Faculty

Eric Heller

heller@physics.harvard.edu

Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry

Professor of Physics

(Accepting Graduate Students)

Laboratory Manager/Administrator: Pattee McGarry Eric Heller joined the physics faculty at Harvard in 1993, and became a CCB faculty member in 2009. He received his PhD in Chemical Physics from Harvard. His research centers on time dependent and...

Dudley Herschbach

dherschbach@gmail.com

Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science, Emeritus

(Not Accepting Graduate Students)

Dudley Herschbach joined Harvard as a Professor of Chemistry in 1963. The major path of his research developed experiments and theory to elucidate molecular dynamics of reaction dynamics in single collisions. That work, considered "lunatic fringe" at its...

Wyatt Hurt

wyatt_hurt@g.harvard.edu

Curriculum and Pedagogy Manager

Preceptor in Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Wyatt collaborates with faculty and instructional staff to develop course administration, management, and student support infrastructures that serve all undergraduate chemistry courses. Previously, Wyatt taught chemistry at Chelsea High School and Belmont...

Eric Jacobsen

jacobsen@chemistry.harvard.edu

Sheldon Emery Professor of Chemistry

(Accepting Graduate Students)

Laboratory Administrator: Nicole Minotti Eric Jacobsen joined Harvard University as full professor in 1993, was named the Sheldon Emory Professor of Organic Chemistry in 2001, and served as Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology from...

Tim Kaxiras

kaxiras@physics.harvard.edu

John Hasbrouck Van Vleck Professor of Pure and Applied Physics

Director of the Institute for Applied Computational Science

Affiliate of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Frank Keutsch

keutsch@seas.harvard.edu

Stonington Professor of Engineering and Atmospheric Science

Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Laboratory Manager/Administrator: Lori Reck Research in the Keutsch group is aimed at improving our understanding of photochemical oxidation processes of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that produce tropospheric ozone and are central to secondary...

Boris Kozinsky

bkoz@seas.harvard.edu

Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Gordon McKay Professor of Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering

Mathieu Lalonde

lalonde@fas.harvard.edu

Science Safety Officer

Lecturer

Joonho Lee

joonholee@g.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

(Accepting Graduate Students)

Laboratory Administrator: Pattee McGarry The Lee group develops and implements theoretical and computational methods to study a wide range of exciting phenomena in nature, whose understanding is challenged by electron-electron, electron-vibration...

Brian Liau

liau@chemistry.harvard.edu

Morris Kahn Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

(Accepting Graduate Students)

Laboratory Manager/Administrator: Ines Santos The Liau Lab is developing chemical approaches to illuminate molecular mechanisms of gene regulation, while exploring the promise of chromatin regulators as therapeutic targets. We employ chemistry to create...

Richard Y. Liu

richardliu@chemistry.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

(Accepting Graduate Students)

Laboratory Manager: Ashley Richardson Richard Liu's research is directed at the development of organic and organometallic catalysts and synthetic methods to access complex molecules for discovery. For example, the group is working on design of...

David R. Liu

liu@chemistry.harvard.edu

Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

(Accepting Graduate Students)

Laboratory Manager/Administrator: Emily Botelho David R. Liu is the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences at Harvard University, Richard Merkin Professor and director of the Merkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare...