UCF Chemistry
Univ. of Central Florida
4000 Central Florida Blvd.
Chemistry Building (CH) 117
Orlando, FL 32816-2366
407-823-2246
chemstaf@mail.ucf.edu
UCF Chemistry Professors

Jack Ballantyne

Jack Ballantyne, Associate Professor
Interests: Forensic Biochemistry, Y-chromosome markers, DNA Damage Assessment and In-Vitro Repair Systems, Forensic Uses of Non-human DNA, Immunological Applications

Richard Blair

Richard Blair, Assistant Professor
Interests: Synthesis of Inorganic Materials with an eye on applications in aerospace, optics and chemical feedstock; Examination of the kinetics and mechanism of solid-solid reactions; Development of Forensic analytical methods related to single crystal and powder X-ray diffraction.

Kevin D. Belfield

Kevin D. Belfield, Chair and Professor
Interests: Photonic and nonlinear optical materials and processes, photochemistry,functional nanostructured organic and polymeric materials, biophotonics and biosensors,multiphoton fluorescent imaging and 3D microfabrication

Andres Campiglia

Andres Campiglia, Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator
Interests: Development of novel analytical approaches based on multidimensional luminescence spectroscopy.

Christian A. Clausen III

Christian A. Clausen III, Professor
Interests: Environmental Chemistry, New Catalyst Development, Industrial Materials, Contaminated Groundwater, Aerosol Chemistry, Freon Replacement Solvents

Nirmalendu Datta-Gupta

Nirmalendu Datta-Gupta, Visiting Instructor

Diego Diaz

Diego Diaz, Assistant Professor
Interests: Electrochemistry, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Sensors, Novel Electroluminescent Devices

Daniela B. Divianska

Daniela B. Divlianska, Visiting Lecturer

Donovan Dixon

Donovan Dixon, Lecturer
Interest: Reactions Between Metal Ions/Complexes and Molecules of Biological Interest.

Seth R. Elsheimer

Seth R. Elsheimer, Associate Professor
Interests: Organic Chemistry: Organofluorine Chemistry, Synthesis, Mechanisms, Diels-Alder Reactions, Diene polymerization.

Andrew Frazer

Andrew Frazer,Visiting Lecturer

Barry G. Fookes

Barry G. Fookes, Professor
Interests: All forms of microscopy and instrumental analysis, imaging theory, and structural studies in solids.

Cherie L. Geiger

Cherie L. Geiger, Associate Professor
Interests: Environmental research pertaining to air, water, and soil pollution, remediation, and characterization.

Cherie L. Geiger

Andre J. Gesquiere, Assistant Professor
Interests: Imaging and spectroscopy of nanoscale materials and biological systems

Michael D. Hampton

Michael D. Hampton, Professor
Interests: Hydrogen storage systems, ion selective electrodes, piezoelectric oscillators as chemical oscillators, materials (inorganic)

Robert Igarashi

Robert Igarashi, Assistant Professor
Interests: Study of biologically vital iron-sulfur cluster containing proteins by combined genetic, biochemical and spectroscopic techniques to gain mechanistic understanding to aid future biomedical and bio-industrial applications.

Florencio Eloy Hernįndez

Florencio Eloy Hernández, Assistant Professor
Interests: Physical Chemistry, Nonlinear Optics, Nanotechnology & Material Characterization

Qun Huo

Qun Huo, Associate Professor
Interests: Synthesis, property studies, and application development of nanoparticle materials

Stephen Kuebler

Stephen M. Kuebler, Assistant Professor
Interests: Nanoscience and nanotechnology; Materials and processes for 3D nano- and microfabrication; Optical materials and nonlinear optics; Photochemistry; Biological sensing

Frank Kujawa

Frank Kujawa, Associate Professor
Interests: Geology, sinkhole research

Yi Liao

Yi Liao, Assistant Professor
Interests: Organic and hybrid optical, magnetic and electric materials.

Gerald Mattson, Visiting Lecturer

Artėm E. Masunov

Artëm E. Masunov, Assistant Professor
Interests: Computational Molecular and Nanomaterials, Theoretical Chemistry, and Molecular Physics

Jerzy Mierzwa

Jerzy Mierzwa, Assistant in Instrumentation Specialist

D. Howard Miles

D. Howard Miles, Professor
Interests: Medicinal and synthetic organic chemistry as related to the discovery of new drugs leads for the treatment of cancer, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and heart diseases.

Pedro Patino

Pedro Patino, Visiting Lecturer

J. Manuel Perez

J. Manuel Perez, Assistant Professor
Interests: Nanoparticle technologies and their application in nanomedicine, molecular diagnostics, molecular imaging, biosensors and cancer research

Otto Phanstiel

Otto Phanstiel, Professor
Interests: Organic synthesis, medicinal chemistry, new drugs and drug-delivery agents to aid in the treatment of human diseases

Swadeshmukul Santra

Swadeshmukul Santra, Assistant Professor
Interests: Nanobioimaging and Sensing

Thomas L. Selby

Thomas L. Selby, Assistant Professor
Interests: Understanding metabolic pathways and disease through an investigation of protein structure and small molecule interactions with proteins

Michael Sigman

Michael Sigman, Associate Professor
Interests: Development and validation of new methods in forensic trace analysis of organic explosives, accelerants and drugs

Lei Zhai

Lei Zhai, Assistant Professor
Interests: Polyelectrolyte multilayer films for sensing and tissue engineering, smart surfaces, and conductive polymer nanowires and composites

Shengli Zou

Shengli Zou, Assistant Professor
Interests: Optical properties of nanoparticles and their applications.