Measurement forms the foundation of the scientific method. Analytical chemists in our department develop novel measurement technologies in diverse fields ranging from human health to environmental science. Our Analytical Science program is ranked among the top three in the nation, according to the U.S. News & World Report.
Because modern analytical chemistry drives so many different areas of scientific inquiry, our program is closely entwined with the richly collaborative environment at UW-Madison. UW is unique in offering not only a first tier program in Analytical Chemistry, but also has first tier biological science and engineering programs, as well as a world-class medical school. We therefore develop measurement technologies in the context of cutting-edge chemical, biological, and environmental questions, often with implications for human health, through extensive collaborations across our campus.
Students in our program will typically leverage, and often innovate, capabilities across a wide range of chemical instrumentation and approaches including: chemical separations, electro- and photo-chemistry, mass spectrometry, nanomaterials, and spectroscopy. Through projects that span from developing a completely new instrument for making field measurements to those that discover novel biology about the novel coronavirus – our graduates become leaders in both academia and industry.
Ongoing Projects in Analytical Chemistry:
- Technological applications of novel nanoscale materials
- Atmospheric interfaces and technologies to study trace gases and aerosol particles
- Coherent multidimensional spectroscopy
- Electro- and photo-electrochemistry
- Controlled micro- and nano-structures for electrochemical and photoelectrochemical devices
- Single-molecule spectroscopy
- Surface chemistry/electrochemistry/environmental impact of nanomaterials
- Mass Spectrometry
- Proteomics
- Chromatography and multi-dimensional separations
- Metabolomics
- Lipidomics
- Cryo-electron microscopy and native mass spectrometry for protein structure
- Systems Biology
- Genome analysis at single-molecule level
- Tools for understanding gene regulation and proteoform determination
- Coherent multidimensional spectroscopy
- Two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy
Contacts:
Analytical Chemistry Path Chair
Prof. Bob Hamers
Graduate Program Coordinator
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Graduate Program Director
Francisca Jofre