Faculty and Staff

Department of Chemistry Faculty & Staff

Welcome to the Chemistry Department's Faculty & Staff Directory

The Department's Main Office is located in Science S506 (5th Floor of the Science Building).

Our current Department Chair is Dr. Jason D. Masuda and our Department Secretary is Mrs. Mary Jane MacNeil.

For general inquiries, our email address is chemistry@smu.ca and our phone number is 902.420.5660

 

Faculty

 

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Jason D. Masuda

Chemistry
Chair, Professor
Phone: 902.420.5077
Office: Science S535
Email: jason.masuda@smu.ca


Research Interests: Inorganic Chemistry
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Christa L. Brosseau

Chemistry
Professor
CRC-Tier II (Sustainable Chemistry & Materials)
Phone: 902.496.8175
Office: Science S508
Email: christa.brosseau@smu.ca


Research Interests: Analytical Chemistry; Interfacial Electrochemistry; Surface Vibrational Spectroscopy
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Jason A. C. Clyburne

Chemistry
Professor
Phone: 902.420.5827
Office: Science S208
Email: jason.clyburne@smu.ca


Research Interests: Green Chemistry; Catalysis and Green Chemistry; Solids and liquids for reversible gas absorption (CO2); Ionic liquids, polymers, and gels for separations; Materials chemistry; Synthetic main group chemistry; Chemistry of the hydrogen atom
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Marc M. Lamoureux

Chemistry
Associate Professor
Phone: 902.420.5652
Office: Science S502
Email: marc.lamoureux@smu.ca


Research Interests: Chemical speciation of environmental solids; analytical spectroscopy; x-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy; method development for direct sampling and analysis of solids
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Cory C. Pye

Chemistry
Associate Professor
Phone: 902.420.5654
Office: Science S218
Email: cory.pye@smu.ca


Research Interests: ab initio and density functional theory; solvation effects; hydration
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Mary A. W. Sheppard

Senior Lecturer
Phone: 902.491.6470
Office: Science S231
Email: mary.sheppard@smu.ca


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Robert D. Singer

Chemistry
Professor
Phone: 902.496.8189
Office: Science S522
Email: robert.singer@smu.ca


Research Interests: Organic Chemistry; New Methodologies in Synthesis; Catalysis in Ionic Liquids; Biomass Processing in Ionic Liquids; Ionic MOFs; Green Chemistry; Ionic Liquids as Reaction Media Related to Organometallic Methodology.
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Clarissa Sit

Chemistry
Associate Professor
Phone: 902.420.5655
Office: Science S517
Email: clarissa.sit@smu.ca


Research Interests: Organic Chemistry; Biochemistry

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Danielle Tokarz

Chemistry
Associate Professor
Phone: 902.491.6573
Office: Science S510
Email: danielle.tokarz@smu.ca


Research Interests: Physical/Analytical Chemistry
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Kai E. O. Yllijoki

Chemistry
Associate Professor
Phone: 902.491.6527
Office: Science S514
Email: kai.ylijoki@smu.ca


Research Interests: Organic Chemistry
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Emeritus Faculty

 

John C. O'.C. Young

Chemistry
Professor Emeritus
Phone: 902.420.5657
Office: Science S209
Email: john.young@smu.ca


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Part-Time Faculty

 

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Richard Cisek

Chemistry; Astronomy & Physics
Part-time Instructor
Tokarz Research Group Associate
Phone: 902.420.5018
Office: Science S511
Email: richard.cisek@smu.ca


Ivan Hemeon

Chemistry
Part-time Instructor
Office: TBA
Email: ivan.hemeon@smu.ca


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Adjunct Professors

 

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Chérif F. Matta

Chemistry
Adjunct Professor
Phone: 902.457.6245
Email: Cherif.Matta@msvu.ca


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Ian Pottie

Chemistry
Adjunct Professor
Phone: 902.457.6245
Email: Ian.Pottie@msvu.ca


Research Interests: Natural product synthesis, asymmetric synthesis, Henry reaction, Diels-Alder reaction, Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis
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Staff

 

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Najwan Albarghouthi

Chemistry
Lab Technician
Phone: 902.496.8195
Office: Science Building S236
Email: najwan.albarghouthi@smu.ca


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Patricia Granados

Chemistry
CEAR Lab Technician
Phone: 902.420.5135
Office: Science S505
Email: patricia.granados@smu.ca


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Bitu Hurisso

Chemistry
Lab Technician
Phone: 902.420.5634
Office: Science Building S505
Email: bitu.hurisso@smu.ca


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Elizabeth McLeod

Chemistry
Lab Technician
Phone: 902.420.5182
Office: Science S236
Email: elizabeth.mcleod@smu.ca


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Mary Jane MacNeil

Secretary
Phone: 902.491.3321
Office: Science S506
Email: maryjane.macneil@smu.ca


Faculty of Science
Department of Chemistry
chemistry@smu.ca
902-420-5660
Mailing address:
923 Robie Street
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3H 3C3, Canada
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