| 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 |
| Alex Mironenko (faculty affiliate) |
Theories of chemical bonds; tight binding theory; minimally-empirical, physics-based interatomic potentials; density functional theory; computational 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 (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 |