Graduate Faculty

Richard W. Vachet, Professor and Head of the Department of Chemistry, B.S., William and Mary, 1993; Ph.D., North Carolina, 1997.

Ricardo B. Metz, Professor and Associate Head of Department, B.S., Johns Hopkins, 1986; Ph.D., California at Berkeley, 1991.

Dhandapani Venkataraman, Professor and Graduate Program Director, B.Sc., R.K.M. Vivekananda, 1989; B.Sc., Indian Institute of Technology, 1991; Ph.D., Illinois, 1996.

Trisha L. Andrew, Associate Professor, B.Sc., Washington, 2005 ; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011.

Scott M. Auerbach, Professor, B.S., Georgetown, 1988; Ph.D., California at Berkeley, 1993.

Michael D. Barnes, Professor, B.S., California State at Sonoma, 1985; Ph.D., Rice, 1991.

Patricia A. Bianconi, Associate Professor, B.S., Yale, 1979; M.A., Columbia, 1981; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986.

Jianhan Chen, Professor, B.Sc., University of Science & Technology of China, 1998; M.S., California at Irvine, 2000; Ph.D., California at Irvine, 2002.

Min Chen, Associate Professor, B.Sc., Tianjin, China, 1996; M.Sc., 1999; Ph.D., Frankfurt, Germany, 2004.

Michelle E. Farkas, Assistant Professor, B.A., Wellesley, 2001; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 2010.

Justin T. Fermann, Senior Lecturer, B.S., Hartwick College, 1992; Ph.D., Georgia, 1996.

Lila M. Gierasch, Distinguished Professor (Joint with Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), A.B., Mount Holyoke, 1970; Ph.D., Harvard, 1975.

Jeanne A. Hardy, Professor, B.S., Utah State, 1994; M.S., 1994; Ph.D., California at Berkeley, 2000.

Bret E. Jackson, Professor, B.S., Carnegie-Mellon, 1979; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983.

Igor A. Kaltashov, Professor, B.S., Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 1987; M.S., 1989; Ph.D., Maryland, Baltimore County, 1996.

Kevin R. Kittilstved, Associate Professor, B.S., Gonzaga, 2001; Ph.D., Washington, 2006.

Michael J. Knapp, Associate Professor, B.S., California at San Diego, 1993; Ph.D., 1998.

Craig T. Martin, Professor, B.A., California at San Diego, 1979; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1984.

Ruthanne Paradise, Lecturer, B.S., Houghton College, 2004; Ph.D., Massachusetts Amherst, 2009.

Vincent M. Rotello, Distinguished Professor and Charles E. Goessmann Professor, B.S., Illinois Institute of Technology, 1985; Ph.D., Yale, 1990.

Nathan A. Schnarr, Lecturer, B.S., Hope, 1999; Ph.D., Colorado State, 2004.

Eric R. Streiter, Associate Professor, B.S., Wisconsin, Madison, 1999; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005.

Sankaran Thayumanavan, Professor, B.S., The American College, 1987; M.S., 1989; Ph.D., Illinois, 1996.

Lynmarie K. Thompson, Professor, B.S., California Institute of Technology, 1983; Ph.D., Yale, 1989.

Gabriela Weaver, Special Assistant to the Provost for Educational Initiatives, Director for the Center for Teaching and Faculty Development, Professor, B.S., California Institute of Technology, 1989; Ph.D., Colorado at Boulder and JILA, 1994.

Mingxu You, Assistant Professor, B.S., Peking, 2008; Ph.D., Florida, 2012.

Adjunct/Associate Faculty

Steve Acqua, Adjunct Research Professor.

Anthony Dinsmore, Professor of Physics.

Ashish Kulkarni, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering.

Murugappan Muthukumar, Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering.

Rachid Skouta, Adjunct Assistant Professor in Chemistry.

Faculty Emeriti

Ronald D. Archer, Professor Emeritus (1999).

Ramon M. Barnes, Professor Emeritus (2000).

John F. Brandts, Professor Emeritus (1990).

David J. Curran, Professor Emeritus (1996).

Roberta O. Day, Professor Emerita (2002).

Stephen S. Hixson, Professor Emeritus (2015).

Robert R. Holmes, Professor Emeritus (1998).

Paul M. Lahti, Professor Emeritus (2015).

C. Peter Lillya, Professor Emeritus (2002).

Michael J. Maroney, Professor Emeritus (2019).

Earl J. McWhorter, Associate Professor Emeritus (1992).

Louis D. Quin, Professor Emeritus (1996).

John L. Ragle, Professor Emeritus (1998).

Everett L. Reed, Assistant Professor Emeritus (1995).

Richard S. Stein, Goessmann Professor Emeritus (1991).

Peter C. Uden, Professor Emeritus (2004).

Julian F. Tyson, Professor Emeritus (2016).

Edward G. Voigtman, Jr., Professor Emeritus(2015).

John S. Wood, Professor Emeritus (2002).