Faculty and Staff

Chemistry
Associate Professor, Chair
Phone: 902.420.5655
Office: Science S518
Email: clarissa.sit@smu.ca

Research Interests: Organic Chemistry; Biochemistry

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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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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Chemistry
Assistant Professor
Phone: 902.420.5663
Office: Science S216
Email: jane.ferguson@smu.ca

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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Chemistry
Professor
Acting Associate Dean of Science–Student Affairs
Phone: 902.420.5077
Office: Science S535
Email: jason.masuda@smu.ca

Research Interests: Inorganic Chemistry
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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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Senior Lecturer
Phone: 902.491.6470
Office: Science S231
Email: mary.sheppard@smu.ca
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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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Chemistry
Associate Professor
Phone: 902.491.6573
Office: Science S510
Email: danielle.tokarz@smu.ca

Research Interests: Physical/Analytical Chemistry
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Chemistry
Associate Professor
Phone: 902.491.6527
Office: Science S514
Email: kai.ylijoki@smu.ca

Research Interests: Organic Chemistry
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Chemistry
Professor Emeritus
Phone: 902.420.5657 or 902.423.1722
Office: Science S209
Email: john.young@smu.ca
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Chemistry; Astronomy & Physics
Part-time Instructor
Tokarz Research Group Associate
Phone: 902.420.5018
Office: Science S511
Email: richard.cisek@smu.ca

Chemistry
Part-time Instructor
Office: TBA
Email: ivan.hemeon@smu.ca
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Chemistry
Term/Sessional Professor
Phone: 902.491.3308
Office: Science S237
Email: christopher.frazee@smu.ca

Chemistry
Adjunct Professor
Phone: 902.667.1974
Email: dgamble@ns.sympatico.ca

Research Interests: Predictive chemical calculations for hydrophobic molecules and metal ions in complicated irregular mixtures
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Chemistry
Adjunct Professor
Phone: 902.457.6245
Email: Cherif.Matta@msvu.ca
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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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Chemistry
Adjunct Professor
Clyburne Research Group
Phone: 902.420.5177
Office: Science S206
Email: katherine.robertson@smu.ca

Research Interests: X-ray Crystallography, Intermolecular interactions in the solid state

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

Chemistry
CEAR Lab Technician
Phone: 902.420.5135
Office: Science S505
Email: patricia.granados@smu.ca
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Chemistry
Lab Technician
Phone: 902.420.5634
Office: Science Building S505
Email: bitu.hurisso@smu.ca

Chemistry
Lab Technician
Phone: 902.420.5182
Office: Science S236
Email: elizabeth.mcleod@smu.ca
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Chemistry
Secretary
Phone: 902.491.3321
Office: Science S506
Email: maryjane.macneil@smu.ca