Faculty
Research Faculty
Rebecca L. M. Gieseking
Area of Expertise: Developing computational models to understand materials for emerging energy technologies in the fields of solar energy, batteries, and fuel generation.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Area of Expertise: Organic synthesis of dynamic molecules and polymers for creating interactive material systems. Solid-state application of soft materials for energy conversion, storage, and optoelectronics. Functionalization of 2D materials (graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, etc.) using organic and inorganic synthetic methods.
Thomas Pochapsky
Area of Expertise: Self-assembly of chemical and biological systems. Transient interactions in solution by NMR. NMR of soluble proteins. Protein stability and folding by NMR and mutagenesis.
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Area of Expertise: Total synthesis of natural products. Chemoselective functionalization of peptides. Genome mining and natural product biosynthesis.
Area of Expertise: New molecular materials and nanomaterials for the exploration in biomedicine (e.g., molecular drug delivery, cancer therapy, biomedical diagnostics, and biomimetics) and other fundamental problems in nanoscience and biological science.
Teaching Faculty
Milos Dolnik
Area of Expertise: Oscillating chemical reactions and pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems. Mathematical modeling of biochemical kinetics and neural systems.
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Stephanie Murray
Area of Expertise: Chemistry Education Research, Organic Synthesis & Reaction Development, and Enantioselective Catalysis.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Faculty Emeriti
Judith Herzfeld
Area of Expertise: Development and application of reactive and polarizable force fields as efficient replacements for quantum mechanics in simulations of reactions in complex media.
Research Professor of Chemistry & Professor Emerita
Dagmar Ringe
Area of Expertise: X-ray crystallography of proteins.Studies of protein structure and function, enzyme mechanisms and protein-ligand and protein-protein interaction
Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry Emerita
