Good to Know

Meet Our New Faculty Members

Biology T. Chris Gamblin, Professor Rahul Raghavan, Associate Professor

Chemistry Audrey Lamb, Professor and Department Chair Fang Xu, Assistant Professor

Computer Science Sumit Jha, Professor Rocky Slavin, Assistant Professor

Geological Sciences Alfonso Fernández, Assistant Professor

Mathematics Alperen Ergür, Assistant Professor Jessica Gehrtz, Assistant Professor Zhuolin Qu, Assistant Professor Cluster Hire Mathematics and Physics and Astronomy José Morales, Assistant Professor

Physics and Astronomy and Electrical and Computer Engineering Robert Sutherland, Assistant Professor

Joint Hire College of Sciences (Mathematics) and College of Engineering (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Claire Walton, Assistant Professor

Dr. Audrey Lamb has joined the College of Sciences as the new chair of the Department of Chemistry. Lamb was previously a professor and director of graduate training in chemical biology at the University of Kansas. She earned her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Lamb’s research includes the study of how metallophores, natural products from plants, bacteria and fungi, are made as well as the chemistry attributed to the enzymes that make riboflavin, or vitamin B2. Her lab also investigates the enzymes implicated in cancer and diabetes. “I think the best part of being a chair will be helping the members of the department be successful,” she says. “This includes students who are learning and performing experiments and faculty who are teaching and running research labs. I am looking forward to learning from my new colleagues. I am excited to learn from them the chemistry about which they are passionate.”