Deon Terrell Miles is an American chemist who is professor of chemistry at the Sewanee: The University of the South.
[2] He was a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he worked with Royce W. Murray and studied functionalised nanoparticles.
[citation needed] In 2002 Miles joined Sewanee: The University of the South, where he focusses on the development of nanoparticles and novel strategies for teaching chemistry.
[3] At Sewanee, Miles delivered a course on the science of food and chemistry of cooking.
[4] Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Miles developed homemade kits that could be used to teach students about spectroscopy and chromatography from home.