School of Green Chemistry and Engineering

SGCE Faculty

Faculty associated with the UToledo School for Green Chemistry and Engineering participate in interdisciplinary teaching, research and service in the development, practice and promotion of green chemistry and green engineering principles. 

SGCE faculty are listed below indicating department affiliation with links to individual research pages and contact information.

	Peter Andreana Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Focus: Chemical biology, green chemistry and synthetic chemistry
	Terry Bigioni Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Focus: Physical chemistry, nanomaterials and photovoltaics
	Maria Coleman  Professor and Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering Focus: Biopolymers, polymer processing and membranes
	Anju Gupta Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering (MIME) Focus: Development of sustainable products and thermally driven processes for water treatment, design and synthesis of mixed matrix membranes, and machine learning modeling for prediction of membranes, processes, and harmful algae blooms.
	Andrew Jorgensen Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry 2012 Fellow of the American Chemical Society Focus: Chemical education, climate change and environmental chemistry
	Dong-Shik Kim Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering Focus: In situ bioremediation, biological filtration and recombinant DNA
	Jon Kirchhoff Distinguished University Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Focus: Analytical chemistry, bioanalytical and biosensors
	Yakov Lapitsky Professor and Graduate Director, Department of Chemical Engineering Focus: Design, formation, characterization and application of polyelectrolyte-based soft materials
	Wei Li Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Focus: Organic, organometallic and medicinal chemistry
	Cora Lind-Kovacs  Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry  Focus: Inorganic, materials and x-ray crystallography
	Glenn Lipscomb Associate Director, SGCE Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering Focus: Membrane separation science and technology, separations and biofuel production
	Mark Mason Director, SGCE Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Focus: Inorganic, organometallic chemistry and green chemistry
	Patricia Relue Professor, Department of Bioengineering; Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research Focus: Production of high-value products from biomass
	Constance Schall  Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering Focus: Area of separations, particularly crystallization and precipitation processes and biofuels production
	Joseph Schmidt Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Focus: Inorganic and organometallic synthesis chemistry
	Youngwoo Seo  Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering Focus: Sustainable bioremediation and microsensors for environmental monitoring
	Steven Sucheck  Professor and Chair, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Focus: Organic and bioorganic chemistry
	L. M. Viranga Tillekeratne Associate Professor, Department of Medicinal and Biological Chemistry Focus: Organic synthesis and medicinal chemistry
	Sridhar Viamajala Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering Focus: Algal biofuels and Lignocellulose-derived biofuels
	Michael Young Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Focus: Organic, inorganic and green chemistry
	Jianglong Zhu Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Focus: Hypervalent iodine chemistry, catalytic glycosylations and carbohydrate synthesis