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2025-2026 University Catalog 
    
2025-2026 University Catalog

Department of Chemistry (Graduate)


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Website: https://www.chem.purdue.edu/academic_programs/graduate/index.php

Department/School Head

Christine A. Hrycyna

Faculty by Rank

Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Adjunct Professor
Emeritus Faculty
Suzanne C. Bart
Bryan Boudouris
Jean A. Chmielewski
Graham Cooks
Shelley Claridge
Chittaranjan Das
Arun K. Ghosh
Christine A. Hrycyna
Libai Huang
Wen Jiang
Sabre Kais
Hilkka I. Kenttamaa
Alexander Laskin
Julia Laskin
Philip S. Low
Chengde Mao
Scott A. McLuckey
Jianguo Mei
Andrew D. Mesecar
P.V. Ramachandran
Tong Ren
Kavita Shah
Garth J. Simpson
Herman Sintim
Lyudmila Slipchenko
W. Andy Tao
David H. Thompson
Marcy H. Towns
Adam Wasserman
Alexander Wei
Jonathan Wilker
Danzhou Yang
Zhong-Yin Zhang
Ryan Altman
Jeffrey Dick
Christina Li
Mark A. Lipton
Angeline Lyon
Greg Michalski
Severin Schneebeli
Christopher Uyeda
Paul Wenthold
Abram Axelrod
Ming Chen
Gaurav Chopra
Bryon Drown
Jonathan Hood
Hanzhe Liu
Shalini Low-Nam
Lauren Ann Metskas
Elizabeth Parkinson
Michael Reppert
Shiliang Tian
Valentin Walther
Chi Zhang
Mahdi Abu-Omar
Paul B. Shepson
Adelman, S.
Ben-Amotz, D.
Bina, M.
Brewster, J. H.
Francisco, J. S.
Fuchs, P. L.
Grimley, R. T.
Grutzner, J. B.
Kissinger. P.
Light, A.
Lipschutz, M.
Lytle, F. E.
McMillin, D.R.
Muller, N.
Morrison, H. A.
Nakhleh, M. B
Pardue, H. L.
Richardson, J.
Regnier, F. E.
Robinson, W. R.
Shepson, P.B
Van Etten, R. L.
Walton, R. A.
Wirth, M.J.

Academic Programs

Master’s and Ph.D. Programs
The Graduate Program in Chemistry provides opportunities for graduate study and cutting-edge research across all areas of Chemistry. Purdue has the second largest Ph.D. program in Chemistry in the United States, graduating more than 50 Ph.D. students every year. Particular strengths include Analytical Chemistry (US News ranks our program as the #1 Analytical Chemistry Graduate Program in the country), drug discovery, and chemical biology. Strength in Synthetic Organic Chemistry has produced two Nobel Prizes for department faculty (H.C. Brown in 1979 and Ei-ichi Negishi in 2010).
Concentrations (Areas of Study):
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Biochemistry and Chemical Biology 
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Physical Chemistry

Research in the department is conducted in such interdisciplinary areas as bioanalytical, bioorganic, bioinorganic chemistry, physical organic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, and chemical physics.

Programs

    DoctoralMaster’s

    Courses

      Chemistry

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