The Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois
Chemistry Faculty
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Ryan C. Bailey | Associate Professor of Chemistry |
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Martin D. Burke | Associate Professor of Chemistry |
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Scott E. Denmark | Reynold C. Fuson Professor of Chemistry |
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Dana D. Dlott | William H. and Janet G. Lycan Professor of Chemistry |
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Thom H. Dunning, Jr. | Director, National Center for Supercomputing Applications; Professor, Distinguished Chair for Research Excellence in Chemistry |
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Alison R. Fout | Assistant Professor of Chemistry |
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Robert B. Gennis | Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Chemistry |
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John A. Gerlt | Gutgsell Chair Professor of Biochemistry Professor of Chemistry and Biophysics Professor of Basic Medical Sciences |
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Andrew Gewirth | Professor of Chemistry |
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Gregory S. Girolami | Professor of Chemistry |
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Steve Granick | Founder Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Professor of Chemistry, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Physics and Biophysics |
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Martin Gruebele | James R. Eiszner Endowed Chair in Chemistry; Professor of Physics and Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology |
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Sharon Hammes-Schiffer | Swanlund Professor of Chemistry |
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Paul J. Hergenrother | Professor of Chemistry Affiliate, Department of Biochemistry |
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So Hirata | Professor of Chemistry Alumni Research Scholar |
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Kami Hull | Assistant Professor of Chemistry |
| Prashant Jain | Assistant Professor of Chemistry, |
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Deborah E. Leckband | Reid T. Milner Professor |
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Yi Lu | Jay and Ann Schenck Professor of Chemistry |
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Zaida (Zan) Luthey-Schulten | William H. and Janet G. Lycan Professor of Chemistry |
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Nancy Makri | Gutgsell Professor of Chemistry Professor of Physics |
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Benjamin J. McCall | Associate Professor of Chemistry and Astronomy, Affiliate, Department of Physics |
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Douglas A. Mitchell | Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Affiliate, Department of Microbiology Faculty, Institute for Genomic Biology: Mining Microbial Genomes for Novel Antibiotics |
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Jeffrey S. Moore | Interim Department Head Murchison-Mallory Professor of Chemistry Professor of Materials Science and Engineering |
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Catherine J. Murphy | Peter C. and Gretchen Miller Markunas Professor of Chemistry Affiliate, Materials Science and Engineering Affiliate, Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory |
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Ralph Nuzzo | G. L. Clark Professor of Chemistry Professor of Materials Science and Engineering |
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Eric Oldfield | Alumni Research Scholar Harriet Harlin Professor of Chemistry Professor of Biophysics |
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Richard H. Perry | Assistant Professor of Chemistry |
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Philip W. Phillips | Professor of Physics and Bliss Faculty Scholar |
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Thomas B. Rauchfuss | Larry Faulkner Professor of Chemistry |
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Chad M. Rienstra | Associate Professor of Chemistry, Affiliate, Computational Biology and Biophysics, Affiliate, Biochemistry |
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Joaquín Rodríguez-López | Assistant Professor of Chemistry |
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John A. Rogers | Swanlund Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Professor of Chemistry Director, Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory |
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Klaus J. Schulten | Swanlund Professor of Physics Professor of Physics, Chemistry, and Biophysics and Computational Biology |
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Kenneth S. Schweizer | Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, Chemistry, and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering |
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Scott K. Silverman | Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Biophysics |
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Stephen G. Sligar | Director, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology Swanlund Professor of Biochemistry Professor of Biochemistry, Chemistry, and Biophysics and Computational Biology |
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Kenneth S. Suslick | Marvin T. Schmidt Professor of Chemistry Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology |
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Jonathan V. Sweedler | James R. Eiszner Family Chair in Chemistry Director of the School of Chemical Sciences Associated with the Beckman Institute, Biotechnology Center, Neuroscience Program and Bioengineering Program |
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Wilfred A. van der Donk | Richard E. Heckert Endowed Chair in Chemistry Howard Hughes Medical Investigator |
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M. Christina White | Professor of Chemistry |
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Steven C. Zimmerman | Roger Adams Professor of Chemistry |











































