Principle Investigator
Zachary J. Knepp, Ph.D.
Zach is a computational chemist and assistant professor of chemistry at Alfred University, where he teaches physical chemistry, general chemistry, and advanced laboratory courses. He earned his B.S. from Lock Haven University in 2020 and his Ph.D. from Lehigh University in 2025, with a dissertation focused on modeling excited states and charge transport using density functional theory (DFT). His research interests center on using ab initio electronic structure methods to explore photophysics and photochemistry.
Undergraduate Students
This could be you! We are actively recruiting undergraduate researchers to work on computational and synthetic organic chemistry projects. If you’re interested, feel free to reach out via the email link at the bottom of the page.
Collaborators
Interested in excited-state dynamics? We’re looking to collaborate with spectroscopists, especially those with expertise in transient absorption spectroscopy.