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Pavel Anzenbacher, Director

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Research Fields: Organic, Supramolecular, Analytical Chemistry

Specializations: Synthesis, Fluorescence, Chemical Sensing, Bioassays, Nanochemistry

Email: pavel@bgsu.edu

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Website: Anzenbacher Group Website

John Cable

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Research Fields: Physical Chemistry

Specializations:

Email: cable@bgsu.edu

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Malcom Forbes

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Research Fields: Physical organic chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, EPR

Specializations: EPR Spectroscopy, Photochemistry of radical species, high spin states, Time-resolved EPR, Spin-polarized EPR

Email: forbesm@bgsu.edu

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Website: Forbes Group Website

Joseph Furgal

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Research Fields: Materials Chemistry, Polymers, Coatings

Specializations: Silicones, Photochemistry, Coatings, Silesquioxanes, recycling, environmental remediation, functional materials, dynamic covalent chemistry

Email: furgalj@bgsu.edu

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Website: Furgal Group Website

Peter Lu

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Research Fields: Physical, Biophysical, Chemical Biology

Specializations: Protein dynamics, Enzymatic reaction dynamics, Single molecule spectroscopy and imaging

Email: hplu@bgsu.edu

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Website: Lu Group Website

Massimo Olivucci

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Research Fields: Computational Photochemistry and Photobiology, Biophysics

Specializations: Quantum chemistry, Non-adiabatic dynamics, Biological photoreceptors, Light-driven molecular motors

Email: molivuc@bgsu.edu

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Website: Olivucci Group Website

Alexis Ostrowski

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Research Fields: Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry

Specializations: Metallo supramolecular systems, coordination chemistry

Email: alexiso@bgsu.edu

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Website: Ostrowski Group Website

Julie Peterson

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Research Fields: Organic, Physical Organic Chemistry

Specializations: Photochemistry, Molecular Switches, Dynamic Covalent Chemistry, Visible-light Responsive Systems

Email: jupeter@bgsu.edu

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Website: Peterson Group Website

Jayaraman Sivaguru

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Research Fields: Photochemistry, Polymers, Green Chemistry

Specializations: Excited state reactivity, asymmetric photochemistry, light responsive materials, photo-initiators, eye protection

Email: sivagj@bgsu.edu

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Website: Siva Group Website

Liangfeng Sun

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Research Fields: Nanomaterials, Photophysics

Specializations: Colloidal nanocrystals, two-dimensional materials, exciton physics, time-resolved spectroscopy, photonic devices

Email: Lsun@bgsu.edu

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Website: Sun Group Website

Xiaohong Tan

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Research Fields: Biochemical and Biomedical Research

Specializations: Proteins, Nucleic acids, Peptides, Aptamers

Email: tanx@bgsu.edu

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Alexander Tarnovsky

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Research Fields: Photophysics, Photochemistry, Spectroscopy

Specializations: Femtosecond time-resolved spectroscopy, Excited-state and chemical reaction dynamics, Ultrafast photophysics and photochemistry

Email: atarnov@bgsu.edu

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Mikhail Zamkov

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Research Fields: Physics, Quantum dots, Optoelectronics, Nanoscale materials

Specializations: Novel nanoscale materials, Colloidal synthesis, Functional nanoscale devices, Integrated nanosystems, Photoluminescence

Email: zamkovm@bgsu.edu

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Alexey Zayak

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Research Fields: Computational electronic structure of materials, Physics

Specializations: Density Functional Theory, Heterogeneous Interfaces, Raman Spectroscopy

Email: azayak@bgsu.edu

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Website: Zayak Group Website

Updated: 04/23/2026 01:32PM