Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
State University of New York
Potsdam, NY
E-mail: hepelmr@potsdam.edu
State University of New York
Potsdam, NY
E-mail: hepelmr@potsdam.edu
1985 | Postdoc. (Physics) City Univ. of New York, Brooklyn College, NY | US |
1982 | Postdoc. (Chemistry) State Univ. of New York at Buffalo | US |
1976 | Ph.D. (Chemistry) Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland | POLAND |
1969 | M.S. (Chemistry) Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland | POLAND |
Maria Hepel received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from Jagellonian University in Krakow, Poland, founded in 1364. She worked as the Faculty at the State University of New York at Potsdam from 1985 where she is now a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Chemistry. She published over 160 papers which received over 2600 citations, 25 chapters in books, and co-authored / edited 5 books. She has made over 400 presentations at the national and international symposia. She organized many symposia at the American Chemical Society, Electrochemical Society and International Society of Electrochemistry Meetings and has been the program chair of the 2010 North-East Regional Meeting of ACS. Her current research interests include AFM and Raman Spectroscopy imaging, nanoparticles for medical applications, targeted and controlled release of anticancer drugs, sensors for biomarkers of oxidative stress and cancer, drug interactions with DNA, supercapacitors, electrochromic devices and nanotechnology. She won the SUNY Potsdam President's Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Endeavor in 1995 and 2001, the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1998 and SUNY Chancellor's Award for Research in 2003 and Northeast Region, ACS Award for Achievements in the Chemical Sciences in 2012, Rochester, NY.
Dr. Maria Hepel’s research interests include adsorption, monolayer and thin surface films; nanowires; ion-channels in phospholipid films; binding of drugs to DNA-modified electrodes; DNA damage by toxicants; biosensors for oxidative stress monitoring; antioxidants; use of gold nanoparticles for the detection of diseases biomarkers & diagnosis; detection of biomarkers for diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular diseases; conformational changes of proteins and peptides; controlled drug electro release from conductive polymers; immunosensors and piezoelectric sensors; photoelectrochemistry and photoelectrochemical degradation of organic pollutants; corrosion inhibitors; electrochromic materials; electrocatalysts for methanol oxidation; detection of heavy metals & pesticides in water samples; and nanotechnology projects involving the use of AFM/STM, Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Nanobalance, DLS, RELS, Raman, Fluorescence and FRET techniques and Lab-on-a chip.
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