Under the direction of the school Chair M.G. Finn and Associate Chair Angus Wilkinson, the school’s staff are led by:
- Julia Thomas, Assistant Director, Financial Operations
- Bridgett Kemp, Assistant Director, Administrative Operations
Administrative Support Personnel
The Assistant Director of Administrative Operations oversees the school's general administrative support for faculty and research groups. This support is provided by the individuals listed below and on the administrative staff support roster.
| Name | Duties |
|---|---|
| Monica Branch | Supports: David Collard, Dr. Christy O'Mahony, Dr. Mary Peek, Dr. Joseph Sadighi, Dr. Carlos Silva, Dr. Jake Soper, Dr. Amanda Stephens, Dr. Angus Wilkinson, Dr. Hui Zhu, Dr. Bill Baron. Interim Support: Amanda Stockton |
| Jenny Eaton | Supports Professors Agarwal, Barry, Fahrni, Lieberman, May, Reddi, and Reynolds |
| Shantel Floyd | Supports Professor Fernandez, France, Liotta and Hud as well as the NSF Center for Chemical Evolution. |
| Wendy B. Harris | Supports the Glass Shop, Mass Spec, NMR, Safety, Xray service centers and the School's seminar program. |
| Keisha Harville | Supports the Professors Bredas, Gutekunst, Kelly, McDaniel, Sherrill, and Williams. Interim support: Professor Cicerone, La Pierre. |
| Julia Stackhaus | |
| Michele Yager | Supports the Office of the Chair, the El-Sayed research group, and the Laser Dynamics Laboratory. Oversees the operations of the Main Office. |
Financial Support Personnel
Julia Thomas has responsibility for the School’s financial operations and is aided by:
| Name | Duties |
|---|---|
| Trakia Bennett | Financial Lead overseeing research centers: CCE, REVEALS, COOL; manages TechTime, service centers, teaching labs and gen ops for the School. |
| Susan Harris | Financial Administrator III supporting research accounts for Prof. Bredas, Prof. Cicerone, Dr. Coropceanu, Prof. Finn, Prof. La Pierre, Prof. Lierberman, Prof. Marder, Prof. Orlando, Prof. Peralta-Yahya, Prof. Reynolds. |
| Elena JnBaptiste | Financial Administrator III supporting research accounts for Prof. Agarwal, Prof. Fahrni, Prof. France, D. Johnson, Prof. McDaniel, Prof. Oyelere, Dr. Shepler, Prof. Stockton, Prof. Wilkinson, Prof. Zhang. Also supports financial matters associated with |
| Hayat Najjar | Financial Administrator III supporting research accounts for Prof. Barry, Prof. Collard, Prof. Dickson, Prof. El-Sayed, Prof. Fernandez, Prof. Gutekunst, Prof. Kelly, Prof. Liotta, Prof. Reddi, Prof. Sadighi, Prof. Schuster, Prof. Sherril |
Technical Staff
The school operates a scientific glass blowing shop and the Equipment Design and Support Services (EDSS) center. The glass blowing shop operates as a cost center and provides glassware design, fabrication and repair services to all parts of the Georgia Tech campus on a fee for services basis. The school's (EDSS) center provides design and fabrication services for electronic instruments, and undertakes the repair/modification of commercial scientific equipment. EDSS's services are only available to faculty, staff and students working in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
| Name | Duties |
|---|---|
| Elayne Ashley | The Glassblower is available to any department at Georgia Tech is able to consult, design, modify and fabricate scientific glassware. Each glass apparatus is designed and constructed by the scientific glassblower based on collaboration with individual res |
| Richard Bedell | Manages the school's equipment engineering and support services center |
Information Technology Team
The Academic and Research Computing Services team supports the desktop computing, server, local network and high performance computing needs of our faculty, staff and researchers.
For help, please contact: support@chemistry.gatech.edu
Facility/Building Managers
The School of Chemistry and Biochemistry has personnel in six different buildings across the Georgia Tech campus. The buildings/facility managers for two of these buildings, Molecular Science and Technology (MoSE) and Boggs, are employees of the school. Facility/building managers are expected to oversee the maintenance and security of their buildings and provide services to all building occupants regardless of their school affiliation.
| Name | Duties |
|---|---|
| Michael Riley | Coordination of maintenance, building improvement and security for the Boggs building; backup facility manager for the Molecular Science and Engineering building |
| W. Victor (Vic) Summey | Coordination of maintenance, building improvement and security for the Molecular Science and Engineering building; backup facility manager for the Boggs building. |
Scientific Staff
The School of Chemistry and Biochemistry manages and staffs the Institute's Mass Spectrometry and NMR service centers. These facilities provide scientific services to researchers both on and off campus on a fee for service basis. Our scientific staff also provide support for undergraduate laboratory programs.
| Name | Duties |
|---|---|
| Johannes Leisen | Assistant Director of the campus NMR service center |
