Dept of Chemistry | Research UC Berkeley

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A. Paul Alivisatos

physical chemistry, semiconductor nanocrystals, nanoscience, nanotechnology, artificial photosynthesis, solar energy, renewable energy, sustainable energy

Dept of Chemistry

organometallic chemistry, organometallic catalysis, materials chemistry, coordination chemistry

Dept of Chemistry

Kwabena Bediako

inorganic chemistry, materials chemistry, heterogeneous catalysis, electrochemistry, quantum transport, optoelectronics, low-dimensional and nanoscale structures

Dept of Chemistry

Robert G. Bergman

organic and inorganic chemistry: synthesis and reaction mechanisms, organotransition metal compounds, homogeneous catalysis

Dept of Chemistry

Kristie Boering

physical chemistry, climate change, atmospheric chemistry, environmental chemistry, ozone, earth and planetary science, isotopic compositions of atmospheric trace gases, stratospheric ozone, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, molecular hydrogen, methane

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Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

Carlos Bustamante

nanoscience, structural characterization of nucleo-protein assemblies, single molecule fluorescence microscopy, DNA-binding molecular motors, the scanning force microscope, prokaryotes

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Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Physics

Jamie H. Doudna Cate

protein synthesis by the ribosome, RNA, antibiotics, human translation, escherichia coli

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Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

nuclear chemistry, nuclei, radioactivity, isotopes

Dept of Chemistry

Christopher J. Chang

chemistry, inorganic chemistry, neuroscience, bioinorganic chemistry, general physiology, organic chemistry, new chemical tools for biological imaging and proteomics, new metal complexes for energy catalysis and green chemistry, chemical biology

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Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biochemistry, enzymology, synthetic biology, biophysics

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Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Ronald C. Cohen

physical chemistry, climate, air pollution, atmospheric chemistry, environmental chemistry, analytical chemistry, ozone, nitrogen oxides, CO2, clouds

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Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

Jennifer A. Doudna

RNA machines, hepatitis C virus, RNA interference, ribosomes, x-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy, CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Organic and Inorganic Materials Chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry, Molecular Electronics

Dept of Chemistry

Graham R. Fleming

chemistry, proteins, chemical and biological dynamics in the condensed phase, ultrafast spectroscopy, body dynamics, liquids, solutions, glasses, photosynthetic proteins, role of solvents in chemical reactions, complex electric fields, electron transfer

Dept of Chemistry

Matthew B. Francis

materials chemistry, drug delivery, organic chemistry, Protein modification, artificial photosynthesis, water purification

Dept of Chemistry

Phillip Geissler

statistical mechanics, theoretical chemistry, microscopic behavior of complex biological and material systems, biomolecular structure and dynamics, nonlinear vibrational spectroscopy

Dept of Chemistry

chemistry, physical chemistry of cell membranes, molecular organization in cell membranes, receptor-ligand binding, spatial rearrangement of receptors, ligands

Dept of Chemistry

molecular biology, biochemistry, organic chemistry, synthetic biology, chemical biology

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Charles B. Harris

physical chemistry, surface science, theoretical chemistry, chemical dynamics, femtosecond lasers in the visible and infrared, energy transfer, relaxation, primary processes in chemical reactions in liquids, the dynamical properties of electrons

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Robert A. Harris

molecules, radiation, theoretical chemistry, atoms, weak interactions, condensed matter.

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John F. Hartwig

inorganic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, catalysis, organic chemistry

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Martin P. Head-Gordon

theoretical chemistry, electronic structure calculations, development of novel theories and algorithms, quantum mechanics

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Teresa Head-Gordon

Computational chemistry, biophysics, bioengineering, biomolecules, materials, catalysis, computational science

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Dept of Chemistry

computational genomics, Genomic susceptibility of common diseases, Genomic Tree of Life, Demography of human genome diversity

Dept of Chemistry

William A. Lester, Jr.

theoretical and physical chemistry, advances in basic theory, computational methods, study of molecular electronic structure, quantum Monte Carlo method, Born-Oppenheimer approximation

Dept of Chemistry

theoretical chemistry

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Jeffrey R. Long

inorganic and materials chemistry, synthesis of inorganic molecules and higher dimensional solids, precise tailoring of chemical and physical properties, gas storage and molecular separations and catalysis in porous materials, magnetic and conductive materials

Dept of Chemistry

organic synthesis, total synthesis, natural products chemistry, catalysis, synthetic methodology, medicinal chemistry, organic chemistry, drug discovery

Dept of Chemistry

Michael A. Marletta

chemical biology, molecular biology, structure/function relationships in proteins, catalytic and biological properties of enzymes, cellular signaling, nitric oxide synthase, soluble guanylate cyclase, gas sensing, cellulose degradation, polysaccharide monooxygenases

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Richard A. Mathies

genomics, biophysical, bioanalytical, physical chemistry; laser spectroscopy, resonance Raman, excited-state reaction dynamics photoactive proteins, rhodopsins, microfabricated chemical biochemical analysis devices, forensics, infectious disease detection

Dept of Chemistry

biochemistry, biophysics, Structural Biology

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

William H. Miller

theoretical chemistry, chemical dynamics, quantum mechanical and semiclassical theories, dynamical chemical processes at the molecular level, photodissociation, femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy, calculations of rate constants for chemical reactions

Dept of Chemistry

Luciano G. Moretto

chemistry, nuclear science, statistical and dynamical properties of nuclei, nuclear reactions, multifragmentation, thermal scaling, monovariant and bivariant regions

Dept of Chemistry

Daniel M. Neumark

physical chemistry, molecular structure and dynamics, spectroscopy and dynamics of transition states, radicals, and clusters, frequency and time-domain techniques, state-resolved photodissociation, photodetachment of negative ion beams

Dept of Chemistry

Eric Neuscamman

Electronic Structure Theory, Quantum Chemistry

Dept of Chemistry

chemistry, molecular and cell biology, nutritional sciences and toxicology, metabolism, chemical biology, cancer, drug discovery, chemoproteomics, metabolomics, Alzheimer's Disease, neurodegenerative disease, undruggable, natural products chemistry

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

Alexander Pines

Theory and experiment in magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging, quantum coherence and decoherence, novel concepts and methods including molecular and biomolecular sensors and microfluidics, laser hyperpolarization and detection, laser and zero-field NMR, in areas from material science to biomedicine.

Dept of Chemistry

Theory of nanomaterials

Dept of Chemistry

Kenneth N. Raymond

chemistry, bacteria, bioinorganic chemistry, biophysical chemistry, coordination, design of specific chelating agents for metal ions, human iron storage and transport proteins, low-molecular weight chelating agents, metals in medicine, metal-ligands

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Jonathan Rittle

inorganic chemistry, biochemistry, crystallography, spectroscopy

Dept of Chemistry

Richmond Sarpong

organic and organometallic chemistry

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Richard J. Saykally

physical chemistry, surface science, analytical chemistry, materials solid state chemistry, laser spectroscopy methods, X-ray spectroscopy, molecular astrophysics, novel forms of matter, nonlinear optical molecular imaging(NMI), water clusters

Dept of Chemistry

Alanna Schepartz

chemical biology, synthetic biology, organic chemistry, biophysics

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

chemistry, bio-organic chemistry, diabetes, protein phosphorylation, fundamental signal transduction pathways in cells and whole organisms, kinase, drug development, asthma, multiple forms of cancer, neurological disorders, drug addiction

Dept of Chemistry

Gabor A. Somorjai

physical chemistry, catalysis, surface science, low-energy electron diffraction, solid state chemistry, macroscopic surface phenomena, adhesion, lubrication, biocompatibility, bonding, and reactivity at solid surfaces, scanning tunneling

Dept of Chemistry

chemistry, solid states, physical and inorganic chemistry, emerging technologies, synthesis and characterization of new solid state materials with novel electronic properties, magnetic properties, development of new synthetic methodologies

Dept of Chemistry

inorganic, organometallic, polymer and materials chemistry; synthetic, structural, and reactivity studies on transition metal compounds; catalysis; new chemical transformations; advanced solid state materials; renewable energy; solar fuels

Dept of Chemistry

organometallic chemistry, organic, development of new synthetic methods, enantioselective catalysts, strategies for the synthesis of natural products, synthesis of complex molecules, formation of carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bonds, olefins

Dept of Chemistry

Peter C. Vollhardt

organic and organometallic chemistry, transition metals, novel synthetic methodology, synthesis of complex natural and unnatural products, assembly of novel oligometallic arrays, phenylenes, organic magnets and conductors

Dept of Chemistry

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