Graduate Research Opportunities

UW Chemistry

Graduate Research in the Department of Chemistry will give you:

• Hands-on experience in cutting-edge research

• Individual interaction with faculty

• Training in the use of state-of-the-art instrumentation

The range of research conducted by our active research faculty covers all areas of modern chemistry including:

Analytical chemistry

About: Development of methods for the detection of molecules of environmental and medical importance; development of new battery materials.

Faculty: Basile, Dutta and Hill

 

Biological chemistry

About: Study of protein structure, dynamics, and folding; biomolecular solution and solid state NMR; antifreeze proteins; DNA recognition.  Includes bioinorganic, bioorganic and mass spectrometry.

Faculty: Basile and Lehmann

Inorganic chemistry

About: Design of metal-based anticancer agents; development of catalysts for industrial processes; computational analysis of industrially important processes.

Faculty: Hulley, Leonard, Oliveira and Parkinson 

 

Organic chemistry

About: Ligand design for metal-catalyzed reactions; carbohydrate methodology; drugs for photodynamic therapy; supramolecular chemistry; organic light-harvesting nanoassemblies; DNA synthesis; photochemically induced electron transfer; mechanisms of organic reactions; design of new pharmaceuticals.

Faculty: Clennan and Hoberg

 

Physical chemistry

About: Thermodynamic and kinetic understanding of amorphous solids and supercooled liquids; solid-state NMR spectroscopy; Raman and Brillouin scattering; calorimetry; high-pressure phase transformations; molecular spectroscopy; nonlinear optics; reaction dynamics

Faculty: Anderson, Lehmann and Zhou

 

Research Sub-topics

 

Catalysis

  Faculty: Hill, Hoberg, Leonard, and Zhou

Energy

   Faculty: Anderson, Hill, Hoberg, Leonard, Oliveira, Parkinson and Zhou

Materials

  Faculty: Hill, Leonard, Oliveira, Parkinson and Zhou

Nanotechnology

   Faculty: Dutta, Hill, Leonard, Oliveira and Parkinson

Organometallics

   Faculty: Hoberg and Hulley

Photochemistry, photovoltaics and photophysics

  Faculty: Clennan, Hill, and Parkinson

Spectroscopy

  Faculty: Anderson, Clennan, Hill and Lehmann

Surface science (scanning microscopy using AFM & STM)

  Faculty: Hill, Parkinson and Zhou

Theoretical chemistry

  Faculty: Anderson