Department of Chemistry

Stewart A. Mallory joined the department faculty as an assistant professor of chemistry on August 1, 2021. The Mallory Research Group's fundamental challenge is "to answer several open questions concerning the collective behavior and mechanical properties of soft active matter systems." 

Elvira Sayfutyarova joined the department faculty as an assistant professor of chemistry on January 1, 2022. Safutyarova's research focuses on the "development and application of new quantum chemical approaches to study photochemical reactions and properties of complex bioinorganic systems."

James Hodges joined the department faculty as an assistant professor of chemistry on January 1, 2022. The Hodges Research Group is "broadly interested in the synthesis and applications of new inorganic solids, with a particular emphasis on microporous oxides, multi-anion materials, metal chalcogenides, intermetallic compounds, and thin-film architectures."

The Penn State Department of Chemistry is pleased to announce that Danielle Reifsnyder Hickey joined the department faculty as an assistant professor of chemistry starting January 1, 2022.

Jonathan Kuo joined the department faculty as an assistant professor of chemistry on August 1, 2021. The Kuo Research Group "uses materials and structures that exist in Nature to inform the design of new organometallic catalysts."

Julie Fenton joined the department faculty as an assistant professor of chemistry on January 1, 2022. The Fenton Research Group's focus will be "on creative synthetic problem solving at the interface of inorganic and organic materials, covering a range of fundamental and application-driven inquiries in colloidal nanosolids, porous materials, polymers, and extended hybrid solids."