Recruiting Seminar

2017 Recruiting Slides

To schedule a seminar, please contact our Recruiting, Publicity and Development Coordinator.

• Christopher A. Baker – Analytical Chemistry – chris.baker@utk.edu
  “Microfluidics and Nanoscale biosensors: small analytical tools to enable large biological insights”
• Craig Barnes – Inorganic Chemistry – cebarnes@utk.edu
  “Nanostructured Catalysts: Where Materials Science meets Catalysis”
• Michael Best – Organic Chemistry – mdbest@utk.edu
  “Synthetic Analogs of Cell Surface Ligands for the Study of Disease-Related Biological Processes”
• Johnathan N. Brantley – Organic Chemistry – johnathan_brantley@berkeley.edu
  “Unmasking Latent Reactivity though Materials and Methods”
• Tessa Calhoun – Analytical Chemistry – trcalhoun@utk.edu
  “Advancing Optical Microscopy to Study the Interaction of Small Molecules with Cell Membranes”
• Shawn Campagna – Organic Chemistry – campagna@ion.chem.utk.edu
  “Look Who’s Talking: The Chemistry of Microbial Communication”
• Mark Dadmun – Polymer Chemistry – dad@utk.edu
  1. “Better Plastic Solar Cells: Using Neutron Scattering to Characterize the Structure of Organic Photovoltaics”
  2. “Improving Forensic Techniques: Understanding the Chemistry of Superglue Fuming to Improve the Quality of Developed Fingerprints”
• Ampofo Darko – Organic Chemistry – adarko@ion.chem.utk.edu
  “Principles of Strain in Synthesis and Catalysis”
• Charles Feigerle – Physical & Materials Chemistry – feigerle@ion.chem.utk.edu
  “Chemical Vapor Deposition for Materials Synthesis and Film Growth”
• R.J. Hinde – Physical Chemistry – rhinde@utk.edu
  “Keeping Cool Under Pressure:  Quantum Monte Carlo to Simulations of Compressed Solid Hydrogen and Helium at T = 0 K”
• David Jenkins – Inorganic Chemistry – jenkins@ion.chem.utk.edu
  “Developing Small-Ringed Macrocyclic Tetracarbene Ligands for Catalytic Systems”
• Mike Kilbey – Polymer Chemistry – mkilbey@ion.chem.utk.edu
  “Polyelectrolyte Brushes:  All Charged Up with Nowhere to Go”
• John Larese – Physical Chemistry – jzl@utk.edu
  “Preparing for a Career as a Energy Materials Scientist: Combining University and National Lab Environments”
• Brian Long – Polymer Chemistry – long@utk.edu
  “Advances in Olefin Polymerization Catalysis”
• Sharani Roy – Computational Chemistry – sroy@ion.chem.utk.edu
  “Theoretical Studies of Chemical Processes at Surfaces: From Fundamentals to Applications”
• Konstantinos Vogiatzis – Physical Chemistry – kvogiatz@utk.edu
  “Exploring Biomimetic Catalysis with Electronic Structure Theory”
• Ziling (Ben) Xue – Inorganic Chemistry – xue@ion.chem.utk.edu
  “Chemistry of Transition Metal Complexes. Molecular Magnetism and Chemical Analysis”
• Bin Zhao – Polymer Chemistry – zhao@ion.chem.utk.edu
  “Stimuli-Responsive Polymer Hydrogels”