Below you will find a list of all the faculty members at John Jay currently serving as PRISM research mentors and their research interests. Clicking on their names or name will take you to their specific profile with a summary of their research interests and in most cases, some journal articles that they recommend you read if interested to learn more about their field and details of what they look for in prospective mentees (courses, technical skills, etc.).
Research Mentors, you can find our online resources for you here.
Faculty Mentor |
Area of Expertise |
Aftab Ahmad, DS.c |
Object-oriented programming, computer architecture, data communications, and forensic security |
Anthony Carpi, Ph.D. |
Environmental chemistry and science education |
Leslie Chandrakantha, Ph.D. |
Statistics, Regression Analysis and Logistic Regression, Time Series Analysis, and Computer Simulation |
Elise Champeil, Ph.D. |
Synthetic chemistry and bioorganic chemistry |
Shu-Yuan Cheng, Ph.D. |
Toxicology, pharmacology, molecular biology, and neuroscience |
Marta Concheiro-Guisan, Ph.D. |
Forensic and clinical toxicology |
Angelique Corthals, Ph.D. |
Pathology, biomedical and physical anthropology, and archeology |
Lissette Delgado-Cruzata, Ph.D., MPH |
Epigenetics and cancer epidemiology |
Artem Domashevskiy, Ph.D. |
Biochemistry, biophysics, and molecular biology |
Sam Graff, Ph.D. |
Computer Science |
Yi He, Ph.D. |
Analytical chemistry and environmental sciences |
Shweta Jain, Ph.D. |
Wireless and social networks, Delay tolerant networks |
Hunter Johnson, Ph.D. |
Mathematical logic |
Ekaterina Korobkova, Ph.D. |
Biochemistry, biophysics, and physical chemistry |
Thomas Kubic, JD, Ph.D. |
Light and electron microscopy, vibrational spectroscopy, and image analysis to physical evidence examinations |
Nathan Lents, Ph.D. |
Cell biology, forensic biology, genetics, and bioinformatics |
Richard Li, Ph.D. |
Forensic DNA analysis, forensic molecular biology, and forensic genetics |
Helen-Marie Maras, Ph.D. |
Cybersecurity, surveillance, counterterrorism, and transnational security |
Muath Obaidat, Ph.D. |
Network security and forensics, wireless security, IoT security and privacy |
Ana Pego, Ph.D. |
Physiopathology and Toxicology |
Mechthild Prinz, Ph.D. |
Forensic Biology and forensic genetics |
Gloria Proni, Ph.D. |
Supramolecular and molecular chirality, optical spectroscopy, and synthesis and characterization of small molecules |
Jason Rauceo, Ph.D. |
Molecular biology, molecular genetics, and mycology |
Marcel Roberts, Ph.D. |
Electrochemistry, spectroscopy, and analytical chemistry |
Jennifer Rosati, Ph.D. |
Forensic entomology, biology, entomology, ecology, entomotoxicology, and insect behavior |
Linda Rourke, M.S. D-ABC |
Criminalistics |
Daniel Yaverbaum, M.S. MPhil |
Physics education and cognition, Galilean and special relativity, and astronomy |
Guoqi Zhang, Ph.D. |
Inorganic/organometallic chemistry, chemical catalysis, forensic chemistry, and metallic anticancer drugs |