Lawrence B. Alemany
Lecturer

Mostly non-biological use of nuclear magnetic resonance for studying solutions and solids

Office: Dell Butcher Hall 145            Phone: 713-348-5360                                 E-mail: lalemany@rice.edu

Zachary T. Ball
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Norman Hackerman-Welch Young Investigator

organic chemistry, catalysis, polymer chemistry

Research group web site: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~zb1

Office: G. R. Brown E200C             Phone: 713-348-6159                                   E-mail: Zachary.Ball@rice.edu

Biomaterials, bioinorganic, materials, nanotechnology, pharmaceuticals, organometallics, inorganic. 

Research group webpage: http://python.rice.edu/~arb/Barron.html

Office: Dell Butcher Hall 410C      Phone: 713-348-5610                                    E-mail: arb@rice.edu

W. Edward Billups
Professor of Chemistry

Chemistry of small ring systems; reactive intermediates; synthetic methods; organo-transition metal chemistry; chemistry of free metal atoms; fullerene chemistry; chemistry of carbon nanotubes.

Research group webpage: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~billups/

Office: G.R. Brown E300D          Phone: 713-348-5694                                        E-mail: billups@rice.edu

Philip R. Brooks
Professor of Chemistry

Physical Chemistry.  

Research group website: http://python.rice.edu/~brooks/

Office: Space Science 209        Phone: 713-348-3266                                          E-mail: brooks@rice.edu

Associate Professor of Chemistry

Theoretical Physical Chemistry, Statistical Mechanics, Biophysics,
Structural and Molecular Biology, Protein Folding, Protein Modeling and Simulation.                            

Research group website: http://leonardo.rice.edu/~cecilia/research/

Office: M.D. Anderson Biology Labs 304     Phone: 713-348-3485                    E-mail: cecilia@rice.edu

Vicki L. Colvin
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Director of CBEN

Physical chemistry and nanotechnology.                                                   

Research group webpage: http://nanonet.rice.edu/

Office : Dell Butcher Hall 141              Phone: 713-348-5741                              E-mail: colvin@rice.edu

Physical Chemistry, development of DNA genotyping and sequencing instrumentation, and development of QC laser-based mid-infrared trace gas monitoring instrumentation.

Research group webpage: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~rfcurl/

Office: Space Science 211                   Phone: 713-348-4816                               E-mail: rfcurl@rice.edu

Michael Diehl
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Biomotor Cooperativity, Biomaterials, Supramolecular Biophysics, Molecular Bioengineering

Office: Keck 119                   Phone: 713-348-4568                                               E-mail: diehl@rice.edu

Physical-Organic Chemistry

Office: G.R. Brown E200F                   Phone: 713-348-4087                               E-mail: engel@rice.edu 

Graham P. Glass
Professor Emeritus

Office: Space Science 223                    Phone: 713-348-3285                              E-mail: gglass@rice.edu

Jason H. Hafner
Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Biophysics, Nanoscience.                                                                              

Research group webpage: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~hafner/

Office: M.D. Anderson Biology Labs 302       Phone: 713-348-3205                  E-mail: hafner@rice.edu

Naomi J. Halas
Stanley C. Moore Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Chemistry

Nanoengineering, Plasmonics, Nanophotonics.                                        

Research group webpage:  http://www.ece.rice.edu/~halas/

Office: Abercrombie A237               Phone: 713-348-5611                                  E-mail: halas@rice.edu

Jeffrey D. Hartgerink
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

Supramolecular chemistry.                                                                            

Research group webpage: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jdh/

Office: G.R. Brown E300B                   Phone: 713-348-4142                              E-mail: jdh@rice.edu

Robert H. Hauge
Distinguished Faculty Fellow of Chemistry

Physical, inorganic and materials chemistry. 

Office: Space Science 303                   Phone: 713-348-6384                               E-mail: hauge@rice.edu

Inorganic chemistry and chemical education.

Research group webpage: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~hennessy/index.html

Office: Dell Butcher Hall  342           Phone: 713-348-2357                                E-mail: hennessy@rice.edu

John S. Hutchinson
Professor of Chemistry

Theoretical Chemical Physics; Chemical Education

Office: Space Science 232                  Phone: 713-348-5366                                E-mail: jshutch@rice.edu

Bruce R. Johnson
Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Chemistry
Executive Director of RQI

Theoretical chemistry, dissociative and surface-enhanced resonance Raman spectroscopy, four-wave-mixing spectrsocopy, DNA sequencing technology, wavelets in quantum mechanics and signal processing.                                                                                                  

Research group webpage: http://python.rice.edu/~johnson/

Office: Space Science 228                   Phone: 713-348-5103                               E-mail: johnson@rice.edu

Valery N. Khabashesku
Faculty Fellow of Chemistry

Physical Organic, Organometallic, Materials Chemistry and Nanotechnology.

Research group webpage: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~khval/

Office: Dell Butcher Hall  320B                  Phone: 713-348-3486                                E-mail: khval@rice.edu

James L. Kinsey
D. R. Bullard-Welch Foundation Professor of Science
Professor of Chemistry

Chemical dynamics, spectroscopy, lasers, theoretical chemistry.                   

Research group webpage: http://python.rice.edu/~kinsey/

Office: Space Science 225                Phone: 713-348-4937                                  E-mail: jlkinsey@rice.edu

Anatoly B. Kolomeisky
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Statistical mechanics of complex systems and theoretical biophysics. 

Research group webpage: http://python.rice.edu/~kolomeisky/

Office: M.D. Anderson Biology Labs 306        Phone: 713-348-5672                  E-mail: tolya@rice.edu

Kristen Kulinowski
Faculty Fellow of Chemistry

Chemical education, nanotechnology policy.

Office: Dell Butcher Hall 146          Phone: 713-348-8211                                   E-mail: kk@rice.edu

Office: Space Science 224             Phone: 713-348-6024                                     E-mail: elewis@rice.edu

Stephan Link
Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Physical chemistry, ultrafast and single molecule spectroscopy, materials and nanoscale science

Research group webpage: http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~slink/index.html

Office: Space Science 212         Phone: 713-348-4561                                         E-mail: slink@rice.edu

Andreas Luttge
Professor of Earth Science 
Professor of Chemistry

Aqueous Geochemistry, Nanoscience, Bio-Geochemistry and Mineralogy

Research group webpage: http://terra.rice.edu/department/facilities/geochemistry/dissolution/

Office: Wiess Laboratories 321    Phone: 713-348-6304                                         E-mail: aluttge@rice.edu

Seiichi P.T. Matsuda
E. Dell Butcher Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Department Chair

Recombinant biosynthetic approaches to natural product biosynthesis. Directed evolution and DNA shuffling to generate new oxidosqualene cyclases. Metabolic engineering to produce terpenes.

Office: G.R.Brown W300E           Phone: 713-348-6158                                      E-mail: matsuda@rice.edu

Mary E.R. McHale
Lecturer

Chemical Education

Office: Dell Butcher Hall 242        Phone: 713-348-5837                                    E-mail: mmchale@rice.edu

Ronald J. Parry
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Biosynthesis, Mechanistic Enzymology, Molecular Biology.                 

Office: G.R. Brown E200D        Phone: 713-348-2446                                         E-mail: parry@rice.edu

Matteo Pasquali
Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Professor of Chemistry

Micro and Nano-structured Liquids, Free Surface Flows, Computational Modeling of Complex Flows of Complex Fluids, Phase Behavior and Rheology of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Liquids, Hemolysis in Implantable Blood Pumps  

Research group webpage: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~che/people/faculty/pasquali/pasquali.html

Office: Abercrombie Lab, B-243         Phone: 713-348-5830                               E-mail: mp@rice.edu

Gustavo E. Scuseria
Robert A. Welch Professor of Chemistry
Department Vice-chair

Theoretical chemistry, ab initio computational quantum chemistry, density functional theory, development of new methods for molecular electronic structure, and applications to nanostructures. 

Research group webpage: http://python.rice.edu/~guscus/

Office: M.D. Anderson Biology Labs 310         Phone: 713-348-4746                 E-mail: guscus@rice.edu

Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Associate Professor of Chemistry

Biophysical characterization of protein-folding reactions, with emphasis on cofactor-binding proteins and proteins that require oligomeric assembly.

Office: Keck Hall 301                           Phone: 713-348-4855                              E-mail: pernilla@rice.edu

James M. Tour
Chao Professor of Chemistry
Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Material Sciences
Professor in Computer Science

Organic chemistry, materials and nanoscale science.                           

Research group webpage: http://www.jmtour.com/

Office: Dell Butcher Hall 255           Phone: 713-348-6246                                 E-mail: tour@rice.edu

R. Bruce Weisman
Professor of Chemistry

Molecular photochemistry and photophysics of fullerenes and carbon nanotubes.

Office: Space Science 111D             Phone: 713-348-3709                                  E-mail: weisman@rice.edu

Kenton H. Whitmire
Professor of Chemistry

Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry. Clusters of the heavy main group elements and transition metals. Chemistry of metal alkoxides, carboxylates and their conversion to metal oxides. Chemical Education and Curriculum Development.                                                                     

Research group webpage: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~whitmir/

Office: Dell Butcher Hall 351         Phone: 713-348-5650                                   E-mail: whitmir@rice.edu

Lon J. Wilson
Professor of Chemistry

Fullerene, Metallofullerene and Carbon Nanotube Nanotechnology for Medical Applications, Metal Ions in Medicine and Biology, Coordination Chemistry, Radiochemistry of the Lanthanides and Actinides. 

Research group webpage: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~ljwgroup/

Office: Dell Butcher Hall 353        Phone 713-348-3268                                      E-mail: durango@rice.edu

Michael S. Wong
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Associate Professor of Chemistry

Nanotechnology; Materials chemistry; Heterogeneous catalysis; Encapsulation applications; Environmental catalysis.                                                                              

Research group webpage: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/%7Ewonglab/index.html

Office:  Abercrombie B-241         Phone: 713-348-3511                                      E-mail: mswong@rice.edu

Boris I. Yakobson
Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Material Sciences 
Professor in Chemistry

Theory of materials and nanoscale structures and processes, computational modeling, physics of imaging.

Office: Cox Mechanical Engineering Bldg 201          Phone: 713-348-3572       E-mail: biy@rice.edu