The Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois
Physical Chemistry Faculty
Physical Chemistry at Illinois offers a broad range of research opportunities at the interface of chemistry, physics, and the allied disciplines of materials science and biology. Graduate students interested in physical chemistry can work with any Faculty Research Advisor in the Department of Chemistry and are encouraged to visit the graduate program website listed to the right of this page.
| PROFESSOR | INTERESTS |
|---|---|
| Dana D. Dlott | ultrafast infrared spectroscopy, protein dynamics, laser shock waves and laser ablation in biology |
| 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 |
| Zaida (Zan) Luthey-Schulten | statistical methods of protein folding - thermodynamics and kinetics; design of optimized energy functions for protein structure prediction; structural genomics of metabolic pathways. |
| 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 |
| J. Douglas McDonald | atomic force microscopy and single molecule spectroscopy of the dynamics of protein folding and self-assembled monolayers |
| Eric Oldfield | experimental and computational studies of protein structure and function: applications to drug design |
| Chad M. Rienstra | solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (SSNMR) instrumentation and pulse sequence methodology; protein structure and conformational dynamics; applications to membrane proteins |
Physical Area Allied Faculty
* denotes affiliate from outside the chemistry department
