| PROFESSOR | INTERESTS |
|---|---|
| Mikael Backlund | Optical microscopy, quantum sensing, magnetic resonance, single-molecule and super-resolution microscopy, metrology, biophysics, condensed matter |
| Majed Fataftah | Synthetic and physical inorganic chemistry applied to quantum information science, emergent magnetic materials, and bioinorganic chemistry |
| Martin Gruebele | 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 |
| Hee-Sun Han | Development of a new imaging platform for high throughput single-molecule imaging in tissues; Creation of a microfluidic platform for high throughput single virus sequencing; Deciphering multi-level regulatory networks in complex biological systems |
| 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 Jackson | Theoretical soft materials chemistry, electron and ion transport, machine learning applied to molecular and polymeric systems, multiscale all-atom and coarse-grained simulations |
| 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 | 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 |
| Zaida (Zan) Luthey-Schulten | Simulations of in vivo stochastic processes in single cells and colonies using GPUs; physics of metabolic networks; evolution of translation; dynamical networks of protein-RNA 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 | Inorganic spectroscopy and electronic structure; porous materials; heterogeneous catalysis; zeolites; 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 |
| 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 | Transient states in solar-to-fuels conversion; switchable artificial metalloproteins |
| Baron Peters | Rates and mechanisms of catalysis, nucleation, and crystal growth with rare events techniques from molecular simulation and quantum chemistry |
| Taras Pogorelov (research faculty) | Biomolecular computation |
| 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 |
| David Woon (research faculty) | Computational astrochemistry; Hypervalent bonding; Chemical education |