Research – Summaries of Focus

Analytical Research

  • Bertram Group

    Research in the Bertram Group focuses on chemical processes occurring in Earth's atmosphere.

  • Cavagnero Group

    The Cavagnero Group focuses on understanding the early stages of protein folding and aggregation in the cell, with emphasis on the role of the ribosome, molecular chaperones and prions.

  • 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.

  • Coon Laboratory

    The Coon Laboratory develops and applies mass spectrometric technology to study human health.

  • Garand Group

    The Garand Group seeks to provide a molecular-level understanding of complex chemical structures, interactions and reaction mechanisms.

  • Goldsmith Group

    The Goldsmith Group is developing new technology for controlling how light interacts with molecules, often at the level of single molecules.

  • Hamers Group

    Research in the Hamers Group lies at the intersection of chemistry, materials science, and nanotechnology.

  • Jin Group

    The Jin Group is interested in the chemistry, physics, and technological applications of nanoscale and solid-state materials.

  • Schwartz Laboratory

    The Schwartz Lab creates functional systems for many types of genome analysis engendering large data sets for providing scalable biological insights.

  • Smith Group

    The Smith Group is an interdisciplinary group of researchers developing new technologies to drive biological research.

  • Todd Group

    The Todd Lab's interest lies in investigating the origins of life on Earth and understanding the implications for the possibility of life on other planets.

  • Widicus Weaver Group

    The Widicus Weaver Group conducts research in the emerging field of prebiotic astrochemistry to investigate the chemical mechanisms in space that lead to the development of biological systems.

  • 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.

  • Zanni Group

    The Zanni Group studies topics in biophysics and the energy sciences using 2D IR spectroscopy.

  • Aquatic Chemistry research group (Affiliate)

    Dr. Remucal’s Aquatic Chemistry research group works in two major areas.

  • Attie Laboratory (Affiliate)

    The Attie Lab works on multi-disciplinary projects centered around metabolic disease.

  • Ge Laboratory (Affiliate)

    The Ge Lab's research is trans-disciplinary and cuts across the traditional boundaries of chemistry, biology, and medicine.

  • Li Laboratory (Affiliate)

    Research in the Li Lab focuses on developing and implementing an array of novel mass spectrometry-based strategies to answer questions about the most complex and elusive set of signaling molecules, the neuropeptides, and gain new insights into the roles that peptide hormones and neurotransmitters play in the plasticity of neural circuits and behavior.

  • Yesilkoy Laboratory (Affiliate)

    The Yesilkoy Lab combines the strengths of nanotechnology and photonics to engineer next-generation analytical tools for the biomedical sciences.

Chemical Biology Research

  • Blackwell Group

    The Blackwell Group is focused on the development of chemical strategies to manipulate bacterial cell-cell communication processes.

  • 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.

  • Cavagnero Group

    The Cavagnero Group focuses on understanding the early stages of protein folding and aggregation in the cell, with emphasis on the role of the ribosome, molecular chaperones and prions.

  • Coon Laboratory

    The Coon Laboratory develops and applies mass spectrometric technology to study human health.

  • Gellman Group

    The Gellman Group is focused on the design, synthesis and evaluation of new types of biopolymer-like molecules that display stable conformations and useful functions ("foldamers").

  • Goldsmith Group

    The Goldsmith Group is developing new technology for controlling how light interacts with molecules, often at the level of single molecules.

  • Huang Laboratory

    The main goal of the Huang Lab is to understand and manipulate biomolecular dynamics by developing and applying novel statistical mechanics-based methods that can bridge the gap between experiments and simulations.

  • 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.

  • Schomaker Group

    The Schomaker Group specializes in synthetic organic chemistry.

  • Schwartz Laboratory

    The Schwartz Lab creates functional systems for many types of genome analysis engendering large data sets for providing scalable biological insights.

  • Smith Group

    The Smith Group is an interdisciplinary group of researchers developing new technologies to drive biological research.

  • Todd Group

    The Todd Lab's interest lies in investigating the origins of life on Earth and understanding the implications for the possibility of life on other planets.

  • Wang Group

    The Wang Group research centers around protein folding and function, and how problems in this area can cause disease, inparticular neurodegenerative disorders.

  • Zanni Group

    The Zanni Group studies topics in biophysics and the energy sciences using 2D IR spectroscopy.

  • Forest Laboratory (Affiliate)

    The Forest Lab studies biological interactions at the molecular level and is particularly interested in the structures, functions, and mechanisms of bacterial proteins with consequences to prokaryotic physiology and symbiosis with eukaryotes.

  • Ge Laboratory (Affiliate)

    The Ge Lab's research is trans-disciplinary and cuts across the traditional boundaries of chemistry, biology, and medicine.

  • Hoskins Group (Affiliate)

    The Hoskins Group uses highly multidisciplinary approach to studying eukaryotic RNA processing.

  • Li Laboratory (Affiliate)

    Research in the Li Lab focuses on developing and implementing an array of novel mass spectrometry-based strategies to answer questions about the most complex and elusive set of signaling molecules, the neuropeptides, and gain new insights into the roles that peptide hormones and neurotransmitters play in the plasticity of neural circuits and behavior.

  • Lynn Group (Affiliate)

    Lynn Group research is focused broadly on the design and synthesis of functional organic materials and the fabrication and physical characterization of polymers, macromolecular assemblies, nanoscale materials, and surfaces/interfaces.

  • Mecozzi Laboratory (Affiliate)

    The Mecozzi Lab research efforts focus on fundamental studies of non-covalent interactions and the application of the resulting findings to biochemical and biomedical problems.

  • Neugebauer Laboratory (Affiliate)

    The Neugebauer Lab is interested in the discovery, characterization, and evolution of enzymes for biocatalysis and chemical biology.

  • Rienstra Laboratory (Affiliate)

    The Rienstra Lab is interested in the development and application of solid-state NMR spectroscopy to protein, lipid and small molecule structure and dynamics.

  • Tang Laboratory (Affiliate)

    The Tang Lab focuses on drug discovery, an interdisciplinary field that involves a broad range of skill sets.

  • Weeks Group (Affiliate)

    The Weeks Group is a chemical biology lab focused on developing and applying enzymatic tools for spatially- and temporally-resolved mapping of post-translational modifications using mass spectrometry-based proteomics.

Chemistry Education Research

  • Pazicni Group

    Work in the Pazicni Group falls under the broad scope of chemistry education research.

  • Stowe Group

    The Stowe Group focuses on understanding how chemistry learning environments could and should engage all learners in authentic, meaningful scientific work.

Inorganic Research

  • 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.

Materials Research

  • Boydston Group

    The Boydston Group studies functional materials at multiple length scales.

  • 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.

  • Cooper Group

    The Cooper Group combines the tools of chemistry, materials science, and mechanics to develop new ways to make materials and alter their capabilities.

  • 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.

  • Hamers Group

    Research in the Hamers Group lies at the intersection of chemistry, materials science, and nanotechnology.

  • 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.

  • Schmidt Group

    The Schmidt Group applies computational approaches to study complex materials, often with direct applications to problems of relevance to energy and fuels.

  • Stahl Group

    The Stahl Group's research focuses on the field of catalysis and draws upon and impacts several areas of chemistry.

  • 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.

  • Yethiraj Group

    The Yethiraj Group research focuses on theoretical studies of soft condensed matter.

  • Zanni Group

    The Zanni Group studies topics in biophysics and the energy sciences using 2D IR spectroscopy.

  • 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.

  • Gong Group (Affiliate)

    The Gong Group focuses on the design, synthesis/fabrication, and characterization of novel materials and devices.

  • Gopalan Group (Affiliate)

    The Gopalan Group focusses on using the tools of organic chemistry to design new polymeric materials.

  • Lynn Group (Affiliate)

    Lynn Group research is focused broadly on the design and synthesis of functional organic materials and the fabrication and physical characterization of polymers, macromolecular assemblies, nanoscale materials, and surfaces/interfaces.

  • Ping Group (Affiliate)

    The Ping Group’s research focuses on developing theoretical and computational methods such as many-body perturbation theory and first-principles open quantum dynamics based on density-matrix formalism, to understand and predict materials’ properties including optoelectronic, excitonic, and …

  • 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.

Organic Research

  • 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.

  • Blackwell Group

    The Blackwell Group is focused on the development of chemical strategies to manipulate bacterial cell-cell communication processes.

  • Boydston Group

    The Boydston Group studies functional materials at multiple length scales.

  • 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.

  • Cavagnero Group

    The Cavagnero Group focuses on understanding the early stages of protein folding and aggregation in the cell, with emphasis on the role of the ribosome, molecular chaperones and prions.

  • Cooper Group

    The Cooper Group combines the tools of chemistry, materials science, and mechanics to develop new ways to make materials and alter their capabilities.

  • Gellman Group

    The Gellman Group is focused on the design, synthesis and evaluation of new types of biopolymer-like molecules that display stable conformations and useful functions ("foldamers").

  • 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.

  • McMahon/Woods Research Group

    The McMahon/Woods research program explores fundamental aspects of organic chemistry with the goal of understanding the chemistry that occurs in harsh reaction conditions.

  • 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.

  • Stowe Group

    The Stowe Group focuses on understanding how chemistry learning environments could and should engage all learners in authentic, meaningful scientific work.

  • Todd Group

    The Todd Lab's interest lies in investigating the origins of life on Earth and understanding the implications for the possibility of life on other planets.

  • Wang Group

    The Wang Group research centers around protein folding and function, and how problems in this area can cause disease, inparticular neurodegenerative disorders.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Golden Laboratory (Affiliate)

    The Golden research labs are heavily steeped in synthetic organic medicinal chemistry.

  • Gopalan Group (Affiliate)

    The Gopalan Group focusses on using the tools of organic chemistry to design new polymeric materials.

  • Lynn Group (Affiliate)

    Lynn Group research is focused broadly on the design and synthesis of functional organic materials and the fabrication and physical characterization of polymers, macromolecular assemblies, nanoscale materials, and surfaces/interfaces.

  • Mecozzi Laboratory (Affiliate)

    The Mecozzi Lab research efforts focus on fundamental studies of non-covalent interactions and the application of the resulting findings to biochemical and biomedical problems.

  • Neugebauer Laboratory (Affiliate)

    The Neugebauer Lab is interested in the discovery, characterization, and evolution of enzymes for biocatalysis and chemical biology.

  • Tang Laboratory (Affiliate)

    The Tang Lab focuses on drug discovery, an interdisciplinary field that involves a broad range of skill sets.

Physical Research

  • Bertram Group

    Research in the Bertram Group focuses on chemical processes occurring in Earth's atmosphere.

  • 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.

  • Cavagnero Group

    The Cavagnero Group focuses on understanding the early stages of protein folding and aggregation in the cell, with emphasis on the role of the ribosome, molecular chaperones and prions.

  • 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.

  • Garand Group

    The Garand Group seeks to provide a molecular-level understanding of complex chemical structures, interactions and reaction mechanisms.

  • Goldsmith Group

    The Goldsmith Group is developing new technology for controlling how light interacts with molecules, often at the level of single molecules.

  • Hamers Group

    Research in the Hamers Group lies at the intersection of chemistry, materials science, and nanotechnology.

  • Hermans Group

    The Hermans Group is a multidisciplinary team, focusing on both fundamental and applied aspects of sustainable chemistry and catalysis.

  • Huang Laboratory

    The main goal of the Huang Lab is to understand and manipulate biomolecular dynamics by developing and applying novel statistical mechanics-based methods that can bridge the gap between experiments and simulations.

  • Jin Group

    The Jin Group is interested in the chemistry, physics, and technological applications of nanoscale and solid-state materials.

  • McMahon/Woods Research Group

    The McMahon/Woods research program explores fundamental aspects of organic chemistry with the goal of understanding the chemistry that occurs in harsh reaction conditions.

  • Nathanson Group

    Molecular beam-scattering experiments have blossomed into a universal technique for understanding and controlling reactions in the gas phase and on solid surfaces.

  • Schmidt Group

    The Schmidt Group applies computational approaches to study complex materials, often with direct applications to problems of relevance to energy and fuels.

  • Soley Group

    The Soley Group pursues research at the intersection of chemistry, physics, applied mathematics, and computer science with a particular interest in ultracold chemistry, quantum computing algorithms, quantum reflection, and PT symmetry.

  • Todd Group

    The Todd Lab's interest lies in investigating the origins of life on Earth and understanding the implications for the possibility of life on other planets.

  • Widicus Weaver Group

    The Widicus Weaver Group conducts research in the emerging field of prebiotic astrochemistry to investigate the chemical mechanisms in space that lead to the development of biological systems.

  • 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.

  • Yang Group

    The Yang Group's research focuses on theoretical and computational chemistry, with two primary areas of interest: 1) developing hardcore theoretical methods in multicomponent quantum chemistry and 2) applying these methods to chemical, biological, and materials systems.

  • Yethiraj Group

    The Yethiraj Group research focuses on theoretical studies of soft condensed matter.

  • Zanni Group

    The Zanni Group studies topics in biophysics and the energy sciences using 2D IR spectroscopy.

  • Gilbert Group (Affiliate)

    The Gilbert Group investigates these fascinating biominerals, revealed their complex crystal arrangement, discovered how they co-orient all their nanocrystals, and is discovering how they self-sharpen with use.

  • Hoskins Group (Affiliate)

    The Hoskins Group uses highly multidisciplinary approach to studying eukaryotic RNA processing.

  • Ping Group (Affiliate)

    The Ping Group’s research focuses on developing theoretical and computational methods such as many-body perturbation theory and first-principles open quantum dynamics based on density-matrix formalism, to understand and predict materials’ properties including optoelectronic, excitonic, and …

  • Rienstra Laboratory (Affiliate)

    The Rienstra Lab is interested in the development and application of solid-state NMR spectroscopy to protein, lipid and small molecule structure and dynamics.

  • 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.

  • Van Lehn Group (Affiliate)

    The Van Lehn Group uses molecular simulations and data-centric methods to characterize, predict, and engineer the behavior of synthetic and biological soft materials for applications relevant to human health, sustainability, and energy.

  • Yu Group (Affiliate)

    The Yu Group studies the solids of organic molecules, with special attention to the different solids of the same molecules.

Theoretical/Computational Research

  • Huang Laboratory

    The main goal of the Huang Lab is to understand and manipulate biomolecular dynamics by developing and applying novel statistical mechanics-based methods that can bridge the gap between experiments and simulations.

  • Schmidt Group

    The Schmidt Group applies computational approaches to study complex materials, often with direct applications to problems of relevance to energy and fuels.

  • Soley Group

    The Soley Group pursues research at the intersection of chemistry, physics, applied mathematics, and computer science with a particular interest in ultracold chemistry, quantum computing algorithms, quantum reflection, and PT symmetry.

  • Yang Group

    The Yang Group's research focuses on theoretical and computational chemistry, with two primary areas of interest: 1) developing hardcore theoretical methods in multicomponent quantum chemistry and 2) applying these methods to chemical, biological, and materials systems.

  • Yethiraj Group

    The Yethiraj Group research focuses on theoretical studies of soft condensed matter.

  • Ping Group (Affiliate)

    The Ping Group’s research focuses on developing theoretical and computational methods such as many-body perturbation theory and first-principles open quantum dynamics based on density-matrix formalism, to understand and predict materials’ properties including optoelectronic, excitonic, and …

  • Van Lehn Group (Affiliate)

    The Van Lehn Group uses molecular simulations and data-centric methods to characterize, predict, and engineer the behavior of synthetic and biological soft materials for applications relevant to human health, sustainability, and energy.