PHYS Officers

Julie Biteen
Julie BiteenChair
Professor of Chemistry and of Biophysics, Associate Chair of Graduate Education, Chemistry Department, University of Michigan.
Francesco Paesani
Francesco PaesaniChair-Elect
Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Halicioğlu Data Science Institute, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego
Bern Kohler
Bern KohlerVice-Chair
Ohio Eminent Scholar, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University

Benjamin G. Levine
Benjamin G. LevineVice-Chair Elect
IACS Endowed Professor of Chemistry
Institute for Advanced Computational Science and Department of Chemistry
Stony Brook University
Amber Krummel
Amber KrummelSecretary/Treasurer
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University
Laura Gagliardi
Laura GagliardiPast Chair
Richard and Kathy Leventhal Professor Department of Chemistry, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, James Franck Institute, Univ. of Chicago

Executive Committee Members At-Large

Marco Caricato (2023-2025), University of Kansas
David Osborn (2023-2025), University of California
Tanja Cuk (2024-2026), University of Colorado
Leah Dodson (2025-2027), University of Maryland
Lauren Buchanan (2025-2027), Vanderbilty University

Councilors

Heather Kulik (2023-2025), MIT
Benjamin J. Schwartz (2022-2024), UCLA
Lauren Webb (2024 – 2026), University of Texas Austin
Adam Willard (2025-2027), MIT
Jessica Anna (2025-2027), University of Pittsburgh

Alternate Councilors

Jahan Dawlaty (2023-2025), University of Southern California
Olaseni Sode (2023-2025), California State University, LA
Casey Londergan (2025-2027), Haverford College
Daniela Kohen (2025-2027), Carleton College

Undergrad Awards Committee

Chair: Josh Schrier
Fordham University, jschrier@fordham.edu
Chair-elect: Charlisa Daniels
Northern Kentucky University, danielsc6@nku.edu

Subdivisions

Chair: Michel Nuevo, NASA Ames
(650) 604-0789. michel.nuevo-1@nasa.gov

Chair-Elect: Jamie Elisila (Cook), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
(301) 286-9160. jamie.e.cook@nasa.gov

Vice-Chair: Chris Shingledecker, Virginia Military Institute
(540) 464-7422. shingledeckercn@vmi.edu

Past-Chair: Christopher Bennett, University of Central Florida
(808) 358-1826. christopher.bennett@ucf.edu

Secretary: David E. Woon, Univ. of Illinois Department of Chemistry
(217) 333-5071.  dewoon@illinois.edu

Chair: Colin Heyes, University of Arkansas
(479) 575-5607, cheyes@uark.edu

Chair-Elect: Caitlin Davis, Yale University
c.davis@yale.edu

Vice-Chair: Alex Guseman, University of California San Diego
aguseman@ucsd.edu

Past-Chair: Itay Budin (2025), UC-San Diego
(858) 246-5328, ibudin@ucsd.edu

Past-Chair: Lydia Kisley (2024), Case Western Reserve University
(216) 368-2118, lydia.kisley@case.edu

Galia Debelouchina (2023), Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC-San Diego
(858) 534-3038, gdebelouchina@ucsd.edu

Chair:Sahar Sharifzadeh, Boston University
(617) 358-4769, ssharifz@bu.edu

Chair-Elect: Xuedan Ma, Rice University
xuedan.ma@rice.edu

Vice-Chair: Lea Nienhaus, Rice University
ln27@rice.edu

Past-Chair:Sean Roberts, UT-Austin
512-475-9450, roberts@cm.utexas.edu

Chair: Stephan Link, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
slink@illinois.edu

Chair-Elect: Tessa Calhoun, Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee
865-974-3685, trcalhoun@utk.edu

Vice-Chair: Miriam Freedman, Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania StateUniversity
maf43@psu.edu

Past Chair: Luis Velarde, Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo – SUNY
(716) 645-4243, lvelarde@buffalo.edu

Chair: Matthias Heyden, School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University
mheyden1@asu.edu

Chair-Elect: Heather Kulik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
hjkulik@mit.edu

Vice-Chair: Brenda Rubenstein, Brown University
brenda_rubenstein@brown.edu

Past-Chair: Michele Pavanello, Department of Physics, Rutgers Univeresity – Newark
m.pavanello@rutgers.edu

Election results are available to PHYS members from the secretary/treasurer upon request.