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Mark Dadmun, Interim Department Head (Fall 2025)
Kevin Shaughnessy, Department Head (beginning Spring 2026)
S. Michael Kilbey II, Associate Department Head for Graduate Programs and Director of Graduate Studies
Michael D. Best, Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Studies
Nahla Ahmad Abu Hatab, Director of General Chemistry

Professors
Best, M.D. (Ziegler Professor), PhD – Texas
Campagna, S.R., PhD – Princeton
Dadmun, M.D. (Ziegler Professor), PhD – Massachusetts
Dai, S. (Joint Faculty), PhD – Tennessee
Hinde, R.J. (CAS Interim Executive Dean), PhD – Chicago
Jenkins, D.M. (Ziegler Professor), PhD – California Institute of Technology
Kilbey II, S.M. (Ziegler Professor), PhD – Minnesota
Long, B.K., PhD – Texas
Musfeldt, J.L. (Ziegler Professor), PhD – Florida
Nemykin, V.N., PhD – National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine
Sokolov, A.P. (Governor’s Chair, Science Alliance Center for Excellence), PhD – Novosibirsk (Russia)
Xue, Z. (Ziegler Professor), PhD – California (Los Angeles)
Zhao, B. (Ziegler Professor), PhD – Akron

Associate Professors
Darko, A.K., PhD – Florida
Roy, S., PhD – Yale
Sharma, B., PhD – Pittsburgh
Vogiatzis, K.D., PhD – Karlsruhe (Germany)

Assistant Professors
Baccile, J.A., PhD – Cornell
Banjeree, S., PhD – Pennsylvania
Brantley, J.N., PhD – Texas
Cheng, Y., PhD – Duke
Clark, J.R., PhD – University at Buffalo
Do, T.D., PhD – California (Santa Barbara)
Heberle, F.A., PhD – Cornell
Lei, Z. (Nancy), PhD – University of Michigan
McNicholas, B., PhD – California Institute of Technology

The faculty of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, seek to prepare their students to join the international ranks of professional chemists in fundamental areas of chemistry as well as cross-disciplinary sciences in which chemical expertise plays a critical role in the development of new knowledge and technologies. Students planning to major in chemistry for the master’s or doctoral degree will ordinarily have attained a satisfactory record in the traditional areas of chemistry. The department, however, recognizes that modern chemistry transcends traditional disciplinary divisions. Therefore, it encourages students with undergraduate majors in chemical engineering, the biological sciences, physics, mathematics, computer science, or other fields to apply for admission to our program.

Interdisciplinary Graduate Minor in Computational Science (IGMCS)

The Department of Chemistry participates in the interdisciplinary graduate minor in computational science (IGMCS) program. Any student pursuing a master’s or PhD with a major in chemistry can receive a minor in computational science by completing the appropriate IGMCS requirements. For additional information, see the description of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Minor in Computational Science  listed under Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science or visit the IGMCS website. The Department of Chemistry also contributes courses to the IGMCS program curriculum.