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Bradford Wayland, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Chemistry
Dr. Wayland joins the College after decades as a faculty member and leading researcher in inorganic and polymer chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include controlled radical polymerizations of olefins by chain transfer catalysis and living radical polymerization; design and synthesis of amphiphilic block copolymers for self assembly into micelles and nano-structured arrays; design and synthesis of new classes of porphyrin and metallo-porphyrin chromophore materials; synthesis, structure and reactivity of organometallic complexes of metallo-macrocycles, spectroscopic and thermodynamic studies of organometallic compounds and intermediates in catalytic reactions of small molecules.
Giacinto Scoles, Ph.D.
Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Science, Department of Chemistry
Dr. Scoles, formerly Donner Professor of Science in the Chemistry Department of Princeton University, will establish a laboratory developing microscopic techniques for investigating biological problems at the molecular level. He currently holds an appointment in biophysics at the Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati in Trieste, Italy. He is a fellow of the Royal Society and recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Medal from Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute and the Peter Debye Award of the American Chemical Society.
Darius Balciunas, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
Dr. Balciunas received his Ph.D in molecular cell biology from Uppsala University in Sweden before working as a postdoctoral fellow at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and, most recently, at the University of Minnesota. His research interests include cell-cell signaling in development, embryonic patterning, transposable elements for gene discovery in vertebrates, and functional genomics in zebrafish.
Mark Alan Feitelson, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biology
Dr. Feitelson was previously a professor in the Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology at Thomas Jefferson University. His research focus is on how hepatitis B and C viruses cause liver cancer. Dr. Feitelson received his Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1979, did a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford, and then worked in a Nobel lab for 9 years before moving to Jefferson.
Andreas Metz , Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics
Dr. Metz was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Theoretical Physics II at Bochum
University, Germany. His research interests include the physics of the strong interaction, both at low and high energies, the structure of hadrons, most notably the nucleon, given in terms of various quark and gluon distributions, and factorization for hard scattering processes as well as universality of different quark and gluon correlation functions. Dr. Metz received his Ph.D. from Mainz University in Germany.
Christian E. Schafmeister, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry
Dr. Schafmeister was previously an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh. His research goal is the development and study of functional macromolecules constructed from asymmetric molecular building blocks. Dr. Schafmeister received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Francisco.
Jonathan G. Shackman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
Dr. Shackman received his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the University of Michigan in 2005, before serving as a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. His research interests include analytical chemistry, separation sciences, spectroscopy, microcolumn separations and microfluidics, immunoassays, data analysis, and laboratory automation.
Alexander P. Yates , Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Sciences
Dr. Yates recently received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington. His research interests include computational linguistics and artificial intelligence, specifically information extraction from the Web, entity resolution, natural language interfaces, parsing, machine learning, and probabilistic methods.
Frederic Biemar, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
Dr. Biemar joined the College in January 2008. He received his Ph.D. from Université de Liège in Belgium before working as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focus is the role on microRNAs and other non-coding RNAs in the gene regulatory networks that control animal development and disease.
Alexandra Elizabeth Krull Davatzes , Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Geology
Dr. Davatzes joined the College in January 2008. She was previously a postdoctoral fellow at NASA. Her fellowship included studies of Martial fluvial and hydrothermal systems, education and public outreach, and operations for the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University.
Nicholas C. Davatzes , Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Geology
Dr. Davatzes joined the College in January 2008. He was previously a member of the earthquake hazards team of the United States Geological Survey and a U.S.G.S. Mendenhall Postdoctoral Research Fellow. His research incorporates field, laboratory, borehole and remote sensing data with numerical analyses to investigate how the physical properties of fault zones arise from the processes that deform rock during faulting. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University.
Deborah H. Santamore , Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics
Dr. Santamore joined the College in January 2008. She was previously a Director's Fellow in the theoretical division of Los Alamos National Laboratory. Her research interest is the interface between condensed matter and atomic physics; specifically, solid state implementations of a quantum computer based on nanotechnology and exploration of many-body physics in ultra-cold atom systems. She received her Ph.D. in condensed matter theory from the California Institute of Technology.