AUM Faculty & Staff
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Nick Thomas
Professor | College of Sciences
Dr. Nick Thomas is a Professor of Chemistry at AUM and was selected as Distinguished Teaching Professor 2006 ? 2009. He teaches Inorganic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, and General Chemistry. His primary areas of research have been the coordination chemistry of transition metals, including lanthanide (rare earth) elements, and chemical education. He has written encyclopedia entries and numerous feature articles on a variety of general interest topics for newspapers and magazines around the country.
Yener Ulus
Assistant Professor | College of Sciences
Dr. Yener Ulus is an Assistant Professor of Biology and Environmental Science at Auburn University at Montgomery (AUM). His research focuses on how changing environmental conditions influence the behavior of pollutants, with an emphasis on heavy metals such as mercury in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.
He studies how factors like sea-level rise, flooding, saltwater intrusion, forest management, and wildfires affect the transformation, movement, and accumulation of contaminants in soils, waters, and food webs.
His work combines field and laboratory studies to understand pollutant dynamics better and to develop strategies for predicting and mitigating ecological and human health risks. He has published in leading journals, collaborates internationally on pollutant research, and is open to new research partnerships. Dr. Ulus is also currently accepting master’s students interested in environmental science. At AUM, he teaches Environmental Science, Earth System Dynamics, and Environmental Pollution and Control, offering students hands-on, inquiry-based learning experiences.
Robert Underwood
Professor | College of Sciences
Ph.D. Mathematics (1992), State University of New York at Albany
M.S. Mathematics Education (1986), State University of New York at Albany
Robert Underwood is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics in the School of School of Sciences. His research interests concern the classification of Hopf algebra orders in group rings and the application of Hopf orders to Galois module theory and the theory of formal groups.
Yi Wang
Professor & Chair | College of Sciences
Ph.D. Mathematics (2003) West Virginia University
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering (1997) Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, (1991) Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
Bio: Dr. Wang is Professor of Mathematics at Auburn University Montgomery (AUM). He joined the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, AUM as Assistant Professor in August 2006. Subsequently, he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2010 and Professor in 2015. Dr. Wang received his second Ph.D. in mathematics from West Virginia University, USA in 2003, and his first Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Southwest Jiaotong University, China in 1997. Dr. Wang’s current research interests include machine learning and operation research.
Dr. Wang was born in China. He grew up in a family of teachers with a younger brother and younger twin sisters. At his leisure time, Dr. Wang likes swimming, tennis, pingpong, badminton, fishing, and playing poker.
Chelsea Ward
Professor/Head | College of Sciences
Ph.D. (2005) Auburn University in Biology
BS (1998) Florida Institute of Technology in Marine Biology
Dr. Ward’s research focuses are on immunology and stress physiology as it relates to temperature and changing environments. She also has interested in latitudinal gradients in stress physiology, immunology, and metabolism in Anurans.
