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New Faculty for 2011 - 2012
New CST faculty members bring the four-year tenure-track hiring total to 36, surpassing the college’s 2012 goal of 30 new research-active professors. Faculty hired this year bring expertise, impressive research and a commitment to working with Temple students in the lab, in the field and in the classroom.
Irina Mitrea, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics
Irina Mitrea is the former associate director of the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications at the University of Minnesota, one of the premier NSF-funded institutes for interdisciplinary and applied mathematics research. Her work encompasses a number interacting areas, including numerical methods for the resolution of PDEs. Mitrea earned her PhD at the University of Minnesota and held postdoctoral appointments at Cornell University, the Institute for Advanced Study and Clay Mathematics Institute.
Ann Valentine, Associate Professor Department of Chemistry
As an assistant and associate professor, Ann Valentine taught at Yale University for ten years in the general chemistry program. She earned her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and while there worked on bioinorganic hydrocarbon oxidation using an enzyme extracted from a thermophile bacteria. As a postdoctoral research associate at Penn State, Valentine worked on the structure and mechanism of the bacteriophage T4 primosome.
Vincent Voelz, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
Vincent Voelz earned his PhD from the University of Californi-San Francisco, where he studied the zipping and assembly search strategy that was used to simulate and monitor proteins in their physical folding process. He showed that the zipping and assembly method was fast enough to predict protein structure with an atomically detailed force field. As a postdoctoral research associate at Stanford University, Voelz continued his work on the understanding of protein folding using theory and simulation.
William Wuest, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
William Wuest, an expert in organic and bio-organic chemistry, earned his PhD. from the University of Pennsylvania. At Penn, Wuest developed a synthetic effort for the total synthesis of {+)-Peloruside A. As a postdoctoral research associate at the Harvard Medical School he investigated the cloning, overproduction, purification and characterization of enzymes for use in the development of new natural product biosynthesis strategies.