Research

Physical Chemistry

Physical Chemistry provides the means – both experimental and theoretical – through which we understand chemistry. Research at the University of Chicago incorporates spectroscopy, nanomaterials, biophysics, dynamics, electronic structure, microscopy, quantum dynamics, materials design, and thermodynamics to answer fundamental questions at the frontiers of physical chemistry.

Experimental advances and ideas emerging from physical chemistry laboratories drive our view of molecular reactivity and structure. UChicago offers state-of-the-art equipment and facilities that enable uniquely powerful and incisive measurements, computations, and science.

Paul Alivisatos

President of the University of Chicago; John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Chemistry

Greg Engel

Professor

Andrew Ferguson

Professor of Molecular Engineering and Vice Dean for Education in the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering

Giulia Galli

Liew Family Professor

Sarah King

Assistant Professor 

Ka Yee Lee

David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor

Jiwoong Park

Professor and Chair

Elena Shevchenko

Professor (Part-time)

Steven Sibener

Carl William Eisendrath Distinguished Service Professor

Andrei Tokmakoff

Henry G. Gale Distinguished Service Professor

Gregory A. Voth

Haig P. Papazian Distinguished Service Professor