Joseph J. Urban, Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Delaware (410) 293-6605 Chemistry Department U.S. Naval Academy 572M Holloway Road Annapolis, MD 21402-5026 urban@usna.edu Department Home Page

Research Interests

My research involves the application of computational chemistry techniques (a.k.a. “molecular modeling”) to problems in organic chemistry.  The properties that are typically investigated involve structure, reactivity, conformation, solvation, binding affinity and the like.  The methods we use range from simple molecular mechanics force fields to high-level ab initio and DFT approaches.  The systems under study are organic compounds of fundamental interest as well as those of interest in applied areas such as biological chemistry and nanoscience.  The resources we use involve workstations in the USNA Chemistry Department and supercomputers at remote DoD high-performance computing centers.

I encourage midshipmen who are interested in participating in this type of research to contact me.

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