Expertise

Research: Bioinorganic Chemistry Concerning Dioxygen (O2) Activation and Nitrogen Oxide (NOx) Interconversion; Bio-inspired Synthetic Structural/Functional Models of Metalloenzyme Active Sites; Mechanistic Interrogations of Metalloprotein Biochemistries Involving O2 and NOx’s; Metallobiochemistry Implicated with Human Pathogenesis and Therapeutics; Structural (Geometric and Electronic), Spectroscopic and Computational Analysis of Transient Reaction Intermediates; Designing and Developing Bio-inspired Environmentally Benign (Green), Cheaper Catalysis for Industrially/Synthetically Indispensable Transformations, and/or Next Generation Alternative Energy Applications

Skills and Expertise

  • Inorganic Synthesis
  • Bioinorganic Chemistry
  • Homogeneous Catalysis
  • Crystal Structure
  • Density Functional Theory
  • Spectroscopy
  • EPR
  • Electronic Structure
  • Electron Spin Resonance
Affiliations

Associate Lecturer, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Alabama

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham
2018

Assistant Professor, Institute for Social Science Research, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Alabama

Degrees
PhD, University of Kansas, Inorganic Chemistry, 2015
BS, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Chemistry, 2009