Kevin Belfield
Dean, College of Science and Liberal Arts, Office of the Dean - CSLA
973-596-3676
207 Cullimore Hall (CULM)
About Me
Kevin Belfield was appointed Dean of the College of Science and Liberal Arts at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Science in November 2014. Dr. Belfield received the B.S. degree in Chemistry from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1982 and, after spending one year at Bristol-Myers Pharmaceutical Co. in Syracuse (1982-83), the Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Syracuse University in 1988 (under the mentorship of John E. Baldwin). He then worked as a Senior Chemist at Ciba-Geigy Corp. before performing postdoctoral research at SUNY College of Environmental and Forestry (with Israel Cabasso) and at Harvard University (with William von E. Doering). Subsequently, Kevin was a member of the faculty at the University of Detroit Mercy and Graduate Coordinator. While at the University of Detroit Mercy, Belfield was an AFOSR Summer Faculty Fellow in 1997 and 1998. Prior to joining NJIT he served as Pegasus Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Central Florida (1998-2014). In 2010, Dr. Belfield was 2010 Inducted into the National Commission of Cooperative Education (NCCE) Co-op Hall of Fame. In 2013, he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and became a Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in 2019. Belfield has served as PI or co-PI on over 45 grants from federal, foundation, and corporate agencies. Kevin has over 250 publications, holds over a dozen US patents, and serves on several editorial advisory boards of scientific journals. Dr. Belfield is a pioneer in two-photon photochemistry and organic photonic materials. His research interests range from developing contrast agents for early cancer detection and new paradigms for photodynamic cancer therapy to ultrafast photophysics and 3D high density optical data storage.
Education
Ph.D. ; Syracuse University ; Chemistry ; 1988

B.S. ; Rochester Institute of Technology ; Chemistry ; 1982

Website
https://csla.njit.edu/belfield
2025 Fall Courses
CHEM 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II

EVSC 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT

CHEM 701B - MASTERS THESIS

EVSC 701B - MASTER'S THESIS

EVSC 792B - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH

CHEM 591 - GRADUATE CO-OP WORK EXPER II

EVSC 591 - GRADUATE WORK EXPERIENCE I

EVSC 592 - GRADUATE WORK EXPERIENCE II

EVSC 701C - MASTER'S THESIS

FRSC 491 - RESEARCH & INDEP STUDY I

CHEM 492 - RESEARCH & INDEP STUDY

CHEM 700B - MASTERS PROJECT

CHEM 790A - DOCTORAL DISSERTATION

EVSC 790A - DOCTORAL DISSERTATION

EVSC 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II

CHEM 701C - MASTERS THESIS

CHEM 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I

CHEM 391 - RESEARCH AND INDEPENDENT STUDY

CHEM 590 - GRADUATE CO-OP WORK EXPER I

CHEM 792B - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH

EVSC 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I

CHEM 491 - RESEARCH & INDEP STUDY I

CHEM 595 - PRACT IN CELL & GENE THER SCI

Teaching Interests
Organic and materials chemistry, photochemistry, chemistry and society
Past Courses
CHEM 725: INDEPENDENT STUDY

Research Interests
Research interests are in the area of multiphoton absorbing materials, two-photon photochemistry, in vivo and ex vivo two-photon fluorescence bioimaging, magnetic polymeric and sol-gel nanocomposites, site-specific fluorophore labeling, fluorescent-based sensors and bioimaging probes, photodynamic therapy agents, nanostructured functional organic and polymeric materials, and two-photon based 3D high density optical data storage.
Journal Article
Alfonso Minervino, Kevin D. Belfield. 2024. "Review of Recent Computational Research on the Adsorption of PFASs with a Variety of Substrates." International Journal of Molecular Sciences , vol. 25 , no. 6 , pp. 3445.

S Yu, O Reddy, A Abaci, Y Ai, Y Li, H Chen, Murat Guvendiren, Kevin D. Belfield, Yuanwei Zhang. "Novel BODIPY-Based Photobase Generators for Photoinduced Polymerization." American Chemical Society , vol. 15 , no. 38 , pp. 45281–45289.

G Vargas-Nadal, M Köber, A Nsamela, F Terenziani, C Sissa, S Pescina, F Sonvico, A Mohd Gazzali, H A Wahab, L Grisanti, M E Olivera, M C Palena, M L Guzman, L C Luciani-Giacobbe, A Jimenez-Kairuz, N Ventosa, I Ratera, Kevin D. Belfield, B M Moaz. 2023. "Fluorescent Multifunctional Organic Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery and Bioimaging: A Tutorial Review." .

Y O2. Shaydyuk , N V Bashmakova, G V Klishevіch, A M Dmytruk, O D Kachkovsky, I B Kuziv, I Y Dubey, Kevin D. Belfield, M V Bondar. 2023. "The Nature of Linear Spectral Properties, Fast Relaxations in the Excited States and Two-photon Absorption Efficiency of 3-Thiazolyl and 3-Phenyltiazolyl Coumarin Derivatives." .

A Agas, A R Ravula, X Ma, Y Cheng, Kevin D. Belfield, James Haorah. 2023. "Hemolytic Iron Regulation in Traumatic Brain Injury and Alcohol Use." .

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Other
"DMSP for 'HSI:ELPSE: Conference on Equity and AI Impact on Undergraduate STEM Workforce Readiness' (Pending)"
DMPTool, September, 2024.

Conference Proceeding
"Mechanisms of vascular function in cerebrospinal fluid waste metabolites clearance perivascular system"
OSA Technical Digest, January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2018.

"Entropy analysis of OCT signal for automatic tissue characterization"
2016.