Faculty
Current Assistant, Associate, and Full Professors followed by Emeritus Faculty, Affiliates, Visiting Professors, Lecturers and Perceptors.
Dan Kahne
kahne@chemistry.harvard.eduDepartment 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...
Adam Cohen
cohen@chemistry.harvard.eduJohn 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...
Andrew Myers
myers@chemistry.harvard.eduAmory Houghton Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
(Accepting Graduate Students)
Laboratory Manager/Administrator: Michael Quinn Andrew G. Myers graduated from MIT in 1981 with a Bachelor of Science degree. He was introduced to chemical research as an undergraduate in the laboratory of Professor William R. Roush, and went on to study...
Boris Kozinsky
bkoz@seas.harvard.eduProfessor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Gordon McKay Professor of Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering
Brian Liau
liau@chemistry.harvard.eduMorris 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...
Christina Woo
cwoo@chemistry.harvard.eduProfessor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
(Accepting Graduate Students)
Coordinator: Keneisha Murphy The Woo lab draws from the fields of chemical biology, organic synthesis, and mass spectrometry to understand small molecule activity in the proteome. We seek to develop and apply chemical proteomic methods to study the...
Daniel G. Nocera
dnocera@fas.harvard.eduPatterson Rockwood Professor of Energy
(Accepting Graduate Students)
Daniel G. Nocera is the Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy at Harvard University. A descriptive bio of Professor Nocera can be found here.
David R. Liu
liu@chemistry.harvard.eduThomas 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...
Emily Balskus
balskus@chemistry.harvard.eduThomas 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...
Eric Heller
heller@physics.harvard.eduAbbott 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...
Eric Jacobsen
jacobsen@chemistry.harvard.eduSheldon 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...
Eugene I. Shakhnovich
Shakhnovich@chemistry.harvard.eduRoy G. Gordon Professor of Chemistry
(Accepting Graduate Students)
Laboratory Manager/Administrator: Pattee McGarry The research of Professor Eugene Shakhnovich and his group is directed towards understanding the basic principles of protein folding and structural and dynamical properties of other complex polymer systems...
Frank Keutsch
keutsch@seas.harvard.eduStonington 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...
Hongkun Park
hpark@chemistry.harvard.eduMark Hyman Jr. Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Physics
(Accepting Graduate Students)
Laboratory Manager/Administrator: Rona Gertner Hongkun Park received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from the College of Natural Sciences at Seoul National University, Korea, where he graduated summa cum laude and Valedictorian in 1990. Following a year of...
James G. Anderson
anderson@huarp.harvard.eduPhilip 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...
Jarad Mason
mason@chemistry.harvard.eduProfessor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
(Accepting Graduate Students)
Laboratory Manager/Administrator: Pamela Hernandez The Mason Group applies the tools of coordination chemistry, materials science, and nanotechnology to the synthesis of materials that address basic science challenges in energy and sustainable development...
Joanna Aizenberg
jaiz@seas.harvard.eduAmy 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...
Joonho Lee
joonholee@g.harvard.eduAssistant 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...
Kang-Kuen Ni
ni@chemistry.harvard.eduTheodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics
(Accepting Graduate Students)
Laboratory Administrator: Gina Yildirim The Ni research group is working to create molecules at the lowest possible temperatures, and to study their chemical reactions and physical interactions. At such ultra-cold temperatures, quantum mechanics describes...
Matthew Shair
shair@chemistry.harvard.eduProfessor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
(Accepting Graduate Students)
Laboratory Manager/Administrator: Ashley Richardson The Shair lab uses small molecules and cell biology as part of an integrated approach to study the mechanistic basis of human diseases, identify new druggable targets, and develop therapeutics.
Richard Y. Liu
richardliu@chemistry.harvard.eduAssistant 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...
Suyang Xu
suyangxu@fas.harvard.eduJohn L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences
(Accepting Graduate Students)
Laboratory Manager/Administrator: Hillary Piccerillo After obtaining his bachelor's degree from Peking University in China, Xu joined Professor Zahid Hasan's group at Princeton. In Hasan's group, Xu became an expert on Angle-Resolved Photoemission...
Theodore Betley
betley@chemistry.harvard.eduErving 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...
Xiaowei Zhuang
zhuang@chemistry.harvard.eduDavid B. Arnold, Jr. Professor of Science
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
(Accepting Graduate Students)
Laboratory Manager/Administrator: Rona Gertner Xiaowei Zhuang works in the areas of single-molecule biology and bioimaging, developing imaging techniques to study biological systems quantitatively. The understanding of living organisms has greatly...
Emeritus Faculty
Cynthia Friend
friend@fas.harvard.eduTheodore 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...
Dudley Herschbach
dherschbach@gmail.comFrank 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...
E. J. Corey
corey@chemistry.harvard.eduSheldon 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...
George Whitesides
gwhitesides@gmwgroup.harvard.eduWoodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Research Professor
(Not Accepting Graduate Students)
Laboratory Manager/Administrator: Melissa LeGrand George M. Whitesides was born August 3, 1939 in Louisville, KY. He received an A.B. degree from Harvard University in 1960 and a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology (with J.D. Roberts) in...
Gregory Verdine
gregory_verdine@harvard.eduErving Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus
(Not Accepting Graduate Students)
Roy Gordon
gordon@chemistry.harvard.eduThomas 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...
Stuart L. Schreiber
stuart_schreiber@harvard.eduMorris Loeb Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Emeritus
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
(Not accepting Graduate Students)
Laboratory Manager/Administrator: Allison Roach Stuart Schreiber's lab studies the science of therapeutics. Researchers in his group rely on human biology to identify therapeutic targets that have been validated prior to testing in humans, and chemistry...
Affiliates
Suzanne Walker
suzanne_walker@hms.harvard.eduProfessor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Affiliate of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Administrative Contacts: Michael Quinn
Tim Kaxiras
kaxiras@physics.harvard.eduJohn 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
Visiting Professors
JoAnne Stubbe
joannestubbe@fas.harvard.eduVisiting Scholar
(Not Accepting Graduate Students)
At MIT Professor Stubbe studies ribonucleotide reductases (RNRs), which catalyze the conversion of nucleotides to deoxynucleotides and play an essential role in DNA replication and repair. Stubbe supports a range of ongoing projects, including those...
Lecturers
Dilek Dogutan
dilek@chemistry.harvard.eduPrincipal Research Scientist, Nocera Group
Lecturer
Director of Advanced Undergraduate Laboratories
Gregory Tucci
tucci@fas.harvard.eduDirector of Undergraduate Studies
Senior Lecturer on Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Gregg Tucci is the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Chemistry and a Senior Lecturer on Chemistry and Chemical Biology. He received a B.S. in Chemistry from Villanova University and a PhD in Chemistry from Harvard University. As an undergraduate, Dr...
Shao-Liang Zheng
zheng@chemistry.harvard.eduDirector of Center for Crystallographic Studies
Lecturer
Shao-Liang Zheng joined Harvard in 2009 and supervises all aspects of X-ray Core. Dr. Zheng also teaches Chem 255, Practical Crystallography in Chemistry and Materials Science in spring term. Before he joined Harvard, he worked with Professor Philip...
Sirinya Matchacheep
matchach@fas.harvard.eduDirector of Introductory Undergraduate Laboratories
Lecturer
Sirinya Matchacheep is the Director of Instructional Laboratory Programs and a Lecturer on Chemistry and Chemical Biology. She received an A.B. from Cornell University, where she double majored in Chemistry and in Biological Sciences, and a Ph.D. in...
List of Preceptors
Khaled Abdelazim
kabdelazim@fas.harvard.eduCurriculum and Pedagogy Manager
Preceptor in Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Lu Wang
wang29@fas.harvard.eduAssistant Director of Undergraduate Studies
Senior Preceptor in Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Lu Wang is the Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies in Chemistry and a Senior Preceptor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, where she is involved in teaching several courses at Harvard including two...
Matthew Lueckheide
mlueckheide@fas.harvard.eduCurriculum and Pedagogy Manager
Matt grew up in Valley Stream, NY on Long Island. He received a B.A. in Chemistry from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY in 2017 and his Ph.D in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry at Brown University in 2022. His doctoral work primarily involved kinetic...
Wyatt Hurt
wyatt_hurt@g.harvard.eduCurriculum and Pedagogy Manager
Preceptor in Chemistry and Chemical Biology
As the Curriculum and Pedagogy Manager for Undergraduate Education, Wyatt supports faculty, students, and instructional staff across the department’s curriculum. He serves on the teaching teams of general chemistry courses, organic chemistry courses, and...
