Welcome Our New Faculty

Dec 15 2011 Rommie E. Amaro


Rommie E. Amaro

Dec 15 2011

Rommie E. Amaro joins our physical chemistry division in the winter of 2012. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Amaro earned her Ph.D in Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005.

Contact: ramaro@ucsd.edu

Jul 7 2011 Neal K. Devaraj


Neal K. Devaraj

Jul 7 2011

Neal K. Devaraj joins our biochemistry division in the fall of 2011. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Devaraj earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford University in 2007.

Contact: ndevaraj@ucsd.edu

Mar 15 2011 Carlos Guerrero


Carlos Guerrero

Mar 15 2011

Carlos A. Guerrero joins our organic chemistry division in the fall of 2011. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University. Dr. Guerrero earned his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from The Scripps Research Institute in 2008.

Contact: C8guerrero@ucsd.edu

Jul 13 2010 Ross C. Walker


Ross C. Walker

Jul 13 2010

Ross Walker joins our physical chemistry division in the fall of 2010. He is also an Assistant Research Scientist at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. Dr. Walker earned his Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry in 2003 from Imperial College London.

Contact: rcw@sdsc.edu

May 18 2009 Navtej Toor


Navtej Toor

May 18 2009

Navtej Toor joins our biochemistry division in the fall of 2009. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Toor earned his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences with a specialization in RNA biochemistry in 2004 from the University of Calgary.

Contact: ntoor@ucsd.edu

May 15 2009 Francesco Paesani


Francesco Paesani

May 15 2009

Francesco Paesani joins our physical chemistry division as an assistant professor in the fall of 2009. He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Utah. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical physical chemistry from the University of Rome in 2000.

Contact: fpaesani@ucsd.edu

May 4 2009 Timothy Bertram


Timothy Bertram

May 4 2009

Timothy H. Bertram joins our physical chemistry division as an assistant professor in the fall of 2009. He is currently a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 2006.

Contact: thbertra@ucsd.edu

Jul 11 2008 John Newsam


John Newsam

Jul 11 2008

John M. Newsam joins our inorganic chemistry division as an adjunct professor in the fall of 2008. He is President and Managing Director of fqubed, Inc. Dr. Newsam received his D.Phil in chemistry from Oxford University in 1980.

Contact: jnewsam@ucsd.edu

May 29 2008 Stacey Brydges


Stacey Brydges

May 29 2008

Stacey Brydges joins our chemical education division in the fall of 2008. She is currently a Lecturer and Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University. Dr. Brydges earned her Ph.D. in Physical and Organometallic Chemistry in 2003 from McMaster University.

Contact: sbrydges@ucsd.edu

May 21 2008 Michael Galperin


Michael Galperin

May 21 2008

Michael Galperin joins our physical chemistry division in the fall of 2008. He is currently Director's Postdoctoral Fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dr. Galperin earned his Ph.D. in chemical physics with distinction in 2003 from Tel Aviv University.

Contact: migalperin@ucsd.edu

May 16 2008 Anthony D. J. Haymet


Anthony D. J. Haymet

May 16 2008

Professor Anthony D. J. Haymet joined our physical chemistry division in the winter of 2008. In addition to appointment as Professor in the Graduate Department of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, he holds administrative appointments as Vice Chancellor, Marine Sciences, Dean of the Graduate School of Marine Sciences, and Director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Contact: thaymet@ucsd.edu

May 1 2008 Nathan Gianneschi


Nathan Gianneschi

May 1 2008

Nathan Gianneschi joins our organic chemistry division in the fall of 2008. He is currently a Dow Chemical Company Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow (American Australian Association) at The Scripps Research Institute. Dr. Gianneschi earned his Ph.D. in chemistry in 2005 from Northwestern University.

Contact: ngianneschi@ucsd.edu

Dec 12 2007 Lei Wang


Lei Wang

Dec 12 2007

Lei Wang joins our biochemistry division in the fall of 2007. He also holds appointments at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and in the UCSD Division of Biological Sciences. Dr. Wang earned his Ph.D. in Bioorganic Chemistry in 2002 from the University of California, Berkeley.

Contact: lewang@ucsd.edu

Aug 10 2007 Leor Weinberger


Leor Weinberger

Aug 10 2007

Leor Weinberger joins our biochemistry division in the fall of 2007. He is currently a Lewis Thomas Fellow at Princeton University. Dr. Weinberger earned his Ph.D. in Biophysics and Computational Biology in 2004 from the University of California, Berkeley.

Contact: lsweinberger@ucsd.edu

May 7 2007 Robert Pomeroy


Robert Pomeroy

May 7 2007

Robert "Skip" Pomeroy joins our chemical education division in the fall of 2007. He is currently an associate professor at Nova Southeastern University. Dr. Pomeroy earned his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry in 1992 from the University of Arizona.

Contact: rpomeroy@ucsd.edu

Apr 16 2007 Joshua Figueroa


Joshua Figueroa

Apr 16 2007

Joshua Figueroa joins our inorganic division in the fall of 2007. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University. Dr. Figueroa earned his Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry in 2005 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Contact: jsfig@ucsd.edu

Apr 1 2007 Hector Viadiu


Hector Viadiu

Apr 1 2007

Hector Viadiu joins our biochemistry division in the winter of 2007, after serving as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Viadiu-Ilarraza earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics in 2000 from Columbia University.

Contact: viadiu@ucsd.edu

Aug 1 2006 Mike Tauber


Mike Tauber

Aug 1 2006

Mike Tauber joins our physical chemistry division in the fall of 2006. From 2003 to 2006 he was a Research Associate in the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University. Dr. Tauber obtained his B.A in Physics and Chemistry from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry with Professor Richard Mathies from the University of California, Berkeley.

Contact: mtauber@ucsd.edu

Aug 1 2006 Ulrich Muller


Ulrich Muller

Aug 1 2006

Ulrich Muller joins our biochemistry division in the fall of 2006. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Müller received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the University of Technology in Darmstadt, Germany.

Contact: ufmuller@ucsd.edu

Aug 1 2006 Arthur B. Ellis


Arthur B. Ellis

Aug 1 2006

Arthur B. Ellis, Vice Chancellor for Research, joins our inorganic division in the fall of 2006. Professor Ellis comes to us from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was Meloche-Bascom Professor, and the National Science Foundation, where he was Director of the Division of Chemistry. He received his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

Contact: abellis@ucsd.edu

Aug 1 2006 Pieter Dorrestein


Pieter Dorrestein

Aug 1 2006

Pieter Dorrestein joins our biochemistry division in the fall of 2006. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Dorestein earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Biology in 2004 from Cornell University.

Contact: pdorrest@ucsd.edu

Aug 1 2006 John Czworkwoski


John Czworkwoski

Aug 1 2006

John Czworkwoski joins our chemistry education division in the fall of 2006. From 1998 until recently, he was a Science Editor and Senior Scientist with ScienceMedia. He also served as Adjunct Professor at Miramar College. Dr. Czworkowski earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, in 1991.

Contact: jczworkowski@ucsd.edu