Professor Gericke is a biophysical chemist studying lipid mediated protein functions using calorimetric, spectroscopic, and advanced microscopic techniques. An area of particular interest is phosphoinositide mediated signaling.

Professor Iannachione has experience in experimental soft condensed matter physics, physical chemistry, order-disorder phenomena, and emergence. As the former head of the Physics department, he received an NSF CAREER Award (2001-2006) and produced 74