Research Faculty
![Irving Epstein](images/epstein_340.jpg)
Expertise: Oscillating chemical reactions and pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems. Mathematical modeling of biochemical kinetics and neural systems.
![Rebecca L. M. Gieseking](images/gieseking-rebecca.jpg)
Expertise: Developing computational models to understand materials for emerging energy technologies in the fields of solar energy, batteries, and fuel generation.
![Grace Han](images/han-grace-2024-340.jpg)
Expertise: Organic synthesis of dynamic molecules and polymers for creating interactive material systems. Solid-state application of soft materials for energy conversion, storage, and optoelectronics. Functionalization of 2D materials (graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, etc.) using organic and inorganic synthetic methods.
![Lizbeth Hedstrom](images/hedstrom-lizbeth.jpg)
Expertise: Design of targeted protein degraders; antibiotic discovery; enzyme structure-function studies.
![Isaac Krauss](images/krauss-isaac1.jpg)
Expertise: Chemical glycobiology and organic chemistry.
![Thomas Pochapsky](images/pochapsky-thomas-2022-340.jpg)
Expertise: Self-assembly of chemical and biological systems. Transient interactions in solution by NMR. NMR of soluble proteins. Protein stability and folding by NMR and mutagenesis.
![Klaus Schmidt-Rohr](images/schmidt-rohr-klaus1.jpg)
Expertise: Solid-state NMR of complex organic materials, including polymers, carbon materials, nanocomposites, and natural organic matter; NMR technique development; basic thermodynamics and chemical energy.
![Katherine Shulenberger](../images/shulenberger-katherine-340.jpg)
Expertise: Development of optical microscopy techniques to research fundamental nanocrystal properties in device relevant environments.
![Barry Snider](images/snider-barry.jpg)
Expertise: Synthesis of natural products, new synthetic methods, free radical chemistry, Lewis acid induced reactions, ketene cycloadditions.
![Chi Ting](images/ting-chi-rev-340.jpg)
Expertise: Total synthesis of natural products. Chemoselective functionalization of peptides. Genome mining and natural product biosynthesis.
![Bing Xu](images/xu-bing1.jpg)
Expertise: New molecular materials and nanomaterials for the exploration in biomedicine (e.g., molecular drug delivery, cancer therapy, biomedical diagnostics, and biomimetics) and other fundamental problems in nanoscience and biological science.
![Hao Xu, Professor of Chemistry](images/xu-hao-2023-340.jpg)
Expertise: Non-precious metal catalysis directed towards organic synthesis. Translational synthetic chemistry. Discovery of new disease targets and therapeutic probes in human biology.