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	TENURE / TENURE TRACK
	Stephan B. H. Bach Associate Professor Office Phone: (210) 458-6896 Office: BSE 1.510 E-Mail: stephen.bach@utsa.edu Areas of Specialization • Environmental Chemistry • Matrix Isolation/FTIR Spectroscopy • Molecular Recognition		Banglin Chen Professor Office Phone: (210) 458-5461 Office: BSE 1.104C E-Mail: banglin.chen@utsa.edu Areas of Specialization • Nanoporous metal-organic frameworks • Nanoparticles • Functionalization of nano-sized cavities

	Orkid Coskuner-Weber Assistant Professor Office Phone: (210) 458 Office: BSE E-Mail: Areas of Specialization • Identification of active sites of biocomplexes • Structure-function relationships of biomolecules and biometallic species • Reaction mechanism description between ligands and receptors [...]		Walter C. Ermler Professor Office Phone: (210) 458-7005 Office: BSE 1.104E E-Mail: walter.ermler@utsa.edu Areas of Specialization • Computational Spectroscopy • Modeling Heavy-element Compounds • Theoretical Chemistry

	Doug Frantz Assistant Professor Office Phone: (210) 458-7048 Office: BSE 4.258 E-Mail: doug.frantz@utsa.edu Areas of Specialization • Medicinal Chemistry • Process Chemistry • Asymmetric Catalysis • Heterocyclic Synthesis • Physical Organic Chemistry Laboratory Web Page		John Frederick Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Office Phone: (210) 458-4110 Office: MB 4.120N E-Mail: John.Frederick@utsa.edu Areas of Specialization • Computational molecular dynamics, with a special emphasis on the study of molecular vibrations and structural rearrangements induced by the absorption of light

	Carlos D. Garcia Associate Professor Office Phone: (210) 458-5774 Office: BSE 1.104L E-Mail: carlos.garcia@utsa.edu Areas of Specialization • Interaction of Proteins with Nanomaterials • Electrochemical Detection • Capillary Electrophoresis and Microfluidics		Waldemar Gorski Professor and Department Chair Office Phone: (210) 458-4961 Office: BSE 1.104M E-Mail: waldemar.gorski@utsa.edu Areas of Specialization • Electrochemical (Bio)sensors • Functional Electrode Layers • Inorganic Electrocatalysts

	Hyunsoo Han Associate Professor Office Phone: (210) 458-5456 Office: BSE 1.104K E-Mail: hyunsoo.han@utsa.edu Areas of Specialization • Asymmetric catalysis • Organic Synthesis • Polymer and combinatorial chemistry		Harry Wellington Jarrett III Professor Office Phone: (210) 458-7053 Office: BSE 1.104G E-Mail: harry.jarrett@utsa.edu Areas of Specialization • Muscular Dystrophy and Signal transduction • Transcription factor purification

	Donald Kurtz Jr. Lutcher Brown Distinguished Professor Office Phone: (210) 458-7060 Office: BSE 4.324 E-Mail: donald.kurtz@utsa.edu Areas of Specialization • Bioinorganic chemistry • Non-heme iron enzymes		Oleg Larionov Assistant Professor Office Phone: (210) 458-6050 Office: BSE 4.117 E-Mail: oleg.larionov@utsa.edu Areas of Specialization • Medicinal Chemistry • Synthesis of biologically active natural products • Enantioselective catalysis

	Ghezai Musie Associate Professor Office Phone: (210) 458-5454 Office: BSE 1.104 F E-Mail: ghezai.musie@utsa.edu Areas of Specialization • Inorganic Chemistry • Bioinorganic Chemistry • Catalysis and materials • Green Chemistry		George R. Negrete Professor Office Phone: (210) 458-5448 Office: BSE 1.104J E-Mail: george.negrete@utsa.edu Areas of Specialization • β-Homoamino Acids • Asymmetric Synthesis • Chemical Carcinogenesis • Green Chemistry • Novel Lipopeptides

	Zachary J. Tonzetich Assistant Professor Office Phone: (210) 458-5465 Office: BSE 1.104H E-Mail: zachary.tonzetich@utsa.edu Areas of Specialization • Synthetic inorganic and organometallic chemistry • Bioinorganic chemistry • Catalysis • Odd-electron organometallics • Kinetics and mechanism of inorganic reactions		Judith A. Walmsley Professor Emeritus Office Phone: (210) 458-5459 Office: BSE 1.104H E-Mail: judith.walmsley@utsa.edu Areas of Specialization • Biomolecular Structure • Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry • Nucleotide Structures

	Cong-Gui Zhao Professor Office Phone: (210) 458-5432 Office: BSE 1.342 E-Mail: cong.zhao@utsa.edu Areas of Specialization • Asymmetric synthesis and reactions • Oxidation • Phosphorus chemistry • Small ring compounds

	NON-TENURE TRACK
	Lydia Martínez Rivera Lecturer III / Undergraduate Advisor of Record Office Phone: (210)458-7051 Office: BSE 1.338 E-Mail: lydia.martinezrivera@utsa.edu Areas of Specialization • photochemistry of nucleic acids and proteins • phototoxicity of xenobiotics • chemical education		Bernard Powell Senior Lecturer Office Phone: (210) 458-5757 Office: BSE 1.344 E-Mail: bernard.powell@utsa.edu Education: • BA (Chemistry) Rockhurst University • PhD (Biochemistry) University of Oklahoma Areas of Specialization • Teaching in the General Chemistry Program

	Michael Kurz Senior Lecturer Office Phone: (210) 458-7051 Office: BSE 1.338 E-Mail: michael.kurz@utsa.edu Areas of Specialization		Susan Thomas Lecturer III Office Phone: (210) 458-7051 Office: BSE 1.338 E-Mail: susan.thomas@utsa.edu Areas of Specialization

	Raymond Sadeghi Research Assistant Professor Office Phone: (210) 458-5747 Office: SB 3.01.28 E-Mail: raymond.sadeghi@utsa.edu Areas of Specialization • Simulation of Chemical Reactions using Time-dependent wave packet propagator using fast Fourier Transform (publications 1-5) • Simulation of photodissociation Dynamics [...]		MaoGen Zhang Research Assistant Professor Office Phone: (210) 458-5463 Office: SB 2.01.22 E-Mail: maogen.zhang@utsa.edu Areas of Specialization • Polymer-enzyme-nanomaterial-based electrochemical (bio)sensors • Synthesis of metal-based nanomaterials Polymer syntheses

	ADJUNCT
	Bimal K. Banik President’s Endowed Professor, Science & Engineering, UTPA Office Phone: (956) 380-8741 Department of Chemistry The University of Texas Pan American E-Mail: banik@panam.edu Areas of Specialization • Chemistry, Biology and Pharmacology of Novel Anticancer Beta-Lactams • Organometallics in the Synthesis of Biologically Active Compounds • Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds as New Anticancer and Antibacterial Agents • Medicinal Chemistry by Microwave-Induced Reactions		George Lee Adjunct Professor Office Phone: (210) 458-4466 Office: BSE - 0.106 E-Mail: George.Lee@utsa.edu Areas of Specialization • Analytical Chemistry • Instrumental Analysis

	Paul F. Fitzpatrick Adjunct Professor Office Phone: ( 210) 567-8264 Office: 5.206.4 Allied Health Building, UT Health Science Center San Antonio E-Mail: fitzpatrick@biochem.uthscsa.edu Areas of Specialization • Enzymology • Bioorganic Chemistry • Bioinorganic Chemistry		Frank Walmsley Adjunct Professor Office Phone: (210) 458 Office: BSE E-Mail: frank.walmsley@utsa.edu Areas of Specialization • Chemical Education
	Terrill Smith Adjunct Professor Office Phone: (210) 458-4461 Office: BSE 4.232 E-Mail: tdsnas@satx.rr.com Areas of Specialization • Preparation of substituted perylenes that can be used in harvesting light


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