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The research interests of the Chemistry and Biochemistry faculty at NDSU encompass a broad range of molecuar sciences. Many of the faculty have interdisciplinary research programs which bridge between traditional disciplines of analytical chemistry, biochemistry, computational chemistry, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry, biochemistry and molecular biology. For a full listing of all faculty and staff, see our directory.

	Faculty	Research Interests
	Philip Boudjouk Jordan A. Engberg Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Professor	Synthesis and mechanisms of organometallic compounds
	Uwe Burghaus Associate Professor	Surface Chemistry
	Christopher Colbert Associate Professor	Structural Biology and Metalloprotein Biochemistry
	Gregory Cook Professor and Chair	Synthetic Organic and Medicinal Chemistry
	Stuart Haring Associate Professor	DNA Metabolism and Cell Cycle Regulation
	John Hershberger Professor	Kinetics and Dynamics of Combustion Chemistry
	Denley Jacobson Associate Professor	Analytical and General Chemistry Chemical Education
	Dmitri Kilin Assistant Professor	Computational Chemistry of Materials, Theoretical Physical Chemistry
	Svetlana Kilina James A. Meier Associate Professor	Computation Chemistry
	Guodong Liu Associate Professor	Analytical Chemistry - Nanotechnology and Biological Sensing
	Gudrun Lukat-Rodgers Research Professor	Bioinorganic Chemistry
	James Nyachwaya Associate Professor	Chemistry/STEM Education
	Alex Parent Assistant Professor	Inorganic/Organic Chemistry Green Chemistry
	Seth Rasmussen Professor	Materials Chemistry and Chemical History
	Kenton Rodgers Professor	Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry
	Mukund Sibi University Distinguished Professor James A. Meier Professor	Synthetic Organic and Natural Products Chemistry
	Sangita Sinha Professor	Biochemistry and Structural Biology of Host-Pathogen Interactions
	Jayaraman Sivaguru James A. Meier Professor	Photochemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry, Molecular Recognition and Photoscience
	D. K. Srivastava James A. Meier Professor	Mechanistic Enzymology
	Wenfang Sun Walter F. and Verna Gehrts Professor James A. Meier Senior Professor	Materials Chemistry
	John C. Wilkinson Assistant Professor	Biochemistry of Cancer
	Zhongyu Yang Assistant Professor	Bioanalytical chemistry; Biophysics; Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
	Pinjing Zhao Associate Professor	Inorganic and Organic Chemistry; Synthesis and Mechanistic Organometallic Chemistry; Homogeneous Catalysis.