Chemistry and Biochemistry (323) 343-2300

Young Ba
Professor of Chemistry; Ph.D., Gerhard Mercator University, Duisburg
Contact: (323) 343-2360
E-mail: [email protected]

  • Physical/biophysical chemistry
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance techniques
  • Biomedical and drug delivery materials
  • Electron paramagnetic resonance

Krishna Foster
Professor of Chemistry; Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder
Contact: (323) 343-2309
E-mail: [email protected]

  • Physical chemistry
  • Ion chromatography
  • Mass spectrometry
  • Photochemical reactions

Frank A. Gomez
Professor of Chemistry; B.S., Cal State L.A., Ph.D., UCLA
Contact: (323) 343-2368
E-mail: [email protected]

  • Biological applications of capillary electrophoresis
  • In-capillary enzyme-mediated transformations
  • Microfluidics
  • Nanotechnology devices

Carlos Gutiérrez
Emeritus, Professor of Chemistry; Ph.D., UC Davis
Contact: (323) 343-2300
E-mail: [email protected]

  • Minority science education
  • Organic chemistry
  • Science documentary films
  • Inorganic and biological chemistry
  • Molecular processes of iron acquisition
  • Transport in bacteria

Jamil Momand
Emerius Professor of Biochemistry; Ph.D., UCLA
Contact: (323) 343-2361
E-mail: [email protected]

  • Biochemistry
  • Tumor suppressor genes
  • Redox regulation
  • p53 tumor suppressor protein

Donald Paulson
Emeritus Professor of Chemistry; Ph.D., Indiana University
Contact: (323) 343-2332
E-mail: [email protected]

  • Organic chemistry
  • Bioorganic chemistry
  • Model systems for oxygen binding proteins
  • Models for biological oxygenation and electron transfer
  • Active learning and cooperative learning techniques for the college lecture classroom

James Rudd
Professor of Chemistry; Ph.D., Iowa State University
Contact: (323) 343-2319
E-mail: [email protected]

  • Chemistry education
  • Science teaching and learning
  • General and organic chemistry

Matthias Selke
Professor of Chemistry; Ph.D., UCLA
Contact: (323) 343-2347
E-mail: [email protected]

  • Organic and bioorganic chemistry
  • Role of metals in biology
  • biological oxidation reactions,
  • Antioxidants
  • Photodynamic cancer therapy
  • Ccimatological history of Los Angeles
  • philosophy of science

Olaseni Sode
Professor of Chemistry; Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Contact: (323) 343-2372
E-mail: [email protected]

  • Computational and theoretical chemistry
  • Electronic and vibrational structure methods

Robert Vellanoweth
Professor of Chemistry; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Contact: (323) 343-2148
E-mail: [email protected]

  • Biochemistry
  • Biochemical and molecular genetics

Petr Vozka
Assistant Professor of Chemistry; Ph.D., Purdue University
Contact: (323) 343-2368
E-mail: [email protected]

  • Two-dimensional gas chromatography
  • High-resolution mass spectrometry
  • Microplastic analysis

Xin Wen
Professor of Chemistry; Ph.D., University of Rochester, New York
Contact: (323) 343-2310
E-mail: [email protected]

  • Biophysical and bioinorganic chemistry
  • Protein-ligand interaction
  • Antifreeze proteins and glycoproteins