Chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

51 faculty and 40 courses in Chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Faculty

• Stephen Leffler Buchwald, Camille Dreyfus Professor h-index 178
• Stephen J. Lippard, Arthur Amos Noyes Professor Emeritus h-index 145
• Richard Royce Schrock, F G Keyes Professor Emeritus h-index 120
  Of longest standing concerns complexes that contain metal-carbon multiple bonds, usually alkylidene complexes (M=CHR) where the metal is usually W or Mo in its highest possible oxidation state. The primary goal is to synthesize and characte
• Robert J. Gilliard, Jr., Novartis Professor, Graduate Officer h-index 119
• Robert Guy Griffin, Arthur Amos Noyes Professor h-index 117
• Susan Solomon, Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor h-index 115
• Timothy Manning Swager, John D. MacArthur Professor h-index 115
• Ronald T. Raines, Roger and Georges Firmenich Professor h-index 99
• Keith Adam Nelson, Haslam and Dewey Professor h-index 95
• Bin Zhang, Associate Professor h-index 94
• Alex K. Shalek, J. W. Kieckhefer Professor h-index 83
• Mei Hong, David A. Leighty Professor h-index 76
• Laura L Kiessling, Novartis Professor h-index 75
• Jeremiah A. Johnson, A. Thomas Guertin Professor, Associate Head h-index 73
• Barbara Imperiali, Class of 1922 Professor h-index 71
• Christopher C. Cummins, Henry Dreyfus Professor h-index 70
• Arup K. Chakraborty, John M. Deutch Institute Professor h-index 68
• Robert W. Field, Haslam and Dewey Professor Emeritus h-index 66
• John M. Essigmann, Professor Post-Tenure h-index 66
• Yogesh Surendranath, Donner Professor h-index 64
• Catherine L. Drennan, John and Dorothy Wilson Professor h-index 64
• Jianshu Cao, Professor h-index 63
• Heather J. Kulik, Lammot du Pont Professor h-index 60
• Rick Lane Danheiser, A C Cope Professor h-index 55
• Bradley L. Pentelute, Professor h-index 46
• Brett McGuire, Associate Professor h-index 38
• Alexander T. Radosevich, Professor, Postdoc Officer h-index 37
• Adam P. Willard, Francis Wright Davis Prof., Undergrad Officer h-index 35
• Gabriela S. Schlau-Cohen, Haslam and Dewey Professor h-index 32
• Daniel L.M. Suess, A. A. Noyes Associate Prof., Associate Head h-index 27
• Masha Elkin, Assistant Professor h-index 9
• Oleta Johnson, W.R. and D.L. Young C.D. Assistant Professor h-index 9
• Alexander M. Klibanov, Novartis Professor Emeritus
• Alison Wendlandt, Associate Professor
• Danna Freedman, F.G. Keyes Professor
• Danny Thach, Assistant Professor (Beginning January 2027)
• Elizabeth Marie Nolan, Ivan R. Cottrell Professor of Immunology
• Jeffrey I. Steinfeld, Emeritus Professor
  Evolved from focusing on obtaining kinetic data for physical and chemical systems using time-resolved spectroscopy, to ultimately studying gigaseconds and large, interconnected systems.
• JoAnne Stubbe, Novartis Professor Emerita
• John M. Deutch, Emeritus Institute Professor
• Matthew D. Shoulders, Class of 1942 Professor, Department Head
• Mohammad Movassaghi, Professor
• Moungi Bawendi, Lester Wolfe Professor
• Sam Peng, Pfizer-Laubach C.D. Assistant Professor
  Office Broad Institute (75 Ames Street
• Steven R. Tannenbaum, Underwood-Prescott Professor Post-Tenure
• Sylvia Teresse Ceyer, John C Sheehan Professor
• Timothy F. Jamison, Robert R. Taylor Professor Emeritus
• Troy Van Voorhis, Haslam and Dewey Professor
• Xiao Wang, Cabot Associate Professor
  Office Broad Institute (75 Ames Street
• Yang Shao-Horn, JR East Professor
• Yuriy Román, Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering

Courses

• Principles of Inorganic Chemistry I 5.03
• Principles of Inorganic Chemistry II 5.04
• Principles of Inorganic Chemistry III 5.05
• Principles of Organometallic Chemistry 5.061
• Principles of Bioinorganic Chemistry 5.062
• Solid-state Materials Chemistry 5.064
• Electrochemistry 5.065
• Crystal Structure Refinement 5.067
• Physical Inorganic Chemistry 5.068
• Crystal Structure Analysis 5.069
• Introduction to Biological Chemistry 5.07[J]
• Fundamentals of Chemical Biology 5.08[J]
• Principles of Chemical Science 5.111
• Organic Chemistry I 5.12
• Organic Chemistry II 5.13
• Archaeological Science 5.24[J]
• Chemistry Laboratory Techniques 5.301
• Introduction to Experimental Chemistry 5.302
• Laboratory Chemistry 5.310
• Fundamentals of Spectroscopy 5.351
• Synthesis of Coordination Compounds and Kinetics 5.352
• Macromolecular Prodrugs 5.353
• Recombinant DNA Technology 5.361
• Cancer Drug Efficacy 5.362
• Organic Structure Determination 5.363
• Continuous Flow Chemistry 5.371
• Chemistry of Renewable Energy 5.372
• Synthesis of Boron Heterocycles 5.373
• Quantum Dots 5.381
• Time- and Frequency-resolved Spectroscopy of Photosynthesis 5.382
• Fast-flow Peptide and Protein Synthesis 5.383
• Research and Communication in Chemistry 5.39
• Advanced Organic Chemistry 5.43
• Organometallic Chemistry 5.44
• Dimensions of Geoengineering 5.000[J]
• Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity 5.002[J]
• Models of Molecular Systems: from Newtonian Mechanics to Machine Learning 5.008[J]
• Ocean Chemistry Change Laboratory 5.009[J]
• + 2 more courses

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-01.