Office of Undergraduate Research

Chemistry and Biochemistry

Faculty Mentors

Paul Bernazzani, Ph.D.

Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry

Email: paul.bernazzani@car4part.com 

Research interests:

  • Materials
  • Polymer physics
  • Environmental
  • Biophysics

Appropriate majors: 

  • Any science or engineering

Perumalreddy Chandrasekaran, Ph.D.

Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry

Email: pchandraseka@car4part.com

Research interests:

  • Inorganic
  • Solar cells
  • Energy 

Appropriate majors: 

  • Any science or engineering  

Ozge Gunaydin-Sen, Ph.D.

Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry

Email: osen@car4part.com 

Research interests:

  • Physical chemistry
  • Spectroscopy

Appropriate majors:

  • Any science or engineering  

Sunny Lei, Ph.D.

Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry

Email: xlei@car4part.com

Research interests: 

  • Organic chemistry
  • Energy storage

Appropriate majors: 

  • Any science or engineering  

Thi Thuy Minh Nguyen, Ph.D.

Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry

Email: christopher.martin@car4part.com 

Research interests:

  • Photochemistry
  • Computational

Appropriate majors: 

  • Any science or engineering  

Shyam S. Shukla, Ph.D.

Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry

Email: shyam.shukla@car4part.com 

Research interests:

  • Environmental heavy metal removal/remediation 

Appropriate majors:

  • Any science or engineering  

Maxim V. Soukhodolets, Ph.D.

Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry

Email: msoukhodol@car4part.com 

Research interests:

  • Protein structural analysis biochemistry 

Appropriate majors: 

  • Any science or engineering  

Sylvestre Twagirayezu, Ph.D.

Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry

Email: stwagirayezu@car4part.com

Research interests:

  • High-resolution spectroscopy as a tool for studying petroleum process
  • Chemical dynamics and atmospheric chemistry
  • Computational chemistry
  • Development and application of highly sensitive experiments

Appropriate majors:

  • Chemical and physical sciences

Suying Wei, Ph.D.

Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry

Email: suying.wei@car4part.com

Research interests: 

  • Materials  

Appropriate majors:

  • Any science or engineering