PHYS Officers

Laura Gagliardi
Laura GagliardiChair
Richard and Kathy Leventhal Professor Department of Chemistry, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, James Franck Institute, Univ. of Chicago
Julie Biteen
Julie BiteenChair-Elect
Professor of Chemistry and of Biophysics, Associate Chair of Graduate Education, Chemistry Department, University of Michigan.
Francesco Paesani
Francesco PaesaniVice-Chair
Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Halicioğlu Data Science Institute, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego
Bern Kohler
Bern KohlerVice-Chair Elect
Ohio Eminent Scholar, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University

Amber Krummel
Amber KrummelSecretary/Treasurer
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University
Christy Landes
Christy LandesPast Chair
Jerry A. Walker Endowed Chair in Chemistry, Professor of Chemistry
Affiliate, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Executive Committee Members At-Large

Jier Huang (2022-2024), Marquette University
Lyudmila Slipchenko (2022-2024), Purdue University
Marco Caricato (2023-2025), University of Kansas
David Osborn (2023-2025), University of California
Tanja Cuk (2024-2026), University of Colorado

Councilors

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

Alternate Councilors

Jahan Dawlaty (2023-2025), University of Southern California
Olaseni Sode (2023-2025), California State University, LA
Caroline Jarrold (2023-2024), Indiana University, Bloomington
Joel D. Eaves (2022-2024), U. Colorado – Boulder

Undergrad Awards Committee

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

Subdivisions

Chair: Kyle N. Crabtree, University of California – Davis
(530) 752-6024. kncrabtree@ucdavis.edu

Chair-Elect: Chris Bennett, UCF Department of Physics
(808) 358-1826. christopher.Bennett@ucf.edu

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

Past-Chair: Heather Abbott-Lyon, Kennesaw State University Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
(470) 578-6140.  habbott@kennesaw.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: Daniel Kuroda, College of Science, LSU
225-578-1780, dkuroda@lsu.edu

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

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

Past Chair: Jennifer Shumaker-Parry, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah
(801) 585-1434, shumaker-parry@chem.utah.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.