Mentoring Program

The Chemistry/Physics Mentoring Program is dedicated to your success as an undergraduate student. Our goal is to build dynamic, one-on-one mentoring relationships between faculty and undergraduates to help you achieve your academic and professional goals. Whether you need guidance with course selection, study strategies, or exploring career paths and graduate school options, our faculty is ready to help you thrive. You're now a part of our department, and we're committed to providing the vision and support you need to succeed. When you're ready, simply make an appointment to get started.

Find Your Mentor

Beatrix Aukszi

Professor

ba285@nova.edu

Research Interests: Organic synthesis, metal-mediated coupling reactions, phospho-mapping of proteins and chemical education

Maria Ballester

Professor

mballest@nova.edu

Research Interests: Porphyrins, spectroscopic analysis, enzyme assay, forensic science, thermodynamics, kinetics, quantum mechanics, pharmaceuticals, electrochemistry, and flavones

Jessica Brown

Associate Professor

jbrown3@nova.edu

Research Interests: VOC analysis, periodontal disease, SPME, and GC-MS

Diego Castano

Professor

castanod@nova.edu

Research Interests: Physics and theoretical particle physics

Victor Castro

Professor

castvict@nova.edu

Research Interests: Physics, nonlinear dynamics, chaos, electrics

Russell Driver

Associate Professor

rdriver@nova.edu

Research Interests: X-ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopy

Dimitri Giarikos

Professor

giarikos@nova.edu

Research Interests: Synthetic inorganic and organometallic chemistry of photosensitized compounds, heavy metals contaminants and Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in marine mammals, birds and sediments.

Aurora Kiene

Assistant Professor

akiene@nova.edu

Research Interests: Dynamics of Earth's upper atmosphere

Louis Nemzer

Professor

lnemzer@nova.edu

Research Interests: Biophysics, cooperative antibiotic resistance, information in DNA, seizure prediction for epilepsy, and 3D-printing for data visualization

Richard H. Perry

Associate Professor

richard.perry@nova.edu

Research Interests: Analytical chemistry, instrument development, lipidomics, lonization mechanisms, ambient mass spectrometry, mass spectrometry imaging, molecular mechanisms of biological processes and diseases, reaction mechanisms, and molecular modeling