The UC Berkeley College of Chemistry is one of the fifteen schools and colleges at the University of California,Berkeley. It houses the department of chemistry and the department of chemical and biomolecular engineering,both of which are ranked among the best in the world. Its faculty and alumni have won 18 Nobel Prizes,9 Wolf Prizes,and 11 National Medals of Science.
Armand Paul Alivisatos is an American chemist and academic administrator who has served as the 14th president of the University of Chicago since September 2021. He is a pioneer in nanomaterials development and an authority on the fabrication of nanocrystals and their use in biomedical and renewable energy applications. He was ranked fifth among the world's top 100 chemists for the period 2000–2010 in the list released by Thomson Reuters.
Galen D. Stucky is an American inorganic materials chemist who is a Distinguished Professor and the Essam Khashoggi Chair In Materials Chemistry at the University of California,Santa Barbara. He is noted for his work with porous ordered mesoporous materials such as SBA-15. He won the Prince of Asturias Award in 2014,in the Scientific and Technological Research area. Stucky was elected a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1994,a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005,and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2013.
The College of Engineering (CoE) is one of the three undergraduate colleges at the University of California,Santa Barbara.
Michelle C. Y. Chang is a Professor of Chemistry and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California,Berkeley,and is a recipient of several young scientist awards for her research in biosynthesis of biofuels and pharmaceuticals.
Chinedum Osuji is the Eduardo D. Glandt Presidential Professor and the departmental chair of chemical and biomolecular engineering (CBE) at University of Pennsylvania. He is also a former Taekwondo Olympian and represented Trinidad and Tobago. His laboratory works on polymers and soft materials for functional application including liquid filtration. He is the associate editor of the journal Macromolecules.
Zhenan Bao is a chemical engineer. She serves as K. K. Lee Professor of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University,with courtesy appointments in Chemistry and Material Science and Engineering. She served as the Department Chair of Chemical Engineering from 2018 to 2022. Bao is known for her work on organic field-effect transistors and organic semiconductors,for applications including flexible electronics and electronic skin.
John Michael Prausnitz is an emeritus professor of chemical engineering at the University of California,Berkeley.
Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo is a Malaysian-born chemical engineer and the Theodora D. '78 and William H. Walton III '74 Professor in Engineering at Princeton University,where she is also the Director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. She is known for inventing nanotransfer printing. Loo was elected a Fellow of the Materials Research Society in 2020.
Matthew V. Tirrell is an American chemical engineer. In 2011 he became the founding Pritzker Director and dean of the Institute for Molecular Engineering (IME) at the University of Chicago,in addition to serving as senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. Tirrell's research specializes in the manipulation and measurement of polymer surface properties,polyelectrolyte complexation,and biomedical nanoparticles.
Rebecca Abergel is a professor of nuclear engineering and of chemistry at University of California,Berkeley. Abergel is also a senior faculty scientist in the chemical sciences division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,where she directs the Glenn T. Seaborg Center and leads the Heavy Element Chemistry research group. She is the recipient of several awards for her research in nuclear and inorganic chemistry.
Teresa Lyn Head-Gordon is an American chemist and the Chancellor's Professor of Chemistry,Bioengineering,and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California,Berkeley. She is also a faculty scientist in the Chemical Sciences Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a fellow of both the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and the American Chemical Society (ACS).
Julia A. Kornfield is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. A world expert in polymer science,Kornfield's research encompasses the development of mega-supramolecular systems for fuel additives and intraocular lenses,as well as the influence of flow on polymer chains.
Thomas H. Epps,III is an American chemist and the Thomas &Kipp Gutshall Professor of Chemical &Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware. He has a joint appointment in Materials Science &Engineering,and an affiliated appointment in Biomedical Engineering. He serves as the director of the Center for Research in Soft Matter &Polymers,the director of the Center for Hybrid,Active,and Responsive Materials,and the co-director of the Center for Plastics Innovations. His research considers the design,synthesis,characterization,and application of nanostructure-containing polymers related to biobased materials,drug delivery,alternative energy (batteries),nanotemplating,and composite-based personal-protective equipment. He is also the co-founder of Lignolix,which is focused on the valorization of biomass waste.
Jessica R. Kramer is an American biomedical engineer working as an Assistant Professor of Bio-engineering and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Utah. Kramer’s research lab focuses on the synthesis and application of glycopolypeptides.
Michael Francis Doherty is a British chemical engineer. He is the Duncan &Suzanne Mellichamp Chair in Process Systems Engineering at the University of California,Santa Barbara.
Karen Irene Winey is an American materials scientist and chair of the University of Pennsylvania department of materials science and engineering.
Linda Jean Broadbelt is an American chemical engineer who is the Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor and associate dean for research of the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University. Her research considers kinetics modeling,polymerization and catalysis.
Haimei Zheng is a Chinese-American materials scientist who is a senior scientist in Materials Sciences Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She is an adjunct professor in Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California,Berkeley. Her research considers the nucleation,nanoscale materials transformations,and dynamic phenomena at solid-liquid interfaces,which she studies by developing the advanced in situ electron microscopy techniques. She is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society.
For the Australian former rowing coxswain,see Megan Robertson.
