Graduate Field of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Degrees offered: Ph.D.

This field of graduate study is designed to give broad training in the fundamentals of chemistry and in methods of research. Students ordinarily pursue those objectives by taking advanced courses, participating in organized and informal seminars, and carrying out and reporting on research projects in their major subject.

Graduate students enrolled in the field of chemistry and chemical biology select a major research concentration in one of the following subfields: analytical, chemical biology, inorganic, organic, organometallic, bioorganic, physical, biophysical, polymer, theoretical, or chemical physics. Students must also choose a minor concentration from these subfields or a related graduate field such as materials science or biochemistry. Once major and minor concentrations have been selected, students choose permanent special committees consisting of the research adviser and two additional faculty members.

To help students select a research adviser, the faculty present research orientation seminars in which first-year students are introduced to the research of each professor. The research adviser and other members of the special committee are usually chosen by the end of the fall semester.

Meet the Faculty

Abruna, Hector D Emile M. Chamot Professor
Baird, Barbara Ann Horace White Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Brenna, James Thomas Professor
Cerione, Richard A Goldwin Smith Professor
Chen, Peng Professor Asst
Chirik, Paul Peter J. W. Debye Professor of Chemistry
Coates, Geoffrey Tisch University Professor
Collum, David B. Professor
Crane, Brian Associate Professor
Davis, Harry Floyd Professor
Dichtel, William Robert Assistant Professor
Disalvo, Francis J John A. Newman Professor
Ealick, Steven Edward William T. Miller Professor
Engstrom, James R Professor
Ezra, Gregory Sion Professor
Freed, Jack H Frank and Robert Laughlin Professor of Physical Chemistry
Ganem, Bruce Franz and Elisabeth Roessler Professor and J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise
Giannelis, Emmanuel P Walter R. Read Professor of En
Hess, George P Professor, Biochemistry
Hines, Melissa A Professor
Ke, Ailong Assistant Professor
Lee, Stephen Professor
Lin, Hening Assistant Professor
Loring, Roger F Professor
Marohn, John A. Associate Professor
Njardarson, Jon Assistant Professor
Ober, Christopher Kemper Francis Bard Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Park, Jiwoong Assistant Professor
Sogah, Dotsevi Y Professor
Tan, Derek S. external faculty
Usher, David A Associate Professor
Wiesner, Ulrich B. Spencer T. Olin Professor
Wolczanski, Peter Thomas George W. and Grace L. Todd Professor
Zax, David B Associate Professor