Dr. Matthew Saderholm was appointed dean of faculty following a recommendation of the dean selection committee in May 2019.

A 1992 Berea College graduate, Matthew Saderholm won a Fulbright Fellowship and spent a year studying physical chemistry and biochemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, Switzerland. He earned a doctoral degree in biological chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Carol Fierke’s lab at Duke University.

Saderholm returned to Berea College in 1999 to teach biochemistry. In 2019, Saderholm completed a five-year term as Division I chair. He has served as chemistry department chair, and also provided faculty leadership throughout the planning and construction phases of the Margaret A. Cargill Natural Sciences and Health Building.

Saderholm has taught a wide range of lecture and lab classes at Berea College, including general, organic and biochemistry, and general-education classes across the curriculum. He has worked with more than 60 undergraduate research students and his research has been funded by both National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation grants.