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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
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).