Faculty

Joint | Emeritus

Hector Aguilar, Ph.D.

Professor of Instruction
Distinguished Teaching Professor

Office: BSE 1.104J
Phone: (210) 458-5455
Email: Hector.Aguilar@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

Chemical Biology
Induction of Stem Cell Differentiation by Small Molecules
Medicinal Chemistry, Organic Chemistry

Hadi Arman, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Practice

Office: BSE 1.653
Phone: (210) 458-5757
Email: Hadi.Arman@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

Crystal Engineering Focusing on Hydrogen and Halogen Bonding Interactions
Departmental X-ray Crystallographer

Stephan B.H. Bach, Ph.D.

Professor

Office: BSE 1.104D
Phone: (210) 458-6896
Email: Stephen.Bach@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

Chemical Imaging
Mass Spectrometry
Metal Clusters
Nanomaterials

Banglin Chen, Ph.D.

Professor

Office: BSE 1.104C
Phone: (210) 458-5461
Email: Banglin.Chen@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

Functionalization of Nano-Sized Cavities
Nanoparticles
Nanoporous Metal-Organic Frameworks

Mark Davidson

Assistant Professor of Practice

Office: BSE 1.658
Phone: (210) 458-8229
Email: Mark.Davidson@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

Basic and General Chemistry
Physical Chemistry Lab

Victoria Dougherty

Assistant Professor of Practice and Undergraduate Advisor of Record

Office: BSE 1.660
Phone: (210) 458-5473
Email: Victoria.Dougherty@utsa.edu

Michael P. Doyle, Ph.D.

Professor

Office: BSE 1.104G
Phone: (210) 458-4196
Email: Michael.Doyle@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

Catalytic Oxidation Processes
Design and Development of Chiral Catalysts
Diazo Chemistry
Highly Enantioselective Catalytic Reactions
Medicinal Chemistry

Gerardo A. Elguézabal, Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer

Office: BSE 1.654
Phone: (210) 458-7675
Email: Gerardo.Elguezabal@utsa.edu

Walter C. Ermler, Ph.D.

Professor

Office: BSE 1.104E
Phone: (210) 458-7005
Email: Walter.Ermler@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

Computational Spectroscopy
Modeling Heavy-Element Compounds
Theoretical Chemistry

Doug E. Frantz, Ph.D.

Professor

Office: BSE 4.258
Phone: (210) 458-7048
Email: Doug.Frantz@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

Asymmetric Catalysis
Heterocyclic Synthesis
Medicinal Chemistry
Physical Organic Chemistry
Process Chemistry

John H. Frederick, Ph.D.

Professor

Office: AET 1.363
Phone: (210) 458-7553
Email: John.Frederick@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

Chemical Physics

Waldemar Gorski, Ph.D.

Professor

Office: BSE 1.104M
Phone: (210) 458-4961
Email: Waldemar.Gorski@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

Electrochemical Enzyme Assays
Electrochemical (Bio)sensors and Modified Electrodes
Electrode Films

Hyunsoo Han, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Office: BSE 1.104K
Phone: (210) 458-5456
Email: Hyunsoo.Han@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

Asymmetric Catalysis
Organic Synthesis
Polymer and Combinatorial Chemistry

Audrey Lamb, Ph.D.

Professor and Department Chair

Office: BSE 1.106A
Phone: (210) 458-5478
Email: Audrey.Lamb@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

Mechanistic Enzymology
Metabolic Pathways
Structural Biology

Oleg V. Larionov, Ph.D.

Professor

Office: BSE 4.117
Phone: (210) 458-6050
Email: Oleg.Larionov@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

Enantioselective Catalysis
Medicinal Chemistry
Synthesis of Biologically Active Natural Products

Aimin Liu, Ph.D.

Professor

Office: BSE 4.206
Phone: (210) 458-7062
Email: Aimin.Liu@utsa.edu | Feradical@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

Cofactor Biosynthesis
Mechanistic Enzymology
Metabolism
Oxygen Activation
Protein Biochemistry
Redox Regulation

Blain Mamiya, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Instruction

Office: BSE 1.660
Phone: (210) 458-5448
Email: Blain.Mamiya@utsa.edu

Akanksha Matta, Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer

Office: BSE 1.652
Phone: (210) 458-7680
Email: Akanksha.Matta@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

Exploration of New Pathways for Synthesis of Novel Heterocyclic Compounds
Biological, Photophysical, and Catalytic Applications of Novel Heterocyclic Compounds
Heterogenous Catalysis including Ziegler-Natta and Phillip's Catalyst

Stanton F. McHardy, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Office: SRL 1.438
Phone: (210) 458-8676
Email: Stanton.McHardy@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

Medicinal Chemistry
Small Molecule Drug Discovery in Cancer, Infectious Disease, and Neuroscience
Synthesis of Natural Products
Synthetic Methodology

Ghezai T. Musie, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Graduate Advisor of Record

Office: BSE 1.104F
Phone: (210) 458-5454
Email: Ghezai.Musie@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

Bioinorganic Chemistry
Catalysis and Materials
Green Chemistry
Inorganic Chemistry

Sarah Oerther

Senior Lecturer

Office: BSE 1.652
Phone: (210) 458-8230
Email: Sarah.Agudelo@utsa.edu

Wei Reeves, Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer

Office: BSE 1.658
Phone: (210) 458-8236
Email: Wei.Reeves@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

Develop New Class of Materials for Affinity Purification of Native Proteins
Design and Synthesis of Macrocycle Conjugates
Modification of Native Protein
Peptide Synthesis
Supramolecular Chemistry
Lecture: General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry Lab, Organic Synthesis Lab

Raymond Sadeghi, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Instruction

Office: FLN 3.01.28
Phone: (210) 458-5747
Email: Raymond.Sadeghi@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

Simulation of Chemical Reactions
Simulation of Photodissociation Dynamics
Theoretical Chemistry

Kirk Schanze, Ph.D.

Professor

Office: BSE 4.322
Phone: (210) 458-6813
Email: Kirk.Schanze@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

Conjugated Polymers
Luminescence Imaging
Photochemistry and Photophysics
Photoresponsive Materials

Susan Thomas, Ph.D.

Professor of Instruction and Undergraduate Advisor of Record

Office: BSE 1.648
Phone: (210) 458-7051
Email: Susan.Thomas@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

Kinetics of Protein DNA Interactions
Thermodynamics of Protein Folding
Lecture in General Chemistry, Biochemistry, Basic Biophysical Chemistry, and the labs