Michael Carpenter

Michael A. Carpenter received his B.S. in chemistry from SUNY Geneseo, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physical chemistry from the University of Rochester, NY. He was a postdoctoral associate at Cornell University and was a postdoctoral associate at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

He is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at SUNY Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Carpenter served as Interim Dean of the College of Engineering at SUNY Polytechnic Institute from 2019-2024 and is currently the Vice President for Research.  He has helped raise $32.5M in funding for scholarships, endowed faculty lines, curriculum and workforce development and equipment resources that have impacted academic programs across the campus. His research has led the development of plasmonics for use as an integratable harsh environment chemical sensors as well as the development of high temperature compatible multivariable sensing methods. 

Dr. Carpenter’s multidisciplinary research has commonly spanned across fields that include materials science and engineering, mechanical engineering, physics, chemistry, optics among other disciplines and has included over $6M in outside funding for research.  His published works have over 2400 citations with an h-index = 26.