35 faculty and 23 courses in Chemistry at Colorado School of Mines.
- Ryan Richards, Professor h-index 66
Notable: “Surface reconstruction and chemical evolution of stoichiometric layered cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries” (2014) · 1,437 citations
- Thomas Albrecht, Professor h-index 60
Notable: “A metal–organic framework material that functions as an enantioselective catalyst for olefin epoxidation” (2006) · 964 citations
- James Ranville, Professor h-index 55
Notable: “Natural, incidental, and engineered nanomaterials and their impacts on the Earth system” (2019) · 800 citations
- Matthew Posewitz, Professor h-index 53
Energy is inextricably linked to a society’s standard of living and the 21st century will see dramatic changes in how energy is generated, distributed and utilized. It is clear that diminishing fossil energy resources, climate change concer
Notable: “Microalgal triacylglycerols as feedstocks for biofuel production: perspectives and advances” (2008) · 3,728 citations
- Alan Sellinger, Professor h-index 53
Below is a list of ongoing projects in the Sellinger group: Synthesis and evaluation of novel plastic scintillator materials for efficient characterization of gamma and neutron fields through pulse shape discrimination and enhanced photo pe
Notable: “Evaporation-Induced Self-Assembly: Nanostructures Made Easy” (1999) · 2,039 citations
- Brian Trewyn, Interim Department Head h-index 46
We address in the Trewyn lab. Further developing the functionality of the porous materials in 3D printing and additive manufacturing is a new research focus area for the group. Education BS – University of Wisconsin – La Crosse
Notable: “Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery and Biosensing Applications” (2007) · 1,675 citations
- Svitlana Pylypenko, Professor h-index 46
Notable: “Cross-Laboratory Experimental Study of Non-Noble-Metal Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction” (2009) · 698 citations
- Mark Jensen, Professor h-index 46
Focused on the nuclear fuel cycle, ranging from mechanisms of selectivity in chemical separations to biologically-based metal separations and the biochemistry and environmental chemistry of the transuranium elements. Mark has been study
Notable: “Do beliefs, coping, and catastrophizing independently predict functioning in patients with chronic pain?” (2000) · 487 citations
- Richard C. Holz, Professor h-index 38
Notable: “The Proteomics of N-terminal Methionine Cleavage” (2006) · 382 citations
- Joseph Sperling, Research Professor h-index 37
Areas Nuclear Energy for the Modern World Joe Sperling's Google Scholar Page Colorado School of Mines 1500 Illinois St., Golden, CO / Admissions & Financial Aid Financial Aid Graduate Admissions Unde
Notable: “Measurement of the conductance of single conjugated molecules” (2005) · 392 citations
- Bettina M. Voelker, Professor h-index 32
Biogeochemical cycling of toxic and nutrient metals. Photochemistry and free radical chemistry in aqueous environment systems. Publications Hansard S.P., Easter H.D., Voelker B.M. Rapid Reaction of Nanomolar Mn(II) with Superoxide Radical i
Notable: “Rates of Hydroxyl Radical Generation and Organic Compound Oxidation in Mineral-Catalyzed Fenton-like Systems” (2003) · 662 citations
- Daniel Knauss, Professor h-index 31
Include: the synthesis of new types of polymers, the control of polymer architecture and functionalization, and the study of new reaction mechanisms through monomer and polymer synthesis. The types of applications include polymeric photovol
Notable: “Melt rheology of variableL-content poly(lactic acid)” (2005) · 263 citations
- David Halat, Assistant Professor h-index 28
Notable: “Zn-Ion Transporting, In Situ Formed Robust Solid Electrolyte Interphase for Stable Zinc Metal Anodes over a Wide Temperature Range” (2023) · 210 citations
- Mark Eberhart, Research Professor h-index 27
Notable: “Hydrogen trapping in ferritic steel weld metal” (2002) · 204 citations
- Dylan Domaille, Associate Professor h-index 26
Notable: “Metals in Neurobiology: Probing Their Chemistry and Biology with Molecular Imaging” (2008) · 2,054 citations
- Shubham Vyas, Professor h-index 25
Notable: “Electrode-assisted catalytic water oxidation by a flavin derivative” (2012) · 173 citations
- C. Michael McGuirk, Associate Professor h-index 20
Notable: “Metal–Organic Framework Nanoparticles” (2018) · 833 citations
- Erik Menke, Associate Department Head h-index 20
Understanding aluminum ion behavior in organic solvents, motivated by developing electrolytes for rechargeable aluminum batteries, and developing educational interventions, such as culturally relevant science teaching, that positively i
Notable: “Lithographically patterned nanowire electrodeposition” (2006) · 294 citations
- Samantha Johnson, Assistant Professor h-index 20
Notable: “Oxidation of Ammonia with Molecular Complexes” (2020) · 161 citations
- Renee Falconer, Teaching Professor h-index 19
Center around the environmental chemistry of organic pollutants and their transport and fate in the environment. Understanding the movement, distribution and degradation of these compounds in the environment is essential for determining the
Notable: “Vapor pressures and predicted particle/gas distributions of polychlorinated biphenyl congeners as functions of temperature and ortho-chlorine substitution” (1994) · 235 citations
- Jenifer C. Shafer, Professor h-index 19
Notable: “On the Origin of Covalent Bonding in Heavy Actinides” (2017) · 137 citations
- Annalise Maughan, Assistant Professor h-index 17
Notable: “Defect Tolerance to Intolerance in the Vacancy-Ordered Double Perovskite Semiconductors Cs2SnI6 and Cs2TeI6” (2016) · 600 citations
- Jessica Jackson, Research Professor h-index 7
Began with her studies at Washington State University first as an undergraduate in the laboratory of Dr. Donald Wall and then expanded through her graduate work under the tutelage of Professor Kenneth L. Nash. The bulk of her research while
Notable: “Sulfur donating extractants for the separation of trivalent actinides and lanthanides” (2020) · 94 citations
- Christian Beren, Teaching Associate Professor h-index 6
Focus on the physical principles of viral self-assembly. Viruses are simple physical objects (and therefore, very simple organisms ), with the simplest viruses being composed of only two components, a single-stranded (ss)RNA genome and 180
Notable: “Genome organization and interaction with capsid protein in a multipartite RNA virus” (2020) · 41 citations
- Aaron Goodman, Research Professor h-index 6
Es on developing new analytical methods in geochemistry and environmental chemistry, with an emphasis on nanoscale particles. His PhD and postdoctoral work focused on single particle ICP-MS methods to detect, quantify, and characterize nano
Notable: “Characterization of nano-scale mineral dust aerosols in snow by single particle inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry” (2022) · 26 citations
- Jonathan Miorelli, Teaching Assistant Professor h-index 5
Revolve around theoretical and computational chemistry, with an interest in how the structure and evolution of a molecule/material’s electron density gives rise to its observed reactivity, specifically within the context of the Quantum Theo
Notable: “In search of an intrinsic chemical bond” (2014) · 51 citations
- Megan Moyer, Teaching Assistant Professor h-index 3
Notable: “Tandem Catalytic Systems Integrating Biocatalysts and Inorganic Catalysts Using Functionalized Porous Materials” (2020) · 32 citations
- Amanda Furness, Teaching Assistant Professor
- Amanda Jameer, Teaching Associate Professor
- Angela Sower, Teaching Professor
- Kim R. Williams, Research Professor
- Laurel Almer, Adjunct Professor
- Rebecca Smaha, Research Professor
Es on the design, discovery, and development of novel ternary nitrides as both bulk powders and thin films, both fundamentally and for applications including magnetism, optoelectronics, detection, and spintronics. Rebecca Smaha’s NLR
- Tom Gennett, Professor
- Yuan Yang, Research Professor
The development and application of new instrumentation and experimental methods of NMR spectroscopy to study molecular structure and dynamics. Due to the recent award, National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation Grant
Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.