDI)

• Peter Pawelek

  Professor
  

  
  

  
  Bacterial iron uptake, molecular mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis, protein-protein interactions, membrane proteins, biophysical chemistry, protein chemistry, phage display, X-ray crystallography.

• Germán Miguel Pérez Quintana

  Assistant Professor (LTA)
  

  
  

  
  Computational chemistry. Molecular recognition. Virtual screening and molecular docking. Biosensors development. Organic and polymer chemistry.

• Gilles Peslherbe

  Professor

  
  

  
  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

  Senior Lecturer
  

  
  

  
  Not research active. Formerly involved in inorganic chemistry research (transition metal based molecular sensors).

• Ingo Salzmann

  Associate Professor
  

  
  

  
  Conjugated organic molecules and polymers employed as organic (semi-)conductors; their structural, electronic and optical properties; applications in organic electronics

• Cameron Skinner

  Associate Professor
  

  
  

  
  Analytical chemistry with particular focus on electrophoretic separations, bioanalysis, biomarker discovery and forensics

• Dajana Vuckovic

  Associate Professor and Concordia University Research Chair

  
  

  
  analytical chemistry, metabolomics, lipidomics, proteomics, mass spectrometry, sample preparation, separation science, bioanalysis, biomarker discovery and validation

• Christopher J. Wilds

  Professor
  

  
  

  
  Synthesis of chemically modified nucleic acids, DNA / RNA nanoscience, DNA repair.

• Xianming Zhang

  
  

  
  Organic Contaminants in the Environment; Analytical Environmental Chemistry; Environmental Modeling; Chemical Exposure and Risk Assessment; Chemical Management and Regulation