PROFESSOR INTERESTS
Mikael Backlund Optical microscopy, quantum sensing, magnetic resonance, single-molecule and super-resolution microscopy, metrology, biophysics, condensed matter
Majed Fataftah Inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry: synthesis, spectroscopy, and electronic structure; metal-organic frameworks; molecular magnetism; quantum information science
Hee-Sun Han Development of microfluidics & imaging technologies for systems biology; modeling the ensemble behavior of complex biological systems; imaging-based spatial omics; microfluidics-based high-resolution assays; bottom-up construction of synthetic cells
So Hirata Electronic and vibrational quantum many-body theories for molecules, polymers, and solids; computational spectroscopy; high-performance computing; computer algebra for many-body theory formulation and programming
Nick E. Jackson Theoretical soft materials chemistry; electron and ion transport; machine learning applied to molecular and polymeric systems; multiscale all-atom and coarse-grained simulation
Prashant K. Jain Molecular and nano-optics; plasmonics; near-field manipulation of photophysics and photochemistry; super-resolution imaging of active sites in heterogeneous catalysis; phase transformations in single nanodomains; artificial photosynthesis
Christy F. Landes Physical, analytical and materials chemistry; predictive separations; spectro-electrochemistry; protein dynamics at interfaces; imaging and signal processing; single-molecule spectroscopy
Deborah E. Leckband Biophysics of biological adhesion and force transduction; membrane-protein interactions; protein function at interfaces; fluorescence measurements; molecular dynamics simulations; molecular force measurements
Stephan Link Photophysics and photochemistry of nanomaterials; plasmonics; solar energy conversion; single-particle imaging; ultrafast spectroscopy
Zaida (Zan) Luthey-Schulten Integration of experiments, theory, and simulations into whole cell models; stochastic simulations of biological processes in minimal cells; physics of metabolism and ribosome biogenesis; dynamical networks of protein-RNA and protein-DNA interactions; statistical mechanics of the genome and DNA replication
Nancy Makri Development and application of path integral and trajectory-based methods for simulating quantum dynamical processes in the condensed phase
Eric Oldfield Drug discovery using NMR, X-ray, and computational methods
Kenneth S. Schweizer Statistical mechanical theory of the structure, phase behavior, properties and dynamics of soft materials composed of molecules, polymers, colloids, and nanoparticles in the liquid, crystal, glass, and gel states
Benjamin Snyder Synthesis and characterization of porous materials for heterogeneous catalysis and adsorptive separations; inorganic spectroscopy and electronic structure; chemistry of zeolites and metal-organic frameworks
Josh Vura-Weis Tabletop femtosecond X-ray spectroscopy of excited-state nuclear and electronic dynamics in transition metal complexes, focusing on short-lived states in inorganic catalysts and photomagnetic materials

 

Other Faculty with Interests in Physical Chemistry:

PROFESSOR INTERESTS
Dana D. Dlott (emeritus faculty) Laser spectroscopy under extreme conditions
Robert B. Gennis (emeritus faculty) Membrane proteins; bioenergetics
Andrew A. Gewirth Spectroscopy and microscopy of energy-related interfaces
Zhaleh Ghaemi Theoretical and computational biophysics
Gregory S. Girolami Chemical vapor deposition; catalysis; molecule-based magnets 
Martin Gruebele
(emeritus faculty)

Dynamics of complex systems by experiments, computation and theory, from single molecule absorption spectroscopy on surfaces to vibrational energy flow in molecules, glass dynamics, protein folding in live cells, and vertebrate behavior

Liviu M. Mirica Spectroscopy of transition metal catalysts; photocatalysis; physical inorganic chemistry
Catherine J. Murphy Inorganic nanomaterials
Ralph G. Nuzzo (research faculty) Nano and microscale fabrication; integrated devices
Lisa Olshansky Spectroscopic interrogation of transient states formed during solar to fuels conversion and within switchable artificial metalloproteins
Baron Peters (faculty affiliate) Catalysis, nucleation, and crystal growth
Taras Pogorelov (research faculty) Biophysical theory and modeling
Charles M. Schroeder (faculty affiliate) Single-molecule studies of polymers and biomolecules
Kenneth S. Suslick (emeritus faculty) Sonochemistry; sensor arrays
Jonathan V. Sweedler Neurochemistry; cell-cell signaling pathways
Emad Tajkhorshid (faculty affiliate) Computational structural biology and molecular biophysics; membrane proteins; drug design
David Woon (research faculty) Computational astrochemistry; Hypervalent bonding; Chemical education