Welcome to the newest faculty members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences–Camden!
Jen-Hao Chen
Title/Rank: Assistant Professor; Tenure-track
Department: Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice; Program: Health Sciences
Email address: jc2450@rutgers.edu
Dr. Jen-Hao Chen, who will serve as a Henry Rutgers Chair, joins us from Howard University, where he served as an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology. After graduating from the National Central University with a Bachelor of Science degree in physics, Dr. Chen earned his doctorate in public policy and sociology from the University of Chicago. Research interests include how social integration and disadvantaged social positions affect health.
Nathan Fried
Title/Rank: Assistant Professor; Non-tenure track
Department: Biology
Email address: nathan.fried@rutgers.edu
Nathan Fried earned his doctorate in neuroscience from Thomas Jefferson University in 2015. Immediately thereafter he began a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, during which he received grants to investigate topics such as “Determining the role of fibroblasts in chronic pain and migraine.” Dr. Fried also served in the Department of Biology at Rutgers University–Camden during the 2017-2018 academic year as a visiting professor, creating and teaching a course called “Neuropharmacology: Sensory Systems, Addiction, and Society.”
Ashley Gimbal
Title/Rank: Assistant Professor; Non-tenure track
Department: English and Communication
Email address: ag1588@rutgers.edu
A 2018 graduate of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Arizona State University, Dr. Ashley Gimbal’s research focuses on media framing, terrorism, audience effects, and how these elements alter the way news is created and shared. She has served as an instructor at the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at ASU and at Grand Canyon University, among other universities.
Julianne Griepenburg
Title/Rank: Assistant Professor; Tenure-track
Department: Physics
Email address: jg1151@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Dr. Julianne Griepenburg has been a teaching instructor in the Department of Physics at Rutgers–Camden since 2014 and a co-coordinator for undergraduate laboratories since 2015. Her research has included the design of light-responsive polymersomes for release with high spatiotemporal resolution and investigating the mechanism of plasmonically mediated release from polymersome-nanoparticle systems upon single-pulse, ultrafast radiation. Dr. Griepenburg earned her doctorate in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania.
Guillaume Lamoureux
Title/Rank: Associate Professor; Tenure-track
Department: Chemistry
Email address: gl445@rutgers.edu
Dr. Guillaume Lamoureux joins us from Concordia University, in Canada, where he served as an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, with a cross-appointment to the Department of Physics. He earned his doctorate in physics (computational biophysics) from the University of Montreal. His research interests include protein-protein interactions, molecular recognition, computational enzymology, enzyme design, membrane transport, and machine learning.
Lisa Payne
Title/Rank: Assistant Professor; Tenure-track
Department: Psychology
Email address: lisa.payne@rutgers.edu
Dr. Lisa Payne earned her doctorate in neuroscience from the Drexel University College of Medicine in 2009. She has served as post-doctoral fellow at Brandeis University and also a Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology at Swarthmore College. Dr. Payne’s research combines behavioral and electroencephalographic (EEG) techniques in order to characterize selective attention and the interaction of selectivity with short-term memory.
Erin Robinson
Title/Rank: Visiting Assistant Professor; Non-tenure track
Department: Public Policy and Administration
Email address: erinm.robinson@rutgers.edu
Dr. Erin Robinson joins us from the University of Connecticut, where she served as an assistant professor in the Department of Public Policy since August 2011. She earned her doctorate from Texas A&M University, where her dissertation was on “The Politics of Public Management: Exploring the Importance of Environmental Support.” Dr. Robinson’s research and teaching interests include public management; public administration; race and ethnic politics; representation; and program development and education.
Daniel Semenza
Title/Rank: Assistant Professor; Tenure-track
Department: Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice
Email address: dcs165@rutgers.edu
Dr. Daniel Semenza earned his doctorate in sociology from Emory University, where he wrote his dissertation entitled, “Delinquency and the Digital Domain: The Role of Online Activity for Adolescents in Traditional Crime and Cyber Violence.” His areas of specialization include cybercrime, global intimate partner violence, juvenile delinquency, the link between crime and health, and quantitative methods. His work has recently been published in Criminal Justice and Behavior, Crime & Delinquency, and Sociological Inquiry.