Chemistry Department Experts

To reach these experts, please contact Associate Director of Communications and Media Relations Kristen Magda at 508-565-1628;kmagda@stonehill.eduor Director of Communications Martin McGovern at 508-565-1070;mmcgovern@stonehill.edu.

Louis J. Liotta

Chemistry Department Chair/Professor of Chemistry (Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry)

Areas of expertise: Organic chemistry; Bio-organic chemistry; Biochemistry.

Maria Curtin

Professor of Chemistry (Analytical and Physical Inorganic Chemistry) (Sabbatical Spring 2011)

Areas of expertise: Chemistry; Industrial research; Aluminum salts used in antiperspirants; Oxidation-reduction reactions for chemical heating and disinfection.

Marilena Hall

Associate Professor of Chemistry (Biochemistry and Bioinorganic Chemistry)

Areas of expertise: Bioinorganic chemistry, particularly in the study and modeling of metal-containing enzyme active sites.

Leon J. Tilley

Associate Professor of Chemistry (Organic and Inorganic Chemistry) (Sabbatical Fall 2010)

Areas of expertise: Conductometric rate-constant; Isotope effect; NMR product studies of gamma- and delta-silyl substituted carbocations; Software design for a bipolar pulsed conductance instrument; Mechanistic studies of gamma-silyl-bridged alpha-trifluoromethyl carbocations; Synthetic applications of silyl-bridged systems; New methods for the oxidation of trifluoromethyl alcohols; Synthesis of a number of small polyhedral systems including tetrahedrane and octaazadodecahedrane.

Mario G. García-Ríos

Assistant Professor of Chemistry (Biochemistry)

Areas of expertise: Recombinant DNA; Genetic Engineering; Food Chemistry; Molecular Systems Biology.

Magdalena James-Pederson

Assistant Professor of Chemistry (Biochemistry and Genetics)

Areas of expertise: Chromosomal proteins in Drosophila melanogaster; Transcriptional regulation of the rabbit alpha- and beta-globin genes.

Cheryl S. Schnitzer

Assistant Professor of Chemistry (Physical and Environmental Chemistry) (Sabbatical Fall 2011)

Areas of expertise: Frequency generation of water on inorganic acid and salt solutions; Temporal and seasonal trends of anions in wet precipitation.

Pamela Lombardi

Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Areas of expertise: Olefin metathesis; Ru-catalyzed enantioselective olefin metathesis.

Sarah Sparks

Faculty Fellow in Chemistry

Areas of expertise: Design, synthesis, and utility of functionalized nanscale amphiphilic macromolecules for biomedical applications.