Chemistry and Biochemistry
chemistry.reception@concordia.ca
514-848-2424 ext. 3366
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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Professor and Concordia University Research Chair
Nanomaterials, upconversion, lanthanides, bioimaging, drug delivery, photodynamic therapy, physical inorganic, optical spectroscopy, persistent luminescence. -
Professor
Inorganic solid state chemistry Crystallography Mossbauer spectroscopy Tin-containing materials -
Professorbiophysical chemistry, model membranes, Langmuir monolayers, liposomes, environmental pollutants, nanopatterning, lipid-protein interactions
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Associate Professor
Drug discovery, natural products, directed evolution, biochemistry. -
Professor
Organic Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Catalysis, Drug Discovery, Biomass, Anti-Cancer Agents, Materials Chemistry -
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. -
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. -
Assistant Professor
Inorganic chemistry, solar energy conversion, artificial photosynthesis, photochemistry, photocatalysis, optical spectroscopy -
Associate Professor
Physical organic and computational chemistry, electronic and molecular structures -
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 -
Full Professor
Organic and polymer chemistry, Polymer synthesis and characterization, Materials science, biomedical applications, drug delivery -
Associate Professor
Inorganic chemistry, oxidation chemistry, catalysis, aerobic reactions, coordination complexes, organic transformations -
Imaging Mass Spectrometry (IMS); Spatial 'omics; Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS); Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization (MALDI)
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Professor
Bacterial iron uptake, molecular mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis, protein-protein interactions, membrane proteins, biophysical chemistry, protein chemistry, phage display, X-ray crystallography. -
Assistant Professor (LTA)
Computational chemistry. Molecular recognition. Virtual screening and molecular docking. Biosensors development. Organic and polymer chemistry. -
ProfessorComputational Chemistry, Molecular and Reaction Dynamics, Nanomaterials and Materials Engineering, Chemical Biology, Therapeutics, Photochemistry, Ultrasfast Spectroscopy, Chemical Physics, Environmental Chemistry, Machine Learning, Quantum Computing
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Senior Lecturer
Not research active. Formerly involved in inorganic chemistry research (transition metal based molecular sensors). -
Associate Professor
Conjugated organic molecules and polymers employed as organic (semi-)conductors; their structural, electronic and optical properties; applications in organic electronics -
Associate Professor
Analytical chemistry with particular focus on electrophoretic separations, bioanalysis, biomarker discovery and forensics -
Associate Professor and Concordia University Research Chairanalytical chemistry, metabolomics, lipidomics, proteomics, mass spectrometry, sample preparation, separation science, bioanalysis, biomarker discovery and validation
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Professor
Synthesis of chemically modified nucleic acids, DNA / RNA nanoscience, DNA repair. -
Assistant Professor
Organic Contaminants in the Environment; Analytical Environmental Chemistry; Environmental Modeling; Chemical Exposure and Risk Assessment; Chemical Management and Regulation
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Professor Emeritus
Former research area: inorganic/organometallic synthesis and X-ray crystallography. -
Distinguished Professor Emerita and Honorary Concordia University Research Chair in Bioinorganic Chemistry
Bioinorganic, analytical and biophysical chemistry, oxidative stress, nitric oxide biochemistry, proteomics, mass spectrometry.
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Affiliate Associate Professor, Biology
- 514-848-2424, ext.
- L-SP 445-052
- catherine.bachewich@concordia.ca
Regulation of the cell cycle, development and virulence in fungi -
Professor, Biology
- 514-848-2424, ext. 3407
- L-SP 501-07
- patrick.gulick@concordia.ca
Genomic analysis of environmental stress-tolerance in plants. -
Associate Professor, Physics
Undergraduate Program Director, Physics
Co-op Academic Director, Physics
Fellow, Science College
- 514-848-2424, ext. 5051
- L-SP 365-10
- Laszlo.Kalman@concordia.ca
molecular biophysics; bioenergetics; photosynthesis -
Associate Professor, Biology
- 514-848-2424, ext. 7329
- L-GE 230-13
- david.kwan@concordia.ca
Synthetic biology, chemical biology, enzyme engineering, directed evolution, antimicrobial drug screening -
Professor and Concordia University Research Chair in Microbial Engineering and Synthetic Biology, Biology
- 514-848-2424, ext. 5182
- L-GE 120-21
- vincent.martin@concordia.ca
Metabolic engineering and synthetic biology of natural products. Microbial evolutionary engineering -
Professor, Biology
Gene regulation, functional genomics, and industrial biotechnology -
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Microbial Genomics, Biology
- 514-848-2424, ext. 3751
- L-GE 230-11
- malcolm.whiteway@concordia.ca
Genetics and genomics of the fungal pathogen Candida albicans -
Professor, Physics
Chair, Physics
- 514-848-2424, ext. 5050
- L-SP 367.03
- valter.zazubovits@concordia.ca
Photosynthesis research using optical methods. Energy and charge transfer. Protein dynamics. Tunneling in biological systems. Explosives detection. Novel microscopy and single-molecule imaging techniques. -
Professor, Biology
- 514-848-2424, ext. 3416
- L-SP 445-07
- william.zerges@concordia.ca
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
Part-time instructors
Elham Ghobadi
Lena Sahlman
Hala Youssef