| 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 |
| Nicholas 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 (research faculty) | Laser spectroscopy under extreme conditions |
| Andrew A. Gewirth | Spectroscopy and microscopy of energy-related interfaces |
| Gregory S. Girolami | Chemical vapor deposition; catalysis; molecule-based magnets |
| Martin Gruebele (emeritus faculty) | Dynamics of complex systems by experiments, computation, and theory |
| Liviu M. Mirica | Spectroscopy of transition metal catalysts; photocatalysis; physical inorganic chemistry |
| Alex Mironenko (faculty affiliate) | Density functional theory; heterogeneous catalysis; electroseparations |
| 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 (faculty affiliate) | Biophysical theory and modeling |
| Kenneth S. Suslick (research 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 |