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- Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biophysics
Sujt Datta
The Datta lab's research is in the area of transport processes, which aims to predict and control the movement of physical entities such as molecules and cells. In particular, motivated by challenges in biotechnology, energy, medicine, and sustainability, the lab studies the transport of soft ("squishy") and living systems—specifically, "complex" fluids, gels, and microbes—through complex environments ranging from soils, sediments, and porous rocks to gels and tissues in our bodies.
- Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Gözde Demirer
The research in the Demirer lab focuses on three main areas: developing nanoparticles that can efficiently deliver biomolecule cargoes into plants, making genetic engineering tools more effective and precise in plants, and figuring out ways to harness beneficial interactions between plants and the microbes that live in and around them.
- Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Scott Cushing
Scott's research focuses on developing new, laser-based instrumentation for chemistry, physics, biology, and materials problems. Currently, Scott's group is developing a table-top transient x-ray technique, high-flux entangled photon spectroscopy, and few-femtosecond, driven-lattice experiments.
- Bren Professor of Chemistry; Norman Davidson Leadership Chair, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Sarah Reisman
The goal of the Reisman Group is to contribute creative solutions to fundamental problems in chemistry that impact society. Their research is driven by discoveries and innovations in organic chemistry, where new chemical reactions or synthetic design concepts can enable the synthesis of small molecules for the study and treatment of human disease.
- Professor of Chemistry
Sandeep Sharma
The Sharma group works on developing new theoretical and computational algorithms to understand challenging chemical and physical systems. This includes the development of new theories to simulate strongly correlated systems, efficient implementation of these theories and simulation of challenging gas and condensed phase systems.
- Assistant Professor of Chemistry; Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute; Ronald and JoAnn Willens Scholar
Lu Wei
Research in the Wei group lies at the interface of optical spectroscopy, chemical biology and life science. They develop cutting-edge optical spectroscopy and microscopy, in combination with new advances in chemical biology. We apply these new schemes to understand the dynamical physical and chemical processes in living systems.