Chemistry: Faculty Experts: For Journalists

William Dichtel

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Robert L. Letsinger Professor of Chemistry

Field: Chemistry, Nanotechnology

Focus Areas: Organic Chemistry, Water Quality and Purification

Neil Kelleher

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Professor and Director Proteomics

Field: Chemistry, Molecular Biosciences

Focus Areas: Biotechnology

Kevin L. Kohlstedt

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Research Associate Professor of Chemistry

Field: Chemistry, Materials Science, Nanotechnology

Focus Areas: Biophysics, Machine Learning and Automation, Molecular Bonds, Quantum Mechanics, Solar Energy, Sustainable energy

Jeffrey Lopez

McCormick School of Engineering

Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Field: Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chemistry, Data Science, Materials Science

Focus Areas: Climate Change, Electric Cars, Organic Chemistry, Robotics, Sustainable energy

Chad Mirkin

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Professor of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering

Field: Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science, Nanotechnology

Focus Areas: Nanomedicine

Milan Mrksich

McCormick School of Engineering

Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Field: Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science

Focus Areas: Cancer Treatment, Cell Biology, Drug Development

Justin M. Notestein

McCormick School of Engineering

Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Field: Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science, Nanotechnology

Focus Areas: Biofuels, Carbon Cycle, Molecular Bonds, Organic Chemistry, Sustainable energy

Teri W. Odom

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Joan Husting Madden and William H. Madden, Jr. Professor of Chemistry

Field: Chemistry, Materials Science, Nanotechnology

Focus Areas: Biomedicine, Nanomedicine

Thomas O’Halloran

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Adjunct Professor of Chemistry

Field: Chemistry

Focus Areas: Cancer Treatment, Cell Biology, Cellular Metals, Drug Development, Therapeutics

Gabriel Jacob Rocklin

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Assistant Professor of Pharmacology

Field: Chemistry, Molecular Biosciences, Pharmacology

Focus Areas: Biochemistry, Biophysics

John Rogers

McCormick School of Engineering

Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Neurological Surgery

Field: Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science, Nanotechnology

Focus Areas: Bioelectronics, Haptics, Nanomedicine, Wearable Technology

Karl Scheidt

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Professor of Chemistry and of Pharmacology

Field: Chemistry

Focus Areas: Cancer Treatment, Drug Development, Therapeutics

Krishna Shrinivas

McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Field: Artificial Intelligence, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chemistry, Molecular Biosciences, Physics and Astronomy, Synthetic Biology

Focus Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Biophysics, Cell Biology, Life Sciences, Machine Learning and Automation

Fraser Stoddart

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry

Field: Chemistry, Nanotechnology

Focus Areas: Molecular Bonds