PROFESSOR INTERESTS
Jefferson Chan

Development of assays to quantify critical biomarkers for aging, neurological disorders, and cancer; discovery of changes in the tissue microenvironment during disease progression through synthesis of responsive imaging agents; design of responsive platforms for ondemand and site-selective drug discovery

Andrew A. Gewirth Alternative energy; batteries; fuel cells; solar; interfacial electrochemistry; spectroscopy; structure
Hee-Sun Han High throughput, high-resolution omics technologies: lab on a chip platforms, imaging-based spatial transciptomics; Synthetic cell assembly; Systems biology in brains and microbial populations.
Prashant K. Jain Energy chemistry; sustainable chemical synthesis; electrochemistry; plasmonics; artificial photosynthesis; multielectron catalysis; nanoscale imaging
Christy F. Landes Developing new spectroscopic tools to image chemical dynamics at interfaces at the limit of a single event; creating new models to understand and predict macroscale processes like protein separation and photocatalysis
Stephan Link

Photophysics and photochemistry of nanomaterials; plasmonics; solar energy conversion; single-particle imaging; ultrafast spectroscopy

Xiaotang Lu
(starting January 2025)
Brain circuit imaging for understanding the development and pathology of the central nervous system: correlated multidimensional (from nanoscale to whole brains) and multiplexed (transcriptomic and proteomic) imaging; (bio)chemical probes; nanoparticles; tissue chemistry; and advanced microscopy
Catherine J. Murphy Inorganic nanomaterials for chemical sensing and cellular imaging; bioanalytical studies of the “protein corona” around nanoparticles; photothermal therapy with targeted nanoparticles

Joaquín Rodríguez-López

Interfacial electrochemistry; scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM); spectroelectrochemistry; automated electrochemistry; nanoelectrodes; batteries; electrocatalysis; graphene electrodes; redox polymers; electrochemical simulation; reactive oxygen species
Mei Shen Bioanalytical chemistry; nanoelectrochemistry; scanning electrochemical microscopy; synaptic neurotransmission; neurochemistry; single-cell signaling at high spatiotemporal resolution; fast-scan cyclic voltammetry; monitoring real-time neurotransmitter and cytokines dynamics in mice brain; inflammation; immune response; Alzheimer’s disease; glioblastoma; gut-brain axis; plant biology
Jonathan V. Sweedler Analytical neurochemistry, including development of new tools for metabolomics; peptidomics and singlecell characterization; increasing our understanding of cell signaling in the brain

 

Other Faculty with Interests in Analytical Chemistry:

PROFESSOR INTERESTS
Rohit Bhargava (faculty affiliate) Infrared and Raman spectroscopy; chemical imaging; cancer pathology; 3D printing for tumor models
Dana D. Dlott (emeritus faculty) Laser spectroscopy under extreme conditions
Mary L. Kraft (faculty affiliate) Biomembrane composition imaging
Liviu M. Mirica Development of diagnostic and imaging agents for neurological disorders; electrocatalysis for small molecule activation
Shuming Nie Quantum Dots; SERS; Nanomedicine; Image-Guided Surgery; Biomaterials; Cancer Immunotherapy
Ralph G. Nuzzo (research faculty) Condensed phase interfaces; analytical protocols
Elena Romanova (research faculty) Mass spectrometry-based discovery and characterization of peptides in tissues and individual cells
Stanislav Rubakhin (research faculty) Microbioanalytical chemistry; mass spectrometry imaging; single-cell and single-organelle sample preparation
Stephen G. Sligar (emeritus faculty) Nanobiotechnology; drug discovery
Huimin Zhao (faculty affiliate) Synthetic biology; AI/ML; automation; protein engineering; metabolic engineering; natural product biosynthesis; biocatalysis