Chemistry at University of Chicago

42 faculty and 0 courses in Chemistry at University of Chicago.

Faculty

• Paul Alivisatos, President of the University of Chicago; John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor h-index 175
  Materials Chemistry, Physical Chemistry
  Notable: “Semiconductor Clusters, Nanocrystals, and Quantum Dots” (1996) · 11,416 citations
• Chuan He, John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor h-index 163
  Chemical Biology, Inorganic Chemistry
  Notable: “N6-methyladenosine-dependent regulation of messenger RNA stability” (2013) · 4,831 citations
• Wenbin Lin, James Franck Professor of Chemistry h-index 149
  Catalysis, Chemical Biology, Inorganic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry
  Notable: “Enantioselective catalysis with homochiral metal–organic frameworks” (2009) · 3,111 citations
• Benoît Roux, Professor h-index 128
  Biophysics, Physical Chemistry, Theoretical Chemistry
  Notable: “All-Atom Empirical Potential for Molecular Modeling and Dynamics Studies of Proteins” (1998) · 14,528 citations
• Gregory A. Voth, Haig P. Papazian Distinguished Service Professor h-index 115
  Biophysics, Materials Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Theoretical Chemistry
  Notable: “Flexible simple point-charge water model with improved liquid-state properties” (2006) · 1,290 citations
• Jack W. Szostak, University Professor h-index 112
  Biophysics, Chemical Biology, Organic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry
  Notable: “In vitro selection of RNA molecules that bind specific ligands” (1990) · 9,743 citations
• Dmitri Talapin, Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor h-index 104
  Es on the chemistry, physics, and material science of functional inorganic nanomaterials. Leveraging our expertise in synthesis, self-assembly, and physical chemistry, we aim to develop novel materials for applications in optoelectronics, e
  Notable: “Prospects of Colloidal Nanocrystals for Electronic and Optoelectronic Applications” (2009) · 4,102 citations
• Laura Gagliardi, Director of the Catalyst Design for Decarbonization Center, Editor in Chief of the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation of the American Chemical Society h-index 97
  Theoretical Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Catalysis, Inorganic Chemistry
  Notable: “Molcas 8: New capabilities for multiconfigurational quantum chemical calculations across the periodic table” (2015) · 1,453 citations
• Giulia Galli, Liew Family Professor h-index 95
  Phenomena and materials used to realize quantum information technologies. Galli's software activities are focused on the development of the WEST code (large-scale electronic structure within many-body perturbation theory
  Notable: “Emerging Photoluminescence in Monolayer MoS2” (2010) · 9,375 citations
• Guangbin Dong, Weldon G. Brown Professor h-index 81
  Organic Chemistry, Catalysis
  Notable: “Transition-Metal-Catalyzed C–H Alkylation Using Alkenes” (2017) · 1,162 citations
• Stuart Rowan, Barry L. MacLean Professor for Molecular Engineering Innovation and Enterprise h-index 77
  Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry
  Notable: “Dynamic Covalent Chemistry” (2002) · 2,555 citations
• Andrei Tokmakoff, Henry G. Gale Distinguished Service Professor h-index 76
  Biophysics, Physical Chemistry
  Notable: “Ultrafast Hydrogen-Bond Dynamics in the Infrared Spectroscopy of Water” (2003) · 974 citations
• Bozhi Tian, Professor h-index 66
  Biophysics, Inorganic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Physical Chemistry
  Notable: “Coaxial silicon nanowires as solar cells and nanoelectronic power sources” (2007) · 2,929 citations
• Hening Lin, Professor h-index 63
  Chemical Biology, Organic Chemistry
  Notable: “Succinate is an inflammatory signal that induces IL-1β through HIF-1α” (2013) · 3,995 citations
• Norbert Scherer, Professor h-index 61
  Biophysics, Materials Chemistry, Physical Chemistry
  Notable: “Single-molecule mechanics of mussel adhesion” (2006) · 2,085 citations
• Viresh Rawal, Professor h-index 59
  Catalysis, Organic Chemistry
  Notable: “Chiral Squaramide Derivatives are Excellent Hydrogen Bond Donor Catalysts” (2008) · 943 citations
• Aaron Dinner, Professor h-index 57
  Biophysics, Theoretical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry
  Notable: “CHARMM: The biomolecular simulation program” (2009) · 9,145 citations
• Elena Shevchenko, Professor (Part-time) h-index 53
  Synthesis of nanoscale materials (magnetic, semiconductor, metallic oxide nanoparticles) with controllable size and shape; nanoparticle design (nanoscale multicomponent nanoparticles, such as core shells, dumbbells); and design of m
  Notable: “Prospects of Colloidal Nanocrystals for Electronic and Optoelectronic Applications” (2009) · 4,102 citations
• Joseph Piccirilli, Professor h-index 53
  Chemical Biology
  Notable: “Enzymatic incorporation of a new base pair into DNA and RNA extends the genetic alphabet” (1990) · 642 citations
• Scott Snyder, Professor h-index 51
  Chemical Biology, Organic Chemistry
  Notable: “The Diels-Alder Reaction in Total Synthesis” (2002) · 1,823 citations
• David Mazziotti, Professor h-index 50
  Theoretical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Biophysics
  Notable: “Contracted Schrödinger equation: Determining quantum energies and two-particle density matrices without wave functions” (1998) · 385 citations
• Ka Yee Lee h-index 50
  Biophysics, Materials Chemistry, Physical Chemistry
  Notable: “pH-induced metal-ligand cross-links inspired by mussel yield self-healing polymer networks with near-covalent elastic moduli” (2011) · 1,563 citations
• John Anderson, Professor and Associate Chair h-index 48
  The heart of
  Notable: “Catalytic conversion of nitrogen to ammonia by an iron model complex” (2013) · 999 citations
• Bryan Dickinson, Professor h-index 47
  The Dickinson Group employs synthetic organic chemistry, molecular evolution, and protein design to develop molecular technologies to study and control chemistry in living systems. The group's current primary research interests include: 1
  Notable: “Chemistry and biology of reactive oxygen species in signaling or stress responses” (2011) · 1,803 citations
• Steven Sibener, Carl William Eisendrath Distinguished Service Professor h-index 45
  Chemical physics, surface and materials chemistry, polymer dynamics, nanoscience and water sustainability. The innovative use of sophisticated gas-surface scattering instruments and atomic-resolution scanning probe microscopes combined w
  Notable: “Guiding Polymers to Perfection: Macroscopic Alignment of Nanoscale Domains” (2003) · 295 citations
• Andrew Ferguson, Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Molecular Engineering, Vice Dean for Education and Outreach in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering h-index 43
  Physical Chemistry, Biophysics, Theoretical Chemistry
  Notable: “Promoting transparency and reproducibility in enhanced molecular simulations” (2019) · 1,290 citations
• Yamuna Krishnan, Louis Block Professor of Chemistry and the College h-index 43
  Chemical Biology, Biophysics, Organic Chemistry
  Notable: “ATP as a biological hydrotrope” (2017) · 1,026 citations
• Jie Zhou, Assistant Professor h-index 33
  Chemical Biology
  Notable: “Supramolecular Hydrogelators and Hydrogels: From Soft Matter to Molecular Biomaterials” (2015) · 1,846 citations
• Mark Levin, Professor h-index 26
  Catalysis, Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry
  Notable: “Single-atom logic for heterocycle editing” (2022) · 531 citations
• Michael Hopkins, Professor h-index 26
  Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry
  Notable: “δ→δ* Revisited: What the energies and intensities mean” (1987) · 90 citations
• Weixin Tang, Associate Professor h-index 22
  Biophysics, Chemical Biology, Organic Chemistry
  Notable: “Evolved Cas9 variants with broad PAM compatibility and high DNA specificity” (2018) · 1,607 citations
• Raymond Moellering, Professor h-index 14
  Centered on the science of probing and perturbing the proteome in biological systems rather than one specific technology platform or disease context. In this context we are interested in understanding fundamental phenomena in proteome r
  Notable: “Direct inhibition of the NOTCH transcription factor complex” (2009) · 750 citations
• Anna Wuttig, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor h-index 14
  Catalysis, Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry
  Notable: “Mesostructure-Induced Selectivity in CO2 Reduction Catalysis” (2015) · 501 citations
• Hannah Lant, Assistant Instructional Professor h-index 14
  Notable: “Synthesis and Reactivity of Paramagnetic Nickel Polypyridyl Complexes Relevant to C(sp2)–C(sp3)Coupling Reactions” (2019) · 115 citations
• Sarah King, Assistant Professor of Chemistry h-index 13
  Physical Chemistry, Materials Chemistry
  Notable: “Understanding and Controlling Photothermal Responses in MXenes” (2023) · 60 citations
• Dipti Jasrasaria, Assistant Professor h-index 11
  Theoretical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Materials Chemistry
  Notable: “Dynamic lattice distortions driven by surface trapping in semiconductor nanocrystals” (2021) · 51 citations
• Shaunna McLeod, Assistant Instructional Professor h-index 1
  Notable: “Maximizing Magnetic Resonance Contrast in Gd(III) Nanoconjugates: Investigation of Proton Relaxation in Zirconium Metal–Organic Frameworks” (2020) · 29 citations
• Alex Cusumano, Assistant Professor
  Organic Chemistry, Catalysis, Computational Chemistry
• Daniel Laorenza
• Greg Engel, Professor
  Biophysics, Physical Chemistry, Materials Chemistry
• Jiwoong Park, Professor and Chair
  Es on the science and technology of precisely engineered nanomaterials.
• Suri Vaikuntanathan, Professor
  Biophysics, Physical Chemistry, Theoretical Chemistry

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.