Faculty

Office: BSE 1.104D
Phone: (210) 458-6896
Email: stephen.bach@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization
» Chemical imaging
» Mass spectrometry
» Metal clusters
» Nanomaterials

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

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

Office: BSE 1.104E
Phone: (210) 458-7005
Email: walter.ermler@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization
» Computational spectroscopy
» Modeling heavy-element compounds
» Theoretical chemistry

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

Office: AET 1.363
Phone: (210) 458-7553
Email: john.frederick@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization
» Chemical physics

Office: BSE 1.104M
Phone: (210) 458-5774
Email: waldemar.gorski@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization
» Electrochemical enzyme assays
» Electrochemical (bio)sensors and modified electrodes
» Electrode films

Office: BSE 1.104K
Phone: (210) 458-5456
Email: hyunsoo.han@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization
» Asymmetric catalysis
» Organic synthesis
» Polymer and combinatorial chemistry

Office: BSE 1.104J
Phone: (210) 458-5448
Email: audrey.lamb@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization
» Mechanistic enzymology
» Structural biology
» Metabolic pathways

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

Office: BSE 4.324
Phone: (210) 458-7062
Email: Feradical@utsa.edu | aimin.liu@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization
» Cofactor biosynthesis
» Mechanistic enzymology
» Metabolism
» Oxygen activation
» Protein biochemistry
» Redox regulation

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 areas
» Synthesis of natural products
» Synthetic methodology

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

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

Office: BSE 1.104B
Phone: (210) 458-5465
Email: zachary.tonzetich@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization
» Bioinorganic chemistry
» Catalysis
» Kinetics and mechanism of inorganic reactions
» Odd-electron organometallics
» Synthetic inorganic and organometallic chemistry

Office: BSE 1.104L
Phone: (210) 458-5774
Email: fang.xu@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization
» Reaction mechanisms for heterogeneous catalysis
» Surface and interface science
» Nanoscience
» Scanning tunneling microscopy

Office: BSE 1.104A
Phone: (210) 458-5432
Email: cong.zhao@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization
» Asymmetric synthesis and reactions
» Oxidation
» Phosphorus chemistry
» Small ring compound

Office: BSE 1.104H
Phone: (210) 458-5459
Email:francis.yoshimoto@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization
» Enzyme mechanism
» Mass spectrometry
» Target-oriented synthesis

Fixed Term Track

Office: BSE 1.660
Phone: (210) 458-5455
Email: hector.aguilar@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization
» Chemical Biology, Medicinal Chemistry, Organic Chemistry
» Induction of stem cell differentiation by small molecules

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

Office: BSE 1.658
Phone: (210) 458-8229
Email: mark.davidson@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization
» Basic and General Chemistry
» Physical Chemistry Lab

Office: BSE 1.104H
Phone: (210) 458-5459
Email:christopher.davis2@utsa.edu

Areas of Specialization
» Kinetics and mechanistic enzymology
» Biophysical pectroscopies
» Target-oriented synthesis

Office: BSE 1.650
Phone: (210) 458-5473
Email: victoria.dougherty@utsa.edu

Areas of Specialization
» Basic Chemistry
» General Chemistry
» Organic Chemistry

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

Office: BSE 1.652
Phone: (210) 458-7680
Email: akanksha.matta@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization
» Exploration of new pathways for the synthesis of novel heterocyclic compounds
» Biological, photophysical and catalytic applications of novel heterocyclic compounds.
» Heterogenous catalysis including Ziegler-Natta and Phillip’s Catalyst.

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

Office: BSE 1.656
Phone: (210) 458-5747
Email: raymond.sadeghi@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization
» Simulation of chemical reactions
» Simulation of photodissociation dynamics
» Theoretical chemistry

Office: BSE 1.648
Phone: (210) 458-7051
Email: susan.thomas@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization
» Allied health sciences chemistry
» Basic and general chemistry
» Biophysical chemistry

Office: BSE 1.654
Phone: (210) 458-7051
Email: adrian.zapata@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization
»Bioinorganic Chemistry
»small molecule kinetics modeling
»Reactive NOx species
»Metalloprotein synthesis

Joint Appointments

Office: AET 1.353, UTSA
Phone: (210) 458-7011
Email: mahmoud.abdelwahed@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization
» Computational modeling of nanomaterials
» Development of new 1-D, 2-D, and 3-D smart functional materials
» Nanocatalysis and photocatalysis at a single particle and single-molecule resolution
» Renewable energy
» Spectroscopy and photophysics of nanomaterials