Portrait of Dr. Chang Ji

Dr. Chang Ji

  • Associate Professor at Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Science & Engineering

Service Activities

Ongoing

  • Member, Graduate Biohemistry Curriculum Committee. September 2024 - Present.
  • Member, Faculty Senate Liaison. September 2023 - Present.
  • Member, Graduate College Master's Exit Survey Advisory Board. May 2023 - Present.
  • Member, Graduate Student Recruiting Committee. 2018 - Present.
  • Chair, Graduate Admission Committee. September 2018 - Present.
  • Chair, Graduate Chemistry Curriculum Committee. September 2018 - Present.
  • Member, Outcomes and Assessment Committee. September 2018 - Present.
  • Member, Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum Committee. September 2015 - Present.
  • Member, Space Committee. 2013 - Present.
  • Member, Personnel Committee. 2010 - Present.

2024

  • Member, Department Program Review Committee. August 2023 - December 2024.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Applied Electrochemistry. July 2024.

2023

  • Member, Shared Research Operations Advisory Committee. 2018 - 2023.
  • Reviewer / Referee, European Journal of Organic Chemistry. July 2023 - September 2023.
  • Member, INL Summer Intership Committee. April 2023 - May 2023.

2022

  • Member, Faculty Evaluation Committee. February 1, 2022 - April 30, 2022.
  • Member, Physical Chemistry Search committee. August 2021 - January 2022.

2021

  • Member, Seminar Committee. May 2018 - May 2021.
  • Member, Physical or Analytical Chemistry Search Committee. October 2020 - February 2021.

2020

  • Participant, Bobcat Day. February 2020.

2019

  • Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Merit Policy. 2017 - 2019.
  • Reviewer / Referee, NSF MRI. March 2019.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Journal of The Electrochemical Society. February 2019.

2018

  • Participant, Chemistry/Biochemistry Research Colloquium Judge. 2018.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Electrochimica Acta. September 2018.

2017

  • Member, NMR Users Committee. 2011 - 2017.
  • Participant, Bobcat Day. November 2017.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Research on Chemical Intermediates. October 2017.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Journal of the Electrochemical Society. August 2017.
  • Chair, Analytical Chemistry Search Committee. July 2016 - August 2017.

2016

  • Reviewer / Referee, “Synthesis and Anodic Oxidation of 3-(4-Fluorophenyl)-2-methyl-[1,2a] benzimidazolo-1,3,5-triazin-4-thione”. 2016.
  • Member, Graduate Curriculum Committee. 2015 - 2016.
  • Member, WISE Conference Representative. 2014 - 2016.
  • Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Teaching Evaluation. September 2015 - May 2016.

2015

  • Reviewer / Referee, “A Novel Monolithic Carbon Foam-Supported Pd-Based Catalyst towards Ethanol Electro-Oxidation in Alkaline Media”. 2015.
  • Reviewer / Referee, “A Novel Monolithic Carbon Foam-Supported PdNi Catalyst towards Ethanol Electro-Oxidation in Alkaline Media”. 2015.
  • Reviewer / Referee, “Electrochemical, Electrocatalytic Dioxygen Reducing and Dielectric Relaxation Properties of Novel Non-Peripheral Tetra-2,3-dihydro-1H-inden-5-yloxy Substituted Phthalocyanines”. 2015.
  • Reviewer / Referee, “Reduction of Hg2+ by Individual Phenolics and Complex Samples and its Application in Polarographic Antioxidant Assay”. 2015.
  • Reviewer / Referee, “Green and Efficient One-Pot Diels-Alder Electro-Organic Cyclization Reaction of 1,2-Bis(bromomethyl)benzene with Naphthoquinone Derivatives”. 2015.
  • Chair, Chemical Education Search Committee. 2014 - 2015.
  • Member, Faculty Evaluation Committee. 2012 - 2015.
  • Member, Service Evaluation Ad Hoc Committee. June 2014 - May 2015.

2014

  • Member, Senior Lab Services Technician Search Committee. 2014.
  • Organizer, REU Poster Session. 2014.
  • Reviewer / Referee, “The Effect of Coinage Transition Metal (Cu, Ag, Au) Substitutions on Two-Electron Redox Potential of Quinones”. 2014.
  • Reviewer / Referee, “Green and Efficient One-Pot Diels-Alder Electro-Organic Cyclization Reaction of 1,2-Bis(bromomethyl)benzene with Naphthoquinone Derivatives”. 2014.
  • Reviewer / Referee, “Electro-oxidation of Aldehydes in Alkaline Solution by Electropolymerized Nickel Salen-Based Film Modified Electrodes”. 2014.
  • Reviewer / Referee, “Highly Sensitive and Simultaneous Determination of Hydroquinone and Catechol at Thionine/Graphene Oxide Modified Glassy Carbon Electrodes”. 2014.
  • Reviewer / Referee, “Electrochemical Synthesis of 2,2'-Dichlorohydrazobenezene from o-Chloronitrobenzene on a Titanium Electrode”. 2014.
  • Reviewer / Referee, “Electro-Oxidation of Hydroquinone Derivatives in the Presence of 2-Acetyl-Gamma-Butyrolactone. A Green, Simple, One Pot and Efficient Method for Synthesis of New Hydroquinones”. 2014.
  • Speaker, Family Service Youth Leadership Academy Career Fair. 2014.
  • Undergraduate Advisor, Texas State – SWPU exchange program academic advisor. 2013 - 2014.
  • Chair, Faculty Evaluation Committee. 2013 - 2014.
  • Member, MSEC Search Committee. 2013 - 2014.

2013

  • Reviewer / Referee, J. Miranda, “Computational Studies of Metal-Salen Electrochemistry and Application to Catalytic Electroreductive Cyclization and Electrohydrocyclization”. 2013.
  • Reviewer / Referee, “Green and Efficient Electro-Organic Synthesis of Hydroquinone Derivatives under EC Mechanism”. 2013.
  • Reviewer / Referee, “Metal-Salens as Catalysts in Electroreductive Cyclization and Electrohydrocyclization: Computational and Experimental Studies”. 2013.
  • Reviewer / Referee, “Efficient Factors on the Reaction Rate and Site-Selectivity in Sulfonylation of Catechol and Hydroquinone Derivatives: Experimental and Theoretical Studies”. 2013.
  • Judge, REU Poster Session. 2013.
  • Member, Graduate Admission Committee. 2010 - 2013.

2012

  • Member, REP Representative. 2012.
  • Member, Ad Hoc Committee on UG Chemistry Learning Outcomes. 2012.
  • Member, Senior Lab Services Technician Search Committee. 2012.
  • Participant, Bobcat Day. 2012.
  • Reviewer / Referee, D.A. Bruce, “Helical Polymer Supports for Enantioselective Catalysis”. 2012.
  • Reviewer / Referee, “Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Formaldehyde and Formic Acid at Pd Nanoparticles Modified Glassy Carbon Electrode”. 2012.
  • Reviewer / Referee, “Electrochemical Behavior of an Important Sedative: Chloral”. 2012.
  • Reviewer / Referee, “Competing Reaction Pathways in the Anodic Oxidation of Diphenylacetaldehyde. Differentiation by 18O Isotopic Labeling". 2012.
  • Volunteer, Family Science Night. 2012.

2011

  • Member, Scheduling Coordinating Committee. 2011.
  • Participant, Bobcat Day. 2011.
  • Reviewer / Referee, “Cyanide-Coordinated Fe(III) meso-Tetra(4-carboxyphenyl) Porphyrin as a Possible Electrocatalytic Material for Selective H2S Oxidation”. 2011.
  • Reviewer / Referee, “Teaching Internal Standard Method: An Experimental Approach”. 2011.
  • Chair, Equipment Committee. 2008 - 2011.

2010

  • Member, Program for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. 2010.
  • Member, Biochemistry Search Committee. 2010.
  • Reviewer / Referee, “Oxidative Ring Cleavage of 4-Nitrocatechol. Kinetic Study Using Digital Simulation of Cyclic Voltammograms”. 2010.
  • Reviewer / Referee, “The Electrochemical Reduction of 1,4 Dichloroazoethanes: Reductive Elimination of Chloride to Form Aryl Azines”. 2010.
  • Member, Chemical Education Search Committee. 2009 - 2010.

2009

  • Member, STEM Professional Development Day. 2009.
  • Reviewer / Referee, “Power Ultrasound in the Classroom: Efficient Methodology for the Fast Degradation of Organic Matter in Urine”. 2009.
  • Member, College of Science Graduate Scholarships Selection Committee. January 2007 - April 2009.

2008

  • Participant, Bobcat Day. 2008.
  • Reviewer / Referee, J.M. Stoddard, “Investigation of Silica-Supported Solvent-Free Multi-Component Reactions”. 2008.
  • Member, Chemistry Chair Search Committee. 2007 - 2008.

2007

  • Volunteer, Chemists Celebrate Earth Day. 2007.

2006

  • Participant, University College Fair. 2006.
  • Member, SET Quest Committee. 2006.

2005

  • Member, Student Commencement Speaker Committee. 2005.

2004

  • Member, Student Commencement Speaker Committee. 2004.