Chemistry and Biochemistry
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Faculty members
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry has over 23 full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty members, as well as several associated faculty members from other departments at Concordia University and from industry.
Faculty members
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John Capobianco
- Professor and Concordia University Research Chair , Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research areas: Nanomaterials, upconversion, lanthanides, bioimaging, drug delivery, photodynamic therapy, physical inorganic, optical spectroscopy, persistent luminescence. -
Louis Cuccia
- Graduate program director, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
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Georges Dénès
- Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research areas: Inorganic solid state chemistry Crystallography Mossbauer spectroscopy Tin-containing materials -
Christine DeWolf
- Professor , Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Co-Director, Centre for NanoScience Research
- Vice-Dean, Dean of Arts & Science (Office)
Research areas: biophysical chemistry, model membranes, Langmuir monolayers, liposomes, environmental pollutants, nanopatterning, lipid-protein interactions -
Brandon Findlay
- Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research areas: Drug discovery, natural products, directed evolution, biochemistry. -
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 and Concordia University Research Chair in Environmental Chemistry, 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 and Chair, 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 Muchall
- Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research areas: Physical organic and computational chemistry, electronic and molecular structures -
Rafik Naccache
- Associate Professor and CURC Tier II in Sustainable Multifunctional Nanomaterials, Chemistry and Biochemistry
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
- Associate Professor , Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research areas: Inorganic chemistry, oxidation chemistry, catalysis, aerobic reactions, coordination complexes, organic transformations -
Melissa K. PassarelliResearch areas: Imaging Mass Spectrometry (IMS); Spatial 'omics; Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS); Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization (MALDI)
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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. -
Gilles Peslherbe
- Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Centre for Research in Molecular Modeling (CERMM)
- Professor (cross-appointed), Physics
- Professor (cross-appointed), Chemical and Materials Engineering
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
- Senior Lecturer, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research areas: Not research active. Formerly involved in inorganic chemistry research (transition metal based molecular sensors). -
Ingo Salzmann
- Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Associate Professor, Physics
Research areas: Conjugated organic molecules and polymers employed as organic (semi-)conductors; their structural, electronic and optical properties; applications in organic electronics -
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
- Co-director, Centre for Research in Molecular Modeling
- Cross-appointed faculty member, Geography, Planning and Environment
- Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Status: positions available for graduate studies and undergraduate researchResearch areas: Organic Contaminants in the Environment; Analytical Environmental Chemistry; Environmental Modeling; Chemical Exposure and Risk Assessment; Chemical Management and Regulation
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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. -
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. -
Joanne Turnbull
- Professor Emeritus, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research areas: Biochemistry, Biophysical Chemistry, Protein Chemistry.
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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
- Fellow, Science College
- Associate Professor, Physics
- Undergraduate Program Director, Physics
- Co-op Academic Director, Physics
Research areas: molecular biophysics; bioenergetics; photosynthesis -
David H Kwan
- Associate Professor, Biology
Research areas: Synthetic biology, chemical biology, enzyme engineering, directed evolution, antimicrobial drug screening -
Vincent Martin
- Professor and Concordia University Senior Research Chair, Biology
Status: On sabbatical until June 30, 2025Research areas: Metabolic engineering and synthetic biology of natural products. Microbial evolutionary engineering -
Reginald Storms
- Professor, Biology
Research areas: Gene regulation, functional genomics, and industrial biotechnology -
Malcolm Whiteway
- Professor and Canada Research Chair in Microbial Genomics, 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
(Other university and industry-based affiliate professors)
Pamela Hanic
Tomislav Friščić
Tom Harner
Claudio Sturino
Fiorenzo Vetrone