The natural sciences seek to shed light on the rules that govern the natural world by using empirical and scientific methods. Although mathematics and computational science may not be considered natural sciences per se, they provide critical insight and many tools used within the natural sciences.
The Heiser Natural Sciences Complex includes teaching and undergraduate research labs for chemistry, biology, computational science, physics and mathematics.
There is a greenhouse, herbarium and sampling equipment for field ecology. Our newest facility is a Nanotechnology Lab to study the properties of tiny structures used in cutting-edge technologies for the computer, robotic, medical and optical communication fields.
The Pritzker Marine Biology Research Center houses over 100 aquaria and features student and faculty research laboratories, classrooms and office space for New College’s marine biology program. Each tank in the Living Ecosystem Teaching and Research Aquarium features a different captive ecosystem, several with a camera to send images to a streaming video server. Underneath the building, an additional 10,000 square feet of space provides room for quarantine, storage, and the system that supplies seawater to the facility’s aquaria and labs.
Natural Sciences Division AOCs
Natural Sciences Faculty & Staff
Cory Clark, Ph.D.
Briana Aguila-Ames
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Steven Austin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Samuel Bedgood, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biology
Alfred Beulig
Emeritus Professor of Biology
Amy Bohan
Instructor of Biology
Hsiang “Robert” Chang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Amy Clore
Professor of Biology
Donald Colladay, Ph.D.
Professor of Physics
Jeremias Corradi
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
Melissa Crow
Instructor of Statistics
Nathaniel Curtis
Postdoctoral Fellow
Leo Demski
Emeritus Professor of Biology
Founding Director Pritzker Marine Biology Center
Nicola Erdsack
Research Scholar
Taylor Feild
Associate Professor of Biology
Kristopher Fennie, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Co-Director of Health Cultures and Societies
Sandra Gilchrist
Professor of Biology & Marine Science
Natural Sciences Division Chair
David Gillman
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Fahmida Hamid
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Kent Hatch, Ph.D.
Asst. Professor of Organismal Biology
Director, Pritzker Marine Biology Research Center
Allison Hilbun
Instructor of Statistics
Meng Che “Turbo” Ho, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Mans Hulden
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Lin Jiang
Assistant Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry
Devang Khambhati
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Bernhard Klingenberg, Ph.D.
Director of Data Science
Professor of Statistics
Samantha Levell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Marine Biology
Rohan Loveland
Professor of Computer & Data Science
Elzie McCord, Jr., Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of Biology
Patrick McDonald
Professor of Mathematics
Jose Moscoso-Nunez
Visiting Assistant Professor of Marine Biology
David Mullins
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics
Mikayla Nolen
Office Assistant, Natural Sciences
Vikmukthi Pathirage
Associate in Physics
Eirini Poimenidou
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics
Erin Robinson
Ombudsperson
Tania Roy, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Human Centered Computing
George Ruppeiner
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Tyrone Ryba
Associate Professor of Bioinformatics
Mariana Sendova, Ph.D.
Professor of Physics
Vlad Serban
Associate Professor in Mathematics
Suzanne Sherman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Andrey Skripnikov
Assistant Professor of Applied Statistics
Jose Soto-Shoender, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biology and Ecology
Nathaniel Stahl, Ph.D.
Colleen Swessel
Office Manager
Joel Thurmond
Senior Teaching Laboratory Specialist
Gerardo Toro-Farmer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Coastal and Marine Science
Romina Uranga
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
Toby Wade, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Data Science and Statistics
Lydia Wassink
Assistant Professor of Biology
