People
Faculty
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Professor of Chemistry
Email: arora@nyu.edu
Phone: 212-998-8470
Office: Brown Building, 29 Washington Place, Room 360
Research/Interest: Bioorganic chemistry
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Professor of Chemistry
Email: zlatko.bacic@nyu.edu
Phone: 212-998-8435
Office: Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, Room 1001M
Research/Interest: Theoretical and computational chemistry: Quantum treatment of the dynamics and spectroscopy of molecules in nanoporous materials and on solid surfaces, vibrational spectra of fluxional molecular systems of biological interest, and weakly bound molecular clusters.
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Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Email: dbuccella@nyu.edu
Phone: 212-998-7941
Office: Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, Room 827
Research/Interest: Bioinorganic Chemistry, Chemical Biology, Molecular Imaging
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Professor of Chemistry
Email: james.canary@nyu.edu
Phone: 212-998-8422
Office: Brown Building, 29 Washington Place, Room 364
Research/Interest: Organic, bioorganic, and bioinorganic chemistry; chiral materials; nanoscience; molecular imaging; supramolecular chemistry
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Professor of Chemistry
Email: nicholas.geacintov@nyu.edu
Phone: 212-998-8407
Office: Brown Building, 29 Washington Place, Room 453C
Research/Interest: The overall objective is to understand the mechanisms and consequences of damage in DNA, either free or wrapped around histone octamers in nucleosomes, induced by environmental contaminants and other reactive chemical species employing well defined model systems.
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Associate Professor of Chemistry
Email: alexej.jerschow@nyu.edu
Phone: 212-998-8451
Office: Waverly Building, 24 Waverly Place, Room 966
Research/Interest: NMR spectroscopy, imaging, and microscopy; Theory and applications in materials sciences, biophysics, and quantum computation
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Professor of Chemistry
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Email: bart.kahr@nyu.edu
Phone: 212-992-9579
Office: Brown Building, 29 Washington Place, Room 656
Research/Interest: Chemical crystallography, interations of light and organized media, polycrystalline pattern formation, origin of life science, experimental history of science.
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Professor of Chemistry
Email: neville.kallenbach@nyu.edu
Phone: 212-998-8757
Office: Waverly Building, 24 Waverly Place, Room 1170
Research/Interest: Biophysical chemistry of proteins and nucleic acids: structure, sequence, and site selectivity in DNA-drug interactions, protein folding, model helix and beta sheet structures
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Associate Professor of Chemistry
Email: kent@nyu.edu
Phone: 212-998-8486
Office: Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, Room 821
Research/Interest: Bioorganic Chemistry, Biomimetic Chemistry, Protein Conformation and Dynamics, Macromolecular Design
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Associate Professor of Chemistry
Email: lkmahal@nyu.edu
Phone: 212-998-3533
Office: Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, Room 823
Research/Interest: Chemical Biology, Glycomics, Molecular Recognition, Organic Chemistry.
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Professor of Chemistry
Email: schlick@nyu.edu
Phone: 212-998-3596
Office: Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, Room 1021
Research/Interest: Molecular mechanics and dynamics, computational and structural biology, DNA supercoiling, RNA structure and genomics, and DNA/protein interactions. Biomolecular Modeling, Computational Biology Courses
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Margaret and Herman Sokol Professor of Chemistry;
Email: ned.seeman@nyu.edu
Phone: 212-998-8395
Office: Waverly Building, 24 Waverly Place, Room 1066
Research/Interest: DNA Nanotechnology, Macromolecular Design and Topology, Biophysical Chemistry of Recombinational Intermediates, DNA-Based Computation, and Crystallography
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Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Email: traaseth@nyu.edu
Phone: 212-992-9784
Office: Brown Building, 29 Washington Place, Room 660
Research/Interest: NMR Spectroscopy, Physical Chemistry, Chemical Biology, Biophysics, Structural Biology
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Professor of Chemistry
Email: mark.tuckerman@nyu.edu
Phone: 212-998-8471
Office: Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, Room 1001L
Research/Interest: Theoretical chemistry: ab initio molecular dynamic simulations and statistical mechanics
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Associate Professor of Chemistry
Email: marc.walters@nyu.edu
Phone: 212-998-8477
Office: Brown Building, 29 Washington Place, Room 556
Research/Interest: Bioinorganic chemistry; study of redox potentials in electron transfer proteins; noncovalent influence on the modulation of the redox potentials
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Professor of Chemistry
Department Chair; Director, Molecular Design Institute; Editor, Chemistry of Materials
Email: mdw3@nyu.edu
Phone: 212-998-8439 (Faculty Office); 212-998-8396 (Chairperson Office)
Office: Brown Building, 29 Washington Place, Room 554 (Faculty Office); Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, Room 1001G (Chairperson Office)
Research/Interest: Materials and solid-state chemistry, supramolecular chemistry and self-assembly, interfacial chemistry, crystallization, atomic force microscopy, electrochemistry
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Director of Graduate Studies; Professor of Chemistry
Email: marcus.weck@nyu.edu
Phone: 212-992-7968
Office: Brown Building, 29 Washington Place, Room 554
Research/Interest: Organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, and materials science
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Margaret and Herman Sokol Professor of Medicinal Chemistry; Professor of Chemistry
Email: kwoerpel@nyu.edu
Phone: 212-998-8772
Office: Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, Room 825
Research/Interest: Organic chemistry, organic synthesis
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Professor of Chemistry
Email: john.zhang@nyu.edu
Phone: 212-998-8412
Office: Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, Room 1001O
Research/Interest: Computational study of protein’s structure and interaction dynamics.
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Associate Professor of Chemistry
Email: yingkai.zhang@nyu.edu
Phone: 212-998-7882
Office: Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, Room 1001N
Research/Interest: Theoretical and Computational Chemistry: combined ab initio quantum mechanical and molecular mechanical methods, computer simulations, with applications to chemical reactions and molecular recognitions in biological systems.