Anthony Haymet

Anthony Haymet Board member, Texas Learning and Computation Center (TLC2) Anthony Haymet is a distinguished professor of Chemistry and chair of the Physical Chemistry Division at the University of Houston (UH). Recipient of several fellowships, Dr. Haymet has published more than 120 journal articles and delivered more than 150 seminars as an invited lecturer at universities and chemistry symposiums around the world. He has taught chemistry at universities across the U.S. and in his native Australia. Dr. Haymet is affiliated with TLC2's Institute for Molecular Design, as well as the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the W.M. Keck Center for Computational Biology at Rice University. His areas of research include hydrophobicity--the reason oil and water don't mix--what it is, how it depends on temperature, and how it affects the properties of both simple molecules (such as hydrocarbons, of interest to the Oil and Gas Industry) and more complicated biological molecules (such as proteins, which "fold" in solution). Dr. Haymet also studies fish "antifreeze" proteins, which are little understood molecules that inhibit the growth of ice; the nucleation of supercooled solutions (of interest to gas pipelines, where solids form and block gas flow; and in atmospheric science, where ice crystals in the atmosphere are believed to play a role in phenomena such as thunderstorms; and to fundamental chemistry, where theories of liquid-to-solid nucleation are lacking), and phospholipid bilayers, which separate the inside and outside of living things. Dr. Haymet's research is supported by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. He holds a PhD in chemistry from the University of Chicago.