Donald Hamelberg
Interim Vice President for Research and Economic Development
Georgia State University
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Jessica Shepherd
Administrative Coordinator for the Vice President for Research and Economic Development
Georgia State University
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Interim Vice President for Research and Economic Development
Donald Hamelberg
Dr. Donald Hamelberg (Ph.D. ’01) is interim vice president for research and economic development at Georgia State University. He previously served as the associate dean for research and graduate studies in the College of Arts & Sciences.
Before joining the dean’s office, Dr. Hamelberg led the Department of Chemistry as chair. He also served as associate chair, director of graduate studies, associate director of graduate studies and professor of Chemistry, and is a long-serving faculty member at Georgia State.
He earned a Ph.D. in Computational Biophysical Chemistry from Georgia State in 2001. He also did postdoctoral training at the University of Illinois in Chicago, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the University of California, San Diego.
Dr. Hamelberg is an active researcher who has earned multiple grants to support his work in computational biophysical chemistry and has published extensively. He also serves as editor of the journal Computational Biology and Chemistry (Elsevier) and as reviewing editor of eLife. He is also a member of various editorial advisory boards.
Career awards and recognitions include the NSF CAREER Award, prestigious recognitions from the American Chemical Society and Georgia Cancer Coalition, and multiple college awards.