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Marcelo I. Guzman

T. Marshall Hahn, Sr. Professor in Arts and Sciences
Professor of Chemistry
Environmental Chemistry & Analytical Chemistry

Marcelo I. Guzman is the T. Marshall Hahn, Sr. Professor in Arts and Sciences and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Kentucky, where he leads the Environmental Chemistry Laboratory and teaches analytical and environmental chemistry. He previously served as an inaugural Lewis Honors College Faculty Fellow (2024–2026). He earned a Licentiate in Chemistry from the National University of Tucuman, Argentina, in 2000, where he held undergraduate and graduate research fellowships from the university's Research Council (1999–2002) and conducted research in the Department of Organic Chemistry. In 2001, he received an award from the Argentine Chemical Society and was offered a fellowship by the National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET) as the top-ranked chemistry graduate. In 2002, Dr. Guzman was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where he worked on paper and photograph conservation in the Sherman Fairchild Center. He earned his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 2007, conducting research on ice chemistry, and subsequently joined Harvard University's Origins of Life Initiative as an Origins Fellow. In 2013, he received an NSF CAREER Award.

Contact Information
marcelo dot guzman at uky dot edu
117A Chemistry-Physics Building
859-323-2892
Education
M.S. Environmental Science and Engineering, Caltech 2004
Ph.D. Environmental Science and Engineering Caltech 2007
Postdoctoral Fellow, Environmental Chemistry, Harvard University 2007-2010
Research Interests
  • Photocatalysis
  • Chromatography
  • Photochemistry
  • Prebiotic chemistry
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Environmental monitoring
  • sustainability
Affiliations
  • Chemistry
  • Analytical
  • Physical
  • Organic
  • Biological
  • Lewis Honoros College
  • UK Center for Appalachian Research in Environmental Sciences
Guzman Lab Website (external)
Google Scholar Profile
ResearchGate Profile
Guest Editor of Special Issue on "Photochemical Processes in Surface Waters, Atmospheric Waters and Interfaces"
Guest Editor of Special Issue on "Chemistry of Aqueous Surfaces in the Atmospheric Context"
Guest Editor of Special Issue on "Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction""
Guest Editor of Special Issue on "Applications of Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics"
Guest Editor of Special Issue on "Atmospheric Measurements with UAS"
Guest Editor of Special Issue on "30th Anniversary of Molecules: Recent Advances in Photochemistry"
Guest Editor of Special Issue on "Feature Papers in Photochemistry"
Guest Editor of Special Issue on "Feature Papers in Photochemistry II"
Guest Editor of Special Issue on "Feature Papers in Photochemistry, 3rd Edition"
Guest Editor of Special Issue on "Feature Papers in Air Quality"