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Geoffrey Smith


Brandon Rotavera


Suzanne Ellenberger


Steven E. Wheeler

Steven graduated from [New College of Florida] in 2002 with a B.A. in Chemistry and Physics and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Georgia in 2006. He was an NIH Postdoc in Ken Houk's group at UCLA before joining the faculty at Texas A&M in August, 2010. He moved to the University of Georgia in January, 2017, where he spends most of his time thinking deeply about using a non-artificial neural network to understand stacking interactions…


Timothy Dore

Timothy Dore’s scientific interests lie at the interface of chemistry and biology, creating new technology to study complex biological systems, especially the brain. After graduate work in synthetic organic chemistry in Paul Wender's laboratory at Stanford University, he completed postdoctoral training in Roger Tsien's laboratory at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of California, San Diego. He began his independent career…


Robert Scott

With a BS from the University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign, a PhD from Caltech, and a postdoctoral stint at Stanford University, I started my faculty career back in Urbana-Champaign before coming to the University of Georgia in 1987. I pursued a productive research program while moving up the administrative ladder, acting as Department Head (1996 – 2003), then Associate Vice President for Research (2007 – 2016). Now back in Chemistry, I am…


Melanie Reber


Harshani Rathnaweera


Y. George Zheng


Eric Ferreira

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