Faculty and Staff

Chemistry department faculty and staff pose for a group photo outside the Chemsitry building

Faculty

Shivani Ahuja

Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Email | Website | Office: 414 | 503-517-5420

Structural biochemistry, application of biophysical and biochemical techniques to study metal acquisition, virulence and inhibition of bacterial Mn(II) transporters.

Miriam Bowring

Margret Geselbracht Associate Professor of Chemistry
Email | Website | Office: 309 | 503-517-5294

Synthetic and physical organometallic chemistry, catalysis, and mechanisms.
Chemistry Department Chair 2023-25

Gonzalo Campillo-Alvarado

Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Email | Website | Office: 408 | (503) 517-7469

Organic and materials chemistry; designing functionality into crystalline solids (e.g., electronics, pharmaceutics, separation, photoactive materials) through noncovalent interactions, crystal engineering and X-ray crystallography.

Danielle Cass

Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Email | Office: 410 | 503-517-4618

Analytical biochemistry and metal analysis of environmental samples.

Kelly N. Chacón

Arthur F. Scott Associate Professor of Chemistry
Email | Office: 421 | 503-777-7218

Metallobiochemistry, x-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS), electronic absorption, and fluorescence spectroscopy of metal sites in proteins.

Thomas Dannenhoffer-Lafage

Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Email | Office: 412 | 503 517-4772

Biophysics of intrinsically disordered proteins using molecular dynamics simulations.

Safaa El-Mansy

Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Email | Office: 210 | 503-517-4801

Chemistry education research, exploring innovations in course and pedagogical design.

Daniel P. Gerrity

Professor of Chemistry
Email | Office: 316 | 503-777-7212

Physical chemistry - experimental physical chemistry, application of laser spectroscopy to the study of chemical dynamics and molecular electronic structures.

Lynne Gratz

Associate Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Studies
Email | Office: 314 | 503-517-4741

Atmospheric environmental science, mercury and other trace element pollutant sources and transport pathways.

Nicole James

Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Email | Website | Office: 313 | 503-777-7228

Chemistry education research. Chemistry knowledge activation in interdisciplinary contexts.
On Sabbatical Fall 2024-Spring 2025

Brianna Jett

Postdoctoral Scholar in Residence
Email | Office: 103 | 503-517-4120

Organic chemistry, energy and environmental chemistry, mechanistic organic and organometallic chemistry, organoelectrochemistry.

Alicia Frost McGhee

Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Email | Office: 318 | 503-517-7364

Organic chemistry, chemical education and methodology.

Bobby O'Brien

Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Email | Office: 420 | 503-517-4787

Natural product synthesis.

Emeritus Faculty

Arthur Glasfeld

Biochemistry - structural biochemistry and enzymatic catalysis.

Patrick G. McDougal

Organic chemistry - organic synthesis, bioorganic chemistry.

Alan J. Shusterman

Email | Website | Office: Kelly House | 503-517-7699

Organic chemistry - molecular modeling & computational chemistry, green chemistry & green oxidation catalysts.

Staff

Summer Hawthorne

Instrumentation Chemist
Email | Office: 209A | 503-517 7916

Randy Hicks

Laboratory and Department Manager
Email | Office: 212A | 503-777-7213

Keiki Miller

Research Assistant, Chemistry
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Jane Ni

Department Associate
Email | Office: 208 | 503-777-7264

Patrick Poletti

Department Associate
Email | Office: 308B | 503-517-4965

April Sams

Director of Environmental Health and Safety
Email | Office: Physical Plant | 503-777-7788

Mack Swiecki

Research Assistant, Chemistry
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Elizabeth Vaughan

Postdoctoral Researcher
Email | Office: 313A | 503-517-5444