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

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

Vice-Chair: Caitlin Davis, Yale University
c.davis@yale.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: Ben Levine, Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook
(631)-632-2381, ben.levine@stonybrook.edu

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

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

Past-Chair: Jier Huang, Department of Chemistry, Marquette Univ.
(414) 288-3537, jier.huang@marquette.edu

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

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

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

Past Chair:Cathy Wong, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oregon
541-346-7323, cwong3@uoregon.edu

Chair: Sapna Sarupria, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota
sarupria@umn.edu

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

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

Past-Chair: Christine Isborn, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California Merced
cisborn@ucmerced.edu

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