Amanda J. Haes PhD, MS

Amanda J. Haes is currently an Associate Professor of Chemistry in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS). Professor Haes’s research efforts focus on understanding fundamental structure – function relationships and applications involving plasmonic nanoparticles. Specifically, her research focuses on synthesizing standard gold and/or silver nanostructures and subsequently modifying their surfaces with novel, perm-selective surface chemistries for the direct and quantitative detection of small molecules and metabolites. Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is used to directly detect the small molecules while the novel surface layers facilitate molecular transport and recognition specificity.