2012 Research Advisors
Analytical Division

Professor	Research Topics	Current Undergraduates Enrolled in Chemistry 49900
R. Graham Cooks^* (cooks@purdue.edu)	I. Miniature Mass Spectrometers II. Physical Organic Chemistry in the Gas Phase	Benjamin Andrews Morgan Lundstrom
Hilkka Kenttamaa (hilkka@purdue.edu)	I. Studies of Organic Biradicals II. Mass Spectrometry III. Biofuels	Adam Cismesia Sara Kim
Chengde Mao (mao@purdue.edu)	Functional DNA Nanotechnology
Scott A. McLuckey (mcluckey@purdue.edu)	I. Chemistry of Isolated Polymer Ions II. Bio-Ion Chemistry
Greg Michalski (gmichalski@purdue.edu)	I. Environmental Chemistry; Air Pollution & Water Pollution II. Analytical Chemistry; Mass Spectrometry	Nicholas Claypool Michelle Kolanowski Brian Price Noah Qu
Paul Shepson^* (pshepson@purdue.edu)	I. Measurements of Greenhouse Gas Emission in Indianapolis II. Laboratory Studies of Photochemistry of Biogenic Hydrocarbons	Cyrus Baker Eric Boone
Garth Simpson (gsimpson@purdue.edu)	Non-Linear Optics	Richard Closser
Nikolai R. Skrynnikov (nikolai@purdue.edu)	Computer Modeling of Proteins in Conjunction with NMR Characterization	Nathan Benjamin
W. Andy Tao (watao@purdue.edu)	I. Nanopolymers for Functional Proteomics II. Biological Mass Spectrometry
Mary Wirth (mwirth@purdue.edu)		Dean Anderson Ryan Farrell Yang Liu Kurtis Sluss
Yu Xia (yxia@purdue.edu)	I. Biomolecules Ion/Radical Reactions II. Structural Analysis of Glycans via Mass Spec.

^*These faculty members are willing to take students in other majors such as math or computer science.

Updated 8/24/12