Chemistry at Princeton University

48 faculty and 0 courses in Chemistry at Princeton University.

Faculty

• Robert J. Cava, Professor of Chemistry h-index 150
  Notable: “Discovery of intrinsic ferromagnetism in two-dimensional van der Waals crystals” (2017) · 4,990 citations
• Joshua Rabinowitz, Professor of Chemistry h-index 128
  Notable: “Cancer-associated IDH1 mutations produce 2-hydroxyglutarate” (2009) · 4,131 citations
• David MacMillan, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry h-index 126
  Notable: “Visible Light Photoredox Catalysis with Transition Metal Complexes: Applications in Organic Synthesis” (2013) · 9,421 citations
• Christopher Chang, Professor of Chemistry h-index 121
  Notable: “Covalent organic frameworks comprising cobalt porphyrins for catalytic CO 2 reduction in water” (2015) · 2,560 citations
• Roberto Car, Professor of Chemistry h-index 110
  Notable: “QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials” (2009) · 28,861 citations
• Gregory Scholes, William S. Tod Professor of Chemistry h-index 107
  Notable: “Lessons from nature about solar light harvesting” (2011) · 1,915 citations
• Salvatore Torquato, Lewis Bernard Professor of Natural Sciences h-index 102
• Annabella Selloni, Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus h-index 98
  Notable: “Combined Experimental and DFT-TDDFT Computational Study of Photoelectrochemical Cell Ruthenium Sensitizers” (2005) · 2,734 citations
• Tom Muir, Van Zandt Williams Jr. Class of 1965 Professor of Chemistry h-index 93
  Notable: “Synthesis of Proteins by Native Chemical Ligation” (1994) · 4,114 citations
• John T. Groves, Professor of Chemistry h-index 93
  Notable: “Oxygen Activation and Radical Transformations in Heme Proteins and Metalloporphyrins” (2017) · 1,016 citations
• Mircea Dinca, Professor of Chemistry h-index 92
  Notable: “Hydrogen storage in metal–organic frameworks” (2009) · 4,519 citations
• Paul Chirik, Professor of Chemistry h-index 92
  Notable: “Radical Ligands Confer Nobility on Base-Metal Catalysts” (2010) · 918 citations
• Herschel Rabitz, Charles Phelps Smyth '16 Professor of Chemistry h-index 88
• Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, Professor of Chemistry h-index 83
  Notable: “Proton transfer in solution: Molecular dynamics with quantum transitions” (1994) · 1,382 citations
• Jeffrey Schwartz, Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus h-index 64
  Notable: “Hydrozirconation: A New Transition Metal Reagent for Organic Synthesis” (1976) · 476 citations
• Martin F. Semmelhack, Marvin T. Schmidt Professor of Chemistry h-index 64
  Notable: “A quorum-sensing inhibitor blocks Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence and biofilm formation” (2013) · 735 citations
• Paul Reider, Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus h-index 60
  Notable: “Oxidation of Primary Alcohols to Carboxylic Acids with Sodium Chlorite Catalyzed by TEMPO and Bleach” (1999) · 455 citations
• Andrew B. Bocarsly, Professor of Chemistry h-index 58
  Notable: “Frontiers, Opportunities, and Challenges in Biochemical and Chemical Catalysis of CO2 Fixation” (2013) · 2,138 citations
• Steven Bernasek, Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus h-index 54
  Notable: “Physisorption and Chemisorption of Alkanethiols and Alkyl Sulfides on Au(111)” (1998) · 449 citations
• Mohammad R. Seyedsayamdost, Professor of Chemistry h-index 53
  Notable: “The Jekyll-and-Hyde chemistry of Phaeobacter gallaeciensis” (2011) · 487 citations
• Erik J. Sorensen, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry h-index 51
  Notable: “Total synthesis of taxol” (1994) · 1,088 citations
• Zoltan G. Soos, Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus h-index 51
  Notable: “Charge-separation energy in films of π-conjugated organic molecules” (2000) · 754 citations
• Joseph Subotnik, Professor of Chemistry h-index 50
  Notable: “Advances in methods and algorithms in a modern quantum chemistry program package” (2006) · 2,800 citations
• Michael Hecht, Professor of Chemistry h-index 49
  Notable: “Protein Design by Binary Patterning of Polar and Nonpolar Amino Acids” (1993) · 745 citations
• Robert Knowles, Professor of Chemistry h-index 47
  Notable: “Attractive noncovalent interactions in asymmetric catalysis: Links between enzymes and small molecule catalysts” (2010) · 807 citations
• Alice Kunin, Assistant Professor of Chemistry h-index 45
  Notable: “Hadron calorimetry in the L3 detector” (1991) · 81 citations
• Michael Kelly, Teaching Faculty h-index 44
  Notable: “A Third-Generation Lentivirus Vector with a Conditional Packaging System” (1998) · 3,377 citations
• Todd K. Hyster, Professor of Chemistry h-index 43
  Notable: “Biotinylated Rh(III) Complexes in Engineered Streptavidin for Accelerated Asymmetric C–H Activation” (2012) · 806 citations
• Leslie Schoop, Associate Professor of Chemistry h-index 42
  Notable: “Large, non-saturating magnetoresistance in WTe2” (2014) · 1,660 citations
• Michelle Chang, Professor of Chemistry h-index 39
  Notable: “Production of the antimalarial drug precursor artemisinic acid in engineered yeast” (2006) · 2,825 citations
• Haw Yang, Professor of Chemistry h-index 39
  Notable: “Protein Conformational Dynamics Probed by Single-Molecule Electron Transfer” (2003) · 858 citations
• Clarence E. Schutt, Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus h-index 32
  Notable: “Tomato bushy stunt virus at 2.9 Å resolution” (1978) · 678 citations
• Jannette Carey, Professor of Chemistry h-index 32
  Notable: “[8] Gel retardation” (1991) · 297 citations
• Istvan Pelczer, Teaching Faculty h-index 29
  Notable: “Structural identification of a bacterial quorum-sensing signal containing boron” (2002) · 1,565 citations
• Maitland Jones, Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus h-index 29
  Notable: “Formation of acrylic acid from lactic acid in supercritical water” (1989) · 128 citations
• Ralph Kleiner, Associate Professor of Chemistry h-index 25
  Notable: “RNA Chemical Proteomics Reveals the N6-Methyladenosine (m6A)-Regulated Protein–RNA Interactome” (2017) · 264 citations
• William M. Jacobs, Assistant Professor of Chemistry h-index 22
  Notable: “Competing Protein-RNA Interaction Networks Control Multiphase Intracellular Organization” (2020) · 855 citations
• Marissa Weichman, Assistant Professor of Chemistry h-index 22
  Notable: “Slow photoelectron velocity-map imaging spectroscopy of cold negative ions” (2012) · 136 citations
• Erin E. Stache, Assistant Professor of Chemistry h-index 20
  Notable: “Generation of Phosphoranyl Radicals via Photoredox Catalysis Enables Voltage–Independent Activation of Strong C–O Bonds” (2018) · 345 citations
• Lilia Xie, Assistant Professor of Chemistry h-index 17
  Notable: “Electrically Conductive Metal–Organic Frameworks” (2020) · 1,928 citations
• Jose Roque, Assistant Professor of Chemistry h-index 12
  Notable: “Deconstructive diversification of cyclic amines” (2018) · 292 citations
• Robert L'Esperance, Teaching Faculty h-index 10
  Notable: “Comparative Study of Imidazole and Pyridine Catalyzed Reduction of Carbon Dioxide at Illuminated Iron Pyrite Electrodes” (2012) · 84 citations
• Sonja A. Francis, Teaching Faculty h-index 9
  Notable: “Nickel–Gallium-Catalyzed Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 to Highly Reduced Products at Low Overpotentials” (2016) · 303 citations
• Chia-Ying Wang, Teaching Faculty h-index 9
  Notable: “Evaluation of cooling ceiling and mechanical ventilation systems on thermal comfort using CFD study in an office for subtropical region” (2011) · 156 citations
• Susan VanderKam, Teaching Faculty h-index 4
  Notable: “Electrochemically Active Surface Zirconium Complexes on Indium Tin Oxide” (1999) · 40 citations
• Ana Mostafavi, Teaching Faculty
• Corey Clapp, Teaching Faculty
• Sandra Knowles, Teaching Faculty

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 2026-07-02.