The Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois
Chemical Physics
The following is a list of faculty whose research interests also include Chemical Physics. For more information on the Chemical Physics area, please visit the main Chemical Physics page.
| PROFESSOR | INTERESTS |
|---|---|
| Dana D. Dlott | ultrafast infrared spectroscopy, protein dynamics, laser shock waves and laser ablation in biology |
| Andrew Gewirth | inorganic spectroscopy, scanning tunneling microscopy, interfacial electrochemistry |
| Martin Gruebele | dynamics of complex chemical systems studied by laser spectroscopy and computational theory; current projects include fast protein folding, and control of energy flow in highly excited organic molecules |
| James M. Lisy | vibrational spectroscopy of ion-host complexes in the gas-phase; molecular dynamics and monte carlo simulation of intermolecular interactions |
| Yi Lu | design of metalloproteins and their application in electron transfer and biocatalysis; asymmetric catalysis using metalloenzymes; study of metal-binding sites in DNA/RNA enzymes |
| Nancy Makri | theoretical quantum dynamics of large molecules and condensed phase systems, with applications to relaxation, charge transfer reactions, and quantum control of nanostructures |
| Todd J. Martínez | photochemistry, first principles molecular dynamics with quantum effects, multiresolution models of molecular interactions, metalloenzymes, photoactive proteins, photodamage and repair in DNA |
| Benjamin J. McCall | astrochemistry, and the study of molecular structure and intramolecular dynamics using high-resolution spectroscopy |
| Chad M. Rienstra | solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (SSNMR) instrumentation and pulse sequence methodology; protein structure and conformational dynamics; applications to membrane proteins |
| Andrzej Wieckowski | Ultra-high vacuum spectroscopies, electroanalytical and radiochemical methods, electrochemical NMR, catalysis, corrosion, environmental research. |
