Undergraduate Advisers

Gregg Tucci and Lu Wang serve as the undergraduate advisers for the chemistry concentration, secondary field in chemistry, and concurrent master's in chemistry. Gregg and Lu support students with academic planning, course selection, undergraduate research, and more. They are happy to meet with any undergraduates interested in chemistry. Please email chemistrydus@fas.harvard.edu (an inbox that is monitored by both Gregg and Lu) to ask questions or set up a meeting.

Gregg Tucci

Director of Undergraduate Studies
Senior Lecturer on Chemistry and Chemical Biology
chemistrydus@fas.harvard.edu
Science Center 118.01

Gregg received a B.S. in Chemistry from Villanova University and a PhD in Chemistry from Harvard University. As an undergraduate, Dr. Tucci studied the ability of sphagnum peat to remove heavy metals from mine drainage waters and from this work he received a research award from the Water Pollution Control Association of Pennsylvania. As a graduate student, Gregg continued to work on problems involving metals and biological systems. Specifically, he developed an inorganic mimic for a nickel enzyme that fixes carbon monoxide.

Gregg is actively involved in advising and mentoring undergraduate chemistry students. He developed and teaches Life and Physical Sciences A (Introductory Chemistry and Biology) and Physical Sciences 11 (Foundations and Frontiers of Modern Chemistry). Gregg also co-developed and teaches a graduate level practicum in teaching for first year graduate students in chemistry. He teaches general chemistry to post-baccalaureate pre-medical students in the Harvard Extension School and Summer Schools. And, his current research interests include the impact of technology, learning styles, and high school preparation in university science classrooms. Gregg has won teaching awards in the college and extension school as well as Marquand Award for Advising. In 2006 he was awarded the Derek Bok Center Golden Spatula Award for the best peach pie.

Lu Wang

Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies
Senior Preceptor on Chemistry and Chemical Biology
chemistrydus@fas.harvard.edu 
Science Center 118.11

Lu received her B.S. in Chemistry from Peking University in 2006 and her PhD in Chemistry from Harvard University in 2011, where she worked in Professor Charles Lieber's group developing label-free silicon nanowire field-effect biosensors. As a postdoctoral researcher at MIT, she contributed to developing and teaching a college chemistry curriculum in the founding year of Singapore University of Technology and Design. Her research has focused on two-dimensional nanobiosensors.

Lu is actively involved in advising and mentoring undergraduate chemistry students. She teaches Chemistry 10 (Quantum, Statistical, and Computational Foundations of Chemistry) and Physical Sciences 11 (Foundations and Frontiers of Modern Chemistry), and teaches a graduate level practicum in teaching for first year graduate students in chemistry. Lu has received the Certificate of Excellence in Teaching from the Harvard Bok Center multiple times, the Star Family Prize for Excellence in First-Year Advising, and was named a Harvard Hero in 2025.