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

  Professor
  Graduate program director
  
• 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

  Professor
  

  Organic Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Catalysis, Drug Discovery, Biomass, Anti-Cancer Agents, Materials Chemistry
• Yves Gélinas

  Professor 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 and Concordia University Research Chair
  

  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 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

  Full Professor
  

  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

  Assistant Professor
  

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