Faculty

Professors

Name	Rank	Phone	Email	Office	Concentration
Les Butler	Professor	225-578-4416	lbutler@lsu.edu	637 Choppin Hall	Inorganic
Matthew Chambers	Assistant Professor	225-578-7900	chambers@lsu.edu	642 Choppin Hall	Inorganic
Bin Chen	Professor	225-578-4094	binchen@lsu.edu	711 Choppin Hall	Physical
Robert Cook	Professor	225-578-2980	rlcook@lsu.edu	307 Choppin Hall	Analytical
Noémie Elgrishi	Assistant Professor	225-578-6917	noemie@lsu.edu	301 CAMB	Inorganic/Analytical
Víctor García-López	Assistant Professor	225-578-7168	vglopez@lsu.edu	349 CAMB	Organic
Jayne Garno	Professor	225-578-8942	jgarno@lsu.edu	613 Choppin Hall	Analytical
Louis Haber	Associate Professor	225-578-7965	lhaber@lsu.edu	207 Choppin Hall	Physical
John Hopkins	Associate Professor	225-578-3478	chhopk@lsu.edu	127 Choppin Hall	Physical
Rendy Kartika	Associate Professor	225-578-5086	rkartika@lsu.edu	337 CAMB	Organic
Revati Kumar	Associate Professor	225-578-0907	revatik@lsu.edu	311 Choppin Hall	Physical
Daniel Kuroda	Associate Professor	225-578-1780	dkuroda@lsu.edu	327 Choppin Hall	Physical
Semin Lee	Assistant Professor	225-578-6950	seminlee@lsu.edu	237 CAMB	Organic
Kenneth Lopata	Associate Professor	225-578-2063	klopata@lsu.edu	303 Choppin Hall	Physical
Megan Macnaughtan	Associate Professor	225-578-7975	macnau@lsu.edu	437 Choppin Hall	Analytical
Andrew Maverick	Distinguished Professor	225-578-4415	maverick@lsu.edu	605 Choppin Hall	Inorganic
Robin McCarley	Alumni Professor	225-578-3239	tunnel@lsu.edu	231 CAMB	Analytical
Kermit Murray	Distinguished Professor	225-578-3417	kkmurray@lsu.edu	331 Choppin Hall	Analytical
John Pojman	Chair of Chemistry	225-578-3361 (Chair)/ 225-578-7202 (Instruction)	japojman@lsu.edu	211/232 Choppin Hall	Macromolecular
Justin Ragains	Associate Professor	225-578-3238	jragains@lsu.edu	347 CAMB	Organic
Fatima Rivas	Assistant Professor	225-578-6516	frivas@lsu.edu	431 CAMB	Organic
Mario Rivera	William A. Pryor Chair	225-578-1527	mrivera@lsu.edu	229A Choppin Hall	Analytical
Gerald Schneider	Associate Professor	225-578-5729	gjschneider@lsu.edu	331 CAMB	Macromolecular
Kevin Smith	LSU Foundation Professor	225-578-7442	kmsmith@lsu.edu	247 CAMB	Organic
David Spivak	Graduate Studies Director/Professor	225-578-2868	dspivak@lsu.edu	447 CAMB	Macromolecular
Graca Vicente	Boyd Professor	225-578-7405	vicente@lsu.edu	249 CAMB	Organic
Clifton Wagner	Assistant Professor (Fall 2022)				Inorganic
Tuo Wang	Associate Professor	225-578-3922	tuowang@lsu.edu	329 Choppin Hall	Physical
Amy Xu	Assistant Professor	225-578-3236	amyxu@lsu.edu	449 CAMB	Macromolecular
Donghui Zhang	Professor	225-578-4893	dhzhang@lsu.edu	437 CAMB	Macromolecular

Joint Professors

Name	Rank	Phone	Email	Office
Roger Laine	Joint Faculty	225-578-5691	rogerlaine@gmail.com	515 Choppin Hall
Vince Licata	Joint Faculty	225-578-5233	licata@lsu.edu	741A Life Sciences
Marcia Newcomer	Joint Faculty	225-578-7383	newcomer@lsu.edu	505 Choppin Hall

Instructors

Name	Rank	Phone	Email	Office
Elzbieta Cook	Distinguished Instructor	225-578-3574	folga@lsu.edu	131 Choppin Hall
Alfonso Davila	Distinguished Instructor	225-578-9093	adavil2@lsu.edu	319 Williams Hall
Ciera Gasery	Instructor/ Assistant Director of Graduate Studies	225-578-3564	cgaser2@lsu.edu	101 Choppin Hall
John Hogan	Senior Instructor	225-578-1525	jhogan1@lsu.edu	123 Choppin Hall
Kandace Hurst	Director of Undergraduate Labs/ Senior Instructor	225-578-2940	khurst@lsu.edu	105 Choppin Hall
Funda Kizilkaya	Senior Instructor	225-578-3649	fkizil1@lsu.edu	746 Choppin Hall
Fedra Leonik	Senior Instructor	225-578-0992	fleonik@lsu.edu	229 Choppin Hall
Tamara Nauman	Distinguished Instructor	225-578-5978	tnauman@lsu.edu	317 Williams Hall
Kresimir Rupnik	Distinguished Instructor	225-578-2945	chrupn@lsu.edu	201A Choppin Hall
Caroline Schneider	Senior Instructor	225-578-9407	cschn21@lsu.edu	116 Choppin Hall

Adjunct Professors

Name	Rank	Phone	Email	Office
Kerry Dooley	Adjunct Professor	225-578-3063	dooley@lsu.edu	262 Chemical Engineering Building
Jo Dweck	Adjunct Professor		jodweck@yahoo.com.br	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Dan Hayes	Adjunct Associate Professor	814-865-0780	djh295@psu.edu	Biomedical Engineering, Penn State
Rongying Jin	Adjunct Professor	225-578-0028	rjin@phys.lsu.edu	229-B Nicholson Hall
Ioan Negulescu	Adjunct Professor	225-578-1684	inegule@lsu.edu	232 Human Ecology
Evgueni Nesterov	Adjunct Professor	225-578-3236	een@lsu.edu	Northern Illinois University
Larry Simeral	Adjunct Professor		lsimeral@lsu.edu	Albemarle Corporation
Gloria Thomas	Adjunct Assistant Professor	225-578-5228	gloriathomas@lsu.edu	213 Hatcher Hall
Daniel Varnado	Adjunct Assistant Professor		cdvarnado@lsu.edu	Albemarle Corporation
David Vinyard	Adjunct Assistant Professor	225-578-1737	dvinyard@lsu.edu	A308 Life Sciences Annex
Grover Waldrop	Adjunct Professor	225-578-5209	gwaldro@lsu.edu	509 Choppin Hall
Qinglin Wu	Adjunct Professor	225-578-8369	wuqing@lsu.edu	107 RNR Building

Emeritus Professors

Name	Rank	Phone	Email	Office
Frank Cartledge	Emeritus Professor	225-279-8091	fcartledge@lsu.edu	602 Choppin Hall
William Daly	Emeritus Professor	225-578-3237	chdaly@lsu.edu	712 Choppin Hall
Clyde Day	Emeritus Professor
Nikolaus Fischer	Emeritus Professor
Brian Hales	Emeritus Professor	225-578-4694	bhales@lsu.edu	327 Choppin Hall
Randall Hall	Emeritus Professor		rhall@lsu.edu
Neil Kestner	Emeritus Professor	225-578-1528	kestner@lsu.edu	408 Choppin Hall
Luigi Marzilli	Emeritus Professor	225-578-0933	lmarzil@lsu.edu	634 Choppin Hall
Sean McGlynn	Emeritus Boyd Professor	225-578-3392	chspm@lsu.edu	646 Choppin Hall
Saundra McGuire	Emerita Professor	225-578-6749	smcgui1@lsu.edu	433 Choppin Hall
George Newkome	Emeritus Professor	330-972-6458	newkome@uakron.edu
Erwin Poliakoff	Emeritus Professor	225-578-2933	epoliak@lsu.edu	303 Choppin Hall
Paul Russo	Emeritus Professor		chruss@lsu.edu
Steve Soper	Emeritus Professor		chsope@lsu.edu
George Stanley	Emeritus Professor		gstanley@lsu.edu
Carol M. Taylor	Emerita Professor		cmtaylor@lsu.edu
James Traynham	Emeritus Professor
Isiah Warner	Emeritus Professor	225-578-2829	iwarner@lsu.edu	436 Choppin Hall
Steve Watkins	Emeritus Professor	225-578-3359	swatkins@lsu.edu	631 Choppin Hall

Research Professor

Name	Rank	Phone	Email	Office
Rafael Cueto	Research Assistant Professor	225-578-2059	rcueto@lsu.edu	239 Choppin Hall
Lavrent Khachatryan	Research Assistant Professor	225-578-4417	lkhach1@lsu.edu	400 Choppin Hall
Taotao Ling	Research Assistant Professor	225-578-6503	tling@lsu.edu	301B CAMB
Zakiya S. Wilson-Kennedy	Research Associate Professor	225-578-4906	zwilson@lsu.edu	124 Hatcher Hall
Huili Yao	Research Associate Professor	225-578-6418	hyao@lsu.edu	242 Choppin Hall

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