Professor Anna Wuttig is joining the Department of Chemistry as a Neubauer Family Assistant Professor. The mission of the Wuttig group is to integrate renewable energy input into the synthesis of products across the chemical value chain by advancing the science underlying chemical reactivity at electrified interfaces.
Dr. Wuttig was born in Washington, D.C., and spent time in Germany, Japan, and the U.S. during her early years. She received her A.B. in Chemistry from Princeton University. There, she was introduced to scientific research in the laboratories of Profs. Haw Yang, Robert Cava, and Andrew Bocarsly, where she developed a great interest in the chemistry underlying electricity-driven processes. She received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she investigated electrocatalytic CO2 reduction with Prof. Yogesh Surendranath as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow. She then joined Prof. F. Dean Toste’s research group as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley. There, she worked on understanding molecular electrocatalytic manifolds for selective radical processes.