The department of Chemistry at McMaster is a vibrant place to study and do research in the chemical sciences. The quality of our faculty, the quality of our facilities and the strong links between our department and other departments and programs means that McMaster Chemistry is one of the best departments in Canada to do productive research and gain hands-on access to modern instrumentation.

List of Research Active Faculty

• Adronov, Alex
  (Synthesis of novel polymer architectures; carbon nanotube functionalization; supramolecular polymer chemistry)
• Ayers, Paul W.
  (Density functional theory; computational modeling of enzymes)
• Barbier, Jacques
  (Structural chemistry of inorganic oxides; crystallography)
• Berti, Paul J.
  (Transition-state analysis in biochemical systems; enzyme mechanisms)
• Brennan, John D.
• (Bioanalytical chemistry; fluorescence spectroscopy; biosensors)
• Britz-McKibbin, Philip
• (Bioanalytical chemistry; separation science; metabolomics; cellulomics)
• Brook, Michael A.
  (Organosilicon chemistry; polymer chemistry)
• Capretta, Fred
  (Phospha-adamantanes in organopalladium cross-coupling reactions; carbenoid-based synthesis; synthesis of bioactive compounds)
• Dumont, Randall S.
  (Quantum and semiclassical molecular dynamics; simulation of NMR spectra)
• Emslie, David
  (Inorganic chemistry; molecular synthesis; redox chemistry; ligand design; reactivity studies)
• Goward, Gillian R.
  (Solid-state NMR spectroscopy; electrochemical materials)
• Hitchcock, Adam P.
  (Electron impact and synchrotron spectroscopies; X-ray microscopy)
• Harrison, Paul H.M.
  (Bioorganic chemistry; biosynthetic processes; biomimetics )
• Kruse, Peter
  (Surface chemistry; scanning probe microscopy)
• Leigh, William J.
  (Photochemistry; group 14 reactive intermediates)
• Li, Yingfu
  (Creation and engineering of DNA enzymes; DNA-based biosensors)
• McCarry, Brian E.
  (Environmental chemistry; trace analysis; metabolomics)
• McNulty, James
  (Synthesis; organophosphine chemistry; anticancer drugs; chemical biology; natural product isolations)
• Melacini, Giuseppe
  (Biological NMR; protein structure & dynamics; biomolecular interactions; structural genomics)
• Mozharivskyj, Yurij
  (Magnetocaloric phases: thermoelectric phases; temp. sensors and ferromagnetic shape memory alloys; medium band gap semiconductors)
• Saravanamuttu, Kalai
  (Sol-gel chemistry; self-assembly; photonics and photo-induced transformations)
• Schrobilgen, Gary J.
  (Flourine, noble gas, main group and transition metal chemistry; radiochemistry)
• Stöver, Harald D.H.
  (Functional polymers; colloids and microspheres)
• Terlouw, Johann K.
  (Mass spectrometry; gas-phase ion chemistry)
• Vargas-Baca, Ignacio
  (Heavy main group elements; nonlinear optical properties)
• Valliant, John F.
  (Medicinal inorganic and radiopharmaceutical chemistry )

Active Professors Emeritus

• Bader, Richard F.W.
• Bain, Alexander D.
• Bell, Russell A.
• Gillespie, Ronald J.
• Greedan, John E.
• Hileman, O. Edwin
• Spenser, Ian D.
• Tomlinson, Richard H.
• Warkentin, John
• Werstiuk, Nick