Michael Wasielewski PhD

Michael R. Wasielewski is the Clare Hamilton Hall Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Executive Director of the Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, and Director of the Center for Molecular Quantum Transduction, a US-DOE Energy Frontier Research Center. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University. He began his career at Argonne National Laboratory, where he advanced to Senior Scientist and Group Leader. In 1994, he joined the faculty of Northwestern University. From 2001-2004 he served as Chair of the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern. His research has resulted in over 720 publications and focuses on light-driven processes in molecules and materials, artificial photosynthesis, molecular electronics, and quantum information science. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His recent awards include the Royal Society of Chemistry Bruker Prize in EPR Spectroscopy, the Josef Michl American Chemical Society Award in Photochemistry, the Silver Medal in Chemistry of the International EPR Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry Award in Physical Organic Chemistry, the Chemical Pioneer Award of the American Institute of Chemists, the Honda-Fujishima Award of the Japanese Photochemistry Association, the Royal Society of Chemistry Environment Prize, the Humboldt Research Award, the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award of the American Chemical Society, the Porter Medal for Photochemistry, and the James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society.