The Chemistry department will welcome two new faculty members to the department for the Spring 2025 semester.

Assistant Professor Xin Ma received his B.S. in Chemistry at Lanzhou University in 2013. He then went on to receive his PhD. At Purdue University in 2020 and worked as a post-doctoral fellow under Prof. Facundo M. Fernandez at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research aims to develop new versatile MSI platforms and apply them into different bioanalytical applications. Read more about Professor Ma’s research here.

Assistant Professor Amrit Venkatesh received his B.Sc. (Hons.) in 2011 and his M.Sc. in Chemistry in 2013 at Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning in India. He then went on to get his PhD. in Physical Chemistry at Iowa State University in 2020. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow under Professor Lyndon Emsley at Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland from 2021-2023, and later worked at Florida State University as Research Faculty at the at National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL). His research is focused on the development of solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to enable the structure determination of catalysts and energy materials. Read more about Professor Venkatesh’s research here.

Welcome to the Chemistry department Amrit Venkatesh and Xin Ma!

Amrit Venkatesh on left, Xin Ma on right.