Faculty

Dan Kahne

kahne@chemistry.harvard.edu

Department Chair

Higgins Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

(Accepting Graduate Students)

Laboratory Manager/Administrator: Michael Quinn Coordinator: Melissa LeGrand The Kahne Lab is interested in the problem of antibiotic resistance. To develop new approaches to treat resistant bacterial infections, we focus on the protein machines that...

Khaled Abdelazim

kabdelazim@fas.harvard.edu

Curriculum and Pedagogy Manager

Preceptor in Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Joanna Aizenberg

jaiz@seas.harvard.edu

Amy Smith Berylson Professor of Materials Science

Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Laboratory Manager/Administrator: Marina McLaughlin The Aizenberg lab's research is aimed at understanding some of the basic principles of biological architectures and the economy with which biology solves complex problems in the design of multifunctional...

James G. Anderson

anderson@huarp.harvard.edu

Philip S. Weld Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry

Laboratory Manager/Administrator: Rob Stanhope Education: U. Washington — Physics, B.S., 1966 U. Colorado — Physics/Astrogeophysics, Ph.D., 1970 U. Pittsburgh — Department of Physics, Postdoctoral Fellow, 1971-1972 Appointments: 1982– Present — Philip S...

Cheen Euong Ang

cang@fas.harvard.edu

Visiting Scholar in Chemistry and Chemical Biology

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Emily Balskus

balskus@chemistry.harvard.edu

Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Chemistry

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

(Accepting Graduate Students)

Laboratory Manager/Administrator: Rhonda Pautler The central goal of research in the Balskus group is to discover, understand, and manipulate microbial metabolism. The vast majority of life on Earth is microbial, and the survival of these organisms in...

Theodore Betley

betley@chemistry.harvard.edu

Erving Professor of Chemistry

Director of Graduate Studies

(Accepting Graduate Students)

Laboratory Manager/Administrator: Pamela Hernandez The Betley group works in the field of synthetic inorganic chemistry to design new complexes capable of activating unreactive chemical bonds. We design catalysts comprised of first-row transition elements...

Adam Cohen

cohen@chemistry.harvard.edu

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

(Accepting Graduate Students)

Laboratory Manager: Hillary Piccerillo Adam Cohen works at the interface of physics, chemistry and biology. His lab develops new physical tools to study molecules and cells. The Cohen Lab developed fluorescent voltage-indicating proteins which enable...

E. J. Corey

corey@chemistry.harvard.edu

Sheldon Emory Professor Emeritus

(Not Accepting Graduate Students)

E. J. Corey has been a Professor at Harvard since 1959. He was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1945-1950) and served as a faculty member at the University of Illinois from 1951 to 1959. He is the 1990 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry and...

Dilek Dogutan

dilek@chemistry.harvard.edu

Principal Research Scientist, Nocera Group

Lecturer

Director of Advanced Undergraduate Laboratories

Cynthia Friend

friend@fas.harvard.edu

Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Science, Emerita

(Not Accepting Graduate Students)

Laboratory Manager/Administrator: Leah DeFrancesco Controlling the chemical and physical properties of interfaces is central to many technologies and particularly in addressing global challenges in reducing energy costs and in developing alternative...

Roy Gordon

gordon@chemistry.harvard.edu

Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Emeritus

(Not Accepting Graduate Students)

Professor Gordon studied chemical physics at Harvard with Professor J. H. Van Vleck. Following a Junior Fellowship at Toronto and Brussels, he returned to Harvard, where he has served as Chairman of the Department of Chemistry and is the Thomas D. Cabot...