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- 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.
- Bren Professor of Chemistry; Director of the Rudolph A. Marcus Center for Theoretical Chemistry
Garnet Chan
Garnet Chan's research lies at the interface of theoretical chemistry, condensed matter physics, and quantum information theory, and is concerned with quantum many-particle phenomena and the numerical methods to simulate them. The aim is to understand physical systems at the boundaries of accessible computational complexity, and to devise new physical simulation methods to push these boundaries forward.