PROFESSORINTERESTS
Mikael BacklundOptical microscopy, quantum sensing, magnetic resonance, single-molecule and super-resolution microscopy, metrology, biophysics, condensed matter
Majed FataftahInorganic and bioinorganic chemistry: synthesis, spectroscopy, and electronic structure; metal-organic frameworks; molecular magnetism; quantum information science
Hee-Sun HanDevelopment 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 HirataElectronic 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
Nicholas E. JacksonTheoretical soft materials chemistry; electron and ion transport; machine learning applied to molecular and polymeric systems; multiscale all-atom and coarse-grained simulation
Prashant K. JainMolecular 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. LandesPhysical, analytical and materials chemistry; predictive separations; spectro-electrochemistry; protein dynamics at interfaces; imaging and signal processing; single-molecule spectroscopy
Deborah E. LeckbandBiophysics of biological adhesion and force transduction; membrane-protein interactions; protein function at interfaces; fluorescence measurements; molecular dynamics simulations; molecular force measurements
Stephan LinkPhotophysics and photochemistry of nanomaterials; plasmonics; solar energy conversion; single-particle imaging; ultrafast spectroscopy
Zaida (Zan) Luthey-SchultenIntegration 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 MakriDevelopment and application of path integral and trajectory-based methods for simulating quantum dynamical processes in the condensed phase
Eric OldfieldDrug discovery using NMR, X-ray, and computational methods
Kenneth S. SchweizerStatistical 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 SnyderSynthesis 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-WeisTabletop 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:

PROFESSORINTERESTS
Dana D. Dlott (research faculty)Laser spectroscopy under extreme conditions
Andrew A. GewirthSpectroscopy and microscopy of energy-related interfaces
Gregory S. GirolamiChemical vapor deposition; catalysis; molecule-based magnets 
Martin Gruebele
(emeritus faculty)
Dynamics of complex systems by experiments, computation, and theory
Liviu M. MiricaSpectroscopy of transition metal catalysts; photocatalysis; physical inorganic chemistry
Alex Mironenko (faculty affiliate)Density functional theory; heterogeneous catalysis; electroseparations
Catherine J. MurphyInorganic nanomaterials
Ralph G. Nuzzo (research faculty)Nano and microscale fabrication; integrated devices
Lisa OlshanskySpectroscopic 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
Kenneth S. Suslick (research faculty)Sonochemistry; sensor arrays
Jonathan V. SweedlerNeurochemistry; 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