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 Alex Adronov, B.Sc. (McMaster), Ph.D. (Berkeley) Associate Professor, Associate Chair (Graduate Studies) Polymer Chemistry, Molecular Architecture, Nanostructured Materials Paul W. Ayers, B.Sc. (Lipscomb), Ph.D. (UNC Chapel Hill) Density functional theory; computational modeling of enzymes Paul J. Berti, B.Sc. (Waterloo), M.Sc. (Ottawa), Ph.D. (McGill) Enzyme Mechanisms and Inhibition, Antimicrobial Research John D. Brennan, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. (Toronto) Bioanalytical Chemistry and High Throughput Screening Philip Britz-McKibbin, B.Sc. (Toronto), Ph.D. (British Columbia) Bioanalytical chemistry; separation science; metabolomics; cellulomics Michael A. Brook, B.Sc. (Toronto) , Ph.D. ( McGill ) Silicon-based Biomaterials Fred Capretta, B.Sc., Ph.D. (McMaster) Organic synthesis and medicinal chemistry, parallel synthesis Randy Dumont, B.Sc.(Western), Ph.D. (Toronto) Theory of Molecular Dynamics and Simulation of NMR Spectra David Emslie, B.Sc., Ph.D (U of Bristol) Inorganic Chemistry, Molecular Synthesis, Redox Chemistry, Ligand Design, Reactivity Studies Gillian Goward, B.Sc. (McMaster), Ph.D. (Waterloo) Solid State NMR Methods, Materials Research for Electrochemical Power Sources Paul H.M. Harrison, B.A.Hons.(Chem.) (Oxford), Ph.D. (Alberta), M.C.I.C. Bioorganic chemistry; biosynthetic processes; biomimetics Adam P. Hitchcock, B.Sc. (McMaster), Ph.D. (British Columbia), F.C.I.C. Electron impact and synchrotron spectroscopies; X-ray microscopy of proteins Peter Kruse, Dipl.Chem.(Friedrich Schiller), Ph.D. (U. of California San Diego) Surface Chemistry William Leigh, Professor Photochemistry, Reactive Intermediates and Reactions in Organized Media Yingfu Li, B.Sc. (Anhui), M.Sc. (Beijing), Ph.D. (Simon Fraser) Structural Biology and Protein/Nucleic Acid Structure/Protein Nathan Magarvey Nathan A. Magarvey, B.Sc., Ph.D. (Minnesota) Natural product chemical biology and drug discovery. Brian E. McCarry, B.Sc. (British Columbia), Ph.D. (Stanford), F.C.I.C. Environmental chemistry; trace analysis; metabolomics James McNulty, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. (Toronto) Synthesis; organophosphine chemistry; anticancer drugs; natural product isolation Giuseppe Melacini, B.Sc. (Milan), Ph.D. (Milan/U. California San Diego) Biological NMR, protein structure & dynamics, biomolecular interactions, structural genomics Jose Moran-Mirabal, M.Sc.(ITESM, Mexico), Ph.D. (Cornell Univ., USA) Biomaterial pattern design and fabrication, Single Molecule Fluorescence Microscopy and Spectroscopy, Micro and Nanofabrication Yurij Mozharivshkyj, B.Sc., M.Sc.(Lviv Sate) Ph.D. (Iowa State) Solid State Chemistry of Responsive Materials Kalai Saravanamuttu, B.Sc. (McGill), Ph.D. (McGill) Sol-gel Materials Chemistry, Fundamental Studies and Applications in Photonics Gary Schrobilgen, B.Sc.(Loras College), M.Sc (Brock), Ph.D. (McMaster) Synthetic and Structure Main-Group Inorganic Chemistry Harald Stover, B.Sc.(Darmstadt), Ph.D. (Ottawa) Macromolecular Chemistry: Basic and Applied John F. Valliant, B.Sc., Ph.D. (McMaster) Medicinal inorganic and radiopharmaceutical chemistry Ignacio Vargas-Baca, B.Sc, M.Sc (UNAM), Ph.D. (Calgary) Inorganic and Materials Chemistry: Main-group Elements, Nonlinear Optics, Supramolecular Self-assembly