Graduate Faculty Mentors
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As a relatively small department and one that takes pride in the accomplishments of its students, faculty provides the necessary direction and help to guide students toward their degree goals. In short, the Department of Chemistry's Graduate Faculty Mentors are committed to supporting graduate education.
- ayush.asthana@UND.edu
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Focus Research Area: Computational molecular sciences hold an important position today in chemical and material discovery. With the advent of quantum computing and machine learning, the field is at the junction of another transformation. Asthana group is interested in developing new ab initio methods for predictive computational molecular sciences, specifically, electronic structure theory using upcoming quantum computers and current machine learning techniques. We bridge age-old wisdom in quantum chemistry with new-age technology.
- guodong.du@UND.edu
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Focus Research Area: Sustainable Polymers; Polymer-based Nanoparticles; Catalysis and Green Chemistry; Methane Conversion; Carbon Dioxide Utilization
- mark.hoffmann@UND.edu
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Focus Research Area: Principal areas of research interest and expertise include the development and application of new theoretical and computational methods for molecular electronic structure, and the application of these to elucidating the potential energy surfaces of molecules in their ground and excited electronic states. Recognized contributions have been made on methods based on hybrid variational-perturbational frameworks, such as quasidegenerate or multireference perturbation theories. Continuing work on embedded subsystems at different levels of theory than the surroundings is extending applicability of earlier gas phase work. Progress has been made on extending quantum chemical approaches to the understanding of molecules in intense electromagnetic fields and on surfaces. A variety of types of concrete systems have been studied, with particular attention on chemical reactions in which nonadiabatic couplings of surfaces are major effects, including metal-containing molecules, catalysts, and combustion reactions. Recent work on parallelization and graphical processing unit (GPU) implementations of computational realizations of theoretical advances has yielded high performance computing (HPC) variants.
- weixin.huang@UND.edu
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Focus Research Area: Material synthesis, heterogeneous catalysis for energy and environmental sustainability, in situ/operando characterizations.
- alena.kubatova@UND.edu
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Focus Research Area: Focus on Characterization of Complex Matrices Using Chromatographic Mass Spectrometric Methods. The specifical applications include characterization air particulate matter, biomass as a feedstocks for renewable chemicals, plant matrices.
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- binglin.sui@UND.edu
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Focus Research Area: The research in the Sui Lab mainly focuses on developing superior diagnostic and therapeutic techniques for biomedical purposes. We synthesize small organic molecules and biocompatible and biodegradable polymers with predesigned functions, and then employ them to fabricate smart nanosystems loaded with various agents via stimuli-responsive and self-immolative linkers, serving as diagnostic and/or therapeutic techniques for the treatment of human diseases including cancers and neurological disorders.
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- julia.zhao@UND.edu
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Focus Research Area: Development of fluorescent nanomaterials for bioanalysis and bioimaging; Development of various-nanomaterials for oil recovery and catalysis; Development of graphene-based nanomaterials for detection of trace analytes Fundamental studies on nanoscience and nanotechnology