Undergraduate Research
Undergraduate scientific research is an activity that has many benefits: you gain experience that may be useful to you in future study or your career; you form a professional relationship with your supervisor that can serve as the basis for a letter of recommendation; and you get course credit and may even get paid! Perhaps the most important benefit is the understanding you gain as to how scientific information is accumulated and ideas developed, and how you fit into the picture - is this what you want to spend your life doing? In fact, your participation in research may turn out to be the most important aspect of your college experience.
The following is a list of professors who have expressed particular interest in including undergraduates in their research groups. Please also review their web pages at https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/chemistry/faculty/index.php#Faculty. After reviewing their web pages, speak to or contact by email professors whose classes and whose research you find interesting. Ask to meet with them to talk about the possibility of joining their research group.
If you have any other questions regarding undergraduate research in the Chemistry Department, you may contact the Undergraduate Program Director Studies. Note that registration in CHE 487 or 495-496 can be accomplished only through the Department office. Please fill out the "Research Course Permission Request Form," have it signed by the faculty member who will supervise your research, then submit the form to staff in the Main Office of the Department of Chemistry (Room 104, Chemistry Building).
Unless otherwise specified, all rooms given below are in the Chemistry Building. Be
sure to arrange all research opportunities well in advance of the term you wish to
begin research.
Academic Year 2023-2024 Research Opportunities:
Name | Area or Research Topic | Room | Phone |
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NameAllison | Area or Research TopicUltrafast Spectroscope | Room576 | Phone2-8199 |
NameAponte-Rivera | Area or Research TopicTheory and Simulation of Soft Materials; Polymer Physics of Neurodegenerative Diseases; Mechanical Properties of Polymer Nanocomposites | Room475 | Phone2-7496 |
NameAubrecht | Area or Research TopicGreen and Sustainable Chemistry:Chemistry Education Research | Room409 | Phone2-7901 |
NameBhatia | Area or Research TopicPolymer Gels for Drug Delivery and Biomaterials, Nanoparticle Assembly, Scattering Studies and Physical Chemistry of Polymers and Biomacromolecules | Room441 | Phone2-7788 |
NameBoon | Area or Research TopicNitric Oxide Sensing & Signaling in Bacteria & The Molecular Mechanisms of Biofilm Formation & Quorum Sensing | Room547 | Phone2-7945 |
NameBruch | Area or Research TopicOrganometallics, Transition Metal Catalysis, and Electrocatalysis | Room779 | Phone |
NameCarrico | Area or Research TopicProtein Engineering and Chemical Biology | Room533 | Phone2-7935 |
NameDrueckhammer | Area or Research TopicOrganic Synthesis, Molecular Recognition, Computer-guided Design | Room741 | Phone2-7923 |
NameGrubbs | Area or Research TopicPolymer & Nanomaterial Synthesis | Room749 | Phone2-7911 |
NameGustafson | Area or Research TopicSynthetic Organic and Medicinal Chemistry, Reaction Development, Kinase Drug Discovery | Room767 | Phone |
NameHoughton | Area or Research Topic
Radiochemistry, Bioconjugate Chemistry, and Organic Chemistry to Develop Targeted
Radionuclide Therapy for Cancer
|
RoomMART 7M-0703 | Phone6-2272 |
NameHsiao | Area or Research Topic
Nanocellulose Chemistry to Enhance the Food and Water Nexus
|
Room479 | Phone2-7793 |
NameJia | Area or Research TopicNuclear Chemistry & Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions | Room461 | Phone2-7905 |
NameJohnson, C. | Area or Research TopicChemistry at the Surface of Particles from Nanoscience to the Atmosphere | Room521 | Phone2-7577 |
NameJohnson, F. | Area or Research TopicNew Drugs from Ethnobotanicals, Antiviral Agents, Toxicology & Repair of DNA Adducts | Room607 | Phone2-8866 |
NameKhalifah | Area or Research TopicSolid State Chemistry; Battery Materials; Material Genomics; Synthesis Science X-ray and Neutron Diffraction; Crystal Growth; Computational Modeling | Room447 | Phone2-7796 |
NameKoga* | Area or Research TopicNano Structures, Nano Process, and Nano Interactions of Polymers | RoomO. Eng 318 | Phone2-8485 |
NameLacey | Area or Research TopicNuclear Chemistry and Physics | Room459 | Phone2-7955 |
NameLaughlin | Area or Research TopicChemical Neuroscience: Chemical Approaches to Controlling & Visualizing the Brain’s Neural Circuit | Room529 | Phone2-2642 |
NameLevine | Area or Research TopicTheory and simulation of electronic excited states | Room L156 IACS/ Chemistry 575 | Phone2-2381 |
NameLipshultz | Area or Research TopicOrganic Reaction Development, Organic and Organometallic Photocatalysis | Room713 | Phone |
NameLiu, Ping* | Area or Research TopicTheoretical Modeling in Heterogeneous Catalysis and Electrocatalysis | RoomBNL | Phone2-5970 |
NameMarschilok | Area or Research TopicElectrochemistry & Engineering of Composite Electrodes Associated with the Oxygen Reduction Reaction & Lithium-Air Batteries | Room | Phone2-7909 |
NameMayr | Area or Research TopicInorganic & Organometallic Chemistry | Room721 | Phone2-7951 |
NameMiller* | Area or Research TopicDevelopment & Application of Chemical Imaging for the Study of Biological Cells & Tissues | RoomBNL | Phone344-2091 |
NameNagan | Area or Research TopicComputational Studies of Ribonucleic Acid Recognition | Room430 | Phone2-5793 |
NameNgai | Area or Research TopicMolecular Editing in Organic Chemistry | Room767 | Phone2-2641 |
NameOjima | Area or Research TopicSynthetic Organic & Medicinal Chemistry at the Biomedical Interface | Room717 | Phone2-1339 |
NameOrlov | Area or Research TopicMaterials Science and Chemical Engineering Applications of Novel Nanomaterials | RoomHvy Eng 216 | Phone2-9978 |
NameParker, M. | Area or Research TopicAt the Intersection of Organic Chemistry, Biology, and Molecular Imaging to Develop Novel Diagnostic and Therapeutic Tools for Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders | Room773 | Phone 2-7948 |
NameParise | Area or Research TopicSynthetic Solid State Chemistry & In Situ X-Ray Diffraction, Chemistry at High Pressure | RoomESS 238 | Phone
2-8196 |
NameQu | Area or Research TopicRadiopharmaceutical Sciences Research Involving Organic Synthetic Chemistry, Radiochemistry, Biology, etc., to Develop Radiotracers for PET Imaging Research, as well as to Develop Novel Radiochemistry Methodology | Room712 | Phone8-0045 or 6-2106 |
NameRaleigh | Area or Research TopicProtein Folding & Misfolding in Human Disease | Room647 | Phone2-9547 |
NameRaineri | Area or Research TopicInfluence of Solvation on the Rates of Electron Transfer Reactions | Room437 | Phone2-7898 |
NameRizzo | Area or Research TopicComputational Biology | RoomMAT 101 | Phone2-9340 |
NameRodriquez* | Area or Research TopicCatalysis and Surface Chemistry | RoomBNL | Phone344-2246 |
NameSeeliger, J. | Area or Research TopicMolecular Investigations of Metabolite Transport Through the Cell Envelope of Pathogenic Mycobacteria | RoomCMM 448 | Phone2-1674 |
NameSeeliger, M. | Area or Research TopicMolecular Mechanism of Protein Kinase Inhibitors in Cancer and Aging | RoomBST 7-120 | Phone4-3558 |
NameSimmerling | Area or Research TopicUsing Computer Models and Neural Networks to Study Biomolecular Behavior and Interactions (See https://www.simmerlinglab.org/join for more information.) | RoomLaufer Ctr. | Phone2-5424 |
NameTakeuchi, E. | Area or Research TopicChemistry, Electrochemistry & Engineering Associated with all Aspects of Energy Storage (Battery) Technologies | Room667 | Phone2-7922 |
NameTakeuchi, K | Area or Research TopicChemistry & Electrochemistry of Nano-structured Redox Active Inorganic Materials with Application towards Energy Storage | Room547 | Phone2-7922 |
NameTonge | Area or Research TopicChemical Biology, Pharmacology, Mechanism of Drug Action, Anticancer and Antibacterial Drug Discovery, Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Imaging | Room633 | Phone2-7907 |
NameWang | Area or Research TopicLandscape Theory of Biomolecular Interactions & Networks | Room433 | Phone2-1185 |
NameWhite | Area or Research TopicHeterogeneous Catalysis and Surface Chemistry | Room541 | Phone2-1722 |
NameWong | Area or Research TopicPhysical, Biological, and Chemical Applications of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | Room415 | Phone2-1703 |
NameWymore | Area or Research TopicEnzyme Mechanisms, Molecular Phylogenetics, Radical Chemistry, Computational Chemistry | RoomLaufer Ctr. 115E | Phone2-5412 |
NameZhu* | Area or Research TopicElectron Microscopy, Solid-state Physics; Nanoscale Materials Science & Engineering | RoomBNL | Phone344-3057 |
*These faculty members or affiliates are located at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).