Dr. Ryan T. Hayes, Professor of Chemistry, has been teaching chemistry at Andrews University since 2009 and has a passion for making chemistry understandable for people of all ages especially for his university level classes.  In addition to academics, Dr. Hayes has a research program that studies properties of dendrimers, develops new applications for dendrimers, and analyzes various elements in hair, food, and water.  He also helps manage Andrews ChemServices, a company within Andrews University, which manufactures and sells dendrimers to researchers around the world.  He has a passion for helping the general public to see and appreciate God’s chemical design of Earth.  He often travels to churches, schools, camps, and other programs to teach basic principles of chemistry or to encourage STEM education through exciting chemical demonstrations and presentations. 

Dr. Hayes has spent nearly a decade working in industry. His experience includes business development, patent portfolio management, and scale-up of chemical-based technologies within the life science reagent, personal care, agricultural, coatings, and polymer additive industries. Dr. Hayes was Director of Business Development for 4.5 years with Dendritic Nanotechnologies (DNT) located in Mt. Pleasant, MI before accepting the teaching responsibilities at Andrews University. Before DNT, he was employed as a research scientist at Lynntech, Inc. in College Station, TX where he assisted with numerous projects to develop and commercialize new chemical sensing technologies. Ryan is married to a microbiologist named Suzi, and they have three children: Carter, Christiana, and Cadance.

Dr. Hayes teaches General Chemistry (CHEM131, lecture & Lab) in the Fall along with General Chemistry II (CHEM132, lecture & lab) and Instrumental Analysis (CHEM430) in the Spring.