Department Chair
Director of Graduate Studies
Erving Professor of Chemistry

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

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

Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

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

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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

LAB TOUR

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

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

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

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

LAB TOUR

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.

Assistant 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

LAB TOUR

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

Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Emeritus
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

The Schreiber lab studies the science of therapeutics, relying on human biology to identify therapeutic targets

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

Morris Kahn Associate 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

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

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