PhD in Chemistry

The faculty has active research programs in Synthesis (inorganic, organic, polymer and supramolecular synthesis), Surface Chemistry (catalysis and corrosion studies), Spectroscopy (IR laser spectroscopy and bioanalytical applications for Raman and Surface Enhanced Raman methods), Structural Biology (using NMR, calorimetry and computational methods), and Biophysical studies (including cancer drug discovery). Environmental research programs focus on the development of novel miniature chemical sensors and on pesticide and herbicide transport while computational chemists are developing Ab initioand semiempirical methods to study complex biological systems and important chemical processes.