Chemistry Graduate Program in the College of Science

Faculty in the Chemistry Graduate Program
Advisors for the College

Chemistry Graduate Program

Feri Billiot, Ph.D.

Professor and Program Coordinator

Office: CS 207
Phone: (361) 825-6067
Email: fereshteh.billiot@tamucc.edu

Chiral separations with amino acid based surfactants; distribution, fate & effect of endocrine disruptors in the environment

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Faculty in the Chemistry Graduate Program

Hussain Abdulla, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Chemistry

Office: CS 211
Phone: (361) 825-6050
Email: hussain.abdulla@tamucc.edu

Focusing on four research areas of Organic Biogeochemistry: Environmental metabolomics; Fate of terrestrial dissolved organic matter; Effects of natural organic matter in the solubility of anthropogenic pollutants and Chemical characterization of trace metals organic ligands.

Eugene Billiot, Ph.D.

Professor of Chemistry

Office: CS 208
Phone: (361) 825-2680
Email: eugene.billiot@tamucc.edu

Understanding chiral separations with amino acid based surfactants.

Richard Coffin, Ph.D.

PENS Chair & Professor

Office: NRC 3500
Phone: (361) 825-2814
Email: richard.coffin@tamucc.edu
Website: http://icl.tamucc.edu

Carbon isotope geochemistry to study biogeochemical cycles in the coastal ocean and estuaries.

Joseph David Felix, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Environmental Chemistry and CMSS Program Coordinator

Office: NRC 3202
Phone: (361) 825-4180
Email: joseph.felix@tamucc.edu
Website: http://felixlab.tamucc.edu

Stable isotope biogeochemistry; Transport, fate, and air-sea-land exchange processes of volatile organic compounds and reactive nitrogen; Bulk and compound-specific stable isotope analysis method development

Xinping Hu, Ph.D.

Professor of Chemistry and Endowed Chair for Ecosystem Science and Modeling

Office: HRI 209
Phone: (361) 825-3395
Email: xinping.hu@tamucc.edu
Website: http://hulab.tamucc.edu

Oceanic carbon cycle; Ocean acidification; Sediment early diagenesis; Carbonate geochemistry; Stable isotope biogeochemistry

Iltai (Isaac) Kim, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Engineering

Office: RFEB 318
Phone: (361) 825-2734
Email: ikim@tamucc.edu
Website: https://www.tamucc.edu/science/research/nse/professor.php

Nano/bio chemical sensing, micro/nanoscale fluidics and heat transport, and energy conversion based on nano-biophotonics

Patrick Larkin, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Chemistry

Office: CS 203
Phone: (361) 825-3258
Email: patrick.larkin@tamucc.edu

Plant biochemistry and genetics; fate and metabolism of nutrients and toxins, diversity and dispersal, conservation.

Ruby Mehrubeoglu, Ph.D.

Professor of Engineering

Office: RFEB 222D
Phone: (361) 825-3378
Email: ruby.mehrubeoglu@tamucc.edu

Hyperspectral imaging and image analysis of a variety of materials, material characterization through spectral signatures and spatial distributions, and thermal imaging and visible-range digital image classification

Dorina Murgulet, Ph.D.

CMSS Program Coordinator and Professor of Hydrogeology

Office: NRC 3103
Phone: (361) 825-2309
Email: dorina.murgulet@tamucc.edu
Website: https://artesian.tamucc.edu/index.html

Physical and Contaminant Hydrogeology; Hydrology and Water Resources; Groundwater/surface water interactions; Coastal hydrogeology.

Mark Olson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Chemistry

Office: CS 206
Phone: (361) 825-2857
Email: mark.olson@tamucc.edu
Website: http://www.olsonlaboratory.com

Felix Omoruyi, Ph.D.

Professor of Clinical Laboratory Science

Office: TH 238
Phone: (361) 825-2473
Email: felix.omoruyi@tamucc.edu

Currently, research in my laboratory is centered on the biochemical changes in the red blood cell membrane and serum in fairly and poorly controlled diabetic patients relative to healthy control.

Ioana Pavel, Ph.D.

Professor of Chemistry

Office: TH 235
Phone: (361) 825-3824
Email: ioana.pavel@tamucc.edu
Website: https://www.pavellab.com

Our team is dedicated to finding interdisciplinary solutions to address Public Health challenges, with a focus on Human Health and Environmental Health.

Frauke Seemann, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Marine Biomedical Science

Office: TH 332
Phone: (361) 825-2683
Email: frauke.seemann@tamucc.edu

Jim Silliman, Ph.D.

Professor of Chemistry

Office: NRC 3510
Phone: (361) 825-3718
Email: james.silliman@tamucc.edu

Organic geochemistry: Climate and environmental change and Differences in organic geochemical practices

Jeffrey Turner, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Marine Biology

Office: TH 240
Phone: (361) 825-6206
Email: jeffrey.turner@tamucc.edu
Website: https://turnerlab.tamucc.edu

Microbial Ecology, Molecular Biology, Population Genetics, Evolution, Genomics, Metagenomics, connections between oceans and human health

Wei Xu, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Marine Biomedical Science

Office: TH 339
Phone: (361) 825-2676
Email: wei.xu@tamucc.edu
Website: https://www.tamucc.edu/science/research/leh/wei-xu.php

Lin Zhang, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Marine Chemistry

Office: HRI 104
Phone: (361) 825-2095
Email: lin.zhang@tamucc.edu
Website: http://zhanglab.tamucc.edu

Compound/Position Specific Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopic Analysis in Amino Acids and Application in Oceanography and Ecology. Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry of Greenhouse Gases in Alaskan Peatlands.

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