Regular Faculty
Emmanuelle Despagnet-Ayoub, Chair
Professor, Chemistry
B.S., Ecole Normale Superieure; M.S., Ph.D., Paul Sabatier University
Emanuelle Despagnet-Ayoub’s research interests lie in the development of transition-metal complexes for energy storage and polymerization; the photochemistry of aromatic compounds; and the activation of small molecules via electrochemical processes. Read her Oxy Story profile.
Jeffrey Cannon
Associate Professor, Chemistry
B.A. Occidental College; Ph.D. University of California, Irvine
Jeff Cannon teaches Organic Chemistry and does research in organic synthesis and catalysis.
Chris Craney
Professor, Chemistry
B.S., University of Puget Sound; M.S., D.A., Washington State University
Chris Craney teaches physical chemistry I (kinetics) and biochemistry.
Michael Hill
Fletcher Jones Foundation Professor of Chemistry
B.A., Macalester College; Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Professor Hill teaches general chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and organometallic chemistry.
Professor Hill’s Google-Scholar profile is linked here.
Raul Navarro
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
B.S., Yale University; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Raul Navarro’s research focus lies in developing new transition metal-catalyzed reactions and applying them in the synthesis of biologically active natural products.
Eileen Spain
Carl F. Braun Professor of Chemistry
B.S., Sonoma State University; Ph.D., University of Utah
Eileen Spain teaches physical chemistry II (quantum mechanics and spectroscopy) and nanochemistry.
Andrew K. Udit
John Stauffer Professor of Chemistry
H.B.Sc., University of Toronto; Ph.D., Caltech
Andrew Udit’s research in Chemical Biology focuses on perturbing coagulation with virus nanoparticles, and catalysis using enzymes.
Non-Tenure Track Faculty
Sevada Chamras
Visiting Assistant Professor, Chemistry
B.S., University of California, Los Angeles; P.h.D, University of California, Santa Barbara
Douglas Duquette
Resident Associate Professor, Chemistry
B.A., M.A., Harvard University; Ph.D., Caltech
Natalie Muren
Visiting Assistant Professor, Chemistry
B.A., Willamette University; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Sarah Murphy
Visiting Instructor, Chemistry
B.A., Pomona College; M.S., California Institute of Technology; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology (in progress)
John Phillips
Visiting Assistant Professor, Chemistry
B.S., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Weidong Wang
Instrumentation Facilities Manager, Chemistry
B.S., from Jilin University; Ph.D., Rochester University
Emeriti/ae Faculty
Carl F. Braun Professor, Chemistry, Kinesiology, Emeritus (1981-2015)
Biochemistry
Deardorff taught organic chemistry and organic synthesis at Oxy.
Fletcher Jones Professor, Chemistry, Emerita (1993-2014)
Biochemistry
Dea taught instrumental chemistry at Oxy.