The Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois

Theoretical Chemistry Faculty

PROFESSORINTERESTS
Thom H. Dunning, Jr. development of techniques for the accurate solution of the electronic Schrödinger equation; the use of state-of-the-art computational approaches to understand and predict the structure, energetics and reactivity of molecules.
Zaida (Zan) Luthey-Schultenstatistical methods of protein folding - thermodynamics and kinetics; design of optimized energy functions for protein structure prediction; structural genomics of metabolic pathways.
Nancy Makritheoretical quantum dynamics of large molecules and condensed phase systems, with applications to relaxation, charge transfer reactions, and quantum control of nanostructures
Todd J. Martínezphotochemistry, first principles molecular dynamics with quantum effects, multiresolution models of molecular interactions, metalloenzymes, photoactive proteins, photodamage and repair in DNA

Other Faculty with Interests in Theoretical Chemistry Include:

Philip W. Phillips Klaus J. Schulten
Kenneth S. Schweizer
Chemistry at Illinois University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign