People
The International Institute for Nanotechnology unites an extraordinary group of people: from world-renowned researchers and their students in fields such as biology, chemistry, engineering, materials science, and medicine to the forward-thinking business leaders on the IIN’s Executive Council and the outstanding team of administrators who provide project management and program support.
Under the leadership of Chad Mirkin, the IIN fosters an environment that supports creativity, discovery, and interdisciplinary collaboration — and guides the translation of innovative research from the laboratory to the market and the lives of people across the world.
Executive Council
Chad A. Mirkin
Director, International Institute for Nanotechnology & George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry
Steering Commitee
Chad A. Mirkin
Director, International Institute for Nanotechnology & George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry
Vinayak Dravid
Director of Global Initiatives, International Institute for Nanotechnology & Abraham Harris Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Milan Mrksich
Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology
Ted Sargent
Lynn Hopton Davis and Greg Davis Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Samuel Stupp
Board of Trustees Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry, Medicine and Biomedical Engineering
Administration
Chad A. Mirkin
Director, International Institute for Nanotechnology & George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry
Vinayak Dravid
Director of Global Initiatives, International Institute for Nanotechnology & Abraham Harris Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Sarah Petrosko
Associate Director, International Institute for Nanotechnology; Research Professor, Department of Chemistry
Affiliated Faculty
The IIN has a deep talent pool of more than 190 faculty members from 32 academic departments and four schools at Northwestern University and a network of more than 3,000 affiliated graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
IIN-affiliated faculty members include a Nobel laureate and 25 members of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Inventors, National Academy of Medicine, and American Academy of Arts & Sciences, among many other prestigious scientific organizations.
Chemistry
Veronica Berns
Associate Professor of Instruction, Co-Director of General Chemistry Laboratory
Bin Chen
Research Assistant Professor
Lin X. Chen
Professor
William Dichtel
Robert L. Letsinger Professor of Chemistry
Antonio Facchetti
Adjunct Professor
Omar Farha
Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry, Director of Graduate Admissions
James Gaynor
Assistant Professor
Franz M. Geiger
Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry Chair, Division of Physical Chemistry
Katie Gesmundo
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Co-Director of General Chemistry Laboratory
Nathan Gianneschi
Jacob & Rosaline Cohn Professor of Chemistry
Todd Gingrich
Assistant Professor
Songi Han
Mark and Nancy Ratner Professor of Chemistry
Joseph T. Hupp
Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry
Julia Kalow
Assistant Professor
Mercouri Kanatzidis
Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry
Neil Kelleher
Professor
Shana Kelley
Neena B. Shwartz Professor of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering
Kent Kirlikovali
Research Assistant Professor, Farha Group
Yosi Kratish
Research Assistant Professor; Marks Group
Bryan Hunter
Assistant Professor
Kevin Kohlstedt
Research Assistant Professor
Matthew Krzyaniak
Research Associate Professor
Christian Malapit
Assistant Professor
Tobin J. Marks
Vladimir N. Ipatieff Professor of Catalytic Chemistry and Chemical and Biological Engineering
Thomas Meade
Eileen M. Foell Professor of Chemistry, Molecular Biosciences, Neurobiology, Biomedical Engineering, and Radiology
Chad A. Mirkin
Director, International Institute for Nanotechnology & George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry
Milan Mrksich
Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology
SonBinh Nguyen
Professor of Teaching Excellence
Teri Odom
Joan Husting Madden and William H. Madden, Jr. Professor of Chemistry Chair, Department of Chemistry
Monica Olvera de la Cruz
Lawyer Taylor Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Frederick Northrup
Professor of Instruction; Director of Undergraduate Studies
Liam Palmer
SQI Faculty Member and Director of Research
Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier
Charles E. & Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry
John Rogers
Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Neurological Surgery
Ted Sargent
Lynn Hopton Davis and Greg Davis Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Richard Schaller
Professor
George Schatz
Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry and of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Tamar Seideman
Professor
Richard B. Silverman
Patrick G. Ryan/Aon Professor
Peter C. Stair
Professor Emeritus
Samuel Stupp
Board of Trustees Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry, Medicine and Biomedical Engineering
Dayne Swearer
Assistant Professor
Igal Szleifer
Christina Enroth-Cugell Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Roel Tempelaar
Assistant Professor
Michael R. Wasielewski
Clare Hamilton Hall Professor of Chemistry, Executive Director, Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern
Eric Weitz
Professor
Ke Xie
Research Assistant Professor
Ryan Young
Research Professor of Chemistry, Director of Laboratory Research
Xiaoyu Zhang
Assistant Professor
Molecular Biosciences
Curt Horvath
Professor
Neil Kelleher
Professor
Thomas Meade
Eileen M. Foell Professor of Chemistry, Molecular Biosciences, Neurobiology, Biomedical Engineering, and Radiology
Alfonso Mondragon
Professor
Richard B. Silverman
Patrick G. Ryan/Aon Professor
Eric Weiss
Associate Professor
Anthropology
Sera Young
Associate Professor
Economics
Mar Reguant
Professor
Neurobiology
William Klein
Professor
Physics & Astronomy
Michael Bedzyk
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Physics and Astronomy, Co-Director, Northwestern Synchroton Research Center
Venkat Chandrasekhar
Professor
Pulak Dutta
Professor
Anupam Garg
Professor, Physics & Astronomy
William Halperin
Orrington Lunt Professor
John Ketterson
Fayerweather Professor / Joint with Electrical Engineering
Jens Koch
Associate Professor
Prem Kumar
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, irector of Center for Photonic Communication and Computing
Erik Luijten
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and (by courtesy) Engineering Scieince and Applied Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy and Chemistry
Brian Odom
Professor
Monica Olvera de la Cruz
Lawyer Taylor Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Nathaniel Stern
Associate Professor
Melville Ulmer
Professor
Michelle Driscoll
Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Guillermo A. Ameer
Daniel Hale Williams Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Surgery, Director, Center for Advanced Regenerative Engineering & Regenerative Engineering Training Program
Vadim Backman
Walter Dill Scott Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Eric Berns
Research Associate Professor
Horacio Espinosa
James N. and Nancy J. Farley Professor in Manufacturing & Entrepreneurship
Nathan Gianneschi
Jacob & Rosaline Cohn Professor of Chemistry
Matthew R. Glucksberg
Professor
Colin Hisey
Assistant Professor
Shana Kelley
Neena B. Shwartz Professor of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering
David M. Kelso
Clinical Professor
Malcolm A. MacIver
Professor
Thomas Meade
Eileen M. Foell Professor of Chemistry, Molecular Biosciences, Neurobiology, Biomedical Engineering, and Radiology
Chad A. Mirkin
Director, International Institute for Nanotechnology & George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry
Milan Mrksich
Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology
Todd Parrish
Professor of Radiology, Biomedical Engineering
Jonathan Rivnay
Assistant Professor
John Rogers
Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Neurological Surgery
Samuel Stupp
Board of Trustees Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry, Medicine and Biomedical Engineering
Igal Szleifer
Christina Enroth-Cugell Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Lisa Rae Volpatti
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Chemical & Biological Engineering
Chemical & Biological Engineering
Selim Alayoglu
Research Professor
Linda Broadbelt
Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Wesley R. Burghardt
Professor
Jennifer Cole
Assistant Chair of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Jennifer Dunn
Research Associate Professor
Nathan Gianneschi
Jacob & Rosaline Cohn Professor of Chemistry
Harold H. Kung
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Josh Leonard
Associate Professor
Jeffrey Lopez
Assistant Professor
Julius Lucks
Associate Professor
Chad A. Mirkin
Director, International Institute for Nanotechnology & George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry
Milan Mrksich
Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology
Justin M. Notestein
Professor
Monica Olvera de la Cruz
Lawyer Taylor Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Julio M. Ottino
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Jeffrey Richards
Assistant Professor
George Schatz
Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry and of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Neil Schweitzer
Research Assistant Professor
Linsey Seitz
Assistant Professor
Randall Q. Snurr
Chair of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Dayne Swearer
Assistant Professor
Igal Szleifer
Christina Enroth-Cugell Professor of Biomedical Engineering
John M. Torkelson
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering
Danielle Tullman-Ercek
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Keith E.J. Tyo
Associate Professor
Muzhou Wang
Assistant Professor
Lisa Rae Volpatti
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Chemical & Biological Engineering
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Ange-Therese Akono
Assistant Professor
Ludmilla Aristilde
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Oluwaseyi Balogun
Associate Professor
Jian Cao
Associate Vice President for Research and Cardiss Collins Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Jean-François Gaillard
Professor
Kimberly A. Gray
Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Family Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Erica Hartmann
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Yonggang Huang
Jan and Marcia Achenbach Professorship in Mechanical Engineering
Aaron Packman
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Ankit Agrawal
Research Associate Professor
Koray Aydin
Associate Professor
Alok Choudhary
Henry and Isabelle Dever Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Matthew Grayson
Professor
Mark C. Hersam
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Seng-Tiong Ho
Professor
John Ketterson
Fayerweather Professor / Joint with Electrical Engineering
Sam Kriegman
Assistant Professor
Prem Kumar
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, irector of Center for Photonic Communication and Computing
Hooman Mohseni
Professor
Manijeh Razeghi
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Alan Sahakian
Professor
Ted Sargent
Lynn Hopton Davis and Greg Davis Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Selim Shahriar
Professor
Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Daniel Apley
Professor
Materials Science & Engineering
Scott Barnett
Professor
David Barton
Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Michael Bedzyk
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Physics and Astronomy, Co-Director, Northwestern Synchroton Research Center
Wesley R. Burghardt
Professor
Robert Chang
Professor
Cécile Chazot
Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Yip-Wah Chung
Professor
Vinayak Dravid
Director of Global Initiatives, International Institute for Nanotechnology & Abraham Harris Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
David Dunand
Professor
Jennifer Fowlie
Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Sossina M. Haile
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Mark C. Hersam
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Derk Joester
Associate Professor
Mercouri Kanatzidis
Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry
Lincoln J. Lauhon
Professor and Associate Chair of Materials Science and Engineering
Erik Luijten
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and (by courtesy) Engineering Scieince and Applied Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy and Chemistry
Tobin J. Marks
Vladimir N. Ipatieff Professor of Catalytic Chemistry and Chemical and Biological Engineering
Chad A. Mirkin
Director, International Institute for Nanotechnology & George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry
Ian McCue
Assistant Professor
Teri Odom
Joan Husting Madden and William H. Madden, Jr. Professor of Chemistry Chair, Department of Chemistry
Gregory B. Olson
Walter P. Murphy Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering
Monica Olvera de la Cruz
Lawyer Taylor Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Roberto dos Reis
Scientific Officer
John Rogers
Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Neurological Surgery
James Rondinelli
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Morris E. Fine Junior Professor in Materials and Manufacturing
David Seidman
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Kenneth Shull
Professor
Samuel Stupp
Board of Trustees Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry, Medicine and Biomedical Engineering
John M. Torkelson
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering
Ryan Truby
Assistant Professor
Peter W. Voorhees
Frank C. Engelhart Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Chris Wolverton
Jerome B. Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Ange-Therese Akono
Assistant Professor
Oluwaseyi Balogun
Associate Professor
Jian Cao
Associate Vice President for Research and Cardiss Collins Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Wei Chen
Chair and Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Wilson-Cook Professor in Engineering Design
Isaac M. Daniel
Professor Emeritus
Kornel Ehmann
Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering
Horacio Espinosa
James N. and Nancy J. Farley Professor in Manufacturing & Entrepreneurship
Sandip Ghosal
Associate Professor
Ping Guo
Associate Professor
Yonggang Huang
Jan and Marcia Achenbach Professorship in Mechanical Engineering
Sinan Keten
Professor
Sridhar Krishnaswamy
Professor
Wing K. Liu
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Civil and Environmental Engineering
Eric Masanet
Associate Professor
Julio M. Ottino
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Kyoo-Chul Kenneth Park
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Cheng Sun
Associate Professor
Ryan Truby
Assistant Professor
Q. Jane Wang
Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
Vadim Backman
Walter Dill Scott Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Elizabeth Bartom
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and Preventive Medicine
Bruce Bochner
Professor Emeritus of Medicine (Allergy and Immunology)
Navdeep S. Chandel
David W. Cugell, MD, Professor
Neil Kelleher
Professor
Shana Kelley
Neena B. Shwartz Professor of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering
Elizabeth M. McNally
Elizabeth J. Ward Professor of Genetic Medicine
Marcus Ernst Peter
Tom D. Spies Professor of Cancer Metabolism
Leonidas Platanias
Director, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center and Jesse, Sara, Andrew, Abigail, Benjamin and Elizabeth Lurie Professor of Oncology
Jindan Yu
Professor
Cardiology
Tsutomu Kume
Professor
Elizabeth M. McNally
Elizabeth J. Ward Professor of Genetic Medicine
R. Kannan Mutharasan
Associate Professor
J. Andrew Wasserstrom
Professor
Ming Zhao
Associate Professor
Cell & Molecular Biology
Rex L. Chisholm
Vice Dean for Scientific Affairs and Graduate Education and Adam and Richard T. Lind Professor of Medical Genetics
Milan Mrksich
Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology
Dermatology
Kurt Lu
Eugene and Gloria Bauer Professor of Dermatology
Amy Paller
Chair, Department of Dermatology and Walter J. Hamlin Professor of Dermatology
Shuai (Steve) Xu
Ruth K. Frenkel, MD, Assistant Professor of Dermatology, Feinberg School of Medicine Director of Medical Research, Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics
Endocrinology
William L. Lowe, Jr.
Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and Thomas D. Spies Professor of Genetic Metabolism
Samuel Stupp
Board of Trustees Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry, Medicine and Biomedical Engineering
Hematology / Oncology
Al B. Benson
Professor
Young Kwang Chae
Associate Professor
Elizabeth A. Eklund
Johanna Dobe Professor of Hematology and Oncology
Leo I. Gordon
Abby and John Friend Professor of Oncology Research
William J. Gradishar
Chief of Hematology and Oncology & Betsy Bramsen Professorship of Breast Oncology
Curt Horvath
Professor
Neil Kelleher
Professor
Priya U. Kumthekar
Associate Professor
Huiping Liu
Associate Professor
Jochen Lorch
Professor
Chad A. Mirkin
Director, International Institute for Nanotechnology & George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry
Mary F. Mulcahy
Professor
Marcus Ernst Peter
Tom D. Spies Professor of Cancer Metabolism
Leonidas Platanias
Director, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center and Jesse, Sara, Andrew, Abigail, Benjamin and Elizabeth Lurie Professor of Oncology
Jeffrey J. Raizer
Adjunct Professor
Seema Singhal
Chez Family Professor of Myeloma Research
David VanderWeele
Associate Professor
Jane N. Winter
Professor
Jindan Yu
Professor
Bin Zhang
Professor
Infectious Diseases
Chad J. Achenbach
Associate Professor
Alan R. Hauser
Vice Chair, Department of Microbiology-Immunology
Eun-Young Kim
Research Associate Professor
Robert L. Murphy
John Philip Phair Professor of Infectious Diseases
Nephrology
Susan E. Quaggin
Charles H. Mayo, MD, Professor
Neurology
James P. Chandler
Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs and Lavin/Fates Professor of Neurological Surgery
Alicia Guemez-Gamboa
Assistant Professor
John A. Kessler
Ken and Ruth Davee Professor of Stem Cell Biology
Evangelos Kiskinis
Assistant Professor
Jeffrey J. Raizer
Adjunct Professor
Neurological Surgery
James P. Chandler
Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs and Lavin/Fates Professor of Neurological Surgery
C. David James
Vice Chair for Research, Department of Neurological Surgery and Jean Malnati Miller Professor of Brain Tumor Research
John A. Kalapurakal
Vice Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology
Dimitri Krainc
Chair, Department of Neurology and Aaron Montgomery Ward Professor
Maciej S. Lesniak
Chair, Department of Neurological Surgery and Michael J. Marchese Professor of Neurosurgery
John Rogers
Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Neurological Surgery
Tadanori Tomita
Professor
Peng Zhang
Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Robert T. Chatterton
Professor Emeritus
Otolaryngology
Sandeep Samant
Professor
Pathology
Robert T. Chatterton
Professor Emeritus
Deyu Fang
Hosmer Allen Johnson Professor of Pathology
Guang-Yu Yang
Joseph C. Calandra Research Professor of Pathology and Toxicology
Pharmacology
Deyu Fang
Hosmer Allen Johnson Professor of Pathology
Huiping Liu
Associate Professor
Thomas J. Lukas
Research Professor
Daniel Martin Watterson
John G. Searle Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Physiology
Dimitri Krainc
Chair, Department of Neurology and Aaron Montgomery Ward Professor
D. James Surmeier
Chair, Department of Physiology
Preventive Medicine
Ramana V. Davuluri
Adjunct Professor
Masha Kocherginsky
Professor
William R. Leonard
Professor
Alfred W. Rademaker
Professor Emeritus
Pulmonary & Critical Care
Navdeep S. Chandel
David W. Cugell, MD, Professor
Mark C. Hersam
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Lewis J. Smith
Professor Emeritus
Igal Szleifer
Christina Enroth-Cugell Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Jacob I. Sznajder
Ernest S. Bazley Professor of Asthma and Related Disorders
Radiation Oncology
John A. Kalapurakal
Vice Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology
Tatjana Paunesku
Research Associate Professor
Gayle E. Woloschak
Professor
Radiology
Robert Edelman
Clinical Professor
Mary F. Mulcahy
Professor
Thomas Meade
Eileen M. Foell Professor of Chemistry, Molecular Biosciences, Neurobiology, Biomedical Engineering, and Radiology
Todd Parrish
Professor of Radiology, Biomedical Engineering
Gayle E. Woloschak
Professor
Surgery
Guillermo A. Ameer
Daniel Hale Williams Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Surgery, Director, Center for Advanced Regenerative Engineering & Regenerative Engineering Training Program
David J. Bentrem
Professor
Rex L. Chisholm
Vice Dean for Scientific Affairs and Graduate Education and Adam and Richard T. Lind Professor of Medical Genetics
Seema A. Khan
Bluhm Family Professor of Cancer Research
Urology
William J. Catalona
Professor
Chung Lee
Professor Emeritus
Hiten Patel
Assistant Professor
Colby S. Thaxton
Associate Professor
Levy Entrepreneurial Institute
Nicola Bianchi
Assistant Professor of Strategy
Timothy Calkins
Clinical Professor of Marketing
Gregory Carpenter
Harold T. Martin Professor of Marketing
Carter Cast
Michael S. and Mary Sue Shannon Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship
James Gerard Conley
Clinical Professor of Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Joe Dwyer
Adjunct Lecturer of Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Troy Henikoff
Adjunct Lecturer of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Benjamin F. Jones
Gordon and Llura Gund Family Professor of Entrepreneurship Professor of Strategy
Paola Sapienza
Donald C. Clark/HSBC Chair in Consumer Finance
Mohanbir Sawhney
Associate Dean, Digital Innovation and McCormick Foundation Chair of Technology
David Schonthal
Clinical Professor of Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Robert Wolcott
Adjunct Professor of Executive Education