Meet Connor Boyle and Louis Pascal Riel, new Assistant Professors in Residence at UConn Waterbury and UConn Avery Point. Connor Boyle Assistant Professor in Residence UConn Waterbury Background: Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Current position: Assistant Professor in Residence at UConn Waterbury. This is my first year at UConn, and I am […]

This week’s faculty highlight is on Dr. Gaël Ung! Background: Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego with Prof. Guy Bertrand; Postdoc at the California Institute of Technology with Prof. Jonas C. Peters Current position: Assistant Professor at UConn Storrs. He has been here since 2016 and loves the collegial environment with the students […]

Our next faculty highlight comes from Dr. Steve Barshay! Background: Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry and Planetary Astronomy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; teaching postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Arizona; 32-year career in the nuclear power industry. Current position: After retiring from industry, Dr. Barshay came to UConn as an Assistant Professor because of his […]

Next for our faculty highlights is Dr. Nicholas Leadbeater! Background: Ph.D. and research fellowship at the University of Cambridge, UK; faculty position in London Current position: Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director at UConn Storrs, where he has been since 2004. He chose UConn Chemistry because of its great facilities and faculty.

This year, we are doing a series of features on all the amazing people that make up UConn Chemistry, and who better to start with than our department head, Dr. Christian Brückner! Academic background: MS at RWTH, Germany; Ph.D. at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; Postdoc at University of California at Berkeley Current position: […]