Faculty
Amanda Silberstein, Ph.D.
Department Chair, Associate Professor of Chemistry

Office Location:
Whittier Science 215 (inside WS 216)
Office Available:
SPRING 2026
Tues 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Wed 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Thurs 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
or by appointment
Dr. Silberstein graduated from Caltech and earned her doctorate at UCLA. As a postdoctoral
scholar at Caltech, she examined the effectiveness and toxicity of polyamides targeting
liver cancer in cell culture. She won numerous fellowships during her graduate studies
and served as an intern at Genentech in San Francisco. Her research at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ focuses
her on synthetic chemistry, and she hopes in the future to work on total synthesis,
making naturally occurring small molecules.