When you join the inorganic chemistry graduate path at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Chemistry, the entire periodic table becomes your playground.
Studying inorganic chemistry gives students the breadth of knowledge to allow them to have a high impact at the interfaces of the traditional chemistry disciplines.
Inorganic chemistry graduate students can choose from a number of excellent research groups and a wide variety of research projects involving virtually all aspects of inorganic chemistry, as well as related disciplines. Under the guidance of your faculty advisor(s), you will work to develop your own research project. These may be individual projects, though many involve collaborating with other groups in the department, across campus, or throughout the country.
Inorganic chemistry faculty members aim to help you develop into a well-rounded and creative scientist who is knowledgeable in a range of tools that can be applied to solve important problems. Toward this end, you will have the freedom to select your research advisor, to help determine the course of your research projects, and to select classes that meet your individual interests.
The core curriculum in inorganic chemistry includes several courses in descriptive inorganic chemistry and physical inorganic chemistry. These courses are constantly evolving. Students select non-core courses that complement their interests and research pursuits.
As a graduate student at UW-Madison, you will have access to a broad array of scientists who will help spark new ideas as you conduct your own research. Each week, expert scientists from industry and academia visit the department to give seminars in inorganic chemistry that bring together inorganic chemistry faculty, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers. Inorganic chemistry students also attend seminars and colloquia in other areas of interest. Several research groups in inorganic chemistry meet on a monthly basis for supergroup meetings, which provide a forum for inorganic chemistry students and postdocs to present their research to a broad audience of their peers.
Like many top-10 graduate programs in chemistry, the UW-Madison Department of Chemistry is equipped with excellent on-site shared instrumentation. An Ph.D.-trained scientist runs each of the Paul Bender Chemical Instrumentation Center facilities and trains graduate students on the instruments. As a graduate student, you will enjoy open access to the shared instrumentation once you complete your training.
Our inorganic chemistry alumni have become successful professionals and leaders in virtually every area of industrial chemical research, in government labs, and in colleges and universities throughout the world.
Active Inorganic Chemistry Research Areas
- Synthetic inorganic and organometallic chemistry
- Physical inorganic and organometallic chemistry
- Theoretical inorganic and organometallic chemistry
- Catalysis
- Bioinorganic chemistry
- Metalloenzyme chemistry
- Solid state chemistry
- Materials science
- Nanoscience
Contacts
Inorganic chemistry path chair
Prof. John Berry
Graduate Program Coordinator
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Graduate Program Director
Francisca Jofre
Our Graduate Programs
Inorganic Faculty
Eszter Boros
Position title: Associate Professor
Email:
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Eszter Boros obtained her B.Sc. (2006) and her M.Sc. (2007) at the University of Zurich and her Ph.D. (2011) in Chemistry from the University of British Columbia. She was a postdoctoral fellow (2011-2015) and later…
Dawei Feng
Position title: Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemistry
Email:
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Ive Hermans
Position title: John and Dorothy Vozza Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Email:
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Clark Landis
Position title: Irving Shain Chair in Chemistry, Professor of Chemistry
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Cathy Middlecamp
Position title: Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies Professor and Professor of Chemistry
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Monica Neugebauer
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
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Bio: Neugebauer, Monica E.
Marcel Schreier
Position title: Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry
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Shannon Stahl
Position title: Professor of Chemistry, Steenbock Professor of Chemical Sciences
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Daniel Weix
Position title: Wayland E. Noland Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
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Tehshik P. Yoon
Position title: Professor of Chemistry, Associate Chair for the Graduate Program, Director of Graduate Studies
Email:
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Inorganic Labs
Berry Group
The Berry Group focuses on coordination chemistry which is the synthesis, structures, spectroscopy, and electronic structure of new types of transition metal complexes.
Boros Group
The Boros Group develops metal-based molecular imaging probes and therapeutics for personalized medicine.
Brunold Group
The Brunold Group investigates the geometric and electronic properties, and thus the reactivity, of metal centers in proteins and cofactors through combined spectroscopic and computational studies of key enzymatic states and synthetic inorganic model complexes.
Buller Group
The Buller Group research is focussed on how to engineer new biocatalytic reactions and do so with a broad substrate scope, a major challenge in enzymology.
Choi Group
Research in the Choi Group employs electrochemistry as the primary synthetic tool to fabricate various solid-state materials as thin film-type electrodes and catalysts for electrochemical and photoelectrochemical applications critical to creating a sustainable future.
Fredrickson Laboratory
The Fredrickson Lab research aims to elucidate the chemical principles underlying the structures of the solid-state compounds that form upon alloying metals together: intermetallic compounds.
Goldsmith Group
The Goldsmith Group is developing new technology for controlling how light interacts with molecules, often at the level of single molecules.
Hermans Group
The Hermans Group is a multidisciplinary team, focusing on both fundamental and applied aspects of sustainable chemistry and catalysis.
Jin Group
The Jin Group is interested in the chemistry, physics, and technological applications of nanoscale and solid-state materials.
Martell Group
The Martell Group develops catalysts that merge the benefits of enzymes and synthetic chemistry, with applications spanning sustainable synthesis, chemical biology, and plastic recycling.
Pazicni Group
Work in the Pazicni Group falls under the broad scope of chemistry education research.
Schomaker Group
The Schomaker Group specializes in synthetic organic chemistry.
Stahl Group
The Stahl Group's research focuses on the field of catalysis and draws upon and impacts several areas of chemistry.
Weix Group
The Weix research program is focused on the development of conceptually new catalytic methods for organic synthesis.
Wickens Group
The primary focus of the Wickens Group is the discovery of new catalytic principles that can be leveraged to precisely control chemical reactivity.
Wright Group
The Wright Group focuses on using nonlinear spectroscopy as a tool to study a vast array of different molecular and material states--from low-energy vibrational modes of proteins to excitonic and ionized states of quantum dots and everything in between--and their coherent dynamics.
Yoon Group
The central goal of research in the Yoon Group is to develop strategies for the controlled synthesis of complex organic molecules.
Feng Group (Affiliate)
The Feng Group focuses on the development of novel solid electrolytes and cathode materials for high-power and high-energy-density electrochemical energy storage devices.
Neugebauer Laboratory (Affiliate)
The Neugebauer Lab is interested in the discovery, characterization, and evolution of enzymes for biocatalysis and chemical biology.
Schreier Laboratory (Affiliate)
Since most existing chemical processes rely on hydrocarbons as feedstocks and energy carriers, the Schreier Lab employs our understanding of electrochemical interfaces towards developing the science for converting hydrocarbons using electrical energy.
UW-Madison Cyclotron Lab (Affiliate)
Jonathan W. Engle is an Associate Professor in the departments of Medical Physics and Radiology at the University of Wisconsin with affiliations in Chemistry and Engineering Physics.