T. Don Tilley Dept of Chemistry inorganic, organometallic, polymer and materials chemistry, transition metal compounds, catalysis, new chemical transformations, advanced solid state materials, renewable energy, solar fuels
Sabeeha Merchant Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology chloroplast, photosynthesis, algae, trace metals, genomics, synthetic biology, designer lipids, Chlamydomonas, Auxenochlorella, Dunaliella
Jay D. Keasling Dept of Bioengineering Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering chemical engineering, biochemical engineering, metabolic engineering of microorganisms, environmentally friendly synthesis, biodegradable and recyclable polymers, production of biofuels and bioproducts, natural products
John D. Coates Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology precision fermentation, Bioprocess scale-up, environmental microbiology, Industrial bioprocesses, sustainability, carbon sequestration, Bioremediation, alternative energy production, biogeochemistry
Douglas Clark Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering chemical engineering, biochemical engineering, extremozymes, bioactive materials, bioprocess engineering, biofuels and bioenergy, biocatalysis
Lawrence Hall Dept of Physics physics, standard model of particle physics, symmetries of nature, symmetry of the electroweak interaction, spacetime symmetries: weak scale supersymmetry, constrained theories for the quark and charged lepton masses, supersymmetric theory