Biography

Tami Spector
Professor: Chemistry

Tami Spector received her B.A. from Bard College, her Ph.D. from Dartmouth College, and was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Minnesota. She teaches fundamentals of organic chemistry, organic chemistry I and II, organic laboratory I and II, and a graduate course in advanced mechanisms.

Trained as an physical organic chemist her experimental research interests are focused on the transformations of strained ring organics, the design and synthesis of organic selective ion transport systems, and spectroscopic analysis of intramolecular hydrogen bonding. In addition, she has published in the field of computational chemistry with an emphasis on molecular dynamics and free energy calculations of biomolecular systems. Tami also has a strong interest in aesthetics and chemistry and has three articles forthcoming on this topic: The Molecular Aesthetics of Disease: AIDS and the Scientific Imagination John Dalton and The Aesthetics of Molecular Representation, and Molecular Aesthetics: From the Empirical to the Constitutive.

Contact Info:
University of San Francisco
Chemistry Department
2130 Fulton Street
San Francisco, CA 94117-1080
Phone: (415) 422-2927
Fax: (415) 422-5157
E-mail: spector@usfca.edu
Office: Harney Science Center, 437
Office Hours:
T 3:30pm-4:30pm
W 12pm-2pm and by appointment.