Our Faculty

Department Chair
Higgins Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Biology

The Kahne lab develops new approaches to treat resistant bacterial infections, focusing on the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria

Amy Smith Berylson Professor of Materials Science
Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Biology

The Aizenberg lab designs advanced materials and devices for use in fields ranging from architecture to energy efficiency to medicine

Philip S. Weld Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry

The Anderson lab addresses global scale issues at the intersection of climate and energy using experimental and theoretical approaches

Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Chemistry
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

The Balskus lab works to understand how microbial metabolism influences the environment and human health

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Erving Professor of Chemistry
Director of Graduate Studies

The Betley lab works in the field of synthetic inorganic chemistry to design new complexes capable of activating unreactive chemical bonds

John P. Reardon Jr. Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Biology and of Physics

The Cohen lab develops new physical tools to study molecules and cells and unravel how they function

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Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Physics

The Heller lab centers on time dependent and semiclassical quantum mechanics of molecules and devices

Sheldon Emery Professor of Chemistry

The Jacobsen lab discovers and analyzes new and valuable catalytic reactions for application in industry and academia

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Stonington Professor of Engineering and Atmospheric Science
Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

The Keutsch lab aims to understand volatile organic compounds (VOCs), secondary pollutants that affect human health and climate

Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Gordon McKay Professor of Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering, SEAS

The Kozinsky lab develops computational methods and implements software to understand, design and discover materials

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

The Lee group develops and implements theoretical and computational methods to study a wide range of exciting phenomena in nature

Morris Kahn Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

The Liau lab develops chemical approaches to illuminate molecular mechanisms of gene regulation

Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

The D. Liu lab engineers, evolves, and delivers in vivo genome editing tools to study and treat genetic diseases

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Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

The R. Liu lab explores redox-active organic moieties as novel catalytic platforms, new methodologies to generate nano-structured carbon platforms, and applying myriad physical techniques to elucidate complex reaction mechanisms.

Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

The Mason lab designs materials to address basic science challenges in energy and sustainable development

Amory Houghton Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

The Myers lab synthesizes and studies complex molecules of value to biology and human medicine

Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics 

The Ni lab creates molecules at ultra-cold temperatures to investigate quantum mechanics

Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy 

The Nocera lab designs new technologies for renewable energy to change global energy production

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Mark Hyman Jr. Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Physics

The Park lab designs new nano- and microelectronic tools to interface with living cells, cell networks, and organisms

Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

The Shair lab uses small molecules and cell biology to study human diseases and develop therapeutics

Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

The Shakhnovich lab investigates the basic principles of protein folding and other complex polymer systems

Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

The Woo lab works on drug discovery, synthetic methods, and new mechanisms by which small molecules influence biological systems

John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences

The Xu lab studies quantum matters for solutions in clean energy, low-power electronics, and quantum computing

David B. Arnold, Jr. Professor of Science
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

The Zhuang lab works in single-molecule biology and bioimaging, developing imaging techniques to study biological systems quantitatively

Affiliate of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck Professor of Pure and Applied Physics

The Kaxiras lab studies the structure and properties of different phases of matter and how they can be used in practical device applications

Affiliate of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

The Walker lab combines core expertise in biochemistry with chemistry, genetics, proteomics, and genome-wide approaches to achieve its goals

Visiting Scholar 
Novartis Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus

The Stubbe Group studies ribonucleotide reductases (RNRs), which catalyze the conversion of nucleotides to deoxynucleotides and play an essential role in DNA replication and repair