Faculty and Staff
Department of Chemistry Faculty & Staff
Welcome to the Chemistry Department's Faculty & Staff Directory
The Department's Main Office is located in Science S323 (3rd Floor of the Science Building).
Our current Department Chair is Dr. Christa Brosseau and our Department Administrative Assistant is Mrs. Adriana Tudor.
For general inquiries, our email address is chemistry@smu.ca and our phone number is 902.420.5660
Faculty
Christa L. Brosseau
Chair, Professor
CRC-Tier II (Sustainable Chemistry & Materials)
Phone: 902.496.8175
Office: Science S508
Email: christa.brosseau@smu.ca
Research Interests: Analytical Chemistry; Interfacial Electrochemistry; Surface Vibrational Spectroscopy
Research Website
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Jason A. C. Clyburne
Professor
Phone: 902.420.5827
Office: Science S208
Email: jason.clyburne@smu.ca
Research Interests: Green Chemistry; Catalysis and Green Chemistry; Solids and liquids for reversible gas absorption (CO2); Ionic liquids, polymers, and gels for separations; Materials chemistry; Synthetic main group chemistry; Chemistry of the hydrogen atom
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Jane Ferguson
Assistant Professor
Phone: 902.420.5663
Office: Science S216
Email: jane.ferguson@smu.ca
Research Interests: Physical Chemistry; Thermodynamics and Transport Properties; Molten Salts; High-Temperature Aqueous Systems; Nuclear Energy
Marc M. Lamoureux
Associate Professor
Phone: 902.420.5652
Office: Science S502
Email: marc.lamoureux@smu.ca
Research Interests: Chemical speciation of environmental solids; analytical spectroscopy; x-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy; method development for direct sampling and analysis of solids
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Jason D. Masuda
Associate Dean, Professor
Associate Dean of Science–Student Affairs
Phone: 902.420.5077
Office: Science S535
Email: jason.masuda@smu.ca
Research Interests: Inorganic Chemistry
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Cory C. Pye
Associate Professor
Phone: 902.420.5654
Office: Science S218
Email: cory.pye@smu.ca
Research Interests: ab initio and density functional theory; solvation effects; hydration
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Mary A. W. Sheppard
Associate Teaching Professor
Phone: 902.491.6470
Office: Science S231
Email: mary.sheppard@smu.ca
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Robert D. Singer
Professor
Phone: 902.496.8189
Office: Science S522
Email: robert.singer@smu.ca
Research Interests: Organic Chemistry; New Methodologies in Synthesis; Catalysis in Ionic Liquids; Biomass Processing in Ionic Liquids; Ionic MOFs; Green Chemistry; Ionic Liquids as Reaction Media Related to Organometallic Methodology.
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Clarissa Sit
Associate Professor
Phone: 902.420.5655
Office: Science S518
Email: clarissa.sit@smu.ca
Research Interests: Organic Chemistry; Biochemistry
Danielle Tokarz
Associate Professor
Phone: 902.491.6573
Office: Science S510
Email: danielle.tokarz@smu.ca
Research Interests: Physical/Analytical Chemistry
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Kai E. O. Yllijoki
Associate Professor
Phone: 902.491.6527
Office: Science S514
Email: kai.ylijoki@smu.ca
Research Interests: Organic Chemistry
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Emeritus Faculty
John C. O'.C. Young
Professor Emeritus
Phone: 902.420.5657 or 902.423.1722
Office: Science S209
Email: john.young@smu.ca
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Part-Time Faculty
Richard Cisek
Part-time Instructor
Tokarz Research Group Associate
Phone: 902.420.5018
Office: Science S511
Email: richard.cisek@smu.ca
Adjunct Professors
Donald S. Gamble
Adjunct Professor
Phone: 902.667.1974
Email: dgamble@ns.sympatico.ca
Research Interests: Predictive chemical calculations for hydrophobic molecules and metal ions in complicated irregular mixtures
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Chérif F. Matta
Ian Pottie
Adjunct Professor
Phone: 902.457.6245
Email: Ian.Pottie@msvu.ca
Research Interests: Natural product synthesis, asymmetric synthesis, Henry reaction, Diels-Alder reaction, Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis
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Michael Land
Katherine (Kathy) Robertson
Adjunct Professor
Clyburne Research Group
Phone: 902.420.5177
Office: Science S206
Email: katherine.robertson@smu.ca
Research Interests: X-ray Crystallography, Intermolecular interactions in the solid state
Staff
Patricia Granados
CEAR Lab Technician
Phone: 902.420.5135
Office: Science S505
Email: patricia.granados@smu.ca
Research Website
Bitu Hurisso
Lab Technician
Phone: 902.420.5634
Office: Science Building S505
Email: bitu.hurisso@smu.ca
Elizabeth McLeod
Lab Technician
Phone: 902.420.5182
Office: Science S237
Email: elizabeth.mcleod@smu.ca
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Jennifer (Jenn) Wright
Lab Technician
Phone: 902.496.8195
Office: Science Building S236
Email: Jennifer.Wright@smu.ca
Adriana Tudor
Staff
Administrative Assistant
Phone: 902.420. 5660
Office: Science S323
Email: chemistry@smu.ca