Paul S. Cremer PhD

Paul S. Cremer is the J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Natural Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University where he holds appointments in both the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Prof. Cremer received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin – Madison (1990) and his Ph.D. from the University of California - Berkeley (1996) working with Prof. Gabor A. Somorjai as his thesis advisor. He spent two years as the Irving S. Sigal Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University in the laboratory of Steven G. Boxer before starting his independent research career at Texas A&M University in 1998. He stayed at A&M for over 14 years, where he was named Distinguished Professor in 2012. The following year his laboratory moved to Penn State. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science as well as of the American Chemical Society. In 2017, he was named a Langmuir Lecturer by the ACS. His group works at the crossroads of physical chemistry, biological chemistry, materials science, and analytical chemistry.