Biography
Prof. Wei Zhang is the Director of the Center for Green Chemistry at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He received his PhD and did his post-doctoral research at the University of Pittsburgh with late Prof. Paul Dowd. He was a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, Senior Chemist at DuPont Agricultural Products, and Director of Discovery Chemistry at Fluorous Technologies, Inc. (FTI). Prof. Zhang’s research is in the areas of green chemistry, fluorous chemistry, synthetic free radicals, organocatalysis, and medicinal chemistry. He has published over 160 peer-reviewed papers including three in Chem. Rev., four Tetrahedron Reports, and a book “Green techniques for organic and medicinal applications†(Willey 2012). He is currently an editor and editorial advisory member on three international journals, and a board member of ACS Green Chemistry Institute Curriculum Committee and Green Chemistry Commitment.
Research Interest
Zhang’s research is in the areas of fluorous chemistry, free radical chemistry, medicinal chemistry, and green chemistry
Biography
Maolin Guo is working as Professor in Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He received his doctorate from Edinburgh University, 2000, M.S., Shanxi University, 1992, B.S., Shanxi University, 1989. He received Faculty Career Development Award, University of California, Irvine, 2001, SBIC award for young scientists to attend ICBIC10, Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, 2001.
Research Interest
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Protein Engineering, Structural Biology, Bioinorganic Chemistry & Metals in Biology and Medicine
Biography
Dr. Hylton McWhinney is a Professor of Chemistry at Prairie View A&M University. He earned a PhD (1990) from Texas A&M University, College Station in Analytical Chemistry, with specialization in Surface and Interfacial Characterization. In addition to his teaching and research activities, he has served as Assistant Dean in the office of Research and Graduate Studies at Prairie View. He directs the operation of the Surface Science Facility located in the Department of Chemistry. His synergistic and collaborative interactions include; the Naval Research Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory, local and International Universities. Dr. McWhinney is the author and co-author of over 20 peer reviewed publications.
Research Interest
Surface phenomena in environmental chemistry and environmental remediation which involve: speciation and transport of contaminants in the vadose zone; surface science applications to energy based pollution systems, Surface chemistry of functional and structural materials, their properties and characterization.
